Nvidia cards and removing the jaggies
Posted: 18 Jan 2012, 06:57
OK simply put with the nHancer software, no longer updated, you could mod your individual applications to achieve certain benefits when using nvidia cards.
You had to use nHancer because nvidia in their infinite wisdom had FS9 as using the AA mode of enhanced, AA being Anti-Aliasing. This meaning that it enhanced the in game AA. Trouble was the FS9 in game AA didn't work. So what you had to do was switch off AA in FS9 and create a new nHancer profile that removed the Enhanced and positively added AA.
End of problem? Well it was until nHancer stopped being updated and nvidia altered their drivers on version 25x.xx plus. So FS9 users were stuck using version 249.
Now though there is a new proggie called Nvidia Inspector, which you can now do the same thing to so you can use the latest drivers.
Now to get the latest version of the Inspector, read about how it looks and the sort of thing you can do then have a look at this post. http://www.simforums.com/forums/nhancer ... 36586.html
Now what I have done is create 3 profiles that you can import into the Inspector. You can do this from the tool bar on the profile settings page.
Once you have loaded them you then apply the changes. You can check by then looking at the 'MS Flight Simulator 2004' profile and if it shows under Antialiasing that the Behaviour flag is set to Disable the 'Enhance the application setting' and the setting is 4xS then it has loaded correctly. AF, Anisotropic Filtering is also set on. I have deliberately not set it to the highest AA and AF settings as higher settings take processing power. This will transform the game w/o a side effect. Once you know these work you can mess around with them as you like.
Now when you load FS9 that little model in the selection window will be aliased as will the game once you load it and you can have the latest nvidia drivers. Don't forget you must switch off AA in FS9.
I also include profiles for FSRepaint and ACM so these are jaggie free as well.
Please note that I have found that when you update drivers quite often the profiles will get lost so you may need to re-add them.
You had to use nHancer because nvidia in their infinite wisdom had FS9 as using the AA mode of enhanced, AA being Anti-Aliasing. This meaning that it enhanced the in game AA. Trouble was the FS9 in game AA didn't work. So what you had to do was switch off AA in FS9 and create a new nHancer profile that removed the Enhanced and positively added AA.
End of problem? Well it was until nHancer stopped being updated and nvidia altered their drivers on version 25x.xx plus. So FS9 users were stuck using version 249.
Now though there is a new proggie called Nvidia Inspector, which you can now do the same thing to so you can use the latest drivers.
Now to get the latest version of the Inspector, read about how it looks and the sort of thing you can do then have a look at this post. http://www.simforums.com/forums/nhancer ... 36586.html
Now what I have done is create 3 profiles that you can import into the Inspector. You can do this from the tool bar on the profile settings page.
Once you have loaded them you then apply the changes. You can check by then looking at the 'MS Flight Simulator 2004' profile and if it shows under Antialiasing that the Behaviour flag is set to Disable the 'Enhance the application setting' and the setting is 4xS then it has loaded correctly. AF, Anisotropic Filtering is also set on. I have deliberately not set it to the highest AA and AF settings as higher settings take processing power. This will transform the game w/o a side effect. Once you know these work you can mess around with them as you like.
Now when you load FS9 that little model in the selection window will be aliased as will the game once you load it and you can have the latest nvidia drivers. Don't forget you must switch off AA in FS9.
I also include profiles for FSRepaint and ACM so these are jaggie free as well.
Please note that I have found that when you update drivers quite often the profiles will get lost so you may need to re-add them.
