I have a new DELL 8300, Windows XP pro, Pent 4 3.0 ghz, 1024 RAM, 128MB Radeon 9800 pro. I have the AA sliders maxed out to the right on the card. No AA in the FS9 sim settings.I also have the FSD Piper Navjo Panther. Nice airplane with great sound. If I load the plane into the sim in VC view, the AA is beautiful. The trailing edges in spot view are as straight as a ruler. The VC panel and engine nacels from the VC are straight lined too. The AA works fine while in the VC, Spot View, or Tower Views. When I load the 2D panel by going into the 2D panel view the AA goes to heck to the point that it is bothersome to know that it is not perfect to view the airplane from the spot view. I can only get it back by changing textures or aircraft and then reload the Navajo without going into 2D panel. The 2D panel needs to load to get some of the gauges to work.The problem seemed to be solve itself briefly when I went into the BIOS to open up the aperture size to 256. It came back after a couple of computer bootings.This AA anomally doesn't appear in other aircraft ie 421 441 310 Mentor, Beech V35, Centurion and the Eaglesoft Jets.Can this only happen in a given aircraft file as opposed to the DELL hardware/software end?

Hello Daryll,I use the FSD Piper Navajo Panther too. I have never seen this problem on my system. It would seem a pretty strange that an AA problem would be tied to this aircraft and/or it's 2D panel. I have seen stranger things when it comes to a computer system though!Regards,Jim

Are you running in Full Screen mode? You should!Allcott

Always,..in full screen mode. I wonder if a GMAX or FSD (?) aircraft could enter into it. I will have to pay closer attention to it.I don't know how a 2D panel would trigger it. I did notice the MAP gauge doesn't work until the 2D panel is loaded.

FYIThe fix for the AA problem I was having was to start a saved flight in 2D panel View, NOT VC, spot or Tower view. The guys at FSD said on some complex airplanes like the Navajo, the rendering engine (?) needs to initialize in 2D panel view. It works fine now, I can cycle through the views and NOT loose AA.

Loading aircraft in VC view is not really a good idea, as the sim uses a completely different rendering engine in the VC environment, and some video card/drivers (particularly Radeon cards) have difficulty with this when you switch to 2D view.Loading an aircraft in spot or tower view is almost guaranteed to give you bad results. Some of the aircraft variables in the sim, even those saved with the Flight, may not initialize. Also, if you are loading an advanced add-on aircraft that is modeling additional flight/aircraft systems they will almost certainly not initialize...programming language that means everything will be all screwed up.Bottom line...load all your aircraft, and create your Flights, starting in standard 2D mode.My http://www.fsd-international.com/dc/images/twocents.gifhttp://www.fsd-international.com/team/TD_forum_sig.gif

I may be misunderstanding, but if you're expecting the card to AA the edges of the 2D panel view, it doesn't do that - those are just bitmaps, not the edges of 3D polygons.

Ryan, you are misunderstanding. I am talking about the edges of the 3D model airplane. If I don't load (the airplane) a "saved flight" in 2D panel view I won't be able to cycle through the views,ie VC, spot, tower, 2D, without the AA going to heck on the 3D model. If you select an aircraft in "create a flight" the airplane will automatically load in 2D panel view so no sweat.