Greets, all:See this picture...The anomaly(ies) you're seeing in the pic above is not due to JPG artifacting; that's how it looks in sim.In short, my cloud textures at night are really looking kind of poor lately. Here's my situation: I recently purchased a new Viewsonic VX924 19" LCD monitor to run as my primary display; I then relegated my Dell LCD to secondary display status which I now use to place panels, GPS, etc. on. Ever since I did this, I've noticed my night cloud textures look...well... rather yucky (pixelated, I believe is the term). There's no smooth gradation to the night textures, and I can't figure it out. Even the sky doesn't seem to be smoothly graduated. During the day, however, it all looks fantastic.The only thing that I *also* did was purchase ActiveSky 6 at the same time. I have tried both 512x512 as well as 256x256 textures with the same graphic result.On a related note, I read a post that talked about night in FS on an LCD not being dark enough, and some kind poster mentioned a setting in the FS9.cfg that could be changed. I thought maybe this might help the clouds, but I can't find the post (and to be honest, I'm not sure if I saw the post here at AVSIM or on another FS-related forum).If anyone can identify what the problem might be with my clouds, I'd greatly appreciate it. It wasn't this way before on my less-capable Dell LCD, so I'm wondering if there's a tweak I'm missing. Both monitors are operating off of a Nvidia 6800 (PCI-E), AA (4x) and AF (16x) running from the Nvidia applet and AA disabled in FS9 (as is customary). Any hints would be GREATLY appreciated.Thanks a bunch.

Can't see the picture. Are you sure you're running in 32-bit colour and not 16-bit?Allcott

>Can't see the picture. Are you sure you're running in 32-bit>colour and not 16-bit?>>>AllcottAllcott:Thanks so much for responding. Checked this immediately and I do have 32-bit selected. Thought you might have been right since this could easily have been overlooked.Any other ideas? Might it be a monitor setting or something? I've been racking my brain over it for the last week.Thanks again.

i dont see any problems but are you using bilinear instead of trilinear filtering?also sorry to hear you purchased viewsonic. dell monitors are excellent. viewsonics are below average