Hi Guys,I'm wondering if anyone else has this nagging problem that I've encoutered with my ATI Radeon 7500/64MB. I searched the forum as best I could but I've never had any luck with the search function here. In spot view, the landing lights/taxi lights project with normal depth and brightness. In cockpit view, both taxi and landing lights are nothing but useless. They do not project correctly and seem to be patchly at certain nosewheel angles (on 3rd party aircraft with taxi lights that rotate with the nosehweel). Straight ahead motion causes very dim or no landing light projection. The best way I can describe the effect is to say that landing lights project about half as deep as the taxi lights used to on my old GF2.This happens on all aircraft, be it default MS, POSKY, Ariane, etc. Interestingly enough, looking out the port/starboard windows in the Ariane model will reveal the correct light splash for the runway turnoff lights. I know this should work as the earlier garbage GeForce 2 the Radeon replaced displayed landing and taxi lights correctly.I've tried the original retail drivers supplied with the video card, the latest CATALYST drivers from ATI and countless setting changes. I've also reformatted/reinstalled Windows XP Home, tried DX9.0, all with the same results. ATI support has been no help. I wrote to them over a month ago with no reply. Aside from this lighting issue the card is an unbelievable improvement of the garbage NVidia GeForce 2 Ultra I was s-t-t-truggling with earlier, and yields 30+ FPS with sliders between 3/4 and full.I appreciate any help/suggestions!Regards,Andrew

I feel your pain. I was wondering the same things you were too. After a little investigation by mysaelf. I founds that there are allot of aircraft that we cannot see landing lights on in the cockpit. But we can see them outside. But just not in the office.I think it has to do with the aircraft itself. Some developers don't put this feature in when they are creating the aircraft. So I guess.Hope I helped out. That is one question that I am still looking for a positive answer. lol Take care...Richard [email protected]

Hi Richard,Thanks for the reply! All the aircraft I'm having trouble are GMAX aircraft that previously had landing/taxi lights visible from cockpit view when I was using the GeForce 2 video card. As soon as I upgraded to the Radeon, while graphics quality and frame rates went through the roof, the landing lights appear very dim and project nowhere near as deep as they did :-(. Yet externally, they illuminate fine! If you pan around the aircraft, certain vertical positions will cause them to dim or flicker, so I wonder if it's a bug in the video drivers or an incompatibility between ATI and DirectX? With all the Radeon's around, I'm surprised I haven't seen any posts on this before :-/.I'll post a couple of screenshots this afternoon to illustrate exactly what I see.Andrew