September 1, 201213 yr I recently got the FSX tick and want to improve my experience. Currently I have the GTX 460 SC SE from EVGA and my fps are not amazing (could trying lowering AA some) and with the new Nvidia cards I thought I should upgrade. We all know FSX is CPU bound but I was wondering if getting the new 660ti would be good $/performance improvement would be a worthy upgrade. Right now I use the "usepools=0" tweak which I think with my cpu overclock is overpowering my graphics card because on occasion I see artifacts. I do play other games such as BF3 so obviously I would see an enormous improvement but I am more interested in the FSX improvement. What are you thoughts?
September 1, 201213 yr 660Ti is an awesome bang for buck. I play BF3 maxed and I almost never loose 60FPS. In FSX, it outperforms the 580 in clouds and handles AA really well. I strongly recommend it.
September 4, 201213 yr 660Ti is an awesome bang for buck. I play BF3 maxed and I almost never loose 60FPS. In FSX, it outperforms the 580 in clouds and handles AA really well. I strongly recommend it. Hey Ben, Did you up from a 580 to a 660? I'm using a 570 and can attest to not-so-stellar performance in heavy clouds. Just wondering if the 660 might be the answer...thanks. Greg G i7-9700K, MSI Z370, PNY 4070 Super, GTX 750Ti, 32GB GSkill, 43" curved Samsung, 32" BenQ, 11" LED, RealSImGear GTN750, Win10, P3DV5.4/P3DV6 and MSFS, several GoFlight modules, Saitek radio, Brunner CLS-E NG Yoke, Virtual Fly TQ6.
September 4, 201213 yr Hey Ben, Did you up from a 580 to a 660? I'm using a 570 and can attest to not-so-stellar performance in heavy clouds. Just wondering if the 660 might be the answer...thanks. Greg G Yes. The 660Ti outperforms my 580 in everything. There isn't a scenario where it is outperformed by the 580.
September 5, 201213 yr OK good, looks like that's next on the list! Thank you. i7-9700K, MSI Z370, PNY 4070 Super, GTX 750Ti, 32GB GSkill, 43" curved Samsung, 32" BenQ, 11" LED, RealSImGear GTN750, Win10, P3DV5.4/P3DV6 and MSFS, several GoFlight modules, Saitek radio, Brunner CLS-E NG Yoke, Virtual Fly TQ6.
September 5, 201213 yr Author Well, on Sunday I decided to buy a 660Ti and it should be here on Friday. Pretty much what decided it for me was that I put my 460 on eBay and it sold within 24 hours and so for the time being I am running on this OLD junker.
September 5, 201213 yr Well, on Sunday I decided to buy a 660Ti and it should be here on Friday Compared to that 460, you are going to see a massive increase in clouds + SGSS. Report back once you get everything up and running! :smile:
September 11, 201213 yr Compared to that 460, you are going to see a massive increase in clouds + SGSS. Report back once you get everything up and running! :smile: Do the new 660ti drivers work with nvinspector Ben? Al Stiff
September 11, 201213 yr Do the new 660ti drivers work with nvinspector Ben? Well I'm not Ben but yes they work. Matt Wilson
September 11, 201213 yr Well, I'm sure you will not have buyers regret...but just for the record I have two GTX 460 SE 1GB in Nvidia surround using three monitors and I'm pretty happy. Now, it took some time to get it all configured. I used nvinspector, overclocked my intel i7-860, set memory timing correctly for my 8gb of ram and really cleaned up my fsx.cfg file using Nick's suggests. Just an FYI -Ray p.s. the 460 sold in 24 hours because it's still a good card...of course the 660 is better if you got the money :-)
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