Post by Deleted on Mar 3, 2009 9:46:55 GMT -5
You can't believe anything people try to tell you. Right up to now I've accepted the advice of the 'experts' (so-called) to turn OFF anti-aliasing in the game and make the graphics card do the work.
Wrong.
Since I installed my 8800GTX I've been looking for every way to improve my FSX. First thing I did was install the program nHancer which I think is ESSENTIAL for setting up all high end nVidia cards. It's a world away from the nVidia Media Centre that ships with the drivers.
I noticed a little note against the anti-aliasing settings section which said that if the game has an anti-aliasing tick box of its own, select it because then only the bits that need it will be anti-aliased and your graphics system won't waste resources on working on stuff that isn't necessary. And it also mentioned the improvements to be gained from ENHANCING the game settings rather than doing all the work from scratch.
Well I've been amazed. I did what it said and I've now also edited my fsx.cfg and taken out all the nonsense like buildings and autogen settings and done just the stuff that has now been proven to actually enhance performance (water on low 2, no scenery ground shadows, no aircraft self-shadowing, no stupid stuff like light bloom and flare, traffic sliders no higher than 50%) and edited other stuff in the cfg file that is based on tech fact not hype. Oh, and put target FR on unlimited - that boosted my FR too.
Result is that I've just flown at Lands End where there isn't much by way of scenery and I've seen FR cycling through 70+. I have got great graphics and a smooth sim with FR never really below 20ish even at the big airports. And I've only got 2GB RAM!
I've just put 2GB more RAM on order so I hope to see even more consistency - and BTW my FS2004 is absolutely rock solid smooth too.
I'm really a happy bunny just now. Trouble is I keep flying when I should be working.
Wrong.
Since I installed my 8800GTX I've been looking for every way to improve my FSX. First thing I did was install the program nHancer which I think is ESSENTIAL for setting up all high end nVidia cards. It's a world away from the nVidia Media Centre that ships with the drivers.
I noticed a little note against the anti-aliasing settings section which said that if the game has an anti-aliasing tick box of its own, select it because then only the bits that need it will be anti-aliased and your graphics system won't waste resources on working on stuff that isn't necessary. And it also mentioned the improvements to be gained from ENHANCING the game settings rather than doing all the work from scratch.
Well I've been amazed. I did what it said and I've now also edited my fsx.cfg and taken out all the nonsense like buildings and autogen settings and done just the stuff that has now been proven to actually enhance performance (water on low 2, no scenery ground shadows, no aircraft self-shadowing, no stupid stuff like light bloom and flare, traffic sliders no higher than 50%) and edited other stuff in the cfg file that is based on tech fact not hype. Oh, and put target FR on unlimited - that boosted my FR too.
Result is that I've just flown at Lands End where there isn't much by way of scenery and I've seen FR cycling through 70+. I have got great graphics and a smooth sim with FR never really below 20ish even at the big airports. And I've only got 2GB RAM!
I've just put 2GB more RAM on order so I hope to see even more consistency - and BTW my FS2004 is absolutely rock solid smooth too.
I'm really a happy bunny just now. Trouble is I keep flying when I should be working.