October 30, 201213 yr Hello everyone, I'm hoping that someone who has installed SweetFX in FSX can help me to get it working, as the only thing it does for me so far is crashing the sim. I followed the installation instructions, fired up FSX and loaded a saved NGX flight. The loading bar runs normally, but immediately after that I get a CTD. The log file contains the following info, which (for me) does not reveal the culprit. full path: C:\MSFS10\ redirecting CreateDevice initialising shader environment device->GetBackBuffer failed redirecting CreateDevice initialising shader environment redirecting CreateDevice initialising shader environment redirecting device->Reset initialising shader environment redirecting device->Reset initialising shader environment redirecting device->Reset initialising shader environment D3DXCreateEffectFromFile failed SweetFX/Shaders/Main.h(115,85): warning X3571: pow(f, e) will not work for negative f, use abs(f) or conditionally handle negative values if you expect them Thanks in advance for any suggestions. Kind regards, Rene René Bongers
October 30, 201213 yr Author That is a consolation :lol:. After reading the other thread about this 'add-in', I'm getting a bit less motivated to get it working, as it seems to cause a performance hit. René Bongers
October 30, 201213 yr Commercial Member If I'm reading the error correctly there is a problem with character 85 at line 115 in the file SweetFX\Shaders\Main.h which has to do with USE_SMAA_ANTIALIASING. I would open up the SweetFX_settings.txt and check "#define USE_SMAA_ANTIALIASING 0" which is the first line in the file. If it reads "#define USE_SMAA_ANTIALIASING 1" change the "1" to "0" and try it again since you're probably using AA in Nvidia Inspector anyway. I tried it both ways and while it didn't crash my sim, the SMAA_AA actually caused some mild jaggys that aren't there without it. Incidentally I'm noticing no measureable frame rate hit at all with this effect, however I have seen some slight jerkiness in the bouncy spot view camera in heavy clouds that aren't there with the effect off. Jim
October 30, 201213 yr Author Thanks for the reply Jim. Your analysis was spot on! No more crashes now. Kind regards, Rene René Bongers
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