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Great shots of FS9!

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That's a very nice FS9 you have there, Mark, would you mind sharing how you got it to look that good? Your scenery is FSX quality!

 

Sure thing, although, they are well known FS9.cfg and NVida Inspector tweaks. They could, and probably should, vary a bit from system to system and from a personal perspective on the way you like your sim to look. But this is a good head start for most.

 

In my case, it was pretty easy to figure this out. I simply listened to a bunch of people who knew what they were doing with FS9, and that would include Opa. You know what, they were right. So riding on the shoulders of giants here, below are the relevant changes that I use in the Scenery.cfg file, the FS9.cfg file, an attached screen shot of my current NVida Inspector settings, as well as the MSXML version which I'm currently using.

 

This configuration runs at 30FPS without any hesitation whatsoever. (That includes my 80% AI traffic setting)

 

The Scenery.cfg file reads as follows....

 

Priority/Scenery

01) FS Global 2010

02) Airports, landclasses, etc

03) Addon Scenery

04) Aerial Photos

05) Ultimate Terrain

06) Libraries (EZ, Rwy12, MS Default, etc)

07) MS Scenery (Americas, Oceania, Europe, OZ, etc)

08) MS Default Scenery

09) MS Default Terrain

10) MS FS9 World Scenery

 

 

I have also installed the entire FS2004 SDK as well as...

 

MSXML 4.0 SP2 (KB954430)

MSXML 4.0 SP2 (KB973688)

MSXML 4.0 SP2 (Parser and SDK)

 

 

The relevant parts of the FS9.cfg file as follows....

 

[PANELS]

VIRTUAL_COCKPIT_TEXTURES_SCALE=2.0

[GRAPHICS]

FULL_SCREEN=1

PERFORMANCE_MODE=0

DEF_PERF_MODE=7

TEXT_SCROLL=1

AUTO_LOD=0

DETAIL_TEXTURE=1

WATER_EFFECTS=1

TERRAIN_USE_VECTOR_MAP=1

TERRAIN_USE_VECTOR_OBJECTS=1

EFFECTS_QUALITY=2

GROUND_SHADOWS=0

SMOOTH_VIEW=1

IMAGE_SMOOTHING=1

TEXTURE_MAX_LOAD=1024

COCKPIT_HIGH_LOD=1

AIRCRAFT_SHADOWS=1

LANDING_LIGHTS=1

IMAGE_QUALITY=0

TEXTURE_BLDG=1

TEXTURE_GND=1

TEXTURE_WATER=1

AIRCRAFT_TEXTURE=2

TEXTURE_QUALITY=3

LOD_TARGET_FPS=21

NUM_LIGHTS=6

[DISPLAY.Device.NVIDIA GeForce GTS 450.0]

Mode=1920x1200x32

TriLinear=0

TextureAGP=0

PanelAsTexture=0

[DISPLAY]

UPPER_FRAMERATE_LIMIT=30

TEXTURE_BANDWIDTH_MULT=400

TextureMaxLoad=10

RUNWAY_LIGHTS_SURFACE_SCALAR=1.2

RUNWAY_LIGHTS_VASI_SCALAR=1.2

RUNWAY_LIGHTS_APPROACH_SCALAR=1.2

RUNWAY_LIGHTS_STROBE_SCALAR=1.0

[TERRAIN]

TERRAIN_ERROR_FACTOR=100.000000

TERRAIN_MIN_DEM_AREA=10.000000

TERRAIN_MAX_DEM_AREA=100.000000

TERRAIN_MAX_VERTEX_LEVEL=21

TERRAIN_TEXTURE_SIZE_EXP=8

TERRAIN_AUTOGEN_DENSITY=5

TERRAIN_USE_GRADIENT_MAP=1

TERRAIN_EXTENDED_TEXTURES=0

TERRAIN_DEFAULT_RADIUS=9.500000

TERRAIN_EXTENDED_RADIUS=9.000000

TERRAIN_EXTENDED_LEVELS=4

[sCENERY]

IMAGE_COMPLEXITY=5

DYNAMIC_SCENERY=1

DYN_SCN_DENSITY=5

DAWN_DUSK_SMOOTHING=0

SUNGLARE=0

LENSFLARE=0

 

For the mid-level NVIDIA GeForce GTS 450 card (using a very old driver 296.10)...

 

NVidia Geforce GTS 450 - 296.10 Custom Settings.jpg

 

I really love FS9, an unlocked Core i5 with a 7 year old video card and driver. Hats off to you gents who paved the way for the rest of us!

 

Hope this helps...

Mark

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Pics are VERY nice, and tanks for all your info! My FS9 never looked as good as yours! :cool::cool::cool:

 

+!! And frankly a lot of times my FSX doesn't look that good either!;)

Being an old chopper guy I usually fly low and slow.
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