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As far as scenery settings, you could max out the scenery and autogen stuff and also the reflections too.
You've got a faster video card than me and 1 gig more of RAM.
I have my sliders all the way to the right. Runs great.
Sounds like you've got a pretty decent PC there. A few suggestions...
Check "Ground scenery casts shadows."
Check Aircraft Reflections - you'll be amazed at the difference that makes.
Play with your weather until you get what you like. Everyone has different opinions here.
Set your resolution to match your current display setting. This greatly reduces the lag time between windowed and full-screen modes since your vid card doesn't have to switch modes.
Check "Ground scenery casts shadows."
Check Aircraft Reflections - you'll be amazed at the difference that makes.
Play with your weather until you get what you like. Everyone has different opinions here.
Set your resolution to match your current display setting. This greatly reduces the lag time between windowed and full-screen modes since your vid card doesn't have to switch modes.
Wing_Z
Charter Member 2011
As implied, you can max and tick everything in the sim.
Then, to stretch your rig a little, you might install NHancer (just a user-friendly front-end for the NVidia control panel) and create a custom FS9 profile.
Some of the combinations will bring your computer to its knees, but when you hit the sweet spot, it will look splendid.
Then, to stretch your rig a little, you might install NHancer (just a user-friendly front-end for the NVidia control panel) and create a custom FS9 profile.
Some of the combinations will bring your computer to its knees, but when you hit the sweet spot, it will look splendid.
Seaking055
Charter Member
I would set your main resolution up as well from 800 by 600 to as much as your monitor can take to 1024 32 and what ever your monitor refresh rate is normally around 60-75
Also set to trilinear up from bilinear, I agree with getting nhancer, made quite a difference when I was running FS9.
Your FPS are good, there are also quite a few tweaks you can make in the FS9 cfg file that will improve things a bit.
Are you running a CRT or LCD monitor.
Also set to trilinear up from bilinear, I agree with getting nhancer, made quite a difference when I was running FS9.
Your FPS are good, there are also quite a few tweaks you can make in the FS9 cfg file that will improve things a bit.
Are you running a CRT or LCD monitor.
Cazzie
SOH-CM-2024
I agree Roger, my system is just a tetch better than his set-up. I am sure he can hit the sliders full right. I can get phenomenal frame rates, but i still set it at 30, where it never falters or stutters.
Get nHancer if you don't have it Ray, helps a lot in settings. I am sure your card can handle trilinear filtering too, much better than bilinear. I'd even try Anistropic filtering, which is even better. your set up should handle itt. my son has an 8600 GTS card and gets good results, but he's more into the FPS and world conquest sim games.
There has been much controversy on whether or not to check AA in FS 2004 if one is using it on the card. do and I can show proof why. Bear in mind, AA in nHancer for my card is set at 8X with 16X anistropic filtering.
This is FSX, but it applies the same in FS9:
With AA unchecked in the sim:
With AA checked in the sim:
I agree with the others too, check reflections and ground cast shadows. Makes a morning and evening flight something else.
Caz
Get nHancer if you don't have it Ray, helps a lot in settings. I am sure your card can handle trilinear filtering too, much better than bilinear. I'd even try Anistropic filtering, which is even better. your set up should handle itt. my son has an 8600 GTS card and gets good results, but he's more into the FPS and world conquest sim games.
There has been much controversy on whether or not to check AA in FS 2004 if one is using it on the card. do and I can show proof why. Bear in mind, AA in nHancer for my card is set at 8X with 16X anistropic filtering.
This is FSX, but it applies the same in FS9:
With AA unchecked in the sim:
With AA checked in the sim:
I agree with the others too, check reflections and ground cast shadows. Makes a morning and evening flight something else.
Caz
Fellas,
Thanks for the advice. I will definitely look into it. I have downloaded NHancer will mess around with it this weekend.
Yeah, you'd think that I could run FSX pretty good, but it was with all of the sliders to the left (low) and that wasn't much fun. You know it was kind of a "why bother" situation. I'm not hating, just that my rig couldn't run FSX the way I wanted so I'm sticking with FS9. Besides, I have too much $ invested in FS9.
BTW - I have a 19" LCD monitor.
Again Thanx!,
Ray
Thanks for the advice. I will definitely look into it. I have downloaded NHancer will mess around with it this weekend.
Yeah, you'd think that I could run FSX pretty good, but it was with all of the sliders to the left (low) and that wasn't much fun. You know it was kind of a "why bother" situation. I'm not hating, just that my rig couldn't run FSX the way I wanted so I'm sticking with FS9. Besides, I have too much $ invested in FS9.
BTW - I have a 19" LCD monitor.
Again Thanx!,
Ray
With all of the sliders to the right, everything check off: AA, reflections, shadows, etc, and in Nhancer I have AA set to application, Anisotropic filter @ 8x, and trilinear filtering. Well I'm getting maybe 11 fps, my question is what should I tweak to bump the FPS back to 20+ and still maintain the quality view? Do I move some of the sliders back, or uncheck AA or take off the trilinear filtering? :isadizzy:
Thanks,
Ray
Thanks,
Ray
Rayrey10
You should have no problem with getting 25 fps from you setup
I would change the AA from inside the game and make the video card do it.
My set up is a
Pentium 4 @ 3.0 Ghz
2 Gb ram
MSI Nvidia Geforce 6600 256 MB
and these are the specs I use
I only have problems with FPS when I get into bad storms then the clouds kill my frame rates.
Other then that the game runs at 20+ fps with out a problem.
You should have no problem with getting 25 fps from you setup
I would change the AA from inside the game and make the video card do it.
My set up is a
Pentium 4 @ 3.0 Ghz
2 Gb ram
MSI Nvidia Geforce 6600 256 MB
and these are the specs I use
I only have problems with FPS when I get into bad storms then the clouds kill my frame rates.
Other then that the game runs at 20+ fps with out a problem.
Cazzie you probably didn't realize it when you did it, but you answered a question that I hadn't asked yet although I probably should have.
I recently switched from a CRT monitor to a LCD. Much to my dismay I found out that my aircraft had the jaggies. Never noticed it with the fuzzy CRT. Actually didn't notice it was fuzzy until I got the LCD. Anyway, I saw your pics, turned on the anti-aliasing and darned if the jaggies aren't gone. Thanks!
BTW, tell the barkeep in the cantina that I said your drinks are on Henry's tab! :ernae:
I recently switched from a CRT monitor to a LCD. Much to my dismay I found out that my aircraft had the jaggies. Never noticed it with the fuzzy CRT. Actually didn't notice it was fuzzy until I got the LCD. Anyway, I saw your pics, turned on the anti-aliasing and darned if the jaggies aren't gone. Thanks!
BTW, tell the barkeep in the cantina that I said your drinks are on Henry's tab! :ernae:
Wing_Z
Charter Member 2011
DD - 8-series cards want AA ON in the sim - go figure.
Cazzie - I think you meant to post the Optimisations tab, not 2xEnhancements. Perhaps you could also post your computer spec?
Where might one find NHancer?
Tried typing that in at the usual places and found nothing.
Is there a link?
Cazzie
SOH-CM-2024
The Optimizations are listed in the lower left in the two screens, but I have attached it here also.
A few screens showing my computer specs. I am going to up grade to a quad-core GPU the first of the year, it's the one item that could improve FSX on my unit, As for FS9, I have no complaints whatsoever.
Caz