GE ProII gives you a great set of night ground textures as well. And the ability to shade the ground more to suit the sky conditions, for example. If you are flying in cloudy conditions you can load a duller set of textures. And if flying in clear sky's a brighter set of textures.

Thanks a lot for your opinion, Al! Much appreciated.The idea of using different weather sets, although theoretically exciting, does not convince me. I often fly relatively long distances and weather tends to be different at the departing and the destination airports. So loading dark bad weather textures in the beginning would mean I will land using them even if my destination is bathing in the sun, right? That has always stopped me from going into GePro. So I would rather use one standard set of textures and here is where my real question always comes:does GE Pro II offer visibly better visual experience than Standard and does it (I read about it) reduce blurries by itself?As for the night textures, I'm using the UTE ones, including 3D lights (which are turned off during day flights to intensify autogen - another problem appears when I takeoff and land in between the day and night - another compromise to choose, lol).And, like you mentioned, from my own experience I agree ground blurries can NOT be cured in 100% when it comes to MSFS. If someone says he or she did get rid of them, I would love to see a screenshot of a blureless aerial view from a flight.That would convince me I am wrong and motivate to do even more tweaks than I've done so far.I use nHancer of course and I follow famous advice (including Nikck's), but I didn't think having mipmaps over 4 or 5 would make sense.Surely modern airport addons do not shimmer like older ones, but I rather mean the ground texture shimmering. With mipmaps at 8 I can't look at it.I wonder what I am missing here. :(

I hear you on the shimmer and used to use 4 as well but I thought it was something to do with having "mips" in the textures. Mind you I have no idea how any of that works.For example I know many add-on's came out with "mip fix" patches to get rid of the shimmers, like the old EDDF 2005, it shimmered like crazy as did FT LOWW way back when. Both came with fixes and do not shimmer now. http://www.flytampa.org/forum/viewtopic.php?t=1500I have mine set to 8 and I think it looks great.As for GE Pro2 I use one set and forget it. I stopped using UT night lights due to the autogen issues at dusk/dawn, they are awesome though!

Hello all,I thought I'd pitch in with another snippet.The background (a sad confession): I took up FS9 as a substitute for Flight Unlimited when I broke my Nvidia card and replaced it with a Radeon 3650. Yeah, yeah... I know. It's an ancient mobo (doesn't do better than AGP!). FU3 wouldn't work with the Radeon (FPS=5) so I got FS9 and astonishingly I got 40 FPS with sliders at max.That was about a year ago. In January I updated the driver and found that FU3 worked fine again (though not as well as it did with the Nvidia). 3 weeks ago I updated the Radeon driver again, thinking I should keep up-to-date as it's bound to be better. FU3 worked fine but... FS9 suddenly was really shimmery and sparkly. The only way I could stop the shimmer was to muck about with mipmapping, anti-aliasing, FS9.cfg etc. etc. It was horrible, really horrible and I think I even squeezed out a tear.I've since returned to the January version of the driver and all is well again. FU3 and FS9 beautiful, no shimmer, no blurries and no tears.So, don't think you have to have the latest driver and then mess around with settings. You could have my problem. Try a selection of driver versions from your manufacturer's archive and see which works well with your sim. The newest driver may not be the 'best'.Regards,Dave

would anyone happen to know where I could find MAX_UNLIMITED_VIS= in the FS9 Configurator?

would anyone happen to know where I could find MAX_UNLIMITED_VIS= in the FS9 Configurator?

If you're thinking of fs9.cfgOpen it in Notepad and do a text search, Ctrl+F. Type MAX_UNLIMITED_VIS in the dialogue box & it will find it for you.Regards,D

added this to the fs9.cfg as it was not in it. >MipBias=8Can someone please explain exactly what this setting does?

What a bozo! You can't help some people, can you?DO NOT add anything to the fs9.cfg file unless you are absolutely sure about what you are adding. The trouble it could cause you could become something you'll never recover from.

added this to the fs9.cfg as it was not in it. >MipBias=8Can someone please explain exactly what this setting does?

What a bozo! You can't help some people, can you?DO NOT add anything to the fs9.cfg file unless you are absolutely sure about what you are adding. The trouble it could cause you could become something you'll never recover from.

With the ">" in that line, it will not change or modify anything. However, if you add "MipBias=8" like in the post from WingZ, you are doing exactly the same as setting the Mipmaps slider to 8 in FS9.@ppgstf : I don't think you can really damage anything by adding lines to the FS9.cfg file - it is just a configurations settings file so in the worst case scenario, when you type something in there it really doesn't like, you'll just have FS9 crashing on load each time and then you'll have to delete FS9.cfg so that a new one with default settings in generated... Many of the tweaks we now use as standard were probably found by playing about with FS9.cfg settings without really being sure what would happen...Geoff

Thanks for all the advice guys. I had made a copy of the fs9.cfg file, as I always do, before adding the line.I deleted the line as I saw no difference, and the mip map was staying at 4.I was simply trying an experiment to see if the line would, possibly enhance fs for me.I always backup any files I change, or add to before making an edit.Really no need to call me a bozo, but if it made ya feel superior, so be it.I had used > to point to the line I had added. I should have used quotation marks instead.In any case adding the line did not change the mip mapping quality setting in my fs.Have a good day.

That is the best way drycos1, trial and error to see what works for you as it differs I'm sure from PC to PC.BTW. who called you a bozo? :( To heck with them.... :(

That is the best way drycos1, trial and error to see what works for you as it differs I'm sure from PC to PC.BTW. who called you a bozo? :( To heck with them.... :(

Hi Altstiff, Thanks for the nice reply. I have tried allot of different settings trying to get fs where I have it now.I actually have it just about as good as I can get it on my comp. I don't have any stuttering, or shimmering to speak of.I was just trying to see if the line, "MipBias=8" would do anything on my comp. It didn't and I'm satisfied with what it is.I suppose trying to get that little extra can cause problems sometimes. That's why I ALWAYS make a backup first. ppgstf..."What a bozo! You can't help some people, can you?"That makes me think that assumptions, without all the facts can sometimes cause delusional thoughts, that aren't necessarily good for humanity. Have a nice flight.

Hi Altstiff, Thanks for the nice reply. I have tried allot of different settings trying to get fs where I have it now.I actually have it just about as good as I can get it on my comp. I don't have any stuttering, or shimmering to speak of.I was just trying to see if the line, "MipBias=8" would do anything on my comp. It didn't and I'm satisfied with what it is.I suppose trying to get that little extra can cause problems sometimes. That's why I ALWAYS make a backup first. ppgstf..."What a bozo! You can't help some people, can you?"That makes me think that assumptions, without all the facts can sometimes cause delusional thoughts, that aren't necessarily good for humanity. Have a nice flight.

I know this is an old post and may seem like a dumb question but WHERE is my fs9.cfg file in win7. I can't find it. Thanks

Hi,C:\Users\UserName\AppData\Roaming\Microsoft\FS9Make sure show hidden files and folders is On.

Set to:[DISPLAY.Device.NVIDIA GeForce GTX 285.0] <- this should show only your GPU, not mine, and there should be ONE such line in your fs9.cfg ONLYMode=1600x1200x32 <- here also, choose resolution that is best for you, but with x32.TriLinear=1[DISPLAY]UPPER_FRAMERATE_LIMIT=40TEXTURE_BANDWIDTH_MULT=40[TERRAIN]TERRAIN_ERROR_FACTOR=100.000000TERRAIN_MIN_DEM_AREA=10.000000TERRAIN_MAX_DEM_AREA=100.000000TERRAIN_MAX_VERTEX_LEVEL=21TERRAIN_TEXTURE_SIZE_EXP=8TERRAIN_AUTOGEN_DENSITY=5TERRAIN_USE_GRADIENT_MAP=1TERRAIN_EXTENDED_TEXTURES=1TERRAIN_DEFAULT_RADIUS=4 <- set like this, everything else gives no differenceTERRAIN_EXTENDED_RADIUS=4 <- set like this, everything else gives no differenceTERRAIN_EXTENDED_LEVELS=4 <- set like this, everything else gives no differenceGraphics setting in either Nhancer or Nvidia inspector to max AF and at least 8x Combined supersampling.Zoom out in every external view so much, that from the max zoom out you press + twice, that is a zoom I'm using, a good compromise between normal and complete zoom out. I believe it's around 0.6, but there is no display to confirm.Cockpit I use 0.6 everywhere. My default flight is saved like that so every other aircraft uses it, usually.

I just live with the problem. That way I get to flying more, tweaking less and not going grey haired with frustration!!David

I don't have:MAX_UNLIMITED_VIS= switch in my fs9.cfg. Where can I put it under in fs9.cfg?Thanks,Dirk.