A long time ago I had a problem of seeing scenery drawn over white squares when looking out of the cockpit window. I managed to somehow get rid of this occurance but after a recent driver update the problem is back.I'm sure it is not the drivers because I have tried all the latest 5.8 drivers (and equivalents) incase this was the problem. I have not tampered with any bios settings so these should be the same as before. Some setting however has been altered and I am at wits end trying to figure out what it is and what I did last time to get rid of the problem.My computer is intel P4 Hyperthreading 3.2Ghz. 1G memory running in dual mode. The Card is a Sapphire 9800 pro 256mb on board. This should really be more than adequate to run FS2004. Frame rates are high if I set the slider fully right so I have enough graphics power thats fair to sat but the white/grey squares keep showing up as if the program is loading the scenery as and when I look at it.An example is . . .if I open another application such as the FSNAV screen then close it again, it is like fs has forgotten what scenery is around the aircraft and has to draw it all again , filling in white/grey squares in doing so.Anyone else had this problem. Does anyone have any ideas what has changed or how to fix it, thanks

If I lock the fps at 16 (or less if required) I dont get many blanket squares making an mess.Unlimited will put the most in the way of a clean view when changing line-of-sights.Also I use the CCC to adjust the Catalyst A.I to highallen

The 128MB ATI 9800 Pro card runs best on the 4.12 drivers. Anything beyond that is useless. Many believe the 5.xx series is geared toward the newer ATI express cards. Many report higher temps with the 9800 card and the 5.xx dirvers as compared to the 4.12's. Higher temps can cause lockups and what not. Go to the Rage 3D forums for more info. I am sticking with the 4.12's after a disappointing try out with the 5.7's. That is until I get rid of ATI forever for NVIDIA's 7800.

:-hmmm No problems here with the Omegas based on the 5.7 Cats.MikeP4 2.4GHz (400FSB), 1Gig PC2100 DDR Crucial, ATI Radeon 9800 Pro 128MB (Omega 2.6.53 / Catalyst 5.7), SB Audigy (5.12.0001.0443), Hyundai ImageQuest Q17 17" TFT LCD 20ms Monitor (1280x1024x32), Gigabyte GA-8IRXP MoBo, Hitachi Deskstar 7K250 (160GB) + IBM Deskstar 120GXP UDMA100 (40 GB), Ultra-Quiet PSU 400W, Logitech MX1000 Laser Mouse, WinXP Home (SP2), DirectX 9.0c, AGP Aperture = 128MB

Try to defrag your FS9 volume, get Flight Sim Manager to check for duplicate tiles and/or textures and check out the Omega drivers. That should do it.