[katdog5]

Fireskull- I can't thank you enough for really pushing nHancer --I would have never thought it would help so much...and creating this masterpiece of tweaking.

nHancer 2.5.9 does not open with the new nVidia drivers, so here is the fix if not already stated somewhere else.

NOTES TO Nvidia card owners with nhancer not launching:

http://www.simforums.com/forums/fsx-and ... 36586.html

Download and install Nvidia Inspector v1.932:

http://download.orbmu2k.de/download.php?id=51


Nvidia Inspector v1.932 menu: (*this image shows my incorrect setting for antialiasing mode. Should be "enhanced" as shown at bottom of post)



Con't:






THANKS for the education...Your advice helped me +20FPS!


Also, I thought I would share the results of some testing in hopes of helping anyone else or if you'd like to comment on an imporovement possibility.
You can see all the settings I was able to test and learned alot for a newbie benchmarker.

Setup:


i7930 @2.8Ghz
GIGABYTE 460 GTX 1GB x 2 GPU Clock 715 MHZ
Corsair 12GB
1920 x 1200
60Hz Refresh rate 24"

*****

Black Death:

Core testing with VideoSetUpId=17 + AFR_2 SLI **

2010-11-20 20:48:22 - il2fb
Frames: 7002 - Time: 149869ms - Avg: 46.721 - Min: 19 - Max: 105 ProcessAffinity Mask=2
2010-11-20 20:58:39 - il2fb
Frames: 7279 - Time: 156095ms - Avg: 46.632 - Min: 19 - Max: 104 Cores 2+3 (ProcessAffinity Mask=12)
2010-11-20 21:11:23 - il2fb
Frames: 7001 - Time: 150468ms - Avg: 46.528 - Min: 19 - Max: 104 Cores 2 + 3 + 4

Result: Using 2 and 3 cores showed no difference on my computer.

Changed to VideoSetUpId=3. Keep ProcessAffinity Mask=2. V Sync ON **

2010-11-20 21:17:52 - il2fb
Frames: 7232 - Time: 149207ms - Avg: 48.470 - Min: 21 - Max: 108 VideoSetUpId=3
2010-11-20 21:28:18 - il2fb
Frames: 7318 - Time: 150774ms - Avg: 48.536 - Min: 21 - Max: 108 + Test of AA AFR_FALLBACK_3 setting
2010-11-20 21:41:06 - il2fb
Frames: 5845 - Time: 148560ms - Avg: 39.344 - Min: 16 - Max: 100 + Test of Threading ON
2010-11-20 21:49:08 - il2fb
Frames: 7287 - Time: 150046ms - Avg: 48.565 - Min: 21 - Max: 108 + Test of Threading OFF - Same result as AUTO

Result: VideoSetUpId=3 shows slight improvement over VideoSetUpId=17 and Threading should stay OFF

Vertical Sync OFF "for helping stutters and Benchmarking. (Vertical Sync ON with Optimization and High Quality Image)" **

2010-11-20 21:56:30 - il2fb
Frames: 7244 - Time: 149225ms - Avg: 48.544 - Min: 21 - Max: 108 ProcessAffinity Mask=2 V sync OFF VideoSetUpId=3
2010-11-20 22:20:26 - il2fb
Frames: 7279 - Time: 150002ms - Avg: 48.526 - Min: 21 - Max: 108 ProcessAffinity Mask=2 V Sync ON VideoSetUpId=4

Result: V Sync ON or V sync OFF appears to show no difference. Ill keep it ON

Turn SLI OFF **

2010-11-20 22:27:21 - il2fb
Frames: 7818 - Time: 151242ms - Avg: 51.692 - Min: 22 - Max: 114 ProcessAffinity Mask=2 V Sync ON VideoSetUpId=4 Force 1 card
2010-11-21 09:28:39 - il2fb
Frames: 669 - Time: 19896ms - Avg: 33.625 - Min: 21 - Max: 52 (TEST:SLI AA MODE ENABLED)

Back to SLI SFR_2 ... Anisotropic Filtering: sets distance visual acuity **

2010-11-21 09:18:05 - il2fb
Frames: 8581 - Time: 150606ms - Avg: 56.976 - Min: 24 - Max: 114 V Sync ON VideoSetUpId=4 AFR SLI 8xAF
2010-11-21 09:30:53 - il2fb
Frames: 8185 - Time: 150319ms - Avg: 54.451 - Min: 24 - Max: 113 V Sync ON VideoSetUpId=4 AFR SLI 16xAF
2010-11-21 09:37:46 - il2fb
Frames: 9453 - Time: 158807ms - Avg: 59.525 - Min: 20 - Max: 114 V Sync ON VideoSetUpId=4 AFR SLI 4xAF

Result: I think I'm happy with the way 4xAF looks and will take the boost

Anti-Aliasing Setting: jaggies **AFR_2 SLI changed to just AFR SLI:

2010-11-21 10:23:10 - il2fb
Frames: 11206 - Time: 152233ms - Avg: 73.611 - Min: 24 - Max: 167 V Sync ON VideoSetUpId=4 AFR SLI 4xAF [4x Multisampling]
2010-11-21 10:28:52 - il2fb
Frames: 10901 - Time: 151543ms - Avg: 71.933 - Min: 23 - Max: 166 V Sync ON VideoSetUpId=4 AFR SLI 4xAF [16x [16xCSAA (4 color + 12 cv samples)
2010-11-21 10:55:33 - il2fb
Frames: 11025 - Time: 152364ms - Avg: 72.360 - Min: 25 - Max: 168 V Sync ON VideoSetUpId=3 AFR SLI 4xAF [16x [16xCSAA (4 color + 12 cv samples)

Result= Choose AFR SLI over AFR_2 SLI

Result: VideoSetUpId=3 edges out over VideoSetUpId=4. Im sticking with 16x, although i have no idea what the breakdown means.


**All early testing used Anti-aliasing Setting: 8xS [Combined: 1x2 SS + 4x MS] and AFR_2 SLI which caused lower framerates

I think I still have some reading to do: My frame rate still drops up to 30 points in game.
EDIT: redko is to blame for this one. Damn you redko! HAHA. 100 planes and 20 ships on Okinawa is a real tester

Ill have to reread to improve further..I wasn't able to change my profile for the il2set.exe. I'm not sure I understand that portion bc of the nhancer differences.



EDIT: ....ABOVE image is my "final" setup settings and below are the end results on Black Death :

"Enhance the Application setting " + 8x AA

2010-11-22 21:05:19 - il2fb
Frames: 11533 - Time: 149920ms - Avg: 76.928 - Min: 24 - Max: 172