I was wondering what would be the FORUM's general opinion on their Screen Resolution and Refresh Rate for WinXP in general and FS9 in particular ...?... and what is the general f/rate impact of a higher SR and/or RR?I'm also confused on what is the best MipMap setting for a relative high power PC and if you go to your DISPLAY PROPERTIES and for example your Performance and Quality Settings for a GeForce Card you will find a lot of settings under Advanced settings (i.e. AA, AF, Force Mipmaps etc etc) and could someone give some guidelines here please ...?Just curiousTerblanche:-smile12

For my system, 1600 x 1200 at 85 Hz, with AA = 2, AF = 4, Mip Map = 4. I use the high quality (max) setting. All these are of course set outside the game, in the GeForce display settings dialog box. I can get away with a relatively low AA because of the high resolution. With a good card (I have a GeForce 6800GT), you can afford to crank up the resolution without affecting performance very much. Cheers,N.

Thanx NI have more or less the same machine accept for an EXTREME 6800 video card ...what will be your MIPsettings within FS9 then?T

>I was wondering what would be the FORUM's general opinion on>their Screen Resolution and Refresh Rate for WinXP in general>and FS9 in particular ...?>>... and what is the general f/rate impact of a higher SRHigher SR significantly impact frame rate IF the CPU is not the limitating factor for the used settings. For example, on my system (AMD3000+, Radeon9800Pro) and with the settings I use, FPS are about the same between 800x600 and 1280x960, but they decrease significantly at 1600x1200, where the limiting factor becomes the video card.>and/or RR?Refresh Rate doesn't impact at all frame rate (if RR is greater than FPS, which usually is). You can keep it at the max setting your monitor can support at the used resolution (higher RR = less eye strain).>I'm also confused on what is the best MipMap setting for a>relative high power PCFrom what I know, it's quite unnecessary to set MipMap higher than 5 even on high power PCs.>and if you go to your DISPLAY>PROPERTIES and for example your Performance and Quality>Settings for a GeForce CardI don't know about GeForce, but on my ATI I get a HUGE fps increase going from "high-quality" to "performance", without a noticeable (for me) decrease of image quality.>you will find a lot of settings>under Advanced settings (i.e. AA, AF, Force Mipmaps etc etc)>and could someone give some guidelines here please ...?Both AA and AF increase a lot image quality, but at higher settings can decrease performance. Usually you can keep at least 2xAA and 4xAF on decent video-cards, without a great decrease in FPS. I think with your 6800 you can push them to 4xAA and 8xAF, just try and see if you notice a big performance decrease.Marco

Screen resolution and refresh rate are limited by the capability of the Graphics Card and are a function of the bandwidth needed for any screen resolution and refresh rate. For instance, if you select 1280 x 1024 as your refresh rate, that means that each frame has about 1.3 million pixels. Now if I set my refresh rate at 60 FPS or 60 scans of taht image per second, that would mean that I have to process about 78 million pixels per second. If I up the refresh rate to 70 Hz, that would go to 91 million pixels per second.The frame rate is controlled by FS9 and is the actual number of pictures per second that FS9 creates which are then sent to the graphics card to display. This is limited by your sliders in FS9 and the power of your CPU.

Hello,See my sign. I also have AA 2x, AF 8X, MM 4.I do not have a lot of FPS but 24 is OK for me.

>>From what I know, it's quite unnecessary to set MipMap higher>than 5 even on high power PCs.>I've heard several people say this... what then is the point having settings greater than 5? I thought that at the higher MIP settings long distance terrain views look more realistic at higher visual settings.

Does anyone know if there is an optimal relationship between FPS (and possibly RR) and the VC pan rate (i.e. in fs9.cfg [CONTROLS] section "PAN_RATE=###". I had ###=850 but have been experimenting with higher settings (right now I'm using 1600).Specfically I wanted to know what the theoretical maximum pan rate would be for a given locked FPS to make the viewing look as realistic as possible.

>>I've heard several people say this... what then is the point>having settings greater than 5? I thought that at the higher>MIP settings long distance terrain views look more realistic>at higher visual settings.There is no point in FS9. Setting MIP to 4 seems to give best results, and 5,6,7,8 actually look worse.Some forum members have said that the MIP slider is "broken" because of this behavior. I don't know if I'd go so far as to say it's broken, but I will say that 4 seems to be the optimal setting.Rhett

no just set the panning to what you feel comfortable with :).as for mip map I can