Finally, a driver that enhances FSX.  With this 344.11 driver with DX10 and bloom enabled, a look straight into the sun will cause a near white-out effect whether you are in the cockpit or outside.  This will take a bit to get used to, though looking at the sun IRL is a bad idea too.  Enjoy!

Nice.

 

 

Any reports of how the gtx 780 behaves with this driver?

 

Im still using 320.18 as it seems to have worked the best

Wait was this added by the driver? I thought it was a problem with DX10. Just recently I was testing some new suneffect styles and with DX10 and bloom everything turned white looking at the sun. For me that is a horrible effect. I like the idea of the sun tinting the screen, but the whiteout is too strong and too... white. Nice to know I can revert my drivers so I can use bloom again.

Nice.

 

 

Any reports of how the gtx 780 behaves with this driver?

 

Im still using 320.18 as it seems to have worked the best

 

I've been using this driver with a gtx 780 without any issues thus far.  I too have stayed with 320.18, for every driver update until now gave me issues of one sort or another.  With this driver I'm still "keeping my fingers crossed".

 

I agree that the effect is strong and jarring, but so is looking at the sun IRL.  For from that standpoint I'll accept it since it now makes looking at the sun something to be avoided as it is IRL (i.e. more immersive).  BTW, the lack of this effect was on my short list of major FSX complaints.

 

I find it really weird that this effect popped up out of nowhere; apparently some DX10 feature which FSX needed was not implemented in the driver (properly?) until now, since obviously FSX is the same.  Maybe it's a side effect of P3D getting nvidia's attention.

Yep - along with red-out and blackout G-effects. I am pleased with this driver on my GTX 680. I didn't know that the blinding sun effect was tied to bloom - good to know how to turn it off if I decide I don't want it.

Yes and G effects too. Very strange.

I've been using this driver with a gtx 780 without any issues thus far.  I too have stayed with 320.18, for every driver update until now gave me issues of one sort or another.  With this driver I'm still "keeping my fingers crossed".

 

Thanks familyman. So just to be clear, you used the driver I mentioned above but your now pleased with the newer one in the thread?

 

Thanks

Ollie

I've had the sun blinding affect for awhile now.... Just saying 

I've had the sun blinding affect for awhile now.... Just saying 

I've been wondering about this, since that I've had issues with prior drivers that I missed out when this feature first appeared.  Thanks for posting this.

Thanks familyman. So just to be clear, you used the driver I mentioned above but your now pleased with the newer one in the thread?

 

Thanks

Ollie

 

Turns out I was really using 320.49 before trying the 344.11 driver.  So far the 344.11 driver seems very good in my system, enough so that I see no reason to revert. My three top usage apps, FSX, Rise of Flight and IL-2, all look and perform as good, and in some cases better, with the 344.11 driver. The bad stutters it introduced in IL-2 1946 were cured by setting the driver fps limiter to 60.  Adobe Premiere Elements 10 won't work properly with nvidia cards after 320.49, but I use FSX far more frequently so I'll roll back when I need to get some video editing work done (this was one reason why I stayed with 320.49 for so long).

Turns out I was really using 320.49 before trying the 344.11 driver.  So far the 344.11 driver seems very good in my system, enough so that I see no reason to revert. My three top usage apps, FSX, Rise of Flight and IL-2, all look and perform as good, and in some cases better, with the 344.11 driver. The bad stutters it introduced in IL-2 1946 were cured by setting the driver fps limiter to 60.  Adobe Premiere Elements 10 won't work properly with nvidia cards after 320.49, but I use FSX far more frequently so I'll roll back when I need to get some video editing work done (this was one reason why I stayed with 320.49 for so long).

 

 

What GPU do you have?

Finally, a driver that enhances FSX.  With this 344.11 driver with DX10 and bloom enabled, a look straight into the sun will cause a near white-out effect whether you are in the cockpit or outside.  This will take a bit to get used to, though looking at the sun IRL is a bad idea too.  Enjoy!

I do not see the blinding effect with the new drivers. I was wondering if you have to enable sun glare in VC? Is that what you had to do?

All I have to do to get the effect is to use DX10 preview (I'm using Steve's Fixer enhancments), enable bloom and use the 344.11 driver. The effect only occurs when looking directly at the sun.  Here is an example of the effect (before and after):

 

 

 

A quick visit to my profile reveals that I have a gtx 780, along with pretty decent matching gear.

Thanks for viewing :-)

I think it's awful and wish there were a way to fix it. It might be realistic in the sense that it blinds your view of the external environment- but the fact that it takes the cockpit with it too is extremely unrealistic. 

 

My experience? 5000+ hours flying west at the flight levels during sunset. 

I have GTX 680 also noticed it once i updated