I actually found that the daytime flying is also more realistic with these settings – the lighting of the scene appears more natural and less like you are looking at a computer screen. To remedy this I increased the contrast to 60 which had the effect of brightening the display sufficiently for daytime flying yet keeping the purple hue to a barerly discernable level and making night time flying far more realistic with nice dark skies. However this meant that the display was now too dark during daytime flying. To reduce the purple hue I lowered the brightness setting to zero. night time) and are viewed from an angle – which they always are as they are both positioned to the left and right of the central monitor. What’s more is that the monitors have a noticeable purple hue when they are displaying black(i.e. This was actually causing a problem with night flying as the view was simply not dark enough and was not at all realistic – which is itself a common complaint in general about the appearance of night time in FSX. The LED monitors are much brighter than the LCD at the same settings. This was quite tricky to achieve and have not quite managed to get a 100% match but it is close and only noticeable if you look hard for differences.Ĭolour matching aside the biggest difference in the two types of monitor is the brightness. I have had to carefully adjust the RGB values of each monitor to give a consistent view of colours given that the array of monitors is made up of two different models/types. The main external view is comprised of 3 monitors: 2 BenQ GL2450 LED monitors flanking a BenQ G2420HDB LCD. Recently I have been tweaking my monitor settings with the goal of producing a more realistic view from the cockpit.
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Other settings I set in NVInspector to help with smoothness are Vsync set to 1/2 refresh rate, Triple Buffering On and Pre-rendered frames to 3. The cost of this is a small drop in quality as less effective antialiasing processing takes place resulting in slightly more jagged edges on objects with straight lines.īeing able to fly smoothly in all weather conditions is critical for the immersion factor and this antialiasing setting has helped enormously. This setting provides superior frame rates (and therefore smoother flight) which is particularly evident in cloudy skies. The advantage of this setting over the most frequently recommended setting is performance but there is a trade off with quality. The main setting I am referring to here is Antialiasing which I set to the following: However, after much testing I have found my preference for settings to be slightly different from these.
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There are many guides that describe good profiles for FSX and most pretty much follow the same settings. Using the NVInspector utilty to set profiles for nVidia cards gives much more control over the rendering of graphics in the sim.