I don't have a very modern graphic card that allows for manual control of these options but I wonder if you do have control over them can you have anisotropic filtering enabled but bilinear filtering OFF at the same time ??Michael J.

Michael, As far as I know, you can turn on/off the anisotropic filtering via the video card. The bilinear/trilinear filters can be turned off in the FS2002 program under the "Display/hardware" window. I just tried turning off the bi/tri fltering and I can tell you do not want to do this as the video really looks bad. I do however run FS2002 without the anisotropic filtering on my GeForce 4600 and the latest 44.03 drivers and get great video.Terry

Thanks Terry.I consulted some web sites that explain what all these flitering mean. It seems, if I understand it correctly that bi-linear is the most primitive type of filtering, trilinear is better and anisotropic is the most advanced version. So it would seem that if you select anisotropic there is no use for bi- re tri- since they effectively get replaced, also tri- replaces bi-. So having more than one of these options enabled probably makes no sense from the hardware point of view. If you enable say bi- and tri- you are probably getting tri- only. Anyhow I may be wrong but this is how I understand it.Michael J.

Michael, I just tried your suggestion of turning "OFF" the bi/tri filtering in FS2002 and only running the anisotropic filtering via the video card. The textures are much worse. In fact, the ground texures are just a lot of "Squares" with a lots of shimering video. It might be true that anisotropic filtering is a "Higher" level of filtering but in in FS2002, you need either bilat or trilat filtering to "Smooth" out the textures (Squares). Maybe some video cards can do this on their own but my GeForce 4600 does not. I went back to my original setup of "Zero" anisotropic filetering and set the FS2002 selector to tri-lat.Terry

For the best image quality, run Tri-linear filtering within FS2k2 and run your max AF on the video card setup. Also, check all the boxes in the display/settings within the sim.

Running any AF on the video card sucks too much power from the CPU. I only have a P4 2.2GHz and my frame rate drops to the single digits. When running Max AA and tri-linear filtering only, I can get a solid 25 FPS in most airports except ORD, JFK etc.Put some serious weather in and I have seen it go down to 3-5 fps. I would like to see how FS2002 would run on a hyper thread 3 plus GHz machine with a 800 MHz FSB. I bet that still would be pulled down to it's knees.Terry

Running AF & AA is a function of the video card. Max it out. It should have no effect on the CPU speed unless your video card can't handle it and your cpu has to pick up the slack. FS2k2 with a 9700 Pro runs fine on mine with 4xAA & 16xAF in all situations. Clouds are no problem either. I'm running a PIV 2.53 with PC1066 ram. Now, AI set above 50 percent gives it a good hit.