I just installed Radeon 9500 Pro.Can anyone please tell me what the best custom settings would be? P4 2.4 512 Ram.Thanks,Ron

I'd be interested too, as I just ordered one. Athlon 1.2 with 512 Ram.Thanks.

I used it last night and it really made a difference over what I had.I think it was a Radeon 7100 64 mb.But when I go into advanced display there are no options for setting AA or antistroping(?).I am thinking the guy that installed it used the express install and didn't include it.I have a call into him now.But the performance and scenery is way better than before.Hope someone will enlighten us on the best settings.Ron

You should be looking under Direct3D tab to find AA/AF options. If there's no D3D tab, you probably don't have the ATI Control Panel installed. Go to the ATI website and first install the newest cat 3.2 drivers, then reboot, then install the control panel, then reboot again and you should have all the tabs. If your CPU can handle it, I'd recommend custom settings and basically everything maxed out toward the quality side. Set 4xAA (9500 Pro will do 6x but FS won't, so you'll get none at all--I found this out the hard way!!) and 16xAF to "always on" (NOT application-specific), then make sure you turn off AA and filtering in FS2002.I'd recommend also downloading the Rage3D tweak program from rage3d.net (if memory serves). It will give you a bunch more options, some of which are extremely helpful. You can, for instance, do game-specific settings, so whenever you boot FS2002, you can apply an overclock, or certain resolution/refresh rate settings. There's a great walkthrough at www.sharkyextreme.com that explains all the settings; take the time to go through the various Rage3D options, because they're pretty useful.As for settings, it largely depends what kind of system you've got. I run a P4 2.4 GHz with 512 MB RAM, and that allows me to max out pretty much all my settings (except max visibility, which I set around 100 miles, and mesh complexity, which I roll back to around 80 or so), with 100% AI, FPS locked at 25, and usually get pretty close to that except when I'm on the ground at a major airport with lots of traffic. Then it goes down to 12-18, which is still very respectable and smooth enough to do what's needed.You can also mess around with different resolutions. I tried a bunch and found I like 1152x864 best. 1280x960 is also good. Both of these keep the 4:3 aspect ratio, so things look "normal" whereas if you put in a weird setting that's not a 4:3 ratio, planes can look too long and thin, etc..Hope this helps! You should be very happy with the 9500 Pro. I just got mine last week and it took a day or two to get the bugs out, but ever since then FS has been a brand-new experience.Regards,Marc Sykes

Thanks MarcThat's exactly what I was looking for.Dave

Thanks for the info.Do you have "water details" set high also?Ron