Scenery flicker using Ati X800

[Guest maartos]

Hello,I bought FS2004 recently as an update for my old FS2000. Since I also bought a new system not very long ago, I was expecting gorgeous graphics. Alas, this was not the case.The system contains:Msi K8T Neo2 FIR s939 moboAMD Athlon 3500+1gig of TwinX Corsair RAMAti X800 256Mb videocard(All drivers are updated to the latest)I use a 1024*768 resolution for my CRT screen and in FS, 32bit colors.I put all settings to the max and started up the FS. But the scenery, the landscape and the airplane were rather jagged and flickered a lot. Weird moving patterns on scyscrapers, too. Needless to say, I was disappointed in graphics of the game.So I tinkered around a bit with the settings, setting them lower and so on, and it didn't solve the problem. Even without scenery the landscape in the distance flickered a lot. Then I found a solution on the internet: I turned off 'let application decide' for the video card, and put AA and AF to the max in catalyst. this resolved the landscape flickering mostly, but not the scenery flickering - especially the trees are constantly flickering fastly. But the buildings and parts of my aircraft are doing it as well.I'm out of inspiration now, what more can I do to improve the graphic quality to the breathtaking scenery I expected from the screenshots I had seen? Use an older or different driver, and if so, which would you recommend for this graphic card?Or are there settings in catalyst or in FS2004 that could resolve this?Thanks a lot!

[Guest MarkG]

Try adjusting the mip-map level: I found I got hideous flickering on distant scenery until I turned that down a little... unfortunately doing that makes some of the aircraft textures blurry. It's hard to find a good compromise between the two.

[Sesquashtoo 2,846]

1. Use the OMEGA 2597a driver suite. http://www.omegadrivers.net/2. Use Bilinear rather than Trilinear3. Set the ATI A.I. to 'High'.I have an ATI800XT 256 meg and it produces fantastic graphics. I run at 1600x1200x32 bit.Cheers!Mitch R.

[Guest]

Why would you use bilinear rather than trilinear?

[Tabs 2,790]

I think this is just a general problem with the way FS interacts with the video card - I've seen the problem both on my 9800 and on a 6800GT. It's super annoying and I hope MS fixes it in the next version so that the card is able to filter/antialias everything (minus the clouds of course!).I think the setting of the filtering slider in-game doesn't even matter because you're overriding it from the video card control panel by setting anisotropic, which is already better than either bilinear or trilinear.

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[Guest maartos]

Thank you for the tips - I tried them, and managed to influence and diminish the effect a bit. All the Omega driver did was slow my framerate though.But it is not gone yet. The trees keep on flickering/appearing unstable, as do other scenery elements with fine detail, like bridges. The letters on the rear of my aircraft have this problem too. So overall I got the graphics to look great, screenshot-wise, but the flickering trees ruin this perfect image.Any other suggestions? Or is it really a common problem that cannot be solved and am I just too demanding?

[Guest firehawk44]

"Any other suggestions? Or is it really a common problem that cannot be solved and am I just too demanding?"Did you check out all the great suggestions in the Tips and Tricks forum within this forum?Jim