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Reply #15 - Apr 8^th, 2004 at 4:58pm

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Sorry for the double post:

Notice the nice water shading with the sky and sunlight reflecting off the water.

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Reply #16 - Apr 9^th, 2004 at 10:56am

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I cant tell the difference, this is with my DirectX 8 compatible GeForce4 TI4200. My aircraft reflections are good too, as you can see from this black EF2000

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Reply #17 - Apr 9^th, 2004 at 12:04pm

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That is a close up shot, also those clouds are maxed out in the background, in fact all settings maxed out (inc 4xAA and 16xAF). I was getting 30fps locked in that shot.

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Reply #18 - Apr 10^th, 2004 at 7:55pm

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This is everything maxed out on the TI4200, remember, it's a DX8 card, so why are there reflections and wave textures (non standard textures), or do they render differently on DX9 cards?

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Reply #19 - Apr 11^th, 2004 at 6:02pm

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I am wondering whether M$ put any DX9 features in this sim. Can you put the water setting to high and it stay high, because on mine i can. If you can't on yours then i wonder what the benefit of the high setting is.

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Reply #20 - Apr 16^th, 2004 at 8:06am

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yes the setting will stay on high, but the detail slider above it, (which shows up the little speckles), goes back to terrain only, which isn't really an issue at all unless it's a very close up shot of the water.

Believe me, I was very surprised to see the supposed DX9 effects on my card.

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Reply #21 - Apr 16^th, 2004 at 4:34pm

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I found out why FS9 is DX9, the graphics are DX8.1 and some of the sound is DX9. That is why FS9 uses DX9. It uses P.S1.4 not P.S2 (which you need a DX9 accelerated card for)

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Reply #22 - Apr 17^th, 2004 at 3:03am

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You mean a DX9 soundcard?

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Reply #23 - Apr 17^th, 2004 at 3:13pm

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I thinks DX9 drivers for the soundcard would do, but i don't know a lot about the differences between DX8.1 sound DX9.0 sound, but FS9 is definetly DX8.1 graphics and some parts of the sound are DX9.0.

I have not noticed any cards boosting about which DX they are accelerated for, this leads me to believe it is driver related.

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