Display Settings FSX

Hey gang,

So yesterday morning I flew a short flight in FSX for the first time since
March.

One thing I noticed, my terrain at the airport seemed rather grainy to me,
and I had a good amount of shimmering.
Previously, when I was active in flying, it was not this way - the display
looked very good.

I did not change anything in FSX display settings, the only change I have
made is installing the latest Nvidia drivers for my 8800 GTS.
I am running driver version 185.85 for 64 bit Vista.

Below are my main display driver settings that I keep saved and always go in
and set my display driver settings once installing a new version. I have
AA checked in FSX setttings.


AS - 8x
AA Gamma Correction - ON
AA Mode - Application
AA Transp - Supersampling
Conformant Texture Clamp - Use Hardware
Error Reporting = Off
Ext Limit = Off
Force Mipmaps = Trilinear
Text Filt Neg LOD = Clamp
Text Filtering Qual = High Quality
Threaded Opt = Auto
Triple Buffer = On
Vsynch = Force On


Just curious as to why now my display does not look quite up to par with
what I was getting previously. I did double check that my main display was
set properly, 1680x1050x32, which is what my main monitor's native
resolution is.
I also have a second monitor, that is set appropriately in FSX to it's
native resolution of 1280x1024.

I did see in the newer drivers they have added an " ambient occlusion"
setting, mine is set to off and when I check program settings it states that
this option is not supported in FSX.

Anyway, just curious if anything sticks out as to why now my display does
not seem to appear as good as it did previously.
Thanks for any feedback,



--
Don

You don't have to use nHancer but scroll down in the following article and
set your card up with the settings NickN has. I'm not sure if you can get
to all the settings through nVidia's control panel tho.

http://www.simforums.com/forums/forum_posts.asp?TID=29041
--
dave


"Don" <burnettedclothes.DeleteThis@hotmail.com> wrote in message
news:D4mdnUdwwqMMNM3XnZ2dnUVZ_tidnZ2d@giganews.com...
> Hey gang,
>
> So yesterday morning I flew a short flight in FSX for the first time since
> March.
>
> One thing I noticed, my terrain at the airport seemed rather grainy to me,
> and I had a good amount of shimmering.
> Previously, when I was active in flying, it was not this way - the display
> looked very good.
>
> I did not change anything in FSX display settings, the only change I have
> made is installing the latest Nvidia drivers for my 8800 GTS.
> I am running driver version 185.85 for 64 bit Vista.
>
> Below are my main display driver settings that I keep saved and always go
> in and set my display driver settings once installing a new version. I
> have AA checked in FSX setttings.
>
>
> AS - 8x
> AA Gamma Correction - ON
> AA Mode - Application
> AA Transp - Supersampling
> Conformant Texture Clamp - Use Hardware
> Error Reporting = Off
> Ext Limit = Off
> Force Mipmaps = Trilinear
> Text Filt Neg LOD = Clamp
> Text Filtering Qual = High Quality
> Threaded Opt = Auto
> Triple Buffer = On
> Vsynch = Force On
>
>
> Just curious as to why now my display does not look quite up to par with
> what I was getting previously. I did double check that my main display was
> set properly, 1680x1050x32, which is what my main monitor's native
> resolution is.
> I also have a second monitor, that is set appropriately in FSX to it's
> native resolution of 1280x1024.
>
> I did see in the newer drivers they have added an " ambient occlusion"
> setting, mine is set to off and when I check program settings it states
> that this option is not supported in FSX.
>
> Anyway, just curious if anything sticks out as to why now my display does
> not seem to appear as good as it did previously.
> Thanks for any feedback,
>
>
>
> --
> Don
>
>
>