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  • Please see the most recent updates in the "Where did the .com name go?" thread. Posts number 16 and 17.

    Post 16 Update

    Post 17 Warning

New Nvidia Driver Available.

Good to have your help.

I never seem to find out about stuff like this. I'll give it a try and see if I notice more smoothness. Thank you for your info.

Cal
 
I have a question about these updates: If, when I read the lengthy list of updates specific to this driver, and Flightsim is never mentioned. . . .what's the difference? If the driver I have now works fine, why bother running after the next update, if it doesn't affect FSX, or for that matter, any of the Flight Simulator, family. This goes back to any driver update I've ever seen. . .they aren't concerned with Flight Sim, their drivers and updates are geared towards the gamers crowd, the guys who boast that their fps is "rock steady" at 400fps, lol. Just seems silly to continually jump at the next update when they rarely if ever affect anything I see or perceive to see "in-sim".:salute:
 
Yes,I suppose you are correct,Nvidia and ATI could probably give a HOOT about The Flight Sim crowd as we are small numbers compared to the New FPS Games that are flooding the PC Market.Still,I believe with every new driver they strive to make some progress in how your particuliar Video card performs,For me these made a nice difference in smooth performance,Your mileage may vary.
 
Come to think of it...... Most times I really had serious issues arise or unexpected surprises like black screens of death, unable to boot, hard drive missing ect, was when I mucked with a perfectly fine system. I can remember running Driver cleaner per the "gurus" to totally eliminate all traces of a vid driver then reboot. Yeah it cleaneed the drivers out! Right along with some sytem files and some registry entries. Same with soundcard drivers,bios,motherboard. If they are working, leave em alone.
With the vid drivers if I do not see a game I am running specifially mentioned, skip it. If you just cannot stand it and feel the ocs need, then at least wait a few weeks check a forum like Guru3d first. Thats mostly the Ocers and tech heads that stay up all night chugging Red bulls running 3dmark endlessly trying to increase their benchmark speed by a few points.

Btw- After 8 years of ATI cards I finally switched over to Nvidia. Went from a 7850gt to a 660TI 2 gig. Maybe a little faster in the clouds but huds and alot of small details are glittery,sparkly looking.
 
falcon409 said:
when I read the lengthy list of updates specific to this driver, and Flightsim is never mentioned. . . .
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FS is now an antique in the "gaming world" 6 years on begorrah! The average teenage gamer would not believe it possible. :icon_eek:
 
New drivers are welcome here.
Some of us use ours systems for these new fangled DX11 computer games too, not just FSX.

Shocking, I know! :icon_eek: :icon_lol:
 
I always check out the new drivers - if it is no good it's a simple matter of putting back the old one.

The old old one wasn't broke the new one is a better form of not broke . Check it out , I am sure my visuals are deeper - better .
 
Am in the "I never hear about these things" AND "if it ain't broke . . ." school. However, last time I - just by chance - learned about a new driver that was supposed to be good news, it sorted out some stutter and crash issues and noticeably improved FSX.

Anyone tried it and think it is better for FSX? Also, what is the right way to back up your existing (perfectly fine until you heard about a new one) driver in case you want/need to roll back to it?
 
Many thanks for th HU and the advice.

In my experience it doesn't just come down to the sim itself, but also what hardware (i.e. which GPU) you have, as to what improvements/detriments you get... Therefore it'd be really great to hear which GPUs you're all running when commenting on how this new driver worked.

Many thanks indeed

Andy
 
As a note, after I updated my drivers, I had to reactivate my Sigwings Birddog. Machine had a new Hardware code. Anyone else see this or is it something strange to my system?

Dave
 
Sieggie said:
As a note, after I updated my drivers, I had to reactivate my Sigwings Birddog. Machine had a new Hardware code. Anyone else see this or is it something strange to my system?
Dave
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I have the SSW Harrier & F-104's which also have regkeys which are sensitive to hardware/BIOS changes but this time no problems. The only issue I had was that I lost my antialiasing. I checked my NVidia Inspector FSX and FS2004 profiles and noticed the Antialiasing Behaviour Flag was changed from "None" to "Treat override any application setting as application-controlled". I did set it back to "None" and that solved the problem. Performance: I did not see noticable improvements but I was already happy with my setup (I use the Kosta tweaks and do not overclock anything).

My hardware: Core i7 3770K 3.5GHz, GTX670, 4GB RAM
 
hschuit said:
I have the SSW Harrier & F-104's which also have regkeys which are sensitive to hardware/BIOS changes but this time no problems. The only issue I had was that I lost my antialiasing. I checked my NVidia Inspector FSX and FS2004 profiles and noticed the Antialiasing Behaviour Flag was changed from "None" to "Treat override any application setting as application-controlled". I did set it back to "None" and that solved the problem. Performance: I did not see noticable improvements but I was already happy with my setup (I use the Kosta tweaks and do not overclock anything).
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The same experience for me, and no particular improvement noticed with new drivers.
 
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