Posted: Mon Dec 28, 2009 9:58 amQUOTE (Adamski @ Dec 31 2009, 11:18 PM) *
I ran Vista (now Win7) with FSX and have yet to see any noticeable difference in MSFS running DX10. Worse - many aircraft and scenery textures don't display correctly in DX10 - particularly WOAI aircraft and some older FS9 scenery and aircraft port-overs. So, if it's for FS9 or FSX, I'd say "don't bother".
However - a friend of mine just bought "PT Boats" (WWII) and running it in DX10 mode was much better. Better haze and graduated skies etc. - so if you have other sims/games that make specific use of DX10, then it may still be worth it.
Many thanks for that info....will stay way clear of DirectX10!!
I have discovered thru further research that it's now likely that my CPU could be the bottleneck in FSX with the new GTX285 Video Card fitted....I have an Intel 2 Duo E6850 3.00GHz 4M 1333MHz LGA7775 and I have read that FSX performance is primarily about the CPU/memory and THEN the video card...my FS9 performs great with the 285....however I see little difference in FSX performance over the 8800 GTS 320mb card.
I have also seen a blog at http://www.simforums.com/forums/forum_post...9156....stating "I have the E6850 overclocked to 3.5G using ntune and it works great"....I have downloaded the nTune software but I am not really sure if I should attempt to "overclock" my CPU....or how to go about it!!!???
Bob R
I ran Vista (now Win7) with FSX and have yet to see any noticeable difference in MSFS running DX10. Worse - many aircraft and scenery textures don't display correctly in DX10 - particularly WOAI aircraft and some older FS9 scenery and aircraft port-overs. So, if it's for FS9 or FSX, I'd say "don't bother".
However - a friend of mine just bought "PT Boats" (WWII) and running it in DX10 mode was much better. Better haze and graduated skies etc. - so if you have other sims/games that make specific use of DX10, then it may still be worth it.
Many thanks for that info....will stay way clear of DirectX10!!
I have discovered thru further research that it's now likely that my CPU could be the bottleneck in FSX with the new GTX285 Video Card fitted....I have an Intel 2 Duo E6850 3.00GHz 4M 1333MHz LGA7775 and I have read that FSX performance is primarily about the CPU/memory and THEN the video card...my FS9 performs great with the 285....however I see little difference in FSX performance over the 8800 GTS 320mb card.
I have also seen a blog at http://www.simforums.com/forums/forum_post...9156....stating "I have the E6850 overclocked to 3.5G using ntune and it works great"....I have downloaded the nTune software but I am not really sure if I should attempt to "overclock" my CPU....or how to go about it!!!???
Bob R
