May 1, 201115 yr Hi All, I just upgraded to the latest AMD drivers and had to turn off the anti aliasing inside the simulator to get a clear picture. I had lines all over the screen that looked like the structure of the ground, plane and all other items in view. Now I am using the catalyst control panel to control video quality and I think that possibly the shimmering buildings and runway lines are gone and the sim is quite crisp and smooth too even though the frames seem to have gone down a little. I am wondering what others have experienced with this upgrade and if there are any other tweaks that can be used to make this even better. I am running a Sapphire 6950 with 2gb memory on a i720 @ 3.8Ghz with 12gb of 1600Mhz memory (for reference). Any thoughts?
May 1, 201115 yr Commercial Member I am performing some hardware changes today so I'm gonna pop back in my 6970 that I haven't used in several months. Want to see if the newer drivers make any difference as you mention. If I find anything exciting I'll report back.Clutch Intel i9-12900KF, Asus Prime Z690-A MB, 64GB DDR5 6000 RAM, (3) SK hynix M.2 SSD (2TB ea.), 16TB Seagate HDD, Gigabyte GeForce 5080 RTX, Corsair iCUE H70i AIO Liquid Cooler, UHD/Blu-ray Player/Burner (still have lots of CDs, DVDs!) Windows 10, (hold off for now on Win11), EVGA 1300W PSUNetgear 1Gbps modem & router, (3) 27" 1440 wrap-around displaysFull array of Bravo, Saitek and GoFlight hardware for the cockpit. Varjo and HP VR headsets for mixed reality.
May 3, 201115 yr Author I am performing some hardware changes today so I'm gonna pop back in my 6970 that I haven't used in several months. Want to see if the newer drivers make any difference as you mention. If I find anything exciting I'll report back.ClutchHi, did you get your 6970 installed? I have put a few more hours of flying in on these drivers and am quite impressed with the improvement on them. I did try to take the old video entry out of the config file and running FSX again and I also tried to turn on the antialiasing again but that didn't pan out either. Settings in FSX are max filtering and almost all video setting maxed. The Catalyst settings are also maxed on every setting. The sim isn't butter smooth in all areas but to me it seems to be a massive improvement to the last driver set. It would be nice to see a few more of you to try this and report your results.Tony
May 3, 201115 yr Hello,I only use FS9, so I cannot say anything about FSX.I also use the ATI HD4890 card. Until recently I used Catalyst 10.5, as anything since was awful. 11.2 was better, but I got Black Screen after 30 minutes of simming.So the other day I installed and maxed all settings in Catalyst 11.4. That was better! I´m not sure if its better than 10.5.. but maybe the heavy REX FS2004 clouds are slightly smoother?I will over the comming days experiment more with AA settings, so see the effect on blurries. But appearently, AMD seems finally to have gotten the drivers right for FS..Best Regards
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