NVidia 3XX Beta Drivers and AA

[paulharvey]

Hi All

Firstly appologies if this has already been discussed elsewhere, but I thought this might be of use to everybody who uses NVidia graphics cards.

I downloaded the latest NVidia Beta driver (301.24) and I have found that it is now possible to set Anti Aliasing from within the NVidia control panel again even with TSX turned on. I put all the AA settings in RW to nil, set AA in the control panel to 2x (I could only use FXAA before, and on a better system you could turn AA higher) and the performance was startling, FPS has improved (on my modest system anyway) and seems a lot smoother, also, using the adaptive Vertical sync means I get a lot less "graphics tearing" as well.

I am using Windows 7 64 bit, on an Intel 2.4Ghz Quad cpu, ASUS NVidia GTX 550Ti Graphics card, and 4Gb ram. I've not tried it using NVIDIA Inspector yet, just the NVidia control panel.

Hope this little heads up may be of use, for those of you vertual pilots out there, it works very well with FSX as well, and I've not had any problems at all with the driver.

Regards

Paul

[ttjph]

Thanks - definitely worth trying.

I've just done a little testing, and interestingly I've repeated a result mentioned before in that I get slightly higher FPS with the launcher set to FXAA than with it set to None.

I also seem to get a slight improvement using my standard launcher settings (8xMSAA) by creating a profile for railworksproc2, and setting Single Display Performance Mode and Adaptive Vsync (along with Max Pre-Rendered Frame and Anisotropic Filtering to App Controlled).

My GPU is now just about maxed using the Autumn Leaves Class 47 drive-by test, so I think I might leave it there...

[rabid]

I couldn't get any AA (apart from FXAA) working using NV Inspector.

[Retro]

Hi,
Just wondered if any is running this Driver NVidia 301.42-desktop-win7-winvista-64bit-international-whql.
Kind regards James.

[gptech]

Hi,
Just wondered if any is running this Driver NVidia 301.42-desktop-win7-winvista-64bit-international-whql.
Kind regards James.

Works fine for me James, though I haven't had chance yet to play about with settings to see if thee's any visual improvements over the last lot of drivers.

Gary

[Retro]

Thanks Gary. Much appreciated.
Kind regards James.

[smarty2]

I tried this, but it is terrible! Doesn't appear to work at all, jaggies everywhere.

[TheTazman]

Would you be able to upload a screenshot of the settings you applied please?