Hardware

21: My New Gear – ASUS GTX580 Direct CU II Part 1

| Tom Tsui
ASUS GTX580 Direct CU II

Just purchased the newly released ASUS GTX580 Direct CU II card to replace my current ASUS HD5870 Matrix Platinum card.

I bought the HD5870 for two reasons:
*   allows connecting to 3 displays (I only have one currently, however)
*   GTX480 was reported very hot and noisy.

Although I am getting average 41 FPS in most sceneries with the HD5870, some micro-stutters and under 20 FPS performance within dense areas reamin the barrier for my system to break.   As nVidia card is generally agreed to be better for FSX and reviews of GTX580 show that the new card is now cooler and less noisy (especially the modify Direct CU II version), I decided to wait no more to find out the true side of it myself.

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16: fsx.CFG for Nvidia GTX285

| Tom Tsui

Following is the fsx.CFG I used for my GigaByte Nvidia GTX285.  Nvidia driver used is 8.17.12.5896 with nHancer 64.2.5.9
Average framerate achieve is 39 on my Dell 30-inch.

[JOBSCHEDULER]
AffinityMask=14     // 14 for last 3 cores — No need setting to 15 for 4 cores
[BufferPools]
PoolSize=1000
RejectThreshold=126976    //124Kb = 126976
[GRAPHICS]
ALLOW_SHADER_30=1 // === Important to assist PoolSize ===
HIGHMEMFIX=1 // Fix errors of black squares around lights whilst panning around
STALE_BUFFER_THRESHOLD=1024 // 1024 in KB
[Display]
TEXTURE_BANDWIDTH_MULT=80
UPPER_FRAMERATE_LIMIT=47
WideViewAspect=True
TextureMaxLoad=12 //Use multiples of 3 ONLY but may induce stutters
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