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dougie573

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hi

i was running a gforce gtx460 1gb for a couple of years on windows 7 64 bit. I have 8gb ram and an i5 processor.

i thought that my graphics card was a bottleneck in the quality/fps balance.

i bought a gforce gtx960 with 2 gb on board memory and find that the fps/ quality is exactly the same. i would have thought i would get some sort of improvement.

am i doing anything wrong? (apart from expecting too much from the new card)

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The better card should enable higher antialiasing settings and Anisotropic Filtering settings.

 

This is set through the Nvidia menu,

or the Nvidia Inspector settings.

 

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The relationship: Sliders--FPS

is purely the result of CPU

(and progs running in the background)

 

I don't know what else to say. I wish I had better news. Sorry.

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The better card should enable higher antialiasing settings and Anisotropic Filtering settings.

 

This is set through the Nvidia menu,

or the Nvidia Inspector settings.

 

----

The relationship: Sliders--FPS

is purely the result of CPU

(and progs running in the background)

 

I don't know what else to say. I wish I had better news. Sorry.

 

Also, make sure that you are running off of the GTX,and not the on-board graphics.

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Don't expect a LOT of improvement, though, for FS. It mostly uses the CPU. In P3D, however, you'd find that the 960 would make a big improvement, since P3D makes heavy use of the GPU. The improvement I saw on P3D, when going from a GTX 570 to a GTX 970 was small, in terms of frame rate, but huge in "eye candy," that is, I can have the autogen sliders maxed, the wx stuff maxed, water maxed and a bit more in areas outside the Seattles and the So Cals that would have brought my system to its knees with the 570, and a very modest (2-3 fps) frame rate improvement, too. But it made little difference in FSX, except for antialiasing and such, as mentioned above.

 

Larry N.

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