After installing FSX anew the instruments in the 3D cockpit are flickering and difficult to read unless zoomed in closely. Consequently I’m obliged to fly in 2D mode.

 

Additionally the Airline name is blurry when viewing the outside of the aircraft and the resolution of the aircraft itself is unsharp.

 

My setup is set out below:

 

Windows 7

Speed 2.13 GHZ

Available physical Memory 2.19 GB

Available Virtual Memory 5.14 GB

Video card : Nvidia GeForce 8800 GTS

 

Graphics

Screen resolution 1280 X 1024 X 32

Filrering : Bilinear

Anti Aliasing : Ticked

Global Texture resolution : Medium

Lens Flare : Ticked

Advanced animation : Ticked

 

Aircraft

Global setting : Medium high

3D Virtual cockpit : Ticked

High resolution 3D Virtual cockpit : Ticked

Aircraft casts shadows on itself : Ticked

Aircraft landing lights illuminates ground : Ticked

Scenery

All set to medium

Frame rate varies from 20 to about 50 in the 747-400

 

I’d very much appreciate help.

 

Cliff (In Spain)

1. Set global texture resolution as high as possible.

 

2. Go into the nvidia video properties and in 3d settings, set Anisotropic filtering to 16X , high quality and AntiAliasing to 4X, or 8X.

 

3. As an aside, turn off Aircraft shadows, they just take away from your performance.

You need to change the Bilinear filtering setting in FSX to Anisotropic (highest). I disagree with Bert in regards to setting the Anisotropic filtering in the display drivers to 16X and instead make sure it states Application-controlled in the display driver settings. A setting of 16X's AF for your system will reduce overall performance. That would be a great setting for someone with a more higher powered system. Bert is very knowledgeable regarding this though so I would at least try it. But what is really kicking your blurry viewing is the Bilinear filtering setting in your fsx settings. Bilinear is really sub par.

 

Turn off Lens Flare and tick Advanced animations instead.

 

I see you have Windows 7 but is it 64 bit or 32 bit? That's important. The 64 bit version handles memory resources much better.

 

I would untick 'Aircraft lights illuminate ground'. I like 'aircraft casts shadows on self' but, like Bert said, it affects performance. It provides nice immersion as the shadows show over the wings...

 

You need to tick the 'High-resolution 3D virtual cockpit under the Aircraft tab.

 

You can move those scenery sliders up a bit. In the scenery tab area, try clicking on 'Reset Defaults' and that will give you the defaults based on your system just for the scenery section.

 

In the Traffic section, I would also hit the Reset defaults button and use those. Hope this helps!

 

Best regards,

Jim

Hi Bert.......

 

I've changed the Texture resolution to it's maximum and turned off the aircraft shadows but can see no difference. In fact on the default 747-400 there is no airline name at all.

 

However I'm not sure how to access the Nvidia properties in order to change the settings as you suggest. Please would you let me have step by step instructions?

 

Regards.........Cliff

Right click on the desktop and select nvidia Control Panel.

 

Then choose Manage 3d settings.

 

Can you attach a screenshot of what you are currently seeing?

 

I'm not sure what level of resolution you are looking at..

 

This is a screenshot of the default Orbit 747

As a comparison, this is what it looks like with Global Texture Resolution set to Medium, as you had it set..

First off my thanks to both of you for your help.

 

My version of Windows 7 is 32 bit.

 

1. After clicking on the Desk Top and selecting Nvidia Control Panel I receive a message reading "The Nvidia Display Panel cannot be created. Possible reasons include: Version mismatch. Reinstalling display Drivers may solve this problem"

 

Maybe that's the kernel of the problem. However I'm not sufficiently computer literate to reinstall the drivers and will wait till my computer guru next visits me.

 

However there's an improvement of the instruments on the 3D Flight Deck despite there being no writing on the body of the aircraft. The additional changes I've made are:

 

1.I tried Triinear filtering and finally left it on Anistropic filtering.

2.I have unticked the landing lights and illuminating the ground.

3.The High resolution 3D virtual cockpit is ticked.

4.I've selected "Reset defaults" in the Scenery tab and the Traffic section.

 

I'm not sure how to capture and attach a screen shot but if my friend reinstalls the drivers and that solves the problem screen shots wouldn't be necessary.

 

May I ask whether you'd be prepared to take this problem further if the drivers don't turn out to be the culprit? And if you're agreeable how will I be able to contact you again?

 

With my regards..........Cliff

I've seemingly eliminated the driver problem as I downloaded and installed the latest nVidia drivers without waiting for my guru. But to no avail as the lack of clarity on the body and no airline text on the aircraft remains.

 

Cliff

Bingo!

 

After installing the latest drivers I was able to get into the nvidio video properties and changed Anistropic filtering to 16X. However I could see no option for either High Quality or AntiAliasing for 4X or 8X. Have a missed them or are they no longer an option?

 

Now the 747 sports it's Boeing 747 description and the 3D instruments are clearer. And I feel easier about giving the new PMDG 777 a try when it soon becomes available

 

My grateful thanks to you both!

 

With my regards...........Cliff

Hopefully someone who HAS the PMDG 777 will jump in but IIRC in seeing various comments, your system is marginal for the PMDG aircraft. It might be a waste of $$ so I suggest doing a little more research on that aspect before you buy.

 

Nothing at all against PMDG - they are just quite detailed and that usually results in needing more horsepower than you have in your system.

 

Hopefully a PMDG owner will confirm or deny.

 

Vic

Bingo!

 

After installing the latest drivers I was able to get into the nvidio video properties and changed Anistropic filtering to 16X. However I could see no option for either High Quality or AntiAliasing for 4X or 8X. Have a missed them or are they no longer an option?

 

 

This is what mine looks like - also just send me a PM if you need more help with this..

You need to be using Nvidia Inspector for IQ. The Nvidia control panel does very little for FS.

 

http://downloads.guru3d.com/NVIDIA-Inspector-1.94-download-2612.html

 

Read this: http://#####.wordpress.com/fsx-software-and-hardware-guide/

You need to be using Nvidia Inspector for IQ. The Nvidia control panel does very little for FS.

 

http://downloads.gur...nload-2612.html

 

Read this: http://#####...hardware-guide/

 

Not entirely true... you can do a lot with the nvdia control panel, especially for older cards.

That no entirely tru either. There are many more options, even for older cards, with Nvidia Inspector.

Yikes! 2 gigs of ram on Win7 with FSX. I almost think this would lead to some odd behavior in sim, no matter what settings are applied.