Seeing jagged edges on the aircraft. No-go.

What about 8xS + 2xSGSS Vs 4xS + 2xSGSS?

I have a slight feeling that even thou the samples used for the 2xSGSS might not be optimally placed with 8xS it will still look better in FSX compared to using 4xS with optimum placed samples.

You see? Even with the best system you will get microstuttering. I had the same, but managed to reduce mine a little with faster RAM, limiting to 60 FPS, and PoolSize=0.

 

I'm now wanting to try these AA settings too. Please excuse my stupidity, but I don't even know what SGSS actually is?

I tested 8xSQ + 4xSGSS and I had jaggies on the aircraft but no shimmering water. FPS were also decent around 30.

 

I don't know how many times I must say this: test clouds! I can achieve 30fps no problem over scenery. SGSS has the heaviest impact on clouds! The differences over scenery are negligible!!

 

Same as we talked, you are not thinking global. You were gonna set high 16xS, without regard what it does when you're landing at some heavy airport and you fly into a heavy storm generated by 5 layers of clouds by activesky or some other engine (you do know that by default activesky has max 5 cloud layers?).

 

Please excuse my stupidity, but I don't even know what SGSS actually is?

 

No problem, everyone learns:

Sparse Grid Supersampling

Nvidia Inspector:

Antialiasing - Transparency Supersampling: 2x/4x Sparse Grid Supersampling

 

What about 8xS + 2xSGSS Vs 4xS + 2xSGSS?

 

No-Go. Same jaggies on the aircraft and airport strips.

4xS + 2xSGSS cloud test 30fps.

 

 

 

We can go about this until no end. The fact is, what Phil Taylor said, you can't have quality AND performance. "There is no free lunch in FSX" - he said. Thus I firmly believe that 8xS + 2xSGSS is the best ratio. Same may live with more shimmering, thus will have more FPS. But for me, personally, this is the required level of quality.

Same as we talked, you are not thinking global. You were gonna set high 16xS, without regard what it does when you're landing at some heavy airport and you fly into a heavy storm generated by 5 layers of clouds by activesky or some other engine (you do know that by default activesky has max 5 cloud layers?).

 

Tested this. I went night in KSEA with NGX with ORBX and I was holding around 20 FPS. Wasn't too bad......

Tested this. I went night in KSEA with NGX with ORBX and I was holding around 20 FPS. Wasn't too bad......

 

Alright...

Alright...

 

Actually I am now testing 8xSQ + 2xSGSS and this is the smoothest and crispest setting so far.

I decided earlier today that I was going to finally pull the trigger on a new GPU. I have been chugging along with my cruddy GTS450 for the past 6 months and I finally was sick and tired of the bad performance. So, I went to my local PC hardware store and shelled the $$ for a single GTX580.

 

 

Congrats Ben, I've been waiting to see how long you could stick with that GTS450 with the 580 prices dropping. Great choice.