April 4, 201214 yr HI, guys, anyone tried the new 296.10 drivers? Did notice any difference on the graphics performance? Cheers
April 4, 201214 yr Yes. Very good results in both FSX and P3D. best jake JAKE EYREIt's a small step from the sublime to the ridiculous...Napoleon Bonaparte
April 4, 201214 yr In that case, I'm downloading now! Thanks for the heads up haha :) Happy Flying, Clem Wu Beta Tester for OZx, Iris Simulations and Shade.
April 4, 201214 yr Will be interested if anyone else sees Solid performance improvement. Joe Joe Porter
April 4, 201214 yr Will be interested if anyone else sees Solid performance improvement. Joe Sincerely doubt it. If it doesn't break anything with FSX being so old, we're lucky already :LMAO: CASE: Fractal Terra Silver CPU: AMD R5 7800X3D 5.0Ghz RAM: 32GB DDR5 6000 GPU: nVidia RTX 4070 Ti SUPER · SSDs: Samsung 990 PRO 2TB M.2 PCIe · PNY XLR8 CS3040 2TB M.2 PCIe · VIDEO: LG-32GK650F QHD 32" 144Hz FREE/G-SYNC · MISC: Thrustmaster TCA Airbus Joystick + Throttle Quadrant · MSFS2024 · Windows 11
April 4, 201214 yr My money is on placebo effect... If there in fact was a "2-3" FPS increase with every new driver release that people claim... Well, we would all be getting 100+ FPS now... <---------------> Mike Murawski
April 4, 201214 yr Mike- absolutely correct- if every improvement that was supposed to bring stellar frame-rate increases- actually brought improvement- frame rates would not be a factor of concern anymore. Most of the time it is a "perceived difference" because something else got cleaned up, something was optimized, the drive was defragged/optimized etc. FWIW I am using the drivers without issue. Best- Carl Avari-Cooper
April 4, 201214 yr 2 flights without any issues using 296.10. I did actually get bump in frame rates BUT, I also revisited Ryan's nvidia setup post and changed Antialiasing - Setting from 8xS to 4xS and Transparency Supersampling from 4x to 2x. I believe that to be factor in my case. Something strange did happen after updating, in my case from 285.62 to 296.10, the Antialiasing - Behavior Flags changed from None to (Treat 'Override any application setting' as 'Application-controlled'). So when I first went in things were jagged as heck. Took a little while to figure out what was going on. Probably just some odd thing that happened in my case but something to look out for if updating. Regards,Bob Quick
April 4, 201214 yr +1 on placebo effect. There are way too many factors in FSX that affect it's FPS; add-ons ( both in fsx and running outside ), weather, traffic, location, terrain, hardware bottlenecks ( this can vary in different sessions according to computer usage )....the list goes on.... I occasionally try out new drivers, most of them have issues with FSX, the ones I use are a couple years old and are stable. As FSX is really fickle, I will not change a thing on a whim as I have my system running smoooooth. Chris Farrell
April 4, 201214 yr Commercial Member In order to actually have a meaningful comparison of FPS between driver versions you'd need to make sure that 100% the same data went through the card's processing with each driver. I don't know of any real way to do this since FSX doesn't include any kind of dedicated benchmarking demo mode that does this like some other games do. (Metro 2033 is the one that comes to mind for me) There's always going to be variability that will cloud the real result - your view could be slightly different, your mouse cursor could be onscreen at different times (we all know about FSX's issues with the mouse calculations and its impact on FPS) and so on. Thus I think any attempt to compare FPS with different drivers in FSX, especially when the alleged difference is only 2 or 3 frames is of pretty dubious validity. Ryan MaziarzFor fastest support, please submit a ticket at http://support.precisionmanuals.com
April 4, 201214 yr I've had no issues with these drivers in FSX (as of yet), but I once had the drivers deadlock (which is worse than a crash, they at least half-&@($* recover in a crash, albeit screwing up any game you may have been running) while viewing a YouTube video. Ironically enough, the video was one of the four in RSRs recent presentation! :LMAO: (Great presentation BTW, Robert's a natural charismatic speaker, no wonder he ran for office!) - William Ruppel, CYTZ, VATSIM 816871
April 4, 201214 yr And that is why I am still on the 275.33 driver. If it ain't broke...... System: MSFS2024, ASUS Rog Stryx Z790-A, Intel i9-14900KF, Asus ROG Ryujin III 360 , Asus Hyperion Case,Rog Stryx 4090 OC, Samsung 970 EVO M.2 SSD, 1Tb Samsung 860 EVO SSD,64Gb G Skill Memory, Asus Aura 1200W Gold PSU,Win 11 ,LG C4 48" 4K OLED Screen., Airbus TCA Full Kit, Stream Deck XL. WinWing FCU, EFIS, MCDU
April 5, 201214 yr Something strange did happen after updating, in my case from 285.62 to 296.10, the Antialiasing - Behavior Flags changed from None to (Treat 'Override any application setting' as 'Application-controlled'). So when I first went in things were jagged as heck. Took a little while to figure out what was going on. Probably just some odd thing that happened in my case but something to look out for if updating. Yep, same thing happened to me, something to watch out for, for those that install the new driver. As for frame rate increase, I see none. Scenery does look sharper, but that's probably my imagination.
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