Nvidia Windows

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Introduction

The goal of this article is to document which settings in the NVIDIA Control Panel seem to work best for osm2city with Atmosperic Light Scattering (ALS) on Windows.

The configuration has been tested on:

• Windows 10 Home 64bit
• NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 6GB
• Driver version 385.69 (note that it is highly recommended to use NVIDIA drivers and to use recent versions)
• FlightGear 2017.3.1

The configuration and configuration choices might differ for different NVIDIA cards etc.

Accessing the NVIDIA Control Panel

The settings discussed in this article relate to Tab "Program Settings" in "Manage 3D Settings" in the NVIDIA Control Panel. The NVIDIA control Panel can be started by right-clicking on the Windows Desktop.

It requires to select or add a program to customize. You have to point to "bin\fgfs.exe".

NVIDIA Control Panel on Windows 10 showing program specific 3D settings

Tested Settings

Feature	Setting	Remarks
Anisotropic filtering	Off
Antialiasing - FXAA	Off
Antialiasing - Gamma correction	Off
Antialiasing - Mode	Application-controlled
Antialiasing - Setting	Application-controlled
Antialiasing - Transparency	Off
CUDO - GPUs	Use global setting (All)
Maximum pre-rendered frames	Use the 3D application setting
Multi-Frame Sampled AA (MFAA)	Off
OpenGL rendering GPU	GeForce GTX 1060 6GB
Power management mode	Prefer maximum performance
Shader Cache	On
Texture filtering - Anisotropic sample optimization	Off
Texture filtering - Negative LOD bias	Clamp
Texture filtering - Quality	Quality
Texture filtering - Trilinear optimization	On
Threaded optimization	Auto
Triple buffering	Off
Vertical sync	Use the 3D application setting
Veritual Reality pre-rendered frames	1

Antialias Settings in FlightGear

You might want to use the following properties to get antialias in FlightGear:

--prop:/sim/rendering/multi-sample-buffers=true

--prop:/sim/rendering/multi-samples=4