...but I hate cats anyway, so here is another question from me that has no real importance but well... I'm just curious. ^_^

 

As I posted elsewhere already I am switching to DX10 today because of the A2A C172R Trainer which has great VC shadows. While testing stuff and checking settings I discovered my DX10 profile, which I created and exported some time ago, is different from the profile shown in the DX10 guide. After that discovery I copied all settings from the DX10 guide and gave them a try but boy... that didn't look good at ALL...!!! Now the weird thing is that I have no idea where I got my settings from... I tested them once more, compared them with the guide's settings, changed a few things but in the end my own profile clearly resulted in the best quality and also pretty good performance.

 

So now I am wondering... where the heck did I get those settings from...! Here is a screenshot of them so 1. you might give them a try yourself and 2. maybe you recognize the settings and can tell me where I got them from. Maybe the source of these settings has more information about DX10 that works well on my PC. (But above all I am just curious... B) )

 

 

BTW To get them working well in FSX I have Anisotropic enabled in FSX and also FSAA.

Jeroen - I have posted this one before, along with probably dozens of similar configurations, as these change from time-to-time, as individual members post better settings, and also when technical articles appear which shed light on AA. Here is my current setup, directly related to the AA settings selected within Steve's latest DX10 Fixer version. Trying 4xSGSS at this moment, with the Fixer giving 8xCSAA from 4xMSPP and 8xMSQ.

 

The inclusion of the Bioshok compatibility came from "VeryBumpy", back in Sept, 2012, who found this gave clean and sharp ground shadows.It is worth mentioning - all our pc systems are different, from the mixes of hardware, the drivers, the vendors, and, of course - ourselves and all the settings combinations that we can dream up! We can only test and test and test again until we are happy with the results, and what one "sees" is not necessarily what someone else sees.

 

This may help, too.

I have posted this one before, along with probably dozens of similar configurations, as these change from time-to-time, as individual members post better settings, and also when technical articles appear which shed light on AA. Here is my current setup, directly related to the AA settings selected within Steve's latest DX10 Fixer version. Trying 4xSGSS at this moment, with the Fixer giving 8xCSAA from 4xMSPP and 8xMSQ.

 

Ah, ok, so I probably have those settings from one of the many topics about this all.

 

BTW Interesting to see that Steve's tool allows you to select AA settings...!!! Didn't know that. I suppose using your current settings won't do me no good right because I don't have Steve's tool yet (obviously). ^_^ I suppose there are advantages in using Steve's tool for FSAA instead of Inspector but I wonder what....? Better performance? Better quality? Both...?

 

As it is now that tool has become a must have for me too! ^_^

 

I suppose there are advantages in using Steve's tool for FSAA instead of Inspector

 

You're not using Steve's Fixer in place of Inspector, Jeroen, you merely pick which value from a list of AA/CSAA settings, and it then sets them into the fsx.cfg, in the [Graphis] section.

You can still follow the Guide re the MSPP and MSQ, Jeroen: here's a list of those settings which are used in the fsx.cfg, with what it gives under 'AA'. Just make Inspector's SGSS setting the same as the MSPP setting, per this very good and understandable doc. (I think I linked this one earlier. Sorry if I did!).