New NVIDIA driver

[Roger Over 0]

Hi,Nvidia have released an updated driver... on my old Geforce card it seems to deliver a reasonable boost to FPS in XPX. Shudder problem seems to have disappeared as well..CheersBruce H (Oz)

Edited February 21, 2012 by Roger Over

[ohsirus 241]

Got rid of my graphical terrain errors, yellowed grounds.

[HiFlyer 9,363]

Thanks for the heads up. My current card is a limited edition and kind of a nvidia experiment, so I have been waiting for new drivers that expressly support it. Hopefully these will.

Edited February 22, 2012 by HiFlyer'

[Simmo W 24]

Just blogged about it here:http://xplane10.wordpress.com/2012/02/23/new-nvidia-drivers/Medium shadows, Kewl!

[deetee 164]

I was hoping these would fix the flashing colour polygons I often get when in 3d cockpit mode (XP10). Maybe that's already a known issue for LR?Dave

[Simmo W 24]

Well I had fluoro- city before, none at all now.

[wb5okj 26]

Although the previous WHQL (285.62)did OK except in global shadows above low, they would not run Win 7 movie maker, so I had been running the 295 beta for awhile. These latest WHQL drivers 295.73 seem to be better than the 295 beta driver.

[Roger Over 0]

Anyone else see FPS increases or is it just me?CheersBruce H (Oz)

[HiFlyer 9,363]

Might be, but when it comes to drivers, I always assume a placebo affect unless somebody shows some actual numbers.

[Tom Wright 438]

I noticed a bit of an increase. I still can't use Global Shadows though. Brings my system to its knees (that and clouds).That's one thing which disappoints me with XPX. The shadows and clouds look great but they use so much processing power that 99% of the time you can't use them! I may be stepping on dangerous turf here, but as a MS Flight beta tester, for all its faults that is something they got right - on my, now fairly average spec, machine I could have most of the eye candy turned up including the dynamic shadows. They looked fantastic and hardly affected performance at all. If MS can do that, why can't LR?

[HiFlyer 9,363]

I noticed a bit of an increase. I still can't use Global Shadows though. Brings my system to its knees (that and clouds).That's one thing which disappoints me with XPX. The shadows and clouds look great but they use so much processing power that 99% of the time you can't use them! I may be stepping on dangerous turf here, but as a MS Flight beta tester, for all its faults that is something they got right - on my, now fairly average spec, machine I could have most of the eye candy turned up including the dynamic shadows. They looked fantastic and hardly affected performance at all. If MS can do that, why can't LR?

I am going to try and have windows 8 up and running tomorrow if I can, and see how Xp10 reacts to that, assuming there are no graphics/sound drivers problems and the demo loads ok. Should be interesting. Edited February 25, 2012 by HiFlyer'

[HiFlyer 9,363]

Bleh.Windows 8 install is funky. I need to try install from a USB stick.