FSX and the 8800GTX

Excellent card with DX 10 the graphics should be spectacular.

Huh?

GoodisonBlue said he's runnin his FSX on Vista.

Does'nt Vista come with DX10?

oldsamer wrote:

Huh?

GoodisonBlue said he's runnin his FSX on Vista.

Does'nt Vista come with DX10?

They have to release a patch for fsx to make it take advantage of dx10

At the moment, fsx is running in dx9 mode on vista

I told you that the 8800s are great..... 😀 What processor are you running and how much ram?

GoodisonBlue wrote:

oldsamer wrote:

Huh?

GoodisonBlue said he's runnin his FSX on Vista.

Does'nt Vista come with DX10?

They have to release a patch for fsx to make it take advantage of dx10

At the moment, fsx is running in dx9 mode on vista

So that explains why my Windows Aero program shuts down when FSX starts up......

GundamWZero wrote:

I told you that the 8800s are great..... 😀 What processor are you running and how much ram?

See start of thread 🙂

GoodisonBlue wrote:

GundamWZero wrote:

I told you that the 8800s are great..... 😀 What processor are you running and how much ram?

See start of thread 🙂

Bump up the RAM to 2 Gb. If you want to be greedy, take it to 4. 2Gb works great on my rig.

GoodisonBlue wrote:

Got my new 8800GTX yesterday so I thought i'd report on fps difference

Running Vista
Previous card was a 7950gx2 with 1gb Ram, 2 GB system ram, core 2 duo 2.4 ghz .

Already got 2Gb but thanks anyway 🙂

Just finish upgrading 3ghz pent D to 2.4ghz core2duo (an 550w psu) so now have system close to GoodisonBlues'.
result:
No more chuggies over town during tight banking turns.

I envy you guys.

peanut butter & cheeze macaronnie for a year.

oldsamer wrote:

peanut butter & cheeze macaronnie for a year.

Thank goodness for income taxes....... I would have been doing Ramen Noodles!!!

Just wait till you retire, you'll be a Ramen gourmet!

Re: the 8800GTX, it's a good vid card for FSX. Still can't MAX every game setting and it requires comparable supporting hardware. This is what I'm happy with:

Consistant 20fps (target 20fps) at these game settings:

Full screen res: 1680x1050x16
Filtering: Anisotropic
Anti-aliasing: on
Global texture resolution: high
Aircraft cast shadows: on
Level of detail radius: Medium
Mesh complexity: 46
Mesh resolution: 152m
Texture resolution: 1m
Water effects: none
Land detail textures: on
Scenery complexity: Dense
Autogen density: Very dense
Special effects detail: low
Cloud draw distanse: 60mi
Simple clouds: on
Enable turbulence and effects on aircraft: on
Rate at which weather changes: Medium
Airline traffic density: 0%
General aviation traffic density: 80%
Airport vehicle density: low
Road vehicles: 51%
Ships and ferries: 0%
Leasure boats: 0%
Mouse Yoke, Simple controls, Sensitivity all axes : 76, Null zones all axes: 21, Keyboard sensitivity all: 64

With this computer:

Intel DP965LT ATX mainboard (P965express chipset)
Intel onboard Azalia sound & 82566c LAN
intel Core2Duo E6600@2.4ghz
Generic intel approved thermally advantaged ATX case
Thermaltake 775D copperbase heatpipe cpu cooling fan
Corsair 2x1gb duel channel DDR2@800mhz note#1
Gigabyte nVida 8800GTX w/768mb DDR3
Memorex DVD-CD R+RW drive
Western Digital 1600YS SATA hardrive
Antec NeoHe 550watt power supply
Samsung 215TW 21" widescreen (1680x1050) DVI LCD
winXp SP2

note#1 Corsair recommends DDR2@667mhz for this mainboard, but intel says max of 2gb of DDR2@800mhz IF timing is 5-5-5-15.

Hang on..... I think I have higher settings. I'll check and post in about a couple of hours.

Hey GoodisonBlue

What have you got your scenery set too?? Thats what rips my fps up

robson131 wrote:

Hey GoodisonBlue

What have you got your scenery set too?? Thats what rips my fps up

Very dense for scenery and dense for autogen

Area of detail large

Wow, Hey, im thinking of getting a rig like yours with your cpu and everything. Do you thnk u can post some shots of your gameplay?
Cheers