Was thinking of going back to DX9 until OrbX fixes the DX10 lighting issues in their new FTX Global product.  I'm not sure what exactly I need to do to restore to DX9. Is it just uncheck DX10 preview and return to my DX9 Inspector settings?  I installed all the various patches including the rain fix, but I'm not sure if those files are specific to DX10 or will affect DX9 as well.

To be honest, I think you would be much better just applying the temporary fix

http://forum.avsim.net/topic/414526-orbx-ftx-global-not-dx10-compatible/

and carry on with Dx10.

 

If you do want to revert to Dx9, just do exactly what you said in your post.

 

Regards,

Nick.

To be honest, I think you would be much better just applying the temporary fix

http://forum.avsim.net/topic/414526-orbx-ftx-global-not-dx10-compatible/

and carry on with Dx10.

 

If you do want to revert to Dx9, just do exactly what you said in your post.

 

Regards,

Nick.

 

Thanks, yeah did apply the fix.  I was curious about testing DX9 mode with the new autogen settings recommended for FTXG and see what kind of FPS I get.  I'd rather not leave DX10 for everyday use though.  I didn't know if any of the shaders, lighting effects, or rain fix affected things in DX9 and I realized after posting my OP that apparently I failed to back up the old files.  Ooops.

You can switch back and forth anytime you want and not remove any of the DX10 Shader Fixes.  The files that Steve changed belong to DX10 only.  It does not touch or compromise DX9.  So simply untick the DX10 Preview, restart FSX, and you are back into DX9 land.  If you want to quickly go back to DX10, just tick the DX10 Preview box, restart fsx, and you'll be back to DX10.  I use the same fsx.cfg and display driver settings so I do not have to make any changes if and when I decide to go back to DX9.  The Microsoft Aces Team made it this simply to move back and forth from DX9 to DX10.

 

Best regards,

Jim

You can switch back and forth anytime you want and not remove any of the DX10 Shader Fixes.  The files that Steve changed belong to DX10 only.  It does not touch or compromise DX9.  So simply untick the DX10 Preview, restart FSX, and you are back into DX9 land.  If you want to quickly go back to DX10, just tick the DX10 Preview box, restart fsx, and you'll be back to DX10.  I use the same fsx.cfg and display driver settings so I do not have to make any changes if and when I decide to go back to DX9.  The Microsoft Aces Team made it this simply to move back and forth from DX9 to DX10.

 

Best regards,

Jim

 

Awesome, thanks so much Jim.  I figured the shader fixes were not an issue.  I wasn't sure about the rain and lighting effects packages.  Sounds like all I have to do is check/uncheck DX10 and then swap out my Inspector settings (I was forcing different AA and aniso under DX9).

Jim, didn't realize it was that easy to switch between the 2. I thought DX10 require's its own certain tweaks inside the fsx.cfg and nvidia inspector settings though? Didn't know you could share the same settings. So the only thing that relies on DX10 are the shader files that lye in its own separate folder?

Jim, didn't realize it was that easy to switch between the 2. I thought DX10 require's its own certain tweaks inside the fsx.cfg and nvidia inspector settings though? Didn't know you could share the same settings. So the only thing that relies on DX10 are the shader files that lye in its own separate folder?

I never tweaked anything in my cfg file other than some light scalar settings that I later commented out after not seeing any real difference.  As far as Inspector it depends on what you were running in DX9 mode.  In DX9 I did not run AA or aniso in the sim and forced it all in Inspector.  Since AA has to be checked in sim for DX10 mode the only thing I have in inspector for that mode is transparency set to 4xSGSS and aniso is still forced.  Oh, and there are a couple lines in fsx.cfg for AA but if it's shut off in sim like I run in DX9 then it shouldn't matter anyway.

Ahh I thought so, so I'm going to have 2 different settings for dx9 and dx10 for fsx.cfg and nvidia inspector then. Hrmm, think I'll just stick with dx9 then.

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Backup your FSX DX9 User files..!!! Because we’re never 1000% sure, that we are going to end up with a great sim, we need to make sure we can get back to FSX as it is at this point – a DX9 version. There are a couple of ways to achieve this: my preferred way is to create a new folder under the C:\Users\{your_username_here}\AppData\Roaming\Microsoft\FSX\ folder. Name it as something like “DX9 Configs”.

At this time, then, as we make this folder, we are sitting in the:

C:\Users\{your_username_here}\AppData\Roaming\Microsoft\FSX\ folder, right? This is where the “operational” dll.xml, exe.xml, cameras.cfg, scenery.cfg, and fsx.cfg all reside, and what we need to do is to make sure those files are safe, along with a copy of the current Nvidia Inspector profile a or your ATI CCC config. We can do this by simply “Copy and Paste” –ing them or exporting them into the new “DX9 Configs” folder below. Safe!

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Yeah I know.  I know I read that while I was putting the DX10 stuff in but I have no idea why I didn't actually do it.  Or maybe I did it and forgot where I put the backups lol.........

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