October 17, 201213 yr Im running an i5 3570k 3.4 at present with on board GPU, its obviously very poor so I am changing the graphics card in the next phase of my build. I was thinking of the 560ti however the 660ti seems a beter buy all around. I do not want to spend over £250 / $400 on a card as this is really outside of my budget so I think a 660ti is probably the best choice. Also I can not see huge differences in performance between the 660ti and 670/680 cards for FSX as the software is CPU reliant for the most part. Does anyone have a 660ti running FSX and can report on performance? Obviously its alot of money and I don't want to be dissapointed. I have priced the card at £233 via my local store which is the cheapest around.
October 17, 201213 yr I have a GTX 660Ti. It runs FSX very smoothly even with SGSS and heavy clouds. I would highly recommend it.
October 17, 201213 yr Author Thanks Ben, that's the green light i was looking for. May ask, what is SGSS? Also does it handle the 'light bloom' option in FSX with preview direct X 10, any of these 2 options seem to kill my current setup. I am hoping i get some form of FPS increase from a new GPU but I am not sure what sort of % increase I am going to get just yet
October 17, 201213 yr . May ask, what is SGSS? SGSS is a type of super smapling handled by Nvidia Inspector. It smooths out the image quality in FSX but causes a large drop in FPS with weaker GPUs. It is well worth the money for a nicer GPU though.... Especially with SGSS.
October 17, 201213 yr Just went to a 660Ti from a 560Ti with my i7-920 at 4 Ghz. I definitely do see a difference not really in frame rates, but overall smoothness. Less blurries and less fps drops while running locked at 30 fps as per Word Not Allowed's instructions. I definitely like my 660Ti.
October 17, 201213 yr Author I'm in need of an FPS boost badly but then again I am running integrated graphics so I am expecting at least a 20% increase by running a dedicated GPU. I will be overclocking the CPU if possible soon, but nothing extreme. I think 4 to 4.2GHz at very most as I do not want any stability problems. struggling to get 20fps and I haven't even added any scenery or traffic yet to my NGX :(
October 17, 201213 yr I'm in need of an FPS boost badly but then again I am running integrated graphics so I am expecting at least a 20% increase by running a dedicated GPU. I will be overclocking the CPU if possible soon, but nothing extreme. I think 4 to 4.2GHz at very most as I do not want any stability problems. You will see a massive increase when you get the 660Ti installed. Likely over 50%.
October 18, 201213 yr Author You will see a massive increase when you get the 660Ti installed. Likely over 50%. I have just purchased and fitted my 660ti about to fire up FSX kinda excited!
October 18, 201213 yr Hmm....I have a 560Ti...tempting to upgrade and get the 660Ti. Soarbywire - Avionics Engineering
October 18, 201213 yr Author Ok first impressions its a HUGE increase in FPS over the integrated, however one thing is still occuring. When i pan around the aircraft from the outside when airborne I get a kind of slideshow effect on the ground, its not that my FPS are not high, its just not 'smooth' its hard to explain, its like the ground isn't reflecting the higher FPS i am getting (locked at 30 via internal limiter). I'm going to have a look in Word Not Allowed's guide to see if I am missing anything. Also should I be checking DX10 Preview in FSX?
October 18, 201213 yr Author Yeah Ben just applied it and its corrected the slideshow effect! I've also stopped Preview DX10 as i did not really notice any difference and it was eating my frames... I am now getting locked 30 around flytampa KBOS. what a difference I've also got [bUFFERPOOLS] Poolsize=0 is this needed now more than ever with a new card?
October 18, 201213 yr Hmm....I have a 560Ti...tempting to upgrade and get the 660Ti. Going to a 660Ti from a 560Ti, I saw a good increase in frame rates with games such as the Total War series including the newest Shogun 2 TW games. Increased frame rates with higher AA and AF settings. I debated getting a 660Ti for a long time, but I now figure it was worth it even though the 560Ti is still a very good card. I've also got [bUFFERPOOLS] Poolsize=0 is this needed now more than ever with a new card? I use that in my FSX config file.
October 18, 201213 yr [bUFFERPOOLS] Poolsize=0 is this needed now more than ever with a new card? Yes. Anyone with a GTX560Ti and above should ALWAYS use this tweak. Also, I highly reccomend that you delete your FSX.CFG and Follow Word Not Allowed's Guide. - Trust me, it is WELL worth the time....
October 18, 201213 yr Author Yes. Anyone with a GTX560Ti and above should ALWAYS use this tweak. Also, I highly reccomend that you delete your FSX.CFG and Follow Word Not Allowed's Guide. - Trust me, it is WELL worth the time.... I've followed that guide, its very good... is there anywhere I can view other peoples FSX.CFG files to compare?
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