Hello, I finally got my new card (see below) up and running and I am pretty satisfied - 3dmark05: 9409 and pretty good fps in FSX. I do have one issues that I didn't have with my old 6800GT. I am getting a lot of shimmering textures particularly with ground textures in the near distance. I have tried a bunch of settings but I can seem to clear it up. Does anybody have some suggestions? I started out with the 7.1 cats and I have reverted back to the 6.12 cats but the issues is still there. With the 7.1's, I was also using ati tray tools and I couldn't fix it with that either.I went through the Catalyst Control Center tutorial linked in this forum but I can't resolve the issue.

This is a long shot but I would try moving the AF slider in your video card display settings and see if that makes a difference. Sometimes an AF setting of 16 is too much (which most people move their sliders too thinking it gives them the best graphics). I have mine set at 8 and have never seen shimmering. I assume you have the MipMap set to High Quality too. Make your adjustments while FSX is running and with shimmering in sight then alt-tab to the desktop, open Catalyst and make the necessary adjustments. Go back to FSX occasionally to see if the shimmering has stopped.Best regards,Jim

What settings are you using inside FSX for AA and AF/trilinear...?With my last card, I made all of the settings inside FSX because I could not get AA to work if I turned it off in the sim and activated it on the card.

Enable the settings in FSX....Make sure the hardware settings are set to "application controlled" or whatever the ATi equivalent is...

Are you sure, that you removed any ati files on your system, before installing a new one? I've run ati cards for as long as i can remember, and one prob i've found out is, any prev. files has to get out (that calls for the register too)(ccleaner, regcleaner, reghmech - all free).My advice, dont set the AA and AF in the game. The game is eating enough. Let the card do that, and set them equal 4-4 or 8-8.