FSX Issues

[Flying Mouse]

This post did not seem to work in Hardware so I decided to post it in here, hoping for some answers, hope I did the right thing, if not feel free to delete  ::)

Yeah so I bought it hoping I would enjoy the joy of DX10.

I did a TOTAL clean install, installed FSX Deluxe, SP1 then Acceleration.

I did not load any add-ons and tuned my settings as I had it before the expansion set. Only this time I activated DX10.

I noticed I had to restart FSX for it to take effect. So I did.

Restarted, loaded a flight in the mustang (active runway) Honolulu Intl.  

Now before acceleration I would get 20-25 FPS with my settings at what it is.

NOW: with DX10 enabled at the very same settings I get 5-10 FPS at the same spot, active runway Honolulu Intl.

Of course staying on DX9 does look better then ever before, and provides a great performance boost.

My vista has all updates (Hot fixes) and my XFX driver is the 158 (I think)

[Ashton Lawson]

8600 was never really designed for DX10.  sure, it supports it, but not very well, so stick with DX9.  if you really want DX10 goodness, get an 8800GT or better...

[Flying Mouse]

Rather sad, the card have been doing really well on some new releases using DX10.

I must also mention the DX9 works much better now then before acceleration. Guess I'll keep FSX on DX9 for now untill they "hopefully" release an enhancement patch.

Mouse  ;)

[Ashton Lawson]

[quote]Rather sad, the card have been doing really well on some new releases using DX10.

I must also mention the DX9 works much better now then before acceleration. Guess I'll keep FSX on DX9 for now untill they "hopefully" release an enhancement patch.

Mouse

[HugoCampos]

Let's wait a month or so for Nvidia and ATI to release new drivers. Only after the new drivers are available will we be able to judge FSX DX9 vs FSX DX10 performance.

[Mothball]

I had the simular problem. I uninstalled Acceleration, and everything went back to awesome. I didn't think to wait for driver updates, thanx for mentioning that Hugo. Semper Fi, Dave

[Flying Mouse]

Yeah I also wonder what this DX10 preview thing is all about? Sounds very "un-Finished". I did download the new forceware drivers and noted a small difference but I chose to stay with DX9 for the time being.

After all DX9 had a massive boost on my rig with acceleration. I can now see my macdonalds sign at 40 000 feet  ;D

[Solid]

[quote]This post did not seem to work in Hardware so I decided to post it in here, hoping for some answers, hope I did the right thing, if not feel free to delete  ::)

Yeah so I bought it hoping I would enjoy the joy of DX10.

I did a TOTAL clean install, installed FSX Deluxe, SP1 then Acceleration.

I did not load any add-ons and tuned my settings as I had it before the expansion set. Only this time I activated DX10.

I noticed I had to restart FSX for it to take effect. So I did.

Restarted, loaded a flight in the mustang (active runway) Honolulu Intl.  

Now before acceleration I would get 20-25 FPS with my settings at what it is.

NOW: with DX10 enabled at the very same settings I get 5-10 FPS at the same spot, active runway Honolulu Intl.

Of course staying on DX9 does look better then ever before, and provides a great performance boost.

My vista has all updates (Hot fixes) and my XFX driver is the 158 (I think)