Display Settings FSX
Don
So yesterday morning I flew a short flight in FSX for the first time since
March.
One thing I noticed, my terrain at the airport seemed rather grainy to me,
and I had a good amount of shimmering.
Previously, when I was active in flying, it was not this way - the display
looked very good.
I did not change anything in FSX display settings, the only change I have
made is installing the latest Nvidia drivers for my 8800 GTS.
I am running driver version 185.85 for 64 bit Vista.
Below are my main display driver settings that I keep saved and always go in
and set my display driver settings once installing a new version. I have
AA checked in FSX setttings.
AS - 8x
AA Gamma Correction - ON
AA Mode - Application
AA Transp - Supersampling
Conformant Texture Clamp - Use Hardware
Error Reporting = Off
Ext Limit = Off
Force Mipmaps = Trilinear
Text Filt Neg LOD = Clamp
Text Filtering Qual = High Quality
Threaded Opt = Auto
Triple Buffer = On
Vsynch = Force On
Just curious as to why now my display does not look quite up to par with
what I was getting previously. I did double check that my main display was
set properly, 1680x1050x32, which is what my main monitor's native
resolution is.
I also have a second monitor, that is set appropriately in FSX to it's
native resolution of 1280x1024.
I did see in the newer drivers they have added an " ambient occlusion"
setting, mine is set to off and when I check program settings it states that
this option is not supported in FSX.
Anyway, just curious if anything sticks out as to why now my display does
not seem to appear as good as it did previously.
Thanks for any feedback,
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Don
Slap
set your card up with the settings NickN has. I'm not sure if you can get
to all the settings through nVidia's control panel tho.
http://www.simforums.com/forums/forum_posts.asp?TID=29041
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dave
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Vic Baron
away. Sometimes the latest and greatest isn't.
Vic
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Don
Thanks guys.
I have downloaded and installed the latest drivers ( 186.18), will see if
that makes any difference when I get a chance. If not I will go back to a
previous driver, or try doing the Nhancer thing.
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Don
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"Don" <burnette...@hotmail.com> skrev i en meddelelse
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> Hey gang,
>
> So yesterday morning I flew a short flight in FSX for the first time since
> March.
>
> One thing I noticed, my terrain at the airport seemed rather grainy to me,
> and I had a good amount of shimmering.
> Previously, when I was active in flying, it was not this way - the display
> looked very good.
>
When I set Mipmapping too high in FS9 I get a verry grainy look of things,
especially when close to the ground, could be the same in FSX?
Tommy C, Denmark
Vic Baron
the settings than the NVidia control panel. Also, if you use the combined 8s
setting for AA you will eliminate the shimmering trees and scenery that can
be quite annoying.
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Don
I had an opportunity early this morning before my work day started, to test
it again with the latest drivers ( 186.18). I also went ahead and installed
the latest Direct X runtime.
Everything appears to be back to normal now, no more grainy look. Don't know
if it was just the previous drivers I had or what.
I think I am going to try nHancer through and NickN's settings.
Thanks,
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Don
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"Don" <burnette...@hotmail.com> wrote in message
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>
> I had an opportunity early this morning before my work day started, to
> test it again with the latest drivers ( 186.18). I also went ahead and
> installed the latest Direct X runtime.
> Everything appears to be back to normal now, no more grainy look. Don't
> know if it was just the previous drivers I had or what.
>
> I think I am going to try nHancer through and NickN's settings.
>
I'm a low and slow flier and after setting up my card as per instructions on
NickN's article my scenery was much sharper. The biggest example was while
looking out the left and right windows the road I was doing 'VFR' was quite
clear. Through the windscreen quite blurry so I always flew looking left or
right (tail dragger in the sky). After setting up using nHancer the view
straight ahead is quite clear. I can see the road for miles it seems.
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dave
Ian D
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also cleans your windshield. Those bug splats can reduce forward
visibility.
Slap
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Well that is Great!! Geeze I wish I thought of that :-)
'nhancer cleans windshields' Gawd you should be able to sell that to
nHancer folks!
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dave