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Land Detail Textures

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I have been trying to eliminate the last few "shimmers" in my FSX / DX10 implementation. I have tried most of the options and additions recommended and am pretty happy with the result.

 

The only shimmer I see is in the nine (?) tiles around the aircraft. When the AC is above 10,000' I can see almost no shimmer. When the AC is on the runway there is a lot of shimmer visible.

 

I have tried every recommended and many other combinations using nVidia Inspector and modifications to fsx.cfg - no change that I can find stops the shimmer in the tiles immediately around the aircraft. No other shimmer appears anywhere else.

 

I set Scenery Complexity and Autogen Density to NONE but that did not eliminate the shimmer.

I set Global Texture Resolution to NONE but that did not eliminate the shimmer.

 

I then unchecked the Land Detail Textures box and ALL shimmer was gone.

 

The setting for Water Effects did not change the the fact that turning Land Detail Textures on/off turned shimmer on/off

 

What does Land Detail Texture do? I can't really see any change in the scenery when clicking or unclicking the box

 

The top picture is in DX10 with Land Detail Texture ON and the other is with it OFF

 

nVidia 8800GTS (640MB) and many different drivers were tested including the latest beta

Edited by firehawk44
Images removed. Exceed 1600W and 400KB limits by a lot.

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Yikes! That looks more like an aniso settings problem then an AA problem.

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Detail textures are special textures engineered to give textures higher detail with a lower performance cost.

 

That's what Land Detail Textures does, but seeing from your screenshot, it's not supposed to cause that much shimmering. When flying at a higher altitude, they can barely be seen. The fault lies elsewhere.

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