January 28, 201016 yr First of all, what an awesome piece of equipment this is.Second:To whoever said that FS9 is CPU limited, and that you rather go CPU upgrade than GPU, you are so wrong. It all depends on what you currently have...I just installed my new eVGA GTX 285 into my old computer, the new i7 is still on the way.Basically, I didn't even reinstall the driver, just changed the card from 8800GT to GTX285. Driver reinstalled automatically, had to change the line for the card in the fs9.cfg (I rename my existing fs9.cfg, let it create new, copy the Nvidia line from the new, paste in the old and rename it back) and set Nhancer settings again.Anyway, my first observations:Nhancer is set to 8xS, 16xAA, and I have two situations saved from my old card:FS9Situation 1: 8/8 overcast (REX highres clouds), not much scenery, only trees and general scenery8800GT: 30FPSGTX285: 60FPSSituation 2: no clouds, Flytampa Vienna, view over it8800GT: 67FPSGTX285: 73FPSFSXSituation 1: Default 737, external view from the runway 4L to the terminal, no clouds8800GT: 33GTX285: 43Situation 2: Same, add 2 layers of 8/8 default cumulus clouds8800GT: 25GTX285: 32No conclusions necessary, I am very happy with the result, and I am looking forward to testing and results of the new i7 with both of sims!
January 28, 201016 yr Great post!Do you have any complex-heavy-FPS killer addon plane, like CS 757/767 or maybe PMDG MD-11? If positive, could you please post you results, with default scenery and REX clouds?That's my most common FSX situation and I'm REALLY considering buying GTX 285. It would be of great help.Thanks in advance,Bruno Bruno Romano - Sao Paulo, Brazil.
January 28, 201016 yr To whoever said that FS9 is CPU limited, and that you rather go CPU upgrade than GPU, you are so wrong. It all depends on what you currently have...Yes that is true. Thanks for your feedback!
January 28, 201016 yr FS9 itself is not GPU-limited. You are applying image enhancements which shift the bottleneck to the GPU.
January 28, 201016 yr FS9 itself is not GPU-limited. You are applying image enhancements which shift the bottleneck to the GPU.Correct. But what is FS without a decent AA/AF?! :(
January 28, 201016 yr Correct. But what is FS without a decent AA/AF?! :(Right. The whole point of a good graphics card is to be able to run games with maximum in-game settings and throw some AA/AF in to boot, while maintaining a smooth framerate. Just saying your FPS increase is not due to the game itself being held back by the GPU is all. Call it a minor technical correction :(
January 28, 201016 yr Max, you are always being so "correct". ;-)But, anyway, here is an FSX report:KJFK, 04L, default scenery, REX 4096 clouds 8/8 cumulus, settings at max except scenery normal and autogen normal, even clouds at 110nm, PMDG MD-11 outside view towards terminal:- around 15fps.Now, this is a E8600 crunching. I can only imagine with little less sliders and i7, it will crunch this with 30fps.Main thing to say, this card crunches ANY clouds you throw at it with 8xS AA and 16x AF without any real FPS loss (I could notice possibly a frames going down to 14 in the same situation), be it FS9 or FSX.
January 28, 201016 yr Completely agree. When I got my new 24inch monitor, my old 8800gts 512 started to struggle a bit with fs9 in some sitations. Installed the EVGA 275...like night and day. Much better then my old card was with my old 19inch monitor. FPS is smooth and steady at 60fps now with any clouds and AA/AF unless in heavy heavy scenery, there it drops to 30. Don't have to worry about settings anymore. - Red E8500 @ 4.1 | EVGA 275GTX (overclocked) | 2x2GB Mushkin Enhanced Redline @ 1066 | Samsung 24inch LCD @ 1920x1080 |
January 28, 201016 yr I second that. GTX 285 eats clouds for breakfast. I have ASA running with the full 20 cloud layers allowed.
January 28, 201016 yr Heh, with 3 full layers of 8/8 highres clouds, you bring even the GTX285 to its knees (kicks it down to 25fps)...relatively unreal situation though ;-)
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