I guess that game developers use a mixture of cards and you can bet they're bang up-to-date in terms of horsepower from their pc's and graphic cards. They'll also have an old dog to give the end user an idea of minimum spec (though the FSX minimum spec is quite ridiculous) and then the BS begins
I can't remember the last time I updated a graphic driver and actually saw an improvement.. an overall improvement that is so I thought, why bother. Three out of the four systems I run still have original drivers and the only reason the fourth hasn't is because I was given the card and told to use the latest driver not the one in the box so I did as I was told. I'll wonder now for the rest of the pc's life if the driver in the box is any better than the latest :think:
Recently i have had some odd CTDs from FSX and have tried loads of stuff to fix it.
most seem to point at aiplayer.dll so i switched off all my ai to no avail.
yesterday after reading this i removed Nvidia 175.16 whql driver (removed with drive cleaner Pro) and went back to the old 169.25 and hey presto no more CTDS
so if your not running a 9000 series card don't waste your time.
There you go!! I don't need a better recommendation than that ;-)
Cheers Rick
BTW.. the latest Cat drivers on that HD2900XT flicker as you load the sim (both FS9 and FSX) or change an option although both sims run OK. If I ever change the drivers.. it will be back to what I've NOT seen on the driver cd and not forward ;-)
I backpedalled to the 93.71 drivers and get a faster, smoother FS9 and also rather better Forceware...Think I'll just stay there now with my 7800GS+ AGP as all new drivers will be optimised for later cards :flying: The only thing I have to remember, is to keep AA within FS9 to allow the aircraft to show in the preview panel...This was fixed in later drivers but at cost
Was going to post this in the proper section but seems about right here
Ok took the bull by the horns and upgraded my 7950gt to a 8800GTS...loaded up the latest drivers, fsx looks fine but fs9 has the jaggies again no matter what I do with the nvidia control panel.
IT seems the only drivers fs9 ever likes are 91.47.
I'm still playing with tweaking FSX now I can actually fly it with the new card, still a slide show at Toronto but I'm working on it.
I've already taken out the latest drivers 175 something rolled back to what came with the card 161.something.
Anyone have any idea why fs9 now has the jaggies back even with 16x AA.
Ok solved the FS9 problem, used Nhancer to create a duplicate profile, there were a couple of settings in there I was tweaking
that you can't do with an 8 series card.
All the jaggies are now gone, for the fist time I set the game to high quality as I already had everthing maxed out, boy what a difference
fps set at 50 the aircraft looks like you can reach in and touch it.
Ok onto FSX and see what I can tweak in that on top of what I've done already.
