March 31, 201313 yr Hi What is the proper way of switching to a new graphic card. Do I really need a fresh FSX installation? I was thinking of this procedure: Uninstalling the graphic driver, swapping to new graphic card and installing new driver. Would this work? Sincerely -Geir Geir Hansen
March 31, 201313 yr Depends what is your existing card and what you replace it with, also your Windows version. I changed a GTX480 to a GTX680 in my Win7 64bit PC, and I did not do anything, I turned off the PC and installed the new card and updated the driver, worked like a charm.
March 31, 201313 yr You just need to remove the old display information in your FSX config file. I recently installed an upgrade card and this is what I did because I have so many trusted gauges, add ons etc. Took my current FSX>CFG and moved it to my desktop. Launched FSX and let it create a new default config. Then I did a copy and paste from my old config file to the new one, EXCEPT leaving in the new video card information in the current config. Worked great for me because I did not have to re do any tweakes, etc to my new config. :dance: You do NOT want to have display information in your config listed twice for 2 different cards. Quote
March 31, 201313 yr Author Thanks mosteen ...I think the swap will almost be similar to yours on a win 7 64 bit. I will give it a try. vcarlo: excellent advice! -Geir Geir Hansen
March 31, 201313 yr Check the cfg too, I missed that, sorry. I had two graphic entries after the upgrade, deleted the GTX480 entry and I was good.
April 3, 201313 yr Author A friend of mine offers me an almost new Gainward GeForce GTX 660 2GB PhysX CUDA. Do you think I should go for it? The one I have now is Gainward GeForce GTX 560 1GB PhysX. beside that there is Intel i7-2600 3,39Ghz and 8 gb RAM. Will I notice any difference in FSX? I'm not really sure I will. Any comments on this? -Geir Geir Hansen
April 4, 201313 yr A friend of mine offers me an almost new Gainward GeForce GTX 660 2GB PhysX CUDA. Do you think I should go for it? The one I have now is Gainward GeForce GTX 560 1GB PhysX. beside that there is Intel i7-2600 3,39Ghz and 8 gb RAM. Will I notice any difference in FSX? I'm not really sure I will. Any comments on this? -Geir Do you use SGSS AA through nVidia Inspector? In that case you get less FPS drops in cloudy situations with the new GPU. Don't expect higher FPS in typical CPU bound situations tho (large airport and/or 3rd party aircraft).
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