ed_mcgough

Hi guys, I'm using 2 x GTX580 in SLI and it does improve the sim for me. However, not in the way that I was expecting. As most people seem to do, I spent a lot of time testing different configurations and in the end I have settled for almost exactly Word Not Allowed's setup (I think the only difference for me was FFTF @ 0.15. I got too many blurries at 0.1). What the SLI did for me is get rid of artifacts (black flashes, triangles,spikes etc.). When I have just one GPU running, especially around airports like ORBX YBBN I occasionally get vertical spikes, flashes etc. I left MSI Afterburner running in the background and found that I was maxing the GPU out, which surprised me a little! When I tested exactly the same scenario with SLI, both GPUs would run up to about 60% and I'd get no artifacts at all. For me, SLI seems to make virtually no difference in FPS or smoothness (either positive or negative) So, that's my experience. Obviously different people might have a different experience. Ed.

Hi All,I'm trying to decide whether to go for 3x24" or 1x27" monitor(s) for my new rig (specs in my signature). It's not just an FSX machine, but I do want to try to get the best out of FSX. I'm currently setting it up and testing on a 1920x1080 TV. I'm going to overclock a bit more (hopefully to 4.8MHz). It's all working OK with pretty much everything maxed at this resolution.What I'm trying to find out, and I have searched around a fair bit to try to get an answer to this, is if anyone has got a similar spec and has gone from 1 screen to 3 screens using Nvidia Surround at this resolution (and nothing else changed), what were your framerates like before and after - or if anyone is running with 3 screens using Nvidia Surround is there any chance you could do a couple of quick FPS checks (somewhere with a high rate and somewhere with a low rate) at 5760x1080 or 5760x1200 and then the same (or similar) test at 1920x1080 or 1920x1200?I'd like to go the three monitors route for maximum immersion but with the settings I'd like to run at, there's not much margin in my framerates! There seem to be quite a few people using Eyefinity and TH2G, but what I really want to know is how well it works with Nvidia Surround.Thanks in advance!!Ed.