Game Ready Driver

1st Official Post

    So sometime back in the threads I mentioned that my video card was the Nvidia GTX 1660 SUPER, with 6 gigs of GDDR6 VRAM, and struggled with FS4 with anything above "LOW" quality settings. That said, this week I installed the Nvidia game ready driver 531.68 WQL (didn't install the G Force Experience option), I am now able to run in "MEDIUM" quality settings all around, except LAX and some (very few) major airports experience slight glitching. Other than that its great and my enjoyment of the SIM has increased with a simple driver download. With FS2 I can run in "HIGH" settings and is spectacular to say the least.

    Just sharing my observations. :thumbup:

    I can tell you they wern't set that way at all since I installed FS4. I was just using everything as default as per our graphic conversation a while back in this FS4 forum. I remember you telling me to keep everything default, of which I have been doing, and its always worked fine no issues. Or was that tip for FS2...hmm...memory escapes me on that note. I think I have been running off my CPU instead of the card. I never went into the Nvidia panel to play with any of the settings. Only now im starting to familiarize myself with graphic setting stuff. One more question........

    Should I set the PhysX to my card or leave it auto...? It says "Auto" (recommended) :/

    Edited once, last by douglas55 (May 4, 2023 at 8:22 PM).

    I have recently installed the same GPU on my system with very good results for AFS4. I can use all Ultra settings and I get 60 FPS. I can suggest a couple of things to try. Firstly install NVDIA experience. Under the General Tab it will tell you whether your GPU is recognised along with all your other system attributes such as RAM. If it's not shown you could try and enter the BIOS on boot-up and re-save the settings. This action can force the system to recognise the new hardware. Also within the General Tab is a section marked "IMAGE SCALING". I found I got an FPS improvement when switched this "Off" and reduced sharpening to 0. (In effect allowing the application/NVIDIA Control Panel to manage this). I have also made some changes to the application settings managed by NVIDIA Control panel. I enclose some images:


    So you mean the Nvidia G-force Experience..?

    I'm only asking these graphic questions now (after the fact, months later), because Ive been running @ "Medium" settings with no issues with FS4. I'm wanting more out of the graphical possibilities that this video card can produce and want more out of the scenery as in sharper relisim so to speak. That said, I'm completely computer savvy, but never messed with video cards or their perspective settings in fear of really messing things up. I was never a gamer so I felt it wasn't necessary for me to play with graphic cards, so I never did up till now. Having SIMs seems to require the odd tweak here and there to experience the SIMs full affect.

    So as per your advice, if I do what you mentioned I should be able to at least bump my qualty settings to "High" or "Ultra". Take in mind though I'm running in 4k not 1920 x 1080. I'm hitting 50 fps if I cntrl + F1 to verify.

    NOTE: Would I have to change anything graphically in the Win10 display settings to match...?

    Yes-G-Force Experience.

    The only other standard advice I see for running flight sims concerns Windows 10 Gaming settings. The advice is to switch Xbox Game Bar off and also Game Mode to Off.

    I didn't realise you were running 4K and the GPU card is probably not as well optimised for this resolution. You could try a lower screen resolution to start with using high or ultra to see if you can get to +50FPS. Once there you could increase the res and see if this still gives you acceptable FPS levels. I am pleasantly surprised by what I have been able to wring from this GPU. It also supports VR very well.

    i'll give G-Force a try. I should have installed it after all it seems. I did however try 1920 x 1080 once and it got ugly real fast lol. 3840 x 2160 seemed to work for the longest time thus far. But, im always open to new things and ways of improving the SIM experience. I'll try that after work tonight or on the weekend and report my results back here.

    Thank you for this, and look forward to more suggestions as things come about.

    Agreed, very possible. Words to the wise indeed. Because as I read here, I think you said, that the SIM is fully optimized out of the box so to speak to be ready to use with any video card without the need to play with the control panel settings, If I recall properly :/ Then again, if any performace tweaks are advised so that I can run it smoothly as I do now in Higher quality settings Im open to it as mentioned above. At the same token if it aint broke why break it right ;)

    Well I'm eating my own words this morning "if it ain't broke don't break it". It broke out of the blue all by itself. As mentioned above I didn't do anything at all since last posting (thank god I didn't). I was only running on the 531.86 Game Ready Driver. I was flying over LA in the UH-60 and all of a sudden the screen froze, I got this buzzing sound and my computer shut down (literally shut right off). It reset everything, I can't even get FS2 or FS4 up in the Nvidia control panel listing in the drop down menu. I had to reset my audio, roll back the driver to 457.85 and did a test run with FS4 and all is back to normal. There was a problem that was discovered by Lenovo with this PC model called out by owners on the Lenovo forum and it was determined by Lenovo that they had to release a BIOS patch to permanently disable the "Nvidia USB 3.10 extensible Host controller - 1.10 Microsoft" in the device manager. As I understood it when I found out, owners couldn't update their graphic drivers without their PC's crashing and having audio issues. But some owners were having no issues after the patch as they updated their drivers. I wasn't so lucky as I just found out. I will say I will never buy another Lenovo PC again and I have always been an IBM (Lenovo), Lenovo fan for years. Next time I buy a PC its a Mac. Not happy. No more tweaking and messing around with graphic stuff. No wonder I didn't all those years up till now. Grrrrr