If you want the best depiction of terrain, with lightning quick focus updates, and roads that are well-formed, trees and shrubbery, and mountains to the horizon, that are well formed and focused as viewed out to about 50 miles from your cockpit:Nvidia driver suite 257.15If you want the best depiction of water..lakes, oceans..with the most realistic wave action there is, and water that has a true depth of field...but LOUSY rendering of land....very slow to come into focus, and terrain mostly in a soft focus and blurry, until practically upon and over it:Nvidia driver suite 260.99 (the latest).I compare the 260.99's performance to render clear and blurry free almost 50 miles out from your x/y to the best-of-the-best for blurry-free terrain at least 50 miles out...and that is of course, the 257.15 suite.I am using Nick's suggested settings for the latest Nvidia Inspector.The absolute ULTIMATE driver to date, would be a combination of the 257.15's for all terrain and sky renderings, but the 260.99's for anything depicting water. If they could combine the two...for what they do best, it would be a near perfect depiction of the real world!My two cents....

If you want the best depiction of terrain, with lightning quick focus updates, and roads that are well-formed, trees and shrubbery, and mountains to the horizon, that are well formed and focused as viewed out to about 50 miles from your cockpit:Nvidia driver suite 257.15If you want the best depiction of water..lakes, oceans..with the most realistic wave action there is, and water that has a true depth of field...but LOUSY rendering of land....very slow to come into focus, and terrain mostly in a soft focus and blurry, until practically upon and over it:Nvidia driver suite 260.99 (the latest).I compare the 260.99's performance to render clear and blurry free almost 50 miles out from your x/y to the best-of-the-best for blurry-free terrain at least 50 miles out...and that is of course, the 257.15 suite.I am using Nick's suggested settings for the latest Nvidia Inspector.The absolute ULTIMATE driver to date, would be a combination of the 257.15's for all terrain and sky renderings, but the 260.99's for anything depicting water.  If they could combine the two...for what they do best, it would be a near perfect depiction of the real world!My two cents....

Thanks for the info.  My same experience with the 260 drivers also.  I lowered my LOD to 5.5 and locked FPS at 30 and that seems to help.jja

Hey guys what are your temps like with the new 260.99 driver? I have been using a gtx 480 for several months now and have been keeping the temps to about 65 with a fan speed of 70% while using fsx, just took this new driver for a 10 minute spin with my duke and my temps were up to 75 degrees on the card, awhile back nvdia release drivers that interfered with the fan speed or something like that but I was under the impression that if you manually set the speed of your card you were alright, can a driver actually make your card run hotter?

Hey guys what are your temps like with the new 260.99 driver? I have been using a gtx 480 for several months now and have been keeping the temps to about 65 with a fan speed of 70% while using fsx, just took this new driver for a 10 minute spin with my duke and my temps were up to 75 degrees on the card, awhile back nvdia release drivers that interfered with the fan speed or something like that but I was under the impression that if you manually set the speed of your card you were alright, can a driver actually make your card run hotter?

My temps average in the high 40's with a medium OC on a 460.  Best part about the driver is no more crashes when alt+tabbing.  Yea.jja

Hey guys what are your temps like with the new 260.99 driver? I have been using a gtx 480 for several months now and have been keeping the temps to about 65 with a fan speed of 70% while using fsx, just took this new driver for a 10 minute spin with my duke and my temps were up to 75 degrees on the card, awhile back nvdia release drivers that interfered with the fan speed or something like that but I was under the impression that if you manually set the speed of your card you were alright, can a driver actually make your card run hotter?

Ian, I am also running the GTX480. I just did about a 1 hour flight in FSX with the Aerosoft Airbus X. My card temp stayed right around 62 degrees. I'm also running my GPU fan at 70%. I'm using the latest Nvidia drivers.

Thanks guys looked liked I loaded the wrong profile (one with a lower fan speed) anyways 70% and staying below 65!

Yeah I get 45c on air with the gtx480. That's on approach in heavy rex2 weather and big airports like Narita. New driver is good but seems like I lost something with ground clarity. Overall very happy with 260.xx

Hey guys what are your temps like with the new 260.99 driver? I have been using a gtx 480 for several months now and have been keeping the temps to about 65 with a fan speed of 70% while using fsx, just took this new driver for a 10 minute spin with my duke and my temps were up to 75 degrees on the card, awhile back nvdia release drivers that interfered with the fan speed or something like that but I was under the impression that if you manually set the speed of your card you were alright, can a driver actually make your card run hotter?

On my GTX285 1GB, I get around 62 at 40 percent fan speed. I

Thanks for the info. My same experience with the 260 drivers also. I lowered my LOD to 5.5 and locked FPS at 30 and that seems to help.jja

When I loaded up (clean install) the 260.99's...and flew over water near Vancouver...my eyes almost popped out! I mean...the wave action was WIND SWEPT in realism, and as I flew in theTrike about 30 feet off of the surface, I'd swear that you could look through the water down to the bottom! It was the best I have ever seen. Then...I started noticing the land, and how all the roads were jag-blocked, the houses and properties a blur of soft focus color, hills and mountains that looked like they had melted a bit...lol. Very disappointing rendering for anything other than water textures.I went back to the 257.15's and once more had sharp detail that snapped into focus miles before you were on top of it. The water? About 60 percent of the quality of what the 260.99's produced. Not bad...what has been all along...but still quite enjoyable to fly over and land upon. But..if I could get the shader treatment the 260.99's render...but keep the hot performance of the 257.15's....I would HAVE IT ALL! I hope they can arrive there with future issues....