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Who runs on DirectX 10?

What DirectX do you run in FSX?

  • DirectX 9

    Votes: 343 79.0%

  • DirectX 10

    Votes: 91 21.0%
  • Total voters
    434
Odie said:
To be honest, I have yet to enable DX10 mode since I installed FSX. Since it was billed as a preview I guess my thinking is I'm not missing that much. :cool:
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. . .and you would be right Odie. It probably had a lot of potential and some folks find an increase in fps with it, but across the board it's not something you've just gotta have.
 
DX10 here. Enjoy the better visuals, and couldn't live without the 10 fps frame rate boost given that I fly so often in the Seattle area. :)
 
DX10 = no AA in FSX last I tried it.

Don't like having saw blades for wings. :icon_lol:

DX9 for me I guess. For now.
 
I gave it another shot today and with dx10 i actually get half the frames as dx9, along with no tooltips and the cs c130's smoke gets messed up by it, Ill stick with dx9
 
Bjoern said:
Err no.

2*AA will always be inferior to 8*AA, no matter the DX version.
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If that is so, then the statement that DX10 is limited to 2*AA is false....I've tested this and found that the AA looks better in DX10 set at 8Q*AA than it does with 2*AA and DX9. I will post some screenies when I have a chance later tonight.

One thing is for sure, DX10 is not going to behave the same way on different rigs...

I love it, but I am definately in the minority!
 
DX10 only here. I fixed the flickering runways around Florida (which is where I fly 95% of the time anyway). I get better performance, no scenery spikes and am able to run slightly higher settings. The graphics do appear to have better color saturation to me as well (they look more natural in my opinion), but that's opinion, and only opinion, since things like that are subjective at best.

I only use in-game anti-aliasing (I never force it at the driver level, and feel it looks good enough using the in-game setting), and as far as aliasing goes, I don't see any more (nor any less) jaggies under DX10 vs DX9. But under DX10, I can easily see the difference between turning AA on and off, so it definitely does work under DX10 (but possibly not forced through the driver). This is using an 9800GT 1GB card.

In the end, the added performance (on my machine) is well worth running DX10 alone. I did switch back and forth for a bit between DX9 and DX10, to keep flying some older FS9 planes I liked, but I've since uninstalled those planes and fly exclusively DX10 now. The performance difference for me is too great to ignore.

Just my 2 cents.
-George
 
DX10 = 20+ FPS boost for me, no blurries, no spikes, great AA.
It looks like you need a high-end computer/graphics card/OS to really see the difference. On XP 32 with 4 GB I couldn't see advantages with DX10, only disadvantages. On W7 64 with 8 GB I don't wanna go back to DX9 ever!
 
I just tried DX10 on a fresh install of FSX/Acceleration and saw an average 10 fps DROP and much increased stuttering compared with DX9 on my system - Vista 32, AMD Phenom Quad + GeForce 9800GT with the latest driver and DirectX. It looked nice, no flickering or anything, but it was virtually unplayable. It's back to DX9, nHancer and Nick N's tweaks for me.
 
crazysundog said:
If that is so, then the statement that DX10 is limited to 2*AA is false....I've tested this and found that the AA looks better in DX10 set at 8Q*AA than it does with 2*AA and DX9. I will post some screenies when I have a chance later tonight.
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Yes please since your reply is a bit...confusing...

If I read it right you can indeed run 8xAA in DX10 mode?
 
Tutorial 11: Starting position, identical settings:

DX9: (8 x anti-aliasing)
43fps windowed
45fps fullscreen

DX10:
31fps windowed
35fps fullscreen

So... Prosecution rests. My rig, like most, has no performance advantage running DX10 and many disadvantages. Water looks nice, though! ;)

(Edit: I do get AA in DX10 preview by the way. Masses of flickering and a big drop in frame rate, but there's no problem with AA)
 
I tried DX10 and unfortunatly I got UGLY. The FPS were not to bad, but I got flashing textures. Will post pictures later and maybe you can tell me what I'm going wrong. :kilroy:

Ben
 
How do you get vSync in DX10 mode without the screen flash when opening ATC window then? If we can solve that and the flickering runways I will go right back to Vista FSX again. I have 2 installs on 2 partitions. XP and Vista so I can go back and fourth.

Seems I need to look closer at the AA thing in FSX. It is in the aircraft preview window I saw jaggies on the wing edge really bad when I used DX10 Preview Mode. Perhaps not like that in game? Will have to look closer next time.

Charles.
 
I had no real option except to run DX10 and I'm happy to have it. After upgrading my Vid card I was getting terrible framerates and graphical spiking and seemingly no way to get it working properly under DX9.

I selected DX10 and everything was much faster (up to 10 times more frames per second) and smoother with no graphical spiking. The AA is not as good as my previous DX9 experience, but it's okay and I can fly 9the most important thing).
 
OK, so here is DX9 with 2X AA enabled....



And here is DX10 with 8xQ AA enabled...



I know these pictures are not that great, they really dont do what I'm seeing in real time any justice. But, notice the rotor blade in the DX9 photo has blurry jaggies...Well in real time those jaggies are moving, kind of sliding down the rotor blade. The DX10 pic looks a little better, but the picture does not show how much better it looks with movement. Yes, the AA in DX10 could be better, but I hope I'm making my point when I say that DX10 is not limited to 2xAA.

DX10 looks much better on my rig, and I'm happier with it.
 
crazysundog said:
OK, so here is DX9 with 2X AA enabled....



And here is DX10 with 8xQ AA enabled...



I know these pictures are not that great, they really dont do what I'm seeing in real time any justice. But, notice the rotor blade in the DX9 photo has blurry jaggies...Well in real time those jaggies are moving, kind of sliding down the rotor blade. The DX10 pic looks a little better, but the picture does not show how much better it looks with movement. Yes, the AA in DX10 could be better, but I hope I'm making my point when I say that DX10 is not limited to 2xAA.

DX10 looks much better on my rig, and I'm happier with it.
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That aint how my 8xAA looks. Something is strange. I will try to attach a couple of 8xAA from mine. This is an ATI 4870 with 8xAA in XP Sp3 DX9 mode. 1680x1050 res.

Coupla beautiful birds right there.
 
The first pic i posted was of DX9 in 2xAA, not 8. 8xAA looks better of course, but it looks the same as what i have with DX10.... I thought i remember reading somewhere that DX10 is restricted to 4xAA in FSX, but with some optimizations. I think it was on the Nvidia forums, but cant be sure cuz i cant find it again.
 
crazysundog said:
The first pic i posted was of DX9 in 2xAA, not 8. 8xAA looks better of course, but it looks the same as what i have with DX10.... I thought i remember reading somewhere that DX10 is restricted to 4xAA in FSX, but with some optimizations. I think it was on the Nvidia forums, but cant be sure cuz i cant find it again.
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ok. Hey here's a nice shot. 8xAA again though. I made it whilst you were typing. :)


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