OK, the problem is that your card is not set up to use your computer properly suggesting you either installed the new drivers incorrectly or you have a compatibility problem with your motherboard.AGP texture acceleration should be enabled. Anti-aliasing and anisotropic filtering should be enabled, Within the sim menu Trilinear filtering should be enabled, AA unchecked. You have none of these and as a result your screenshot looks like it does.Of these the most pressing problem is the AGP acceleration. The fact that your driver control panel didn't apply the full available texture acceleration to your card suggests you need to reinstall mobo chipset drivers.Finally, if you don't understand what these setting do, then please try searching the forum. How did you remove the old card drivers? Did you only uninstall them? YOU MUST remove all traces of Nvidia card drivers before installing an ATI card, and vice versa. Use Driver Cleaner from www.guru3d.com. Version 3.1 is just available. Allcott

Thanks so much for your great help on this i did see a improvement. I use a Asus P4PE motherboard. I have changed all the settings for both FS2004 and the ATI config panel also deleted all old driver and installed the new ATI drivers. But i can't set my AGP to 8x speed just to 4x in the Bios.Thanxs angain for the help onm this issue,Jim

I have an ATI9800XT with the 4.4 Calalyst drivers. Please find my suggestion since it worked for me under XP for blurry images and a disapearing mouse cursor:In the FS9 display/hardware dialog:1) turn off (clear the checkbox) for AntiAlias2) set mip mapping to TRILINEAR in the FS9 display3) You may also play with the hardware rendering for transform/lighting, hasn't done a whole lot for me.4) set hardware lights to 8.5) set texture quality to very high.In the ATI display card Direct3D dialog:1) force AA (antialias) on to 2x or 4x (clear the box that says "application controlled").2) depending on your CPU, you can play with "optimize for quality or performance" under the image quality tabs for both AA and mipmapping (texture rendering). In the middle appears to work for me.You should obtain a much better performance and image quality with FS9 and an ATI Radeon card if you control the directX settings from the ATI control panel rather than setting the options from within FS9.

Can it be possible that i can't change to *x speed AGP with this Motherboard ASUS P4PEPentium 1.8 overclocked 2.3mhz512mb mem.Jim

Yes.http://www.asus.com/mb/socket478/p4pe/specification.htmBut have you now got it working at 4x? Did the change `stick` or did it revert back when you rebooted? If it did stick then you shouldn't need to replace mobo chipset drivers. Might still be worth checking for BIOS update though.Allcott

I don't really understand what you mean. It's running at 4x. What do you mean with Stick.Regards,Jim

Can you set 4x AGP in the menu, then shut the computer down. Then, from a cold boot when you boot back up does the slider STILL say 4x AGP? If it does, then you do not need to reinstall the chipset drivers (although it couldn't hurt, but given your limited knowledge of what is going on in your settings I wouldn't advise you install chipset drivers unless you absolutely, positively have to)Got your picture looking a little better now with those other adjustments? Allcott

Hi Allcott,I have never installed the chipset drivers. But i did now and i only have one word WAUW much better framerates increased a lot. Many thanks for your help. By the way i can't change to 8x AGP it's not supported in this Motherboard.Regards,Jim

That is a mip-map setting- Increase it to 6, and the blurrys will go away.

Thanks I just changed it to 6x MipMap.Many thanks,Jim