Paul Baumanis Posted September 6, 2008 Share Posted September 6, 2008 Ok, so now I have Vista, I have DX10. I get a little box entitled DX10 preview that I can check. After restarting FSX I am getting graphics a la DX10. What differences should I see? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gurdy Posted September 6, 2008 Share Posted September 6, 2008 white AI LOL Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
John Venema Posted September 6, 2008 Share Posted September 6, 2008 Cockpit shadows and frothy crests on waves when you have choppy seas. That's it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paul Baumanis Posted September 6, 2008 Author Share Posted September 6, 2008 Cockpit shadows and frothy crests on waves when you have choppy seas. That's it. Gee, I'm so glad I upgraded now! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Heiko Glatthorn Posted September 6, 2008 Share Posted September 6, 2008 All above plus jaggies because AA doesn't work. At least not for me... However, the performance with bloom and very high water settings is clearly better in DX10. The picture also seems to be more brilliant and vibrant. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
flyhalf Posted September 6, 2008 Share Posted September 6, 2008 At least they didn't lie when they said "Preview" Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
etien Posted September 6, 2008 Share Posted September 6, 2008 As Mango said, and this is definitly the case on my PC, graphic wise DX9 and DX10 are more or less the same (DX10 adds VC shadows which are nice but also add some nasty runway flickering), the main thing is that DX10 is much much faster than DX9 (20% fps extra). So what you loss by moving from XP to vista u gain back by moving from DX9 to DX10. I would never use DX9 again. Etienne Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Iain Emms Posted September 6, 2008 Share Posted September 6, 2008 Tried it a bit back but could not see a great differance so dont use it now maybe its one for the future. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
etien Posted September 7, 2008 Share Posted September 7, 2008 would advice the latest drivers for DX10, the difference is sensible. (at least on a 8800GTX and better) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
maxter Posted September 7, 2008 Share Posted September 7, 2008 Well I picked up about 3-4 FPS in DX10 mode on my 8800GTX vs non-DX10 mode FWIW Cheers, Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paul Baumanis Posted September 7, 2008 Author Share Posted September 7, 2008 My experience so far has been that upgrading from XP to Vista has been good from an operating system point of view ( Faster start-up, faster loading of programs, BUT there has been a performance hit on FSX). Having done a complete re-install, I am still in the process of tweaking the system to improve pperformance. My view is that I believe the upgrade is necessary in the long run as XP is no longer supported by Microsoft and any iterations of DX will be Vista only, so I have bitten the bullet now. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
captzoo Posted September 9, 2008 Share Posted September 9, 2008 All above plus jaggies because AA doesn't work. At least not for me... However, the performance with bloom and very high water settings is clearly better in DX10. The picture also seems to be more brilliant and vibrant. I'm with Mango. I did notice a performance gain (only slight though) and better picture but I can't understand why ACES locked the AA. In DX10 FSX looks like FS9 on my old box running on-board graphics....yuck!! Unless anyone knows how to get around this so AA can be set to 8X at least then I won't be using DX10 Preview just to get cockpit shadows. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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