FSX and Nvidia Fermi Examples

[SpiritFlyer 987]

Screenshot over Darrington Wa.It has been many years since I started lurking at AVSIM and other FS sites soaking in all the knowledge and expertise of those who have found out how to run various versions of MSFS. Eventually I registered and begin to participate, while trying not to be a part of any problems, but perhaps helping in a solution here and there. Everything any of us know in the core FS community come on the shoulders of those who have done most of the heavy lifting. We all know who they are, but for the recent arrivals they would be a long list of devoted helpers beginning with Nick Needham and as of this date ending with ******* (Hey sus) aka. Bojote. Of course there are many others, but, perhaps Orbx and John Venema have done more to push FSX farther out into excellence than anyone else to this point.However we have benefited enormously from the help and advice from many skilled enthusiasts and ingenious developers to the point that, rightly or wrongly, I feel that the long hard uphill fight to tame the wild MSFS beast is coming to an end. Technology and persistent experiment and analysis has certainly taken us a lot closer to "as good as it gets."With the new Nvdia 400 Series video cards, levels of performance and quality have taken a huge jump. Flying over the most dense autogen with complex aircraft with all the sliders to the right is now possible, and I expect, will soon be very common. With certain tweaks applied, smoothing down the rough FSX code, the program can run wide open with near perfection with 30+ FPS without stutters, blurries or other former spoilers. For those who have lots of flight sim experience I don't suppose this will be of much benefit, but I hope that a few newcomers will be able to latch on to some of it and get a good head start that will put them ahead of the game far faster than we did.There are many ways to skin a cat, but there are even more ways to fiddle and fix FSX. No two machines are alike or are programmed the same way. That means that results will always vary from machine to machine and system to system. So I hope that this "reveal" will be a benefit to some, and an encouragement to most.I use FPS Limiter to set my FSX frame rates from the outside of the program which results, for most people, a faster and smoother flying experience. Here is the link to download it. http://www.caveofdistraction.com/2009/07/2...nd-other-titlesSimply point it to your fsx.exe file and pick your frame count (mine is set at 30 fps), create a bat file and start fsx with it each time.Even though I experimented with the Nvidia control panel, with mixed success, I reverted to the use of Nhancer because the quality of the texture rendering could not be matched otherwise. The settings are shown below. Nick Needham was the guide for this advice. I have however nudged up the settings a tad which works great for me. You can download Nhancer here:http://www.nhancer.comNothing more needs to be said by me, here are screenshots that will do more than words can tell.1. Specificationshttp://www.fsfiles.org/imagehost/uploads/1272329112.jpg2. Nhancerhttp://www.fsfiles.org/imagehost/uploads/1272319190.jpg3. Nhancerhttp://www.fsfiles.org/imagehost/uploads/1272397311.jpg4. Nhancerhttp://www.fsfiles.org/imagehost/uploads/1272331320.jpg5. Nhancerhttp://www.fsfiles.org/imagehost/uploads/1272404956.jpg6. Nhancerhttp://www.fsfiles.org/imagehost/uploads/1272373428.jpg7. Nhancerhttp://www.fsfiles.org/imagehost/uploads/1272393964.jpg8. Nhancerhttp://www.fsfiles.org/imagehost/uploads/1272405191.jpg9. Nhancerhttp://www.fsfiles.org/imagehost/uploads/1272392544.jpg10. Nhancerhttp://www.fsfiles.org/imagehost/uploads/1272338656.jpg11. Nhancerhttp://www.fsfiles.org/imagehost/uploads/1272314580.jpg12. Afterburner Idlehttp://www.fsfiles.org/imagehost/uploads/1272342879.jpg13. Afterburner Loadhttp://www.fsfiles.org/imagehost/uploads/1272366672.jpg14. Kombuster Stress Testhttp://www.fsfiles.org/imagehost/uploads/1272358171.jpg15. GPU-Z 1http://www.fsfiles.org/imagehost/uploads/1272361347.jpg16. GPU-Z 2http://www.fsfiles.org/imagehost/uploads/1272391008.jpg17. Real Temp Idle (CPU stock clocked)http://www.fsfiles.org/imagehost/uploads/1272392980.jpg18. Real Temp Idle (CPU over-clocked)http://www.fsfiles.org/imagehost/uploads/1272347824.jpg19. CPU-Z 1http://www.fsfiles.org/imagehost/uploads/1272390791.jpg20. CPU-Z 2http://www.fsfiles.org/imagehost/uploads/1272388237.jpg21. CPU-Z 3http://www.fsfiles.org/imagehost/uploads/1272396853.jpg22. CPU-Z 4http://www.fsfiles.org/imagehost/uploads/1272376069.jpg23. CPU-Z 5http://www.fsfiles.org/imagehost/uploads/1272321320.jpg24. CPU-Z 6http://www.fsfiles.org/imagehost/uploads/1272344261.jpg25. FSX settings 1http://www.fsfiles.org/imagehost/uploads/1272403828.jpg26. FSX settings 2http://www.fsfiles.org/imagehost/uploads/1272315876.jpg27. FSX settings 3http://www.fsfiles.org/imagehost/uploads/1272340133.jpg28. FSX settings 4http://www.fsfiles.org/imagehost/uploads/1272353946.jpg29. FSX settings 5http://www.fsfiles.org/imagehost/uploads/1272397672.jpg30. FSX.CFG 1http://www.fsfiles.org/imagehost/uploads/1272336847.jpg31. FSX.CFG 2http://www.fsfiles.org/imagehost/uploads/1272357789.jpg 32. FSX.CFG 3http://www.fsfiles.org/imagehost/uploads/1272341323.jpg33. FSX.CFG 4http://www.fsfiles.org/imagehost/uploads/1272309535.jpg34. FSX.CFG 5http://www.fsfiles.org/imagehost/uploads/1272333766.jpg35. FSX.CFG 6http://www.fsfiles.org/imagehost/uploads/1272397966.jpgTurning Left to FinalHappy Landings!Stephen

[bojote 20]

Happy Landings!

Indeed happy :) you seem to also be having fun with your 400 :) boy what a huge difference those babies make!

[PingPong 60]

Indeed happy :) you seem to also be having fun with your 400 :) boy what a huge difference those babies make!

I am glad to see your doing well Stephen, I am having trouble with my GTX 480 and Triplehead 2 go, Since I can't get another 480 card right now I have to use TH2Go, and it crashes the driver almost instantly when I boot it up(with the BP=0 tweaks) without the tweak it runs alright, but the same performance as my bp=0 enabled GTX 285.

[Guest jahman]

Great stuff, spiritflyer! The beast has been tamed! And your screenies look great!If you could post your FSX.CFG as a text file, that would be great! (allows for searching for specific settings).Also if you could list the titles/names of the tweaks you have applied, that would also be most helpful.Thanks! :-)Cheers,- jahman.

[SpiritFlyer 987]

Oh Oh,I made an error on which screenies of Nhancer I had uploaded. Numbers 3 and 7 are the wrong ones. That concerns me in case someone uses them without seeing this correction. Moderators, is it possible for the original to be edited by replacing those two with these files? These are correct:3. Nhancer http://www.fsfiles.org/imagehost/uploads/1272397311.jpg7. Nhancerhttp://www.fsfiles.org/imagehost/uploads/1272393964.jpg3. Nhancer 7. NhancerSorry about that! :( Stephen

[rightseater 0]

Same as the other thread Stephen. I swapped out the links for you, but the two inbed images were oversize.

[vyper883 20]

I am glad to see your doing well Stephen, I am having trouble with my GTX 480 and Triplehead 2 go, Since I can't get another 480 card right now I have to use TH2Go, and it crashes the driver almost instantly when I boot it up(with the BP=0 tweaks) without the tweak it runs alright, but the same performance as my bp=0 enabled GTX 285.

PingPongThere is NOTHING wrong with your 480, and it has nothing to do with your TH2GO. If you are running WIN XP 64bit, and your BSOD is a SYSTEM_SERVICE_EXCEPTION, wait for another driver revision. After experiencing this myself, I have talked to 6 other people with the same issue with FSX in XP. The nvidia driver 197.41 for XP 64 seems to be borked. The Memory Dump, as well as the BSOD are hinting at the NV4 disp.dll. Use your 285 for now, with the 197.45 driver.As far as I know, and have tested, this is not an issue with win 7 64, however before you go off doing a win 7 install, you will run into other problems with win 7, FSX and a triplehead2go. My Sincere Apologies To Spiritflyer if I seem to be off Topic- Great Post BTW!