Just installed FS9 again to try some of my old favorites. However I'm having troubles reading the gauges on this old thingAnyone know what the problem might be? Texture res slider is at ultra high

Have you remembered to also put the Virtual Cockpit Gauge Quality slider to the high setting? (in the aircraft bit of the settings menu in Fs9).Al

yep its maxed

Graphics cards settings overriding things?Al

Graphics cards settings overriding things?Al

that may just be the way the guages look. Some of the older VCs had some pretty mussy looking panels...

The other things I thought of was an option in the configurator. Problem is it won't work with Vista x64Anyway to manually change the VC resolution in the panel.cfg?

Yup, you can mess about with the config file and even mess about with the bitmaps that are on the gauges, upping their resolution in a paint program (was doing that last night on the Aerosim Triple Seven, by pasting a screengrab of the ISG CDU gauge into the artwork for the VC), but it's often a trial and error process. I opened a real can of worms doing it on the 777 VC, and ended up having to repaint things quite considerably to get all the shadowing and reflections correct. You also have to do it twice too, since there are the night textures to cope with as well.Al

Just installed FS9 again to try some of my old favorites. However I'm having troubles reading the gauges on this old thingAnyone know what the problem might be? Texture res slider is at ultra high

In the panel.cfg file you'll find sections for the VC called, 'VCockpit01', 'VCockpit02'. Find the entry 'pixel_size=' for each section. Look at other aircraft's VC sections for reference and increase the size to something like 1024,1024 for example. Like I said check around with your other aircraft to make sure your size entries make since to FS. Changing this setting will clean up the problem your having...

Yep the 1024 entries cured the problem, much appreciated. Now if I could get the Baron, Bonanza to work in FS9 with Vista x64 I might play it more

In the panel.cfg file you'll find sections for the VC called, 'VCockpit01', 'VCockpit02'. Find the entry 'pixel_size=' for each section. Look at other aircraft's VC sections for reference and increase the size to something like 1024,1024 for example. Like I said check around with your other aircraft to make sure your size entries make since to FS. Changing this setting will clean up the problem your having...

Does this imply the actual image is at a greater resolution then is actually displayed by default, and by changing that setting you're displaying the true potential of the image? Or is it actually a 512 res image (for example) and you're making the computer think its a 1024...How is this tweak on fps?

It's at a set resolution and you can downsample it to lower resolutions to speed things up via that config setting. It wouldn't work the other way around, since the detail would have to be there in the first place if you were to take it up in resolution, and if it was not there to start off with, you'd simply be making four pixels display what had originally been displayed by one, or to put it another way, you can't make a silk purse out of a sow's ear.Theoretically at least you can have a bash at that in something like Photoshop though; if you open up the gauge bitmap image, increase the resolution of it, and choose 'bicubic sharper' as the interpolation method. In that case, PS will have a crack at pulling some detail back and attempt to maintain sharp lines and edges, but it's a case of more luck than judgement when trying that, so usually involves getting the paintbrushes out to clean things up manually.Al

Does this imply the actual image is at a greater resolution then is actually displayed by default, and by changing that setting you're displaying the true potential of the image? Or is it actually a 512 res image (for example) and you're making the computer think its a 1024...How is this tweak on fps?

Generally, gauges are displayed at quite a bit less than their full native resolution. This is true whether on a 2d panel or a vc panel polygon.