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I have mine at 4096 but only some of the Overdrive texture are actually that high res I think? Can't way I notice any difference performance wise, occasionally it struggles in heavy cloud no matter what setting I have so I assume FSX bugs.

I have same wave issue. I didn't notice when they disappeared to it's a bit hard to figure out what broke them. Maybe the Shader 3.0 mod?
 
I changed the REX config to 1024 clouds but still have TBM set to 4096 for the PMDG NGX high res textures. I then set the internal limiter to 30 fps and am experiencing the best results yet. The external limiter doesn't seem to behave for me.
 
Have been tempted to dip my toe into VATSIM, or something equivalent - but I'm not sure a) about the time, and b) if I'm a good enough pilot yet!

Still struggling with the image quality of with the nvidia:

Not the best, but that the following pics give an hint at to what's going on.

The first is with my 5850:

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and this one is with the 570, after following the guides. The main issue is with the text on the buttons - previously it was pretty clear now it seems very jagged...

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Also have tried the ENB light mod (light/darker!) and installed the Shader 3 mod to see if that would make a difference.

It's like the AA isn't kicking in, or is at a much lower level. I've tried using different AA settings through the nvidia inspector, but it seems to make no difference to image quality

Any suggestions? I'm using the latest drivers (280.26) and the latest nInspector 1.9.5.5

Cheers,

Rich
P.S. I appreciate it's not the best comparison, but hopefully you get the jist!
 
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I fly on VATSIM every so often but usually I just do circuits at an airfield with ATC coverage. It's a bit boring if you do a longer flight online but no ATC available. Sort of defeats the purpose.

Rich, what cfg tweaks are you using? What have you set in Inspector? 8xSQ and 2xTransparency as per the guide? VSync on or off?

It took me a while to get sorted with the 560Ti - infact not sorted yet but I'm happiest when using 30FPS limited in game.
 
The only thing I have different is the vSync is set to Application controlled.

I used the online tweaker too. Have you vSync fix set in cfg? Have you set Trilinear or Aniso filtering in game? I think mine is Trilinear.

Reducing REX clouds to 1024 helped my performance too.
 
Hi,

Thanks - I'm sure that the vSync fix is in the cfg file - I'll check again tonight. Have tried all iterations of none, bilinear, trilinear and Ansio, plus AA ticked and unticked. The filtering makes a difference, but the AA doesn't seem to.. (even trying different levels in nInspector).

I'm half tempted to try a re-install - though are remnants left following an uninstall (i.e. would I get the most benefit from doing a full system format and install...?)

Out of interest, what drivers are you using?

Cheers,

Rich
 
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My drivers are 280.26 or something similar (not at PC). You don't need AA ticked in game. I'd leave it at trilinear and go from there. Not sure how beneficial a reinstall would be. It's terribly annoying to do!
 
My 2cs,

Careful with using Shader3.0 if you are using a Nvidia card, I personally found it caused more problems then solved. The 3.0 shader is best used if you have a ATI card, still, if you have good results, then use them by all means.

TBM defaults at 1024, this of course will give faster FPS, probably best to use for general flying especially if your PC is already struggling on FPS. You will of course not be able to view or appreciate many finer detail that high res textures will give, whether they be cloud textures (if you are using higher then 1024 in REX that is) high detailed ground textures (some photoreal like NL2000v4 will need at least 2048 to fully enjoy) or HD livery textures on aircraft (like McPhat HD liveries need at least 2048, their UHDT, which I believe will be used on the upcoming PMDG737, will need 4096 to fully appreciate).

If you are using Nvidiainspector to force AA & AF, make sure you have Trilinear and AA NOT ticked in FSX, otherwise it will not force the setting from NI properly. And again, whenever you adjust or change your video driver, you need to redo your NI settings for FSX as it often resets it.


The get the best visual results in FSX (apart from addons/hardware setup) the first thing would be resolution, the higher you can run the resolution with acceptable FPS, the better FSX will look. Second (although it really ties in with the resolution) would be AA & AF settings, this will smooth out your image and textures. Thirdly, TBM, use either 1024, 2048 or 4096, depending of course if your addons/textures/liveries support it, the higher the better visuals. Lastly, your monitor, the better quality monitor/HDTV but also the better you setup your monitor (from connection HDMI/DVI/VGA etc to menu setup) the better quality visuals you will get.

That's all for now.

Cheers.

EDIT: One more thing, again, as I mentioned before. If you install FSX properly the first time around, IMO, there should be no need to reinstall it again in the future (unless something has really ****** up) but that is why I have suggested before, once you get it running properly and satisfactory, make a backup of both the install directory plus all the relevant files outside that directory. Ever since I carefully installed FSX on my new PC at the start of this year, even though I have had some annoying problems. I had NOT had the need to do a re-install. I personally would hesitate to suggest to anyone to re-install FSX unless you didn't install it properly the first time around OR if you got some major new hardware, ie an entire new PC not just a new graphic card.
 
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I can't really run the high detail addons like PMDG 737, just don't get the FPS, however one thing I have noticed (with a lower detail 737 I've been flying) is that all weather will dissappear for a while. All the clouds disappear then come back again 10-15mins later - is this due to me only having 2GB of RAM do you think? I'm also only on a OC'd dual core, would upgrading to a quadcore make much difference? I did read that due to FSX being such an old engine, it doesn't really make much use of the extra cores.

Sadly cannot afford a whole new build at the moment but possibly at Christmas - don't really want to waste cash on a quad core that wont do much.
 
just installing flight sim x now. its a big install cant wait to see if my computer can run it.

i havent got a joystick as im not sure if ill enjoy it as i only paid £10 for it at my local tescos :P bargin. been reading some of the post and going to get some addons if i like them and with me its better graphics=better game (thats what works for me) so what addons would you suggest EMB and rex2.0?

hope it runs here are my specs:
q6600 running at 3.4ghz
2x 5850's running at 800/1200
4gb of 800hmz ddr2

will be playibf the game at 1680x1080 res.
 
You'll certainly want a joystick man! Almost impossible to fly with the keyboard, you could try a controller but I think it would be equally difficult if not worse
 
When I'm out and about on my laptop I use a wireless 360 controller. If you trim the aircraft out it doesn't work that badly. Maybe not too authentic but it fits in the laptop bag unlike the yoke and rudder pedals ;)
 
So I had another blast on VATSIM tonight for the first time in ages.

Started off something like:

Me: Ground, Speedbird 123 737-800 with you stand 53 information Hotel QNH 1012 request clearance to Manchester

ATC: Speedbird 123 cleared to Manchester LAM4M departure Squawk 0477

.... already I was pumped. The quality of ATC is just brilliant. I was using parking/aerodrome charts to make sure that I'd understand their instructions on where to taxi, departure charts to check the Standard Instrument Departure.

Enroute you get things like

"Route direct to WELIN" - allowing you to skip a few planned waypoints and get a more direct route
"Descend FL100 to be level before TNT (VOR)" - altitude restraints just thrown into the mix for good measure. This knocked my VNAV out due to a dodgy descent path!

There really is an intense workload flying online even if you don't do everything by the book! It is just brilliant.

The drawback is that the performance seems to take a hit when running Squawkbox and other VA utilities but I'll hopefully solve that by running everything on another machine using WideFS.

All in all, great fun and I won't leave it as long before I'm back online.
 
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I don't know about Squawkbox but FSInn runs natively across networked PC without the need of WideFS. Similarly programs like Plan-G can use Simconnect and thus don't need WideFS.
 
For all the serious flyers who want to do things properly I must recommend keeping an eye on the addon called PFPX which is still under development. I got a sneak peak at some of the documentation it can produce and it is just amazing.

A guy in my VA shared a 35 page flight report which the tool generated. Out of this world! Amazing.
 
I just reinstalled FSX on my new system after giving up on it on the last system due to the awful performance. Should work a lot better now i'm guessing :).

I've got the GenX scenery and some freeware installed so far.

Is it just me that finds FSX extremely slow and clunky to start up? It takes ages to get to the menu and then navigating certain screens causes it to freeze up for a bit..

Loving this thread, slowly making my way through it.

Cheers
David
 
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