Hi all! I have a question or 2. Why are the edges on my aircraft and scenery jagged? And how can I fix this? I am getting great frame rates. I have them locked at 20. If I go to unlimited, the FPS are 50+. My system is this.... 2.4 P-4, 1 gig of RAM, Geforce 5500 256mb video card (current divers from Nvidia). The jagged edges are driving me crazy......The sim should LOOK a lot better than this. Thanks for any help.....Don:-cool

First, do you have AA (Anti-Aliasing) enabled?There's two ways of enabling it--through MSFS (which works fine for me with the qualification I note below) and also by "forcing" it via your card drivers. I'll discuss using AA through MSFS.I was curious why some aircraft were jagged in appearance even with AA enabled. Like you, I find the jaggies looks terrible. But then I discovered that DXT textures without mips seemed the culprit. I used imagetool to add mips to textures in DXT 3 format (which seems the most popular aircraft texture format these days), and my jaggies were gone, provided AA was in use.The reason why many aircraft are including textures without mips is due to a problem noticed back in FS2002, where the aircraft would appear blurry unless you zoomed in, then back out again. Oddly, I haven't seen that problem at all in FS9, so I've added the mips back in.Some have said fps are better if you "force" AA through your card's drivers. I haven't seen any difference at all--most aircraft in spot view (like Eaglesoft's CJ-1) give me 20-30 fps depending on the surrounding scenery--on a P3/800, Nvidia 4200 equipped system.-John

"Some have said fps are better if you "force" AA through your card's drivers."FS9's software rendered AA defaults to a sample rate of 2X. The only way to see a difference when "forcing" AA in the drivers is to set it to 4X or even 6X. Of course, the performance hit can be substantial at those higher levels.Cheers,Greg

Good point--I should have mentioned that and made my comment more specific--I notice no difference only comparing 2x to MSFS's default AA.-John