http://www.nzone.com/object/nzone_fsx_techtips.html#

Well, perhaps the results are different for NVidia cards, but, as far as my Radeon X800XL is concerned, relying on the in-sim setting for anisotropic filtering is a definite no no. The image is awful - shimmering and blurry. Restoring AF 16x (quality with trilinear) in the driver and setting filtering in-sim to Trilinear restores the image to it's former glory.Mike

Nvidia's newest driver has a new option called "Enhance the Application setting" for AA and AF that essentially allows you to retain the custom coding within the game/sim as far as what gets AA and AF applied to it, but do it at a higher level than the game specifies. This is the best of both methods.

It recommends 'unlimited' frame rate. Seems strange but hey.RhettAMD 3700+ (@2530 mhz), eVGA 7800GT 256 (Guru3D 93.71), ASUS A8N-E, PC Power 510 SLI, 2 GB Corsair XMS 3-3-3-8, WD 250 gig 7200 rpm SATA2, CoolerMaster Praetorian

It also recommends 7cm texture resolution. That's not just strange it's just wrong considering FSX ships with 1m textures.Regards,

>Nvidia's newest driver has a new option called "Enhance the>Application setting" for AA and AF that essentially allows you>to retain the custom coding within the game/sim as far as what>gets AA and AF applied to it, but do it at a higher level than>the game specifies. This is the best of both methods.Which level of driver is that in? Where is it set? Can't find it.

>It also recommends 7cm texture resolution. That's not just>strange it's just wrong considering FSX ships with 1m>textures.>>Regards,>>Many of us using Horizon's UK photo scenery have found there are fewer stutters with 7cm setting rather than 1m.

>It recommends 'unlimited' frame rate. Seems strange but>hey.>>Rhett>>AMD 3700+ (@2530 mhz), eVGA 7800GT 256 (Guru3D 93.71), ASUS>A8N-E, PC Power 510 SLI, 2 GB Corsair XMS 3-3-3-8, WD 250 gig>7200 rpm SATA2, CoolerMaster PraetorianUnlimted gives you extra FPS..but its a fools gold. You could have blurries. It basically invalidates the FIBRE% higher than .33 that you may have set at the fsx.cfg.In a non photoscenery like Megascenery and if you are flying GA (slower than 110kts, it may be ok.. to trade it for some extra FPS.Manny

I absolutely LOVE these settings. They work great with my system (see below in my signature).I enjoy full water and full everything else. I do change my Scenery complexity to Very Dense, and my Autogen to Normal, however. I also like my Road Vehicles to at least 30 as well.I really never thought that with my system I should use AA and AF in the Sim and check "application controlled" on the card as the way to go, but it proved absolutely correct. I get no "flashing" and all the scenery looks great.FPS in KSEA stays in the high teens and low 20's and everything is fluid. I've tried the sim at my default airport and the helicopter on Maui because I'm very familiar with the FPS in those areas. I also always use Real Weather or ActiveSky. I can never fly without real weather appearing in the sim.Love it...love it....love it.Thanks so much for this thread. I learned a lot, and my sim is superb.

What these settings actually prove, if proof were still needed, is that FSX is simply not as good as FS9 with addons. If you follow the recommendations from Nvidia and have anything less than a GF 8800 you will find you gain fps, but are missing a whole heap of things that are not just included with aftermarket addons, but default FS9 settings as well - the scenery slider for example, at lower settings removes the default airport buildings, signage, taxiway lighting, as well as defeating the point of having the higher-resolution ground scenery in the first place, and blurring what's left!This would not matter but for the fact that we KNOW the Nvidia and ACES worked together on the development of FSX. As neither side can offer ANY kind of setting that gives the average user anything like value for money in terms of the benefit over a `pimped` FS9, it really tells you just how far beyond acceptable FSX is, as an out-of-the-box experience. It also begs the question as to just how much benefit will be found from patching? ACES really do have to perform a miracle to get this thing back on track. Allcott

now it's really going downhill....RhettAMD 3700+ (@2530 mhz), eVGA 7800GT 256 (Guru3D 93.71), ASUS A8N-E, PC Power 510 SLI, 2 GB Corsair XMS 3-3-3-8, WD 250 gig 7200 rpm SATA2, CoolerMaster Praetorian

Well, i must add that I cannot believe such a stupidly simple, and basic set of tips and hints......and yet, if carefully adapted to fit ones' requirement and specifications, they bloody work!!!!I have set both AA, and AF to FSX control, turned off transparency and gamma AA in the Nvidia control panel, turned down the mesh to 60%, but left the detail settings at 2m resolution, and extended texture radius thingie to high (massive blurring at any lower), and set frame rate to 'unlimited', and now I can fly over London (with JF's VFR scenery, autogen off, just the 'special' buildings, bridges, landmarks, etc left on) and have aprox 25fps...before the above tweaks, I was averaging 11fps and jerky, stuttery horrible-ness.....By making only the adjustments that I did, i still have a good number of airport vehicles buzzing around, all runway/taxi signs are present and correct, lighting is fine. I run with road vehicles at 50% 9any higher and the cars and lorries are falling over themselves!), 100% boats, and aircraft AI at 15%, but I'm going to see if I can push this a little higher now...(Heathrow used to give me around 7-8 fps, now its around 20, and there's a stack of planes there at 15%...)Thanks to the original poster for bringing this to my attention; it has transformed FSX for me. Over unpopulated areas it runs at around 50-60fps and is silky smooth. All testing done using stock Bell 206, and the Shockwaves Spitfire/BF109E. :) :)

>Which level of driver is that in? Where is it set? Can't>find it.Go here:http://www.digit-life.com/articles2/video/g80-3.htmlSearch for the word "enhance" and you'll see where it is set. Cool feature.