Finally decided to update my drivers from year-old Dell with ATI9800 card with original drivers (Ver.6.14.10.6414). However, everything I try (Latest Catalyst and DNA drivers) are MUCH worse than old drivers - in particular, ground textures a few miles ahead are very blurry. I know these new drivers should be better, but they are not. I use Driver Cleaner 3 to remove old driver files and haven't tried the Omega drivers.Can anyone suggest what (simple) step I am missing?

First check your FS9.cfg. If you failed to remove the previous driver call from the .cfg you could have a conflict between old and new. The safest thing to do is remove your old FS9.cfg to a safe place and then make a flight in the sim. You'll have to reconfigure the sim as soon as entering it, but it will see your new drivers and make the correct call for them. After the sim has rebuilt the new FS9.cfg copy and paste any sections you had added to the original .cfg.Being a Dell I'll assume your OS is XP. Did you use DriverCleaner in Safe Mode? Also, have you checked DirectX since you installed the new drivers? Start>Run> type "dxdiag"> click on the "Display" tab and make sure that the 3 items under "DirectX Features" are all enabled.If all is well, then the problem may very well be something proprietary in the Dell install. Here is the most thorough way to clean your system of video driver junk: http://www.driverheaven.net/showthread.php?threadid=8053 A bit time consuming, but it gets the job done. Use this guide as a last resort.Also, here is a quick read on a recent driver comparison: http://www.driverheaven.net/articles/driverarticle/index.htmFinally, you may very well need to reinstall DirectX (go for 9.0b) as well as your motherboard drivers after you gain a successful video driver install.Good luck,Greg

Thank you very much for the extensive reply. No, as I said this is the first time I have tried driver upgrading, so I did not remove FS9.cfg. I figured there was something I was neglecting to do, as the new drivers really looked bad. I will follow your suggestions soon and see how they work.

Whoa! DON'T delete the whole fs9.cfgThe only lines you need to delete are the ones for the graphic card that start (Display.device...) - but with square brackets.If you delete the whole FS9.cfg you lose any other settings you may have got in the sim, including key assignmentsAllcott

Yeah, thanks