ATI Tray Tools

[Ack-Ack]

I was always under the impression that HTC / Skuzzy recommended installing the Video Driver only for your Video Card, and using Aces High's built in Graphics & Advanced Graphics Settings abilitys, instead of using CCC or Tray Tools

You're correct.  If the game has the advanced settings to allow for anti-aliasing, use the in game settings as opposed to forcing the settings through ATI Tray Tools or CCC.  Otherwise, you're forcing your system to use more resources and could experience a loss of FPS as a result unless you have a really beefy system that can take the additional resource hits.

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[TequilaChaser]

for those of you with lets say a newer ATI card in the 48XX, 57XX, 58XX, 67XX, 68XX or newer range, that may have been having flickering while flying looking forward
or terrain flickering, or glitches while using the ATI 11.4  or ATI 11.5 drivers........

 I am happy to report all that seems to have been fixed with this new ATI 11.6 Cat/display driver version........ to me is a difference like from Rain to Sunshine with what I was getting out of those 11.5 drivers.......


hope this helps

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TC

[Tigger29]

I just updated to 11.6 yesterday.  I haven't played AH yet.  I was at 10.11 before so I'm glad to have bypassed that entire flickering issue altogether!

I will say this.  On Microsoft FSX I had lost my bridges when I switched from Nvidia to ATI about a year ago.  All the other graphics looked nice but the bridges had disappeared.  Well they were there as I could crash into them, but they were invisible.  No graphics setting in the world would restore them.

As a quick test after upgrading to 11.6 I loaded FSX and am happy to report that THE BRIDGES ARE BACK!  Must have been a bug with the 10.XX driver versions!  I also noticed some DirectX 10/11 features are now working such as ocean waves and some neat cloud effects I didn't have before.  Also the performance is a lot smoother and less jittery.  It looks like they did something right with this!

Hopefully I'll be online tonight to try out AH.  I'm currently modding my G940 and waiting for a part before I'll be ready to fly.

[Ack-Ack]

Hopefully I'll be online tonight to try out AH.  I'm currently modding my G940 and waiting for a part before I'll be ready to fly.

how are you modding your G940?

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[Tigger29]

how are you modding your G940?

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I bought a controller board and rewired the throttle and rudder axes to run through it instead of through the Logitech's circuitry.  I have the wiring all done, just waiting for the controller board to get here.

The controller board I chose was the Leo Bodnar's BU0836.  There is a more precise BU0836A available as well, but couldn't justify its extra cost especially without knowing the precision of Logitech's pots.  I'd imagine you could find a used broken joystick and use its circuitry instead but the controller board makes things a lot easier.

Anyway I have a write-up ready to go, I'm just waiting for the part to come in so I can make sure everything works properly before posting it.  I've already tested things with a multimeter and so far, so good!  Here's a teaser pic: