I currently own i7 2700K OC 4.4GHz with GTX 560Ti 2GB.

I have purchased the payware fixer (2.1) and seems to successfully entered the DX10 world.

Since I normally fly NGX in and out of add-on airports using ASN weather, my FR drops down

to low teens - have yet to find the best setting given my hardware.

 

That said, I am now considering to upgrade my graphics card to something like GTX 680 or 780,

having read multiple forums. (I am not a computer guru, simply relying on other people's comments).

 

Here is my question.

When replacing my old card for a new one,

will I have to reset my Steve's Fixer setting, nVidia Inspector settings and FSX.cfg settings all over again

or do I simply remove the old card and exchange with the new without needing to redo all the settings?

I am exactly sure but it should be relatively straight forward. I think that the NVI profile is tied to the program rather than the gpu so I think it will carry over. - but I am not an expert on NVI and have never tested this!!

 

When you launch fsx it should discover the new gpu and as long as it is running in dx10 mode it will create a new graphics card entry in fsx with aa defaulted off and no filtering. If you go into fsx graphics settings and adjust these, setting aa on and setting the filtering then I think everything else will then be ok.

 

All the dx10sf settings will carry over.

Steve,

 

Thank you, glad to know that replacing the old card with the new is not much problems.

What do you think would be a good card to upgrade to for DX10?

As mentioned earlier, my CPU is i7-2700K OC 4.5GHz, with Geforce 560Ti with 2GB.
My Power unit has 750W max.
Also, I only have 1 PCI-Ex16 slot with space for double size graphic card, not triple.

 

I normally fly PMDG-NGX, in/out of Aerosoft airports. I have FTX Global and Vector installed.

For weather, I use ASN and Rex4Textures.

GeForce 700 series or 600?

Steve,

 

Thank you, glad to know that replacing the old card with the new is not much problems.

 

What do you think would be a good card to upgrade to for DX10?

As mentioned earlier, my CPU is i7-2700K OC 4.5GHz, with Geforce 560Ti with 2GB.

My Power unit has 750W max.

Also, I only have 1 PCI-Ex16 slot with space for double size graphic card, not triple.

 

I normally fly PMDG-NGX, in/out of Aerosoft airports. I have FTX Global and Vector installed.

For weather, I use ASN and Rex4Textures.

GeForce 700 series or 600?

 

 

What I did when I changed to the 780 was; saved my NI profile, removed all the drivers and shut the computer off and changed the card. Booted installed the drivers that came with the card. Imported my NI config. Good to go for me.

 

If you can afford the 780, it's a good card. My opinion only.