fps is no problem, i have enough of them.

Do you use a TFT monitor?I just upgraded my video driver with full "Shaking Stevens" as a result, and I forgot everything else just like you. Then I noticed that this driver did not run the monitor in native mode in fs9 in the native mononitor resolution 1280x1024. I rolled back the driver, and got the native mode back. Shivering is not gone but way less than before, I can consentrate on landing gear, crosswind and flaps again :).I run NVidia, but maybe this applies to ATI as well. One way to find out is if you use FS Navigator, press F9, and if it takes more than a couple of seconds to draw the map (whole world ap's and navaids visible), and the whole map lookes slightly blurred, your'e not in native mode. Then you only have to figure out how to fix that :-hmmm brEagle

i'm still using a good old CRT ;)FSnav appears within less then a second.

After reading the old post again I experimented a little more, and fund a cure to a certain extent. Cranck up the resolution. This seems the only way. I am now running at 1920x1200x32 at AA2xQ, 16xAF instead of 1600x1000x32 at AA4x and 8AF. Not even does it look a lot better, I also get better performance. The only downside is that I can only run my monitor a 75Hz with this crazy res.(For those who wonder I have a widescreen CRT.Alex

What workerd for me (I have an ATI 9700 Pro), was to back off on the drivers to an earlier version. I never liked the results I was getting with Omega or the latest ATI's, so I am using ATI's 4.3 Catalyst, their old control panel, and Mipmaps at 4. Never had a problem since. Runs good-looks great.

thats maybe worth a try. Did you have the shimmering also with ATI's latest?

disregard ...

On my system, the amount of shimmering also depends on the area you are flying in. Flying around London especially Heathrow is the worst!Could this depend on different "resolutions" of bitmaps used for different sceneries?Wolfgangedited (forgot my sys specs)P4 2.4 Ghz512 MB DDRRadeon 9800 Pro 128 MBWin XP Pro

I just tried the 4.3's. Can't tell much of a difference if any regarding shimmering. I do think the latest drivers gave a little bit better performance. I'm going to try the latest Omegas. As I stated above, adjusting miplevel in the ATI Control panel clears it up a little on my system but certainly doesn't get rid of it. For what it's worth . . .Randall

Hi Alex; Something you might try, if you haven't already, is to go into BIOSand set your AGP Aperture to 64MB. I don't know who to credit with the idea but it sure as heck did wonders for me. See my"Life is GOOOOD" post:-) Regards Denny

Here is something I have found that really helps--turn down the contrast on your videocard and/or your monitor. It reduces shimmering and makes the graphics appear more realistic.Randall

Can you confirm that with agp aperture in bios at 64 gets rid of shimmering. And what should folks with 256 mb video card set the apeture too?

Yeah.. I hate those shimmies.. Just yesterday.. I was whining (Thinking) about it.I find that the GeForce cards give me less shimmies than the ATI for some reason. But it still shimmies way too much.

For those with Nvidia cards, I have found that shimmering is SIGNIFICANTLY reduced by using any of the S (supersampling) AA modes. 8xS seems to be the only mode selectable using the normal display panel settings, which is a bit too taxing on most of our systems, but you can unlock 4xS and 8xS using a utility like power strip or Riva Tuner. Give it a try, because it certainly works for me!Gary

Hi,Well for some reason other than FS, I was switching back from an Nvidia 6800 to an ATI 9800. Three things are obvious: - Changing a graphics GPU doesn't do wonders with the fps, the Nvidia 6800 is a little more (max.15%) fluently. -Shimmering is much worse on the ATI 9800. It seems that the latest GPU from Nvidia (Geforce 7800) would eliminate shimmering.-Sharpness of the picture on the ATI is better, even outstanding.rgds,Hugo