Well it finally arrived today and could not wait to see what it could do with FSX. I initially carried out a test with 3dMark11 compared to my old 560 ti. The benchmark test went from P4779 to P8224, a massive increase of over 70%. I was more than happy with that. So tried FSX....... no differences at all, I mean nothing, I tried my own take on FSMark 11 and saw no difference in FPS, different payware airport scenarios, nothing. I can only conclude that if you are running a single screen save your money. Unless I am missing something blatently obvious ???

Regards Paul

FSX is cpu limited, not gpu limited with modern gpus

I saw an increase of 10-15% when going from a 560Ti to a 670. Wasn't big, but I was happy with it. When I tried 8xAA and 2xSGSS I could run it without any performance loss which I couldn't with my 560Ti. If you don't care about AA and SGSS and don't play other games, a high performance card isn't worth it.

 

EDIT: oh hey Paul, didn't notice it was you at first, we PM'd, remember? Sorry to hear that it didn't provide a big increase. But I did tell you in my PM that at any scenario you should expect a small difference but nothing big, only with AA it's gonna be a big difference.

Well it finally arrived today and could not wait to see what it could do with FSX. I initially carried out a test with 3dMark11 compared to my old 560 ti. The benchmark test went from P4779 to P8224, a massive increase of over 70%. I was more than happy with that. So tried FSX....... no differences at all, I mean nothing, I tried my own take on FSMark 11 and saw no difference in FPS, different payware airport scenarios, nothing. I can only conclude that if you are running a single screen save your money. Unless I am missing something blatently obvious ???

Regards Paul

 

Odd, my GTX 680 4GB Classified was significant improvement over my ATI 5870. Have you modified your FSX.CFG to support the 680?

Yes thanks Arjen, just wanted to see it for my own eyes. I am running 2x SGSS with the 560ti and tried 4xSGSS with the 680 and could not honestly see any difference. Think I will return it and wait for x-plane 10 to be developed properly then might buy it again next year, this card is not worth £450 for FSX only.

 

Odd, my GTX 680 4GB Classified was significant improvement over my ATI 5870. Have you modified your FSX.CFG to support the 680?

 

How do I go about that ? Thanks for the reply.

STALE_BUFFER_THRESHOLD=2147483647

HIGHMEMFIX=1

 

You should also be able to use these settings without much of hit in performance:

 

SHADER_CACHE_PRIMED_10=1693500672

SHADER_CACHE_PRIMED=1693500672

TEXTURE_MAX_LOAD=4096

LOD_RADIUS=9.500000

 

Also suggest you use DX10 mode now with Steve's DX10 fix. I found the DX10 mode to be considerably smoother.

 

I'm running 2560 x 1600 x 32 (single monitor).

 

You should also be able to turn up Anisotropic Filtering to 8X and Antialiasing to 16x CSAA without a hit in performance ... but to be honest, I can't see much difference between 4X Aniso and 4X AA.

 

P.S. sorry for all the edits in message, doing a million things at once again and getting sloppy

LOD that high will most certainly introduce OOM's, but to each his own.

Yes just had one... tried it at 6.5 now but at cruise now I only get 25 FPS in the NGX as opposed to 30+ with my 560 ti, different settings I know.

I have come to the conclusion that keeping fsx.cfg virtually stock except for the few changes described in Word Not Allowed's guide, has garnered me the best possible results at this point. I revert back in forth from TML1024 and 2048, instead of 4096, seeing negligible difference. LOD=4.5 to 5.5 max. Sliders are max except for Autogen Density=Dense. Follow NI settings aswell via Word Not Allowed's guide.

 

You can see my system, I have minimized and maybe eliminated OOM's at this point within FTX...I hope. ;-)

Actually, the most important thing is that you will not see FPS drop in bad weather like with 560ti

I agree. I now have much better performace in heavy REX clouds with my 680 w/ 4gb, over my 560Ti, even at TML 2048 and 2xSGSS. That will be the number one thing you will notice.

 

Still very taxing those darn clouds.

The issue now, Paul, is the 4.5gig proc. The 560Ti was a good match for it, but the 680 is not.

 

Your proc may well be working overtime with the high settings, but without seeing your fsx.cfg (which you could attach here - as Paul_FSX.txt) I reckon that new gpu needs some work to do. It's probably sitting there, waiting... waiting... :smile:

Hi Paul

Here you go, its just weird that I see no difference at all to my 560ti, I mean nothing !!

 

 

 

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Latitude=1,1

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Latitude=1,1

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FrameRate=1,1

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Latitude=1,1

Longitude=1,2

Altitude=1,3

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FrameRate=2,1

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MaxHeadAngle=5.000000

MaxHeadOffset=0.300000

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VirtualCopilotActive=1

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Mode=1920x1080x32

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PageID=1

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LOD that high will most certainly introduce OOM's, but to each his own.

 

No OOM here, average 51 fps in dense area KSFO ... with NGX, REX, GSX, MSE, AccuFeel, Traffic 360.

 

But again, running DX10.

 

aka D3D10=1

 

Install Steve's DX10 changes.

Well it finally arrived today and could not wait to see what it could do with FSX. I initially carried out a test with 3dMark11 compared to my old 560 ti. The benchmark test went from P4779 to P8224, a massive increase of over 70%. I was more than happy with that. So tried FSX....... no differences at all, I mean nothing, I tried my own take on FSMark 11 and saw no difference in FPS, different payware airport scenarios, nothing. I can only conclude that if you are running a single screen save your money. Unless I am missing something blatently obvious ???

Regards Paul

 

I just went from a four year old 9500 GT w/1GB to a 650 GTX w/2GB last week, and while I did not see a difference in fps, I found I was able to run with 32x AA, at the max resolution my video card supports with no performance hit. I also found that stutters, although not a huge issue with my old card, are all but gone with the new one, even with Tileproxy photoreal scenery running. Last, running with unlimited visibilty, textures remain sharp all the way to the horizon. You were already running with a better card than my new one, so I don't know if you would see a difference with your upgrade. I'm happy with my upgrade, that's for certain.

 

John