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by **Charl** » Wed Jul 02, 2008 5:15 pm

In tandem with this, I downloaded the latest NHancer (nHancer32_2.4.1_Setup.exe)

Doesn't happen often, when I opened the sim it went "BLING!"
And I went "Jeepers" out loud.
Very crisp, colour rendition tops - literally, brilliant.

I then tried something I hadn't done before: I backed off the AA one notch, since the textures were so clear, up to infinity.
This gives a slightly furry look to edges in the middle and far distance, creating some depth of field which I quite like.

It's been a while since I've been pleased with a new NVidia driver set, but these are keepers.

by **Naki** » Wed Jul 02, 2008 5:24 pm

mmm nice - what site did you download the Nhancer & drivers from? I did have nhancer a while back but discarded it for reasons i have forgotten about

by **Charl** » Wed Jul 02, 2008 5:38 pm

Naki wrote:
QUOTE (Naki @ Jul 2 2008, 05:24 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>
mmm nice - what site did you download the Nhancer & drivers from? I did have nhancer a while back but discarded it for reasons i have forgotten about

Can't remember, just Google the filenames and you'll get there.

by **creator2003** » Wed Jul 02, 2008 6:20 pm

Thanks for the heads up charl ill go get them both later on tonight

by **HardCorePawn** » Thu Jul 03, 2008 8:30 am

Having recently been playing with drivers and nHancer (I just reinstalled XP so figured I did not have much to lose), can I ask what your nHancer settings actually are?

They say, on the nHancer homepage, "self explantory settings"... <insert tui billboard here>, but in all honesty I am completely lost... I fiddle with the settings and nothing much seems to happen (unless I set the AA quite low, and then it is just a jagfest)... and I do not know what half of them even do!!?

Also, I was reading that a lot of people think with the new nVidia Control Panel, there is no need for nHancer anymore... as you can change everything there

I should note that I spent 2 hours trying to figure out why my aircraft skins were so ugly... and was trying all sorts of nHancer settings... only to discover I had set the global texture res in FSX to medium!

Also, I assume you are running Vista? The 175.19 drivers (despite the winxp in the filename) are vista only it would appear... the latest I can find for XP are the 175.16 drivers...

EDIT: According to this article (see the updates at the bottom), nVidia pulled the .19 drivers due to some issues...

by **creator2003** » Thu Jul 03, 2008 1:25 pm

they seem to work right with these setting though there is proberly more i could do but im happy with it ,plus i still have old drivers 69.21 or something

by **Charl** » Thu Jul 03, 2008 1:48 pm

One of the advantages of FS9 is you simply max everything, then get on and see what the video card can deliver.
This is what I'm using on an 8800GTS:

by **Bazza** » Thu Jul 03, 2008 2:38 pm

Thanks for the post Charl, I'm considering this but some reviews on other forums weren't indicating as good a result as you seem to have got.

Is this program uninstallable without a major drama if there seems to be no apparent advantage.

My current set-up is reasonably good, but no doubt could be improved upon.

I have an Invidia 8600GT so the card should cope.

Cheers..

by **creator2003** » Thu Jul 03, 2008 2:39 pm

I suppose i mite crank it up to 16X but i like it 8x plus i have a lower card than that 8600GTS 256mb and i do all the other filtering settings with in the sim ,plus i dont really have to have it all cranked up to improve FSX as it looks better in general and when i do get a grunter card ill be able to put more setting into it because there are so many i still havent fully tapped into ..so i guess ill look forward to something new

by **Charl** » Thu Jul 03, 2008 5:08 pm

Bazza wrote:
QUOTE (Bazza @ Jul 3 2008, 02:38 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>
...Is this program uninstallable without a major drama if there seems to be no apparent advantage....

NHancer is just a front end to tweak the video card settings in a slightly more user-friendly fashion.
You can uninstall it with no drama.
It tells you what it means to change settings which I found useful.
It does have some non-stock settings too, if you want to play.
I use it because you just call it up and click a button end of story...

by **Adamski** » Fri Jul 04, 2008 12:42 am

Charl wrote:
QUOTE (Charl @ Jul 3 2008, 05:08 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>
NHancer is just a front end to tweak the video card settings in a slightly more user-friendly fashion.
You can uninstall it with no drama.
It tells you what it means to change settings which I found useful.
It does have some non-stock settings too, if you want to play.
I use it because you just call it up and click a button end of story...

Thanks for the info on nHancer. I must say I was struggling a bit with the nVidia control panel. Since installing it I've been able to ramp up my detail settings quite significantly. Still a bit of a slide show (FSX) but at least I'm getting better screengrabs

by **NZ255** » Thu Jul 10, 2008 7:29 pm

Just a HU, been reading about these drivers, and when installed (for FSX, not sure about FS9) it creates a second display setting, resulting in lower frame rates.....

QUOTE

had noticed the same thing, for one or other obscure reason there where two [Display] sections, I didn't give it to much tought just deleted the second one somewhere at the bottom of the fsX.cfg and whent fiddling again, I think it's related to the latest nVidia drivers 175.xx, alltough I must admit that since installing those, things look very much nicer at this end and the sim runs a lot smoother[/quote]

Nick

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