Yes, I'm running with trilinear selected in game. No one has ever explained sufficiently IMHO, the trilinear/Bilinear filtering aspects other than to say that running performance AF results in Bilinear filtering. Unless?? If you ask me, the trilinear slider in the sim controls the filtering level. Most modern games give the gamer a choice of filtering level within the game. That would explain why the pic quality improves drastically when you move that slider from bilinear to trilinear in the sim, regardless of whether running Quality AF or Performance AF in the control panel. We get Brilinear then? Just the top layer. :-hmmm At least that's what it appears to be. Looks good to me.

Hi Bigshot,I read a post on the Rage3D forum that if you check 'Trilinear Filtering' in the sim, it overrides whatever you do in the 3D display properties, even if you uncheck 'Application Preference' in there. I tried it out. Sure enough, the post was correct. And the AF provided by the driver was bad. I got a large hit on performance and I didn't like the looks of it either. Although only somewhat noticeable, there were little black pixels moving all over, kind of like ants crawling on my screen. So, I leave the the setting as it is in the 3D display so that another game I play uses the driver's 16x AF, and it doesn't have the crawling ants effect, and I use FS2004's 'Trilinear Filtering' by checking it in the sim because it looks good and works good. In other words, you are just using FS2004's Trilnear Filtering because it 'overrides' the driver's (3D display tab) setting. But it works the best if you ask me! ;) At least for us ATI users it would seem to me, hehe.I actually saw a post on here a long long time ago about the crawling ants effect, but I didn't know what they were talking about until recently, when I selected 'None' for Filtering in the sim. I played with 16x AF and 8x AF with it set to 'None' in the sim. I could tell that selecting 'None' in the sim had allowed the driver to take control of the AF beacuse of the difference I saw in perfomance between the 8x and 16x setting and the in the looks. Anyway, now I know what the person meant about the 'crawling ants' effect. And it seemed to me that the scenery shimmered even more with the video driver controlling the AF and with it set to 16x than if I just selected 'Trilinear Filtering' in the sim. YMMV.Hope that helps,JimSystem Specs:Intel 3.4C(C = Northwood) on Asus P4C800-E Deluxe, 1 GB Muskin '222' Special PC3200 RAM, NEC MultiSync FE2111SB 22" Monitor, ATI Radeon 9700 Pro Videocard with v4.6 Catalyst Drivers, DirectX 9.0b, Creative Audigy2 Soundcard, 250 GB w/8 MB Cache Western Digital HDD, WinXP Pro SP1

I don't know what to do any more! I'm down in the dumps;( I've tried everything listed in this thread as well. I also totally installed FS9, updated my vid card drivers, and then reinstalled FS9 in Safe Mode. It still looks the same and I am very disappointed. I don't even know what to do;(I have the 4xAA and 16xAF set. I also have Trilinear set and AA not checked.To get the effect I have in pic one, hit CTRL+S to get top-down view. Next, hit BACKSPACE to get reset view, and then hit the minus key (-) 11 times. If anyone could do this and get a pic to show what there's looks like.Thanks for everyone's help......a very "down in the dumps" person!

Keep trying. You'll get it figured out. One more suggestion.(I remember this from something one of the original beta testers had wrote) When all else fails:Go to the Start Menu; programs/Microsoft Games/Troubleshoot/Reset Defaults.

well, I tried that also, and no success!I'm just in the dumps!I've done everything I can think of-chkdsk-uninstall and reinstall-new graphics drivers-cfg tweaks-defragment-all the stuff you guys have saidMaybe someone could post there FS9.cfg here, and I could look line for line, see If I'm missing something!Thanks everyone for taking time out of your days to try and help me! I really do appreciate all of your help and your time!Sincerely, Down in the dumps!

Changing the Terrain paramaters in the .cfg file really doesn't do anything on my system. I have to do hardware changes. I think the biggest thing on my card was switching from the Quality setting to the performance or high performance setting. I think in the quality setting the card trys to smooth or unsharpen the display too much.What works for me is this:switch to performance or high performance in the video card settingsgo with at least 2X on Anti Alaising and 4 on anistropicgo with at least 1200 res or more if you can afford it,16 bit doesn't look that bad IMO.raise the mip-mapping to 5 and then check it out by slewing a 200 knots or so. To much mip mapping and the textures will crawl,to little and they blur.In lower res the FS will set the mip mapping back to 4 from what I've seen.You'll just have to mess with all the settings to see what works for you.http://forums.avsim.net/user_files/95264.jpgDavid

Did you ever get this sorted? I get blurred scenery textures, which do snap into perfect focus, but it can take 30 seconds or more. I have a reasonably powerful PC setup and have read through the posts here - I don't think any of them would resolve things for me. I wonder then if you have any more information?Martin

nope, I have never had this sorted. i have a powerful one too!

Damn!M. :-)