NVIDIA 372.90 WHQL driver available

Suits all sorts inc 1060, 1070 & 1080

As usual:

Stet or stat. Your choice.

Helping with p3d?

yes

NCP Settings for starting point in P3D:

In `Change Resolution` check:

Desktop colour depth - Highest (32-bit) (should never be anything else)

Output colour format - RGB (specialist monitors might need YCbCr.x)

set

Output Colour Depth - 12bpc

Output dynamic range - Full

(these will always need adjusting after every driver change do not forget this as these contribute to the biggest single change in visuals you will ever see)

Under Manage 3d Settings - Global:

FIRST Restore default settings, then set Single Display performance mode (obviously not if you are using multiple monitors) and [important!] set Power Management Mode to Prefer Maximum Performance

If using DSR this is where you set the factor and the smoothness (33% default, 25% or thereabouts usually best for FS textures).

Program Settings - Prepar 3d:

Anisotropic filtering - Application Controlled (this helps minimise ground texture blurring by allowing the sim to set AF)

Maximum pre-rendered frames - 1 (NOT use 3d application setting, but see below)

Multi-display/mixed-GPU acceleration - Single Display performance mode (your mileage may vary)

Texture Filtering - Anisotropic sample optimization - Off (stops driver interfering with in-game settings)

Texture Filtering - Negative LOD bias - Allow (permits full mipmap LOD in-game, can improve VC and gauge display quality)

Texture Filtering - Quality - [important!] High Quality (default is always Quality but with anything other than the oldest cards this is unnecessarily low)

Vertical Sync - start with Use Global Setting but experiment - P3D still runs as a windowed application so the `adaptive - 1/2 refresh rate` stuff simply does not work - but this is still worth experimenting with on 60 Hz monitors as `off` here with fps limit set in-sim can result in improved smoothness and no tearing on some systems, while on others `adaptive` here and `unlimited` set in the fps can be smoother.

No discussion:

These are starting points for personal experimentation so if you don't understand any of this or can't find the settings to adjust then you should be focussing on advancing your understanding of the adjustability of your system.

OS variations affect these settings; as can actual choice of GC; so can the use of external tools.

I DO NOT use ANY external tool such as Nvidia Inspector of external frame rate limiters, nor do I have any significant adjustments to the Prepar3D .cfg. If you do, all bets are off... but you can still start with these settings.

I have used these across 5 active P3D computers, all with different hardware specs, and these are my `go to` settings.

As ever, YMMV...