Hello.

 

I have been enjoying a few weeks of faultless flying. Along the way I installed various new scenery and demo scenery. Until last week I booted up a flight and the textures seemed very blurry, very near to the aircraft and did not seem to snap in place until late. Sometimes I look st something and wonder if it really is different to normal but this is quite drastic. Also the VC in the 737NGX, seemed blurred. I'm sure I could see the numbers of the flap gauge before, now they are a blurry mess.

 

Part of my fiddling recently included changing to DX10 mode just to see what it was like. Due to the blue flashing scenery I decided to change it back within minutes.

 

That was a couple of weeks back and I don't think I noticed any blurred textures straight after this change.

 

However, in Part of my trying to fix blurred textures I deleted configs and re built them, I tried kostas tweaks, I uninstalled various scenery but the blurred textures simply stayed.

 

I don't know why but I went back to DX10, and rolled back a graphics card driver to one I thought worked well before. It was here I noticed my scenery textures were clearer than I had ever seen them. The VC was still blurred. I took off and noticed a dramatic improvement over smoothness and frame increase. I was very pleased. I noted white textures on various AI and on some of my pay ware planes, but the increase in overall flying and texture loading really seems to good.

 

I wonder if changing to DX10 previously caused something in DX9 to change and alter settings causing blurred textures that I never noticed until the other day. Can I change anything to get the quality of texture loading I'm getting in DX10, in DX9. All the sliders remain the same and the global texture setting is the highest.

 

With thanks

 

Steve.

Make sure AA Anti-Aliasing and AF Anisotrophic are turned on in the FSX settings. That should be all you need. DX10 likes AA/AF in FSX more than it does with the display drivers. Other than that, did you set your Nvidia display or Nvidia Inspector settings as suggested by Paul in his how to guide in the DX10 forum? If you did and you have AA/AF turned on, then there could be something wrong with your video card or the display driver were not installed correctly. There should be no difference in settings between DX9 and DX10 except that you need to make sure AA and AF are turned on in FSX for DX10. Blurred textures are created by having your sliders set too high in FSX and/or your display driver settings and your video card is having a hard time rendering the scene.

 

Best regards,

Jim

Cheers Jim.

 

Sure did and I can't fault the DX10 clarity, both AA and AF set in FSX, I can live with the blue flicking scenery from time to time as well.

 

But revert to Dx9 and it's all rather ugly. Not sure why.

 

Thanks.

But revert to Dx9 and it's all rather ugly. Not sure why.

 

Well, I just reverted to DX9 just to make sure I'm not fibbing myself and the scenery was just as perfect as in DX10 except that I didn't have the cockpit shadows I get in DX10. I didn't touch any other setting in my display or in FSX. I have a feeling it is one of those tweaks in your FSX.cfg that might be causing the issue as they might be good for DX10 but not for DX9 and vice-versa. Whatever you set up in DX9 should work just as great with DX10 enabled except that some turn off or lower the AF setting in FSX and let the display driver handle it but I personally didn't see the difference (or that much) so left AA/AF on in FSX (well it's on in the NI settings too as Word Not Allowed suggested in his guide).

 

Best regards,

Jim

Ok.

 

Will see what happens with all of the tweaks in Pauls thread.

 

I do have one question about this......How does FSX know it should use the profile in Nvidia Inspector. The thread states I should save the inspector settings, I created one called MS FSX DX10 and applied the changes. But how does FSX know it should look at this profile, or does it not work like that. I must admit to altering the default MS FSX settings to that of the MS FSX DX10 anyway in error, but im still unsure of how FSX picks this profile up. Is it saved somewhere within FSX.

 

Thanks

 

Steve

Ok.

 

Will see what happens with all of the tweaks in Pauls thread.

 

I do have one question about this......How does FSX know it should use the profile in Nvidia Inspector. The thread states I should save the inspector settings, I created one called MS FSX DX10 and applied the changes. But how does FSX know it should look at this profile, or does it not work like that. I must admit to altering the default MS FSX settings to that of the MS FSX DX10 anyway in error, but im still unsure of how FSX picks this profile up. Is it saved somewhere within FSX.

 

Thanks

 

Steve

 

It's not that FSX is looking for the NV Inspector settings, it's that the Nvidia driver is looking for the Inspector settings whenever you run FSX.exe. You can only have one profile at a time for a given .exe file.

I must admit to altering the default MS FSX settings to that of the MS FSX DX10 anyway in error, but im still unsure of how FSX picks this profile up. Is it saved somewhere within FSX.

 

I'm not one of the people who believes in a config for DX9 and one for DX10. DX10 is DX10 and the Aces Team did not intend for us to change all of our tweaks, our FSX settings, our display driver settings just so we could use DX10 once in a while. As I stated, I have one FSX.cfg and one NI display settings and they work for DX9 and DX10. It's just that you have to be careful as some recommend turning on AA in the NI settings, off in the FSX settings, and lowering the AF from Anisotropic to Trilinear. That kills DX10. So make sure the FSX settings indicate AA is checked and Filtering says Anisotropic when in DX10. Don't worry what it says in the NI settings. FSX will use the FSX settings.

 

Just remember FSX is an old game and, although the technology has gotten better in graphics cards and cpu's, FSX likes the good ole time settings it had when DX 10 was first introduced in FSX. Won't say you can't squeeze in some geekish tweaks or display driver settings but mostly FSX DX10 likes just the regular AA and AF settings.

 

Best regards,

Jim

Make sure AA Anti-Aliasing and AF Anisotrophic are turned on in the FSX settings. That should be all you need. DX10 likes AA/AF in FSX more than it does with the display drivers. Other than that, did you set your Nvidia display or Nvidia Inspector settings as suggested by Paul in his how to guide in the DX10 forum? If you did and you have AA/AF turned on, then there could be something wrong with your video card or the display driver were not installed correctly. There should be no difference in settings between DX9 and DX10 except that you need to make sure AA and AF are turned on in FSX for DX10. Blurred textures are created by having your sliders set too high in FSX and/or your display driver settings and your video card is having a hard time rendering the scene.

 

Best regards,

Jim

 

Well I finally solved it by turning off the AF setting win nvidia inspector and ensuring it was on in FSX. I'm now back to amazing crisp textures.

 

Thanks all.