Hi,During the last months I have been posting here several times concerning severe problems I had with FS9. Even though I have a high-end system I could not run FS9 due to a constant flashing of bars, triangles, etc. across the screen. Also textures looked very blurry all the time. FS2002 did not have any problem whatsoever. In the beginning I thought it was due to the drivers I used for my ATI Radeon 9800Pro. I tried every single one of them I could find on the net. By the time everybody else had his/her graphics problems fixed due to the latest Catalyst and Omega drivers coming out, I still could not enjoy FS9. This convinced me that it must be related to a bad video card. So I returned my Sapphire card and replaced it with a Hercules Radeon 9800Pro 128. Same problem! By that tyime I became quite frustrated. Rather than enjoying the sim in the rare free time I have I was tweaking my system. In the end I found that I could get rid of the anomalies by turing off AGP accelaration completely. The downside was that frame rates dropped by more than a factor of two. Furthermore, the blurries remained. Finally I figured that my problems could be related to the BIOS version of my ASUS P4P800 Deluxe motherboard. I downloaded the latest version (1.012), read the flash instructions carefully and went ahead. All seemed to go fine and since I have flashed my BIOS on other systems before, I did not expect any problems. Wrong! After what seemed a succesful flash, my system did not reboot. In fact it was totally dead.The only thing left to do was returning my system to the vendor. I explained the problems I had and much to my surprise, they succeeded in getting the motherboard back to life, at the same time installing the BIOS version I wanted (1.012). They also claimed that there was no sign of graphics problems left. After all I had tried I could hardly believe it, but after I came home I found out that it is true. No flashing bars, very sharp textures and excellent frame rates. It looks like a completely different sim now.To summarize all of the above. I have been angry at both MS and ATI for creating incompatible products. In the end it turned out to be a disfunctioning BIOS for my motherboard. I do not know if more people have problems like I described, but the problem may be due to a different cause than you expect.Best regards,HenriPentium 4 2.80 GHz, 800 MHz FSBAsus P4P800 Deluxe i865PE Hercules Radeon 9800Pro 128 Mb 1024 Mb DDR SDRAM PC3200Maxtor DiamondMax Plus 9, 120 Gb, 7200 rpm (2x)Creatice Soundblaster Audigy IIWindows XP Pro

You never know!!JimCYWG