I have been using the NGX since it came out and recently built a new PC. I have to say that given my new specs I really thought I could crank up the details more but I have been disappointed to say the least. I switched from ATI to Nvidia and I am using Inspector but it seems my older ATI 5850 card performed better than my brand new GTX 660 TI. I currently use the 304.87 Nvidia driver and the recommended Inspector settings I've read on these forums ( AA- 8xS & AF 16x).The most annoying issue I am having now is that I get missing blocks of textures when switching views....something I never had an issue with before.

 

(see picture here http://i1045.photobu...tchingViews.jpg)

 

I tried the Bjote tweaks and various other forum suggestions to tweak my fsg.cfg but had only minor improvements. Then I wiped out my whole fsx.cfg file and started over with a fresh one and it seemed a bit better. I do seem to get slightly better performance not using the widescreenaspectview=true line. I run AS2012 with 1024 compressed textures and my FSX silders are as follows:

 

http://i1045.photobu...X/settings1.jpg

 

http://i1045.photobu...X/settings2.jpg

 

http://i1045.photobu...X/settings3.jpg

 

http://i1045.photobu...X/settings4.jpg

 

http://i1045.photobu...2/settings5.jpg

 

My Inspector settings : http://i1045.photobu...torSettings.jpg

 

My PC Specs are listed in my profile and although I have hyperthreading turned off I haven't noticed much difference overclocking to 4.2 Ghz so i am running at my default turbo mode of 3.9 Ghz. I also have my FSX.cfg listed at the end of the post. It is also important to note that I get noticeably better performance in my Level D 767 but the NGX really takes a performance hit. If anyone can offer any other suggestions I would really appreciate it. I don't need to have everything maxed out but I would at least expect slightly better performance than I got on my i7 860 @ 3.0 GHz and ATI 5850.

 

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Oh well, try to install the latest Nvidia driver and let FSX create a clean and new fsx.cfg by deleting the old one (don't forget to backup).

Yes, good advice, and then follow Kostas tweak in detail, I did and it was very succesful.

Yes, good advice, and then follow Kostas tweak in detail, I did and it was very succesful.

 

Agreed, did the same thing recently to my fairly old rig and it really improved stuttering.Start with a clean .cfg. I have my FR locked at 25 as 30 was stretching it a bit. I understand the v/sync trick works best at 30FPS though. .

 

I also noticed much quicker load times which was an extra bonus.

You've got the 'Texture_max_load' line more than once in your cfg. Remove those lines with 1024 in it. I think it hasn't benefits but it's always nice to keep your cfg as clean as possible.

 

Sorry for my English

Hello, seeing your cfg file it seems you could use some of the tweaks here: http://forum.avsim.net/topic/370594-software-hardware-guide-for-fsx/

It helped me get very smooth results!

 

Alex Bart

Under [bufferPools], I would take out RejectThreshold entry and replace with Usepools=0 and set your water effects in FSX to 2x High.

These settings are part of Word Not Allowed's recommended settings. I found his recommendations worked for me.

 

Regards,

Thanks for all your responses. I have tried all of these at one time or another but so far not getting good results with the Nvidia card. If I update my Nvidia drivers will Inspector still work?

I believe that you will have to reconfigure nvidia inspector again after you install a new driver

No luck on any of this helping. I still have the problem when switching from outside view back to the cockpit. I am running the Inspector Monitor while flying and noticed that the max GPU utilization is 36% and maximum VRAM used has been 713 MB out of 2 GB available. I tried increasing my Poolsize= to 70000000 and there was no difference. Then I deleted that line and tried Usepools=0 and there was also no difference.

Take this to the hardware forum where you'll likely get more replies from the hardware gurus:

 

http://forum.avsim.net/forum/326-mobo-ram-cpus-other-hardware/

Are you having the same problems ( as in first picture) with other aircraft.

There is a slight hesitation in the Level D 767 when switching from spot to vc but nothing compared to the NGX. I am also getting some tearing in the vc image in both ac.

There is a slight hesitation in the Level D 767 when switching from spot to vc but nothing compared to the NGX. I am also getting some tearing in the vc image in both ac.

 

Not sure what you mean by "Tearing". Do you mean as in Artifact or as in AA?

 

Don't think you should be having a problem. That's not a bad rig you've got there.

Your fsx.cfg as got all sorts of errors in it, looks like you been doing cut and pste jobs and forgetting to remove certain bits or adding same bits twice.

 

Delete it and let fsx build a new one, delete your shader folders too.

 

Your rig should have no issue running fsx, I'd say that there something more linked to other aspects to your setup, than just tweaks needed in the fsx.cfg if you getting such issues. Look into how your windows installation and any other software is setup that maybe different since your new build, Also look at how your gfx card is setup even with ati card, changing settings in it can have dramatic effect on performance.