nVidia settings for HDR?

[sichars1968]

I am wondering if anyone can help regarding setting up a nVidia graphics card for HDR effects?

Without HDR I set the nVidia control panel to application controlled and set in the sim as is recommended and this is fine with good framerate. I do also have nVidia Inspector which obviously has a lot more settings than the nVidia control panel, included in it are settings for FXAA. Do I still leave the card as application controlled and just set HDR FXAA in the sim?

When I do this the framerate drops by quite a lot, which from other users is to be expected to a degree, but I feel it also looks really poor. The anti-aliasing is almost non-existent and to me I feel the effect of the light coming from the light source and displaying a ring of light on the surface below is very unrealistic. When flying at night in the vicinity of towns and cities there is a halo of light over the whole area and you can see the individual lights, but all the lights add to this halo effect over whole town/city, and you don't see indivdual light spots on the ground. Another thing which looks wrong to me is the light facades on one side of all the buildings at night, they just don't show up like this in the real world.

I hope somebody can help confirm I am setting things up correctly, and if not help me to see X-Plane in HDR better. I'll be interested to hear other peoples opinions on the night lighting.

Regards

Simon

Edited February 5, 2012 by sichars1968

[sichars1968]

I have been looking at some of the new scenery offerings(especially NZCH by Chris - excellent work), and posted screen shots and maybe I was being a little unfair regarding the HDR lighting. The floodlighting at the airports looks very good, still think the roads look a little strange with the pitch black sections between the lights.

Maybe this is because I am not setting things up right for HDR which is why I was hoping somebody could confirm for me the correct way to do so?

Any help/suggestions would be very welcome.

Thanks

Simon