hi,I had an old nvidia driver (197 something). I was pleased with what I got.I read on this forum that the 257.15 driver gives crisp textures. I installed it . Now I have crisp textures below my aircraft and blurred textures in front of it. it is awful. Any suggestions (I have nhancer with nick's settings).I am really fed up with this never inding tweaking circus. thank you

You could try going back to your old driver, using windoze roll back feature.

hi,I had an old nvidia driver (197 something). I was pleased with what I got.I read on this forum that the 257.15 driver gives crisp textures. I installed it . Now I have crisp textures below my aircraft and blurred textures in front of it. it is awful. Any suggestions (I have nhancer with nick's settings).I am really fed up with this never inding tweaking circus. thank you

This happens a lot, just dont forget that initial driver setup usualy does not default to Texture filter quality "High Quality" which is what you want, anything less like" performance" etc will give less detail...its a possibility II thought worth mentioning

New drivers will not work with nhancer.Give this a try...http://www.simforums.com/forums/nhancer-settings-for-new-drivers-updated-v1932_topic36586.htmlWorks great for me.Glen

hi,I had an old nvidia driver (197 something). I was pleased with what I got.I read on this forum that the 257.15 driver gives crisp textures. I installed it . Now I have crisp textures below my aircraft and blurred textures in front of it. it is awful. Any suggestions (I have nhancer with nick's settings).I am really fed up with this never inding tweaking circus. thank you

The 257.15 BETA's will in fact give you crystal-clear textures, BUT..as others have stated on this post in reply, you need to go back and adjust all driver parameters to how you had them with Nvidia Inspector v1.94.Save the new profile, reboot, and you will see what they can do. The only thing is...and this is not a defect in the driver....is that the 260.99's give you outstanding, life-like water textures and effects, while the 257.15's give a 'base normal' look to all water bodies. With some tweaking in the cfg file, I got the 260.99's to give me 80 percent of the texture quality for land based textures of the 257:15's BUT...I have picked up eye-candy in the water on the planet, lol! With PNW and the Fjords, you want the best water that your system can produce! The 260.99's give the best of that to date. Again, for outstanding LAND BASED textures, it still is the 257.15 BETA driver suite. The 260.99's 'tweaked' let me live with the land textures as such.

Hi,Thank you for your replies. The problem has gone with the recommended settings in video inspector.The problem that I have now is worse. I have very good textures, incredibly crisp, but FSX freezes after roughly 5 minutes and crashes with an error message :( Help needed please

What error message?Also, when you uninstalled/installed your drivers, did you follow the steps of uninstall - reboot into safe mode - run driver cleaner - reboot - install new driver or did you just install new over old?If you didn't do it, I suggest you uninstall and reinstall the driver as above. Then set it up with nvidia inspector.Vic

What error message?Also, when you uninstalled/installed your drivers, did you follow the steps of uninstall - reboot into safe mode - run driver cleaner - reboot - install new driver or did you just install new over old?If you didn't do it, I suggest you uninstall and reinstall the driver as above. Then set it up with nvidia inspector.Vic

Hi Thank you. I did what you said and it worked. I should not have installed the new driver on top of the old one. I reinstalled it completely and it is fine , no crash for now . It is true that this driver gives much better ground textures.

So, does this mean you are back on the "never ending tweaking circus?" :( scott s..

New drivers will not work with nhancer.Give this a try...http://www.simforums.com/forums/nhancer-settings-for-new-drivers-updated-v1932_topic36586.htmlWorks great for me.Glen

Hi,Thank you very much for the link. Very useful.

So, does this mean you are back on the "never ending tweaking circus?" :( scott s..

Hi, :( Maybe but it is your fault guys, you saved my bacon on this oneNote that I resisted for a long time with 197 drivers :( take care

always let fsx create a new fsx.cfg file with a driver change.

Since this issue was resolved, I would like to hijack it momentarilly. I'm running FSX Acceleration on a E8400 Dual Core Duo (OC'd to 3.6) with 6 Gigs or DDR3 and a 8800 GTS 512. It's running very well with the help of Nick's and Bojote's 'tweaks', but as the OP says the never ending tweaking has consumed me. I'm running the 8800 on the 195.62 drivers with the help of Nhancer. However, I keep hearing how great these new drivers are and I am wondering if I should also jump on the band wagon. Will the new drivers help my old reliable 8800 GTS? Anyone out there with the new drivers on an 8800? What are your thoughts?

Since this issue was resolved, I would like to hijack it momentarilly. I'm running FSX Acceleration on a E8400 Dual Core Duo (OC'd to 3.6) with 6 Gigs or DDR3 and a 8800 GTS 512. It's running very well with the help of Nick's and Bojote's 'tweaks', but as the OP says the never ending tweaking has consumed me. I'm running the 8800 on the 195.62 drivers with the help of Nhancer. However, I keep hearing how great these new drivers are and I am wondering if I should also jump on the band wagon. Will the new drivers help my old reliable 8800 GTS? Anyone out there with the new drivers on an 8800? What are your thoughts?

hi,It was me who opened this post and incidently I have a 8800 gt !Yes the 257.15 driver gives impressive ground textures, it is very noticeable. so install this driver from scratch , use nvidia video inspector instead of nhancer (I uninstalled it), apply the recommended settings featured in the link given by Glenm and you are all set... (unless another unexpected problem arises :( )Hope this helps

hi,It was me who opened this post and incidently I have a 8800 gt !Yes the 257.15 driver gives impressive ground textures, it is very noticeable. so install this driver from scratch , use nvidia video inspector instead of nhancer (I uninstalled it), apply the recommended settings featured in the link given by Glenm and you are all set... (unless another unexpected problem arises :( )Hope this helps

Thanks YG3,Looks like another weekend fiddling with my rig. Hopefully Nvidia Inspector will give me the great AA that Nhancer does.