I have just installed a new video card and drivers.At low altitudes(approx 2000 feet),I now notice that all of the ground textures within about a mile radius of the plane look just great but then fade into the blurries after that.The strange thing is that as you get higher(approx 8000-10000, the textures become much more sharp and clear)I have played around with various tweaks that have been posted but nothing seems to work.I also have the following add-ons: Winter Package of FSSCENE and American Data Roads, Streams, etc.Does anyone know how to adjust the .cfg file to fix this problem and help me get rid of the blurries.I have included my .cfg file.Thanks for any assistance with 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This is not an uncommon finding. I have a great rig (Athlon 64 3.5 and an ATI 800xt Platinum - and this is par for the course. It makes sense to me that it would work this way. Looking forward with such a shallow angle of view implies a lot of texture data is forced into a very shallow and thin perspective. As you get higher, that perspective gets longer, thus "unforcing" that data. I notice, in particular, that mountain textures are often far sharper in these situations than flat textures, which I think tends to support this theory. The mountains, even at low elevations, have far more texture area pointed at you, and thus appear clearer. I think its just the way that MSFS does things.

You need to adjust the Anisotropic Filtering value in your graphics card software. You'll find it under the Advanced 3D or Options tab behind the settings/advanced tab.I have mine set to 8X which gives me the best compromise between quality and performance.You don't say what card you have so help is a bit limited. Adjusting that value makes a big difference on my Radeon 9800 Pro.Cheers,

You should also do this, change these lines in the FS9.cfg to;TERRAIN_DEFAULT_RADIUS=50.000000TERRAIN_EXTENDED_RADIUS=60.000000TERRAIN_EXTENDED_LEVELS=6Dave FisherCYYZP4 2.8 GB 478P 533 MHZ CPUP4P800S Asus Motherboard768 DDRGeforce Ti 4200/128Maxtor 80 Gig ATA 133 HD x2http://www.precisionmanuals.com/images/forum/ng_driver.jpg

Thank you all for the input. I will try all of your suggestions and report back.Thanks again for your help.Roger