Hello,I'm not too pleased with the visual appearance of FS2004. I have a Dell Dimension 4400, 1.59GHz. The video card is and NVidia GeForce FX 5200. As you can see, the Delta stripes look awful.Do you have any suggestions for how I can improve the looks of this? I've tried various anti-aliasing settings, and screen resolutions.Thank you very much,Kurt

Neither of us have state of the art systems. I have a P3/800 and an Nvidia 4200TI. These pics were taken at 800x600x32 resolution, using the default MSFS AA. I have not forced the AA through my video driver settings. I think they are quite nice:http://forums.avsim.net/dcboard.php?az=sho...&mesg_id=206649One thing I have learned is non-mipped textures, especially those found in AI aircraft add-ons, don't AA using the default MSFS AA and our line of Nvidia cards. You may want to try adding mips to your textures using DXTDMP to see if it improves things for you. Most of my aircraft have AA applied fairly well now after I discovered this, and it's a few seconds work. I only add the mips to the fuse and tail, since those parts of an aircraft is where AA's not working well is noticed the most.Hope this is of some help--certainly you can have nice visuals in the sim as my pictures show (that is, nice relative to the high end systems)-John

Hi John,Your pictures look so good that I'm going to give that a try! Thank you so much for your advice and for your samples!Take care,Kurt

>don't AA using the default MSFS AA and our line of Nvidia cards.Boy ain't that the truth. I had to learn how to tweak all over again when I replaced my Ti4200 with my current 6600GT. Worlds of difference in some instances. -JeremyThe Ozark DogfighterHappy Flying!

I found that by upping my anisotropic setting to 8 cleared this problem up. I leave my AA off as I only have a GeForce 3 Ti200 and a 1.8 ghertz and setting the Anisotropic to 8 still allows me decent framerates as well as clearing up the ground scenery as well. Note the black "stripe" on the Cessna pic I uploaded. With my anisotropic setting off, this would be fragmented, much like your pics. I could put anisotropic setting to 2 or 4, but found very little difference in hit on framerates when I set it to 8, so I leave it there and get great results.