Should temporal AA be on in the card settings and should the aperture size be on 64 or 128mb??Is the shimmering found on trees towers planes buildings terrain just bad fs9 coding?? (directx)Is it the monitor or the video card sucks?Is the hard drive not fast enough yet for fs9?My mip map setting is at 4 in the sim.Any advice of what to try please i'm going crazy with all these sleepless nights trying to figure it out.Thanks guys!

There's really nothing you can do - it's the way the FS engine handles mipmaps and anisotropic filtering. I've found setting the card to 4X/8X comes closest to eliminating it, but until MS revamps the engine, there's gonna be some amount of shimmering present.

Temporal AA makes the thing worse! That can be clearly seen in the preview windows of the "select an airplane" and "create a flight" dialogue boxes. At least on my system and with the catalyst drivers I have installed (can't remember the version)sys specsP4 2.4 Ghz512 DDR SDRWin XP Pro SP2ATI Radeon 9800 128 MB Wolfgang

Joe,Check out the following tweaking guide as well as the tweaks in the hardware forum: http://www.tweakguides.com/ATICAT_1.html. At the end it has some troubleshooting hints you can try. I have temporal AA checked and I have excellent graphics/FPS (it didn't reduce anything). Hope this helps.JimP4 3.6Ghz w/1Gig of DDR2 RAMRadeon X800XT PCIe video card

Im going to try a few things, but can anyone confirm that its not related to anything else like hard drive or monitor resolution. That way i wont go throw money on them.To be more specific the back of taxiway signs flash shimmer and building rooftops all trees and towers.

I'm with tabs up above. FS9 has done this since day one, doesn't matter what drivers or card you have. We all experience it to some degree. I have a 9800 too and see the same thing. Its the sim. Until we get a better engine for rendering things like weather and terrain textures we have to live with it.Hornit

Ok so can i just gather some advice on minimising it at least so i dont think about it during flight. You may already know how that feels!!!My system p4p800dx mobo p4 3.0 ghz 1 gig ram 400 mhz pc3200 80 gig hard drive lots of space left and ati 9800 pro video card and fs9.1 cat driver 4.11 Thanks guys!

See the posts in this thread about limiting visibilty.Greg

Increasing the monitor resoluton has fixed about 90% of it here. Things look much better at 1600x1200.DougP4 3.0C SL6WK @ 3.510 (1.600 VCore - 234 FSB) / Asus P4C800-E Deluxe (BIOS 1019) / 2x512MB Corsair TWINX CXM3700 (3-4-4-8) / 4x120GB WD 7200 IDE)/ Hercules 9800 Pro (128MB @ 410/360) / A-Open 1648/AAP DVD Ripper / Plextor708A DVD Writer/ Enermax 431W PSU / Inwin Case / Intel HSF

Can anyone please show me a video of about a minute or so of a takeoff at the default airport with the default cessna at Seattle i would like to compare. Thank you!