March 21, 201412 yr Maybe this is old news but I didn't know about this and it had me a bit confused before I understood what was happening. It started with I was going through my fsx.cfg file to check a couple of things and I then discovered 2 entries for my display adapter instead of the usual single entry. I had these [DISPLAY.Device.NVIDIA GeForce GTX TITAN.0] Mode=1920x1080x32 Anisotropic=1 AntiAlias=1 [DISPLAY.Device.NVIDIA GeForce GTX TITAN.0.0] Mode=1920x1080x32 Anisotropic=1 AntiAlias=1 To me the second one called 0.0 felt like a double entry for the exact same graphics card so I decided to remove it. Next time I started FSX it looked like crap and I had lost all my AA and there was lots of shimmering. I then checked the Graphics tab in FSX and found the display adapter in fact had the same name as the entry I just removed from fsx.cfg and the AA and filtering settings were reset to default values. After I checked AA and chose a correct filtering mode everything was back to normal...puh... I still couldn't let go of this wanted to know why I had two entries and after some testing I found that the first one is used when running FSX in DX9 mode and the second one is used running FSX in DX10 mode. Mystery solved and thought I would share this finding if anyone else run into the same situation wondering what's happening.
March 21, 201412 yr Hi Richard! When you first ran DX10 - you used a brand new fg - you let FSX create it , then changed whichever settings, per the guides... right? At this point you would have only one display device entry - the "TITAN.0.0". These two "0".s do indicate DX10, as you surmised. At some point, you switched back to DX9 for a test, perhaps - and at that time FSX found a new graphics driver api, and so that demanded a new pointer - hence "TITAN.0". Wait till you hit 60, man... every day is a new day! <_< All the Best, pj i7 [email protected] | 32GB RAM | EVGA RTX 3080Ti | Maximus Hero VII | 512GB 860 Pro | 512GB 850 Pro | 256GB 840 Pro | 2TB 860 QVO | 1TB 870 EVO | Seagate 3TB Cloud | EVGA 1000 GQ | Win10 Pro | EK Custom water cooling.
March 21, 201412 yr Author :smile: Ok, thanks for the further explanation behind these entries. I decided to leave it like it is with both entries since I don't think that would do any harm.
March 21, 201412 yr Of course! It's not going to be used when running DX10, and vice-versa - that's why we have cfg files - right! All the Best Richard, pj i7 [email protected] | 32GB RAM | EVGA RTX 3080Ti | Maximus Hero VII | 512GB 860 Pro | 512GB 850 Pro | 256GB 840 Pro | 2TB 860 QVO | 1TB 870 EVO | Seagate 3TB Cloud | EVGA 1000 GQ | Win10 Pro | EK Custom water cooling.
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