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Totally Clueless About Fancy GTX 1060

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Aharon

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Shalom and greetings all my pals,



While my MSI GE62VR 6RF Apache Pro with 16 GB ram, 6 GB NVIDIA GTX 1060, 1 TB 7,200 rpm, and 226 GB SDD drive is doing well for my FSX Deluxe with SP1 and SP2 set in Windows 10 Professional operating system, I am trying to figure out to solve the problem of little fuzzy on ground texture when flying at FL350. Ground is always sharp when I see ground under my plane but little fuzzy when looking off left or right wing. My five year old laptop with 12 GB ram, 2 GB NVIDIA Geoforce 560 with CUDA, and 750 GB 7,200 rpm could show crisp ground texture from FL350 when under plane or looking right and left of the plane.



Since MSI GE62VR 6RF Apache Pro laptop is loaded with fancy glitz functions that I cannot make heads or tails to create right setting for FSX, I look at NVIDIA control center and notice that it is set to global setting with NVIDIA GRU. Should I switch setting to High Performance NVIDIA setting or leave it alone? I am afraid to mess it up.



I also notice that the NVIDIA control center's Anisotropic setting is set to 8X for FSX. I changed from 8X to 16X. Is this correct thing for me to do to make the ground texture crisp sharp when flying at FL350? Or is it big mistake and I should change back to 8X?



Thanks for any help that any of you might offer.


Regards,


Aharon
 
16x AF is fine with your 1060. Also, make sure your sim Filtering is set for "Anisotropic" (on the Settings/Display/Graphics page).

HTH

Greg
 
Hmmm...I've started buying components for my future rig, and intended to buy that same 1060. Anybody else have any problems with it?
 
Thanks, Bjoern! It's taken me months to make up my mind to proceed, didn't want to change it up now.
 
Patful,

GTX1060 is superb as all NVDivia video cards are always. It is not question of how good NVidia products are. It is HOW to utilize those products!!

The problem is that when a person buys such sophisticated pc or laptop with fancy glitz functions and powerful video card, he or she would not know what are correct or best default settings for FSX use.

It is like a person driving normal cars for years and then for first time, a person buys hot rod fancy car with more gauges and more functions, would the person know how to properly utilize gauges and fancy functions even though he or she drives cars for years? Probably not.

Same thing for me when I bought a hot rod laptop with fancy glitz functions and powerful components, I still do not know what are best default settings in laptop for FSX use!!! My laptop offers 20 choices for color screen settings!! Shessh

Regards,

Aharon
 
Aharon said:
Nomad13,

Are you asking me that question or are you asking Patful that question?

Regards,

Aharon
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I was asking you about the resolution. If you are running 1920x1080, the GTX 1060 will be more than enough to run FSX with max settings. With higher resolutions, maybe running two or three monitors or big screen TV, it may run at lower frame rates, but FSX is a ten year old game, with video card like the GTX1060, that can run demanding modern games smoothly, you should have great graphics performance with it.
 
nomad13 said:
I was asking you about the resolution. If you are running 1920x1080, the GTX 1060 will be more than enough to run FSX with max settings..
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I am using 1920x1080x32.

nomad13 said:
FSX is a ten year old game, with video card like the GTX1060, that can run demanding modern games smoothly, you should have great graphics performance with it.
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That is exactly what I thought so and hence me trying to find correct settings in order to enjoy that.

Regards,

Aharon
 
Yes, the GTX1060 IS a great video card, BUT: Don't forget FSX (And FS9) is very largely CPU dependant, not GPU. I'm not saying it's BAD to have a good GPU, but the sim relies far more on the speed of the CPU to render scenery and things like that. It also means the more cycles it uses for scenery, or whatever, it has to take away from the calculations it does to accurately model the flight characteristics and things like that.
So, if you get stutters, the planes don't "fly right", low FPS, or stuff like that, start backing off the scenery. 3d clouds really seem to have strong effect, as do airport vehicles.
In any event, have fun!
Pat☺
 
Thanks, Pat. I'm going after an i5 7600k 3.8/4.2 processor, not spending extra for an i7. Hopefully it does the job.
 
It should. The trick is the correct settings in the FSX.cfg so that it uses the processor(s) as best is possible. Remember that FSX is an old program. It doesn't utilize hyperthreading, although the normal programs running alongside FSX, in the background, can and will, with the correct settings. If you do it right you cant set 1 processor for FSX to use, and the rest for windows programs. That way, FSX gets the most possible use out of the CPU.
I can see if I can find instructions for all this for you, if you want.
Good luck and fair weather to ya!
Pat☺
 
Thanks, Pat. I did try that a few years ago with my old Athlon II X4, but it didn't want to cooperate, never messed with it again. Will definitely try again once I build the new one.
 
Just got FSXse installed and my controls setup on the sim, with my new setup. i7 7700 (currently at stock speed), RAM matched to system 2133 but can be oc'ed, and a 1070 card. This is the first time I have been able to max out FSX settings since I bought the sim the very day it was released in 2006. I've got it set at 1080p, and pulled back the frames to 50 just to throttle it back a bit. But, when unchecked, it was hovering around 100fps. First day with this rig, and I am happy. Just hope it holds up like the last rig did.
It's amazing that it took 9-10 yrs to have affordable gaming rigs that would run FSX wide open. Thanks MS.
 
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