I would suggest that you try it and find out. That doesn't mean that you go and buy SteveFX - DX10 Scenery Fixer just yet either! Just try doing as much of the tweaks as you can from the The "How-To" doc to see how it looks on your computer.

If, after doing that, it looks good and your computer performs well, you can then decide whether you think it's worth buy the DX10 Scenery Fixer to make the whole process a bit more simple.

The trouble with all these tweaks is that they are passed around like magic incantations, and not always understood. (And I mean no criticism of anyone in particular.)

I am very happy with Nvidia Inspector, as I said. I am in the experimentation phase.  I particular, I'm looking at antialiasing. For me, A_MODE_SELECTOR_OVERRIDE is best for the MODE. At least that's what I've been using. I don't think I want the app to control settings, but my graphics cards. Next is the setting. The usual one that is floating around doesn't even appear as an option for me. Perhaps it is already old. I am vaguely aware there is Multisampling and Supersampling, but beyond that I couldn't tell you anything.  I am bouncing back and forth between 16X on each. I have never heard of VCAA, Super VCAA, etc.

The Captain Sim cockpits have logs of nice, straight lines, and I've been judging by looking around them and seeing how much I like them. (Outside of the ships, too.) Wow. It really looks great. Anyway, that's where I'm at now and it's good.

As far as DX10, it seems to me that the flipping back and forth, the DX10 colors are more saturated, there is more contrast, and all-in-all regular FSX looks slightly washed out by comparison. (Very slightly, but enough to pique my interest.) Is this about right, or am I imagining things?

A++++ is a good place to find things out, but I thought I would poll this smaller community first, since I use primarily Captain Sim products.

FSX does not seem as bright using DX10. It is taking a bit of getting used to. Add the ShadersHLSL fixes, and the shadows in the VC look awesome. Take a look at Nick Cooper's images of the shadows in the CS 707's VC here: 707 VC shadows in FSX Dx10

btscott wrote on Jan 8^th, 2014 at 3:40pm:

Bruce there's a tutorial flight posted here. PS I haven't tried it so no idea how good it is.
http://www.captainsim.com/products/x757/manuals.html

I've also seen a thread on it somewhere, hopefully I can find it for you.
Here it is. An FMC tutorial that's easy to follow.
http://captainsim.org/yabb2/YaBB.pl?num=1220997876

HTH

Don't forget the manual, either. There's a whole volume on the FMC which is actually pretty good. I think you'll find that once steps "click" it really isn't very hard at all. I can remember trying to figure out the format for the lat / long entry... not knowing I could just copy it to the scratchpad from last position and paste it in! It was the silly little things like that that took awhile.

Bruce,

If you have a question about the FMS, I still have my 757 books and will try to fill in blanks.

Lou

Hey Anders --- I have a GTX580 which seems to handle the DX10 fixer quite well at 8xsgss. I haven't checked the gpu temps since I went to it, but I do turn the gpu fan up to 75% every time I fire up FSX. I have not seen any spikes or weird graphics artifacts which is what usually happens when the gpu is overheated. Also, I have no car traffic, and my UT2 traffic is at 45% and airport traffic at minimum. No other traffic or airplane labels. Autogen is at dense.

Your Haswell build with a Titan or even a base 780 will certainly take care of any graphics concerns.

I would never go back to DX9, even though I had it looking quite decent, like yourself. The DX10 fixer, as you mentioned, provides more crisp clear graphics with better color and smoother game play for sure.

Good luck on the new build!

Bruce