I found one secret to frame rates for Nvidia card!!

**Barneycanoe** · 08-07-2003, 11:19 AM

I've been messing around with FS2004 for about a week. It seemed no matter what slider settings I changed I was stuck with about 15fps in outside views and 11 or so in the cockpit of the Cessna 310.

My system is a toshiba 5200 laptop, 2.0GHz, 512 mb RAM, Nvidia GeForce 460 Go with 64 mb video ram (very cool machine, by the way :)).

For some strange reason it never occured to me that the card setting might be a problem. I fiddled with the anti-aliasing but never actually turned it all the way off. Last night I downloaded the 44.03 video drivers and while messing around I turned of AA and voila! Frame rates shot up.

I am now getting well over 20 in some views, although I plan to lock it at 20, and 15 most of the time in the cockpit, with outstanding performance in the virtual cockpit.

Before, clouds would bring me down to 3-4 fps, now I can use 3d clouds, medium or dense setting, and things are great. Full overcasts, etc.

In hindsight, I realize why the sliders were not affecting the sim: the anti-aliasing was overriding everything and keeping the frame rates low. I am obviously going to do more testing with various settings now because I can probably get close to 25 fps.

If you have a Nvidia mobile card this might be worth a try. Before, I thought that FS2004 might not be for me, now I'm happy!

David Barnett
Ontario, Canada
Private Pilot.

**hendis** · 08-08-2003, 06:32 AM

I wouldn't exactly call it a secret that full-screen anti-aliasing causes a huge drop in FPS. This is true for every graphics adapter capable of FSAA, and all credible performance tests published on the net show results with and without FSAA.

**Barneycanoe** · 08-08-2003, 12:11 PM

That may be so, but I never noticed any difference whatsoever in FS2002. It has made the difference between the sim being unflyable and flyable for me.

**N5798T** · 08-08-2003, 08:57 PM

Thanks for the tip. But, how do I turn AA off on my video card? I've gont an nVidea TNT 2 64 32 mb video card.
Thanks,

**ToddNicholson** · 08-08-2003, 11:10 PM

..through your advanced display settings. There should be tab for antialiasing. To get to the display settings menu, right click on your desktop and then click on properties. Then click on settings. There should then be an advanced button to click on. That should take you to your video card's display settings options.

**N5798T** · 08-08-2003, 11:24 PM

Thanks for the reply, I followed your insturctions but didn't get and option for antialiasing. Am I missing something? I did see something for antrioscopic filtering though, what's that.
Thanks,