I've noticed that the display quality is not as good in the Meridian as it is in the Garmin trainer when I run that. I'm running at 1280X1024. I really would like the resolution in the pop up window to match the trainer in quality. Is this possible?

Try right-clicking on the border above the 530XP display. This should bring the gauge to the ideal aspect ratio and size. Also take a look at the "ResizeQuality" entry in the 530XP .ini file. For more info and support you might want to visit RealityXP's support forum at http://www.simforums.com/forums/forum_topics.asp?FID=12.VOlker :]

Also, In the meridian's ini file, you can edit the "ResizeQuality" (or something to that effect - don't have the docs with me) from "coarse" or "medium" to "fine" if your system is decent.best,sg

Thanks for the replies. I have my settings at "Fine" but it doesn't seem to help much. Right clicking the GPS does make it smaller and somewhat sharper, but a little too small to read the smaller print. The size and resolution of the trainer is just perfect. I wish I could get that from within the Meridian.

heh, funny how you hear such great things about the rxp gauges...but you're not alone, in fact im no longer a fan of their products for 1 simple reason...theyre nearly unreadable for me, just cant use em...even the pop-ups as you say are very blurry. I fly mostly in the vc on a 19" iiyama Pro454 Monitor with Radeon9700 AIW at your same resolution and theres absolutely no way to make out the detailed info that these gauges are trying to provide...a real shame since the really nice thing about these gauges are their liquid like smoothness as far as movement is concerned...but it becomes uselsss if you cant read headings, courses, etc.Actually the Meridian is the best setup out of all the other planes ive tried to use to rxp stuff with. If you're not satisfied with this then dont even think about their Jetline products because it only gets worse as far as readability. Dunno if its the gauges themselves or just the type font they chose but something drastically needs to be improved.There IS a setting in the cfg file that allows you to adjust a little bit. If you set it to "fine" maybe itll help you with your problem. Also take a look on their forum for more detailed info on how to change settings like this, or you can read the manual.Dave

It looks like there are different problems mentioned here! Let me try to provide some more information and try to help:it is known that CRT monitors are less detailed and "luminous" than LCD monitors. It seems that for some CRT, it even requires the user to adjust his gauge colors to higher values. And what is great? it is that all the Jet Line gauges allow the user to set the colors to his own liking! it is all documented in the user's manual!!Also, FS2004 introduced a nasty feature (bug?) with panel windows: with some drivers / video cards / FS settings, they are literaly washed out and blurred! Try this to compare: open a Jet Line popup window (choose a panel config from the community library with popup Jet Lines in their windows). Now, right click the window and select "undock" to undock the FS popup panel window from the FS main window, and turn it to a regular Windows window... Well just do it and look at how FS is spoiling, because of its own graphics code, your experience with the Jet Line. FS2002 did not have this nasty problem...so in the meantime of a patch from MSFT, and / or a workaround from Reality XP, there are some limits (strong ones) imposed by FS2004).Now about VC, if this is your concern, you may consider setting the right parameters in the VC windows. There is no magic in there: whatever your monitor and screen resolution, even a video projector, if you configure the VC sections in the panel.cfg file to only display each panel at a fixed 64x64 pixels resolution, you will get very unfriendly enlarged blocks of pixels on the panel.How to change this? make sure to look at this typucal entry in the panel config file:[VCockpit01]size_mm=256,256pixel_size=256,256background_color=0,0,0and change pixel_size to something else, higher, like pixel_size=512,512.This will tell FS to display this V Cockpit window with more pixels per square inch. Don't forget: if you run FS in 1024x768, and look in the VC a gauge which emcompasses roughly 15% of your screen estate, this means it is physically displayed with no more than 150x115 pixels. Hard to display anything legible at this resolution, and the reason why for the best results, it is often better to have a popup window (unless you run at 2048x1400 but still, this would in the example above display a gauge at only 300x230 pixels (this is less than the actual Garmin Screen resolution which is 320x234)...Here are the main reason I guess you have a bad experience. Let us know your findings in tweaking you own configuration to your liking!Hope this helps!