Thank you all: I will look into each suggestion.

 

I followed the FSX bible and he wrote to not use Buffer pools and he also wrote to disable AA in inspector, so I followed his suggestions. I have the fsx set to trilinear. What bothers me is that my fps ranges between 22-30 but I'm still seeing some stuttering and the biggest annoyance is that runway lights (from the air) are visible when I start the default flight, however as soon as I turn the aircraft, they vanish(turn off).

 

I use Rex 4, orbx global and vector: nothing more.

 

I'm starting to wonder if I've bottle necked my system by going with the Nvidia 760??? I spent a considerable amount of my savings on this setup and in hindsight- should have gotten the 770 or 780. Can anyone comment as to whether or not I should purchase the 770 or 780, and will doing so equate to better FPS??? And am I looking for the 2 gig, 3 gig or 4 gig versions)???

 

Thanks a lot everyone

It's a zotac amp 2gig... Three monitors with surround setup. Looks pretty cool, but the two sided are stretched a bit much: fish bowl effect.

I don't care if it's called a bible... it's not gospel, he's not a deity.

 

If you want better advice, look at the Avsim guide, and/or Word Not Allowed's FSX guide.

 

BP=0 works. The increase in frame rate is noticeable in a heavy weather scenario, not in clear weather, and it's significant. As for turning off AA in Nvidia Inspector, no, don't do that.

 

1. Use BP=0. If you get artefacts, your sliders are too high, or your AA is too high. Adjust accordingly.

 

2. Set your FSX slider settings SENSIBLY, don't go nuts and set them high. Adjust them until you have a sensible balance between eye candy and frame rate.

 

Switch off, known frame rate killers like bloom and shadows. Set AI traffic to the minimum, it's frame rate killer, and stutter inducer. Set Autogen sensibly.

 

3. Test conventional wisdom. Try with no frame rate limiter whatsoever, no internal limiter and no external limiter. You may be shocked by the result.

 

The three factors above eliminated all stutters for me and gave he a huge increase in frame rate.

 

The biggest mistake most make, is to assume that because they have a powerful CPU, that they can set sliders full right. You can't, and you don't need to.

 

Common sense is king.

 

Did you buy the wrong GPU... no you didn't. There's no reason why you shouldn't achieve acceptable results.

 

I achieved great results with my 3770K and GTX 580, and I'm still achieving great results with my 3770K and GTX 770.

Edited February 24, 201412 yr by martin-w

Thank you Martin for clearing up my misconceptions around the info. contained in the bible. For specific inspector settings, can you recommend a source please.

Ryan from PMDG posted a guide.

 

http://forum.avsim.net/topic/324786-nvidia-configuration-guide-inspector-2xxxx-drivers-version-20-explanations-of-all-settings/

 

The thread in general contains useful info.