NZFF

I currently run FSX in XP Pro & are very happy with the graphics quality.
I have a reasonably high spec system & run Vista also but only for office at this stage.
Those of you who have changed to Vista & are running DX10, is there a noticable improvement in graphics?

If you have Vista and a DX10 graphics card, it's possibly worth trying to see if you like it. If you don't, it isn't worth the expense.

A bit late in bringing this up, but...

Freshly reformatted the rig (Vista, FSX/Acceleration, Q6600 2.4Ghz, 4Gb RAM, 8600GT 512mb) and thought I'd have another crack at using DX10 and playing around with the HDR and bloom...

FPS improved greatly over DX9c but... The AA is barely there

Applied all of my base-level presets with the Nvidia control panel, then shagged around with Nhancer all afternoon and got some ok-ish AA but it's miles below the standard I had in FSX running DX9c or even FS9.
Tried every combination of in-sim and Nhancer setting I could find but nothing improved it... I did swap back to DX9c and on the high-end AA settings, Nhancer was certainly doing it's job there - just not with DX10

Anybody else hit this one before?

DX10 has its own AA rendering path built in. You can only use the in-game AA.

DX10 has issues though, the most annoying being flickering taxiway lines at some airports, but generally yes, it gives a ~10fps boost + the cockpit and water look better.

over on avsim forums, they have found a solution to the flickering taxiways, apparently you put a small piece of tarmac (or concrete depending on what is at the airport) and that stops the flickering, strange eh? i can't find the thread at the moment, got to go to work, but i will have a hunt around and see if i can find it tommorow

jason

Yeah, I was going to try that method for all the NZ airports that flickered, but I found that I had a much smoother game with DX9+nHancer, than DX10 without nhancer. Too much stuttering in DX10

s0cks wrote:

QUOTE (s0cks @ May 18 2010, 03:49 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>

than DX10 without nhancer. Too much stuttering in DX10

Not a competition , same story with FS9 /FSX , depends on your system , and that not a competition either , least we have the choices to suit every one who enjoys Flightsim , we all and many cannot buy willy niilly then on saying that it also depend on savvy finding out best ways to get the best out off your system .