>After some far more testing I once again feel that this is>the case of.."I want this to work, so therefore I will>convince myself that it does." Kind of like how folks swear>that by putting their TERRAIN_DEFAULT_RADIUS and>TERRAIN_EXTENDED_RADIUS to values above "4.0...", makes a>difference. >>Scott

Hi Scott,Well,...first I have to tell you that I am not that naiv. ;-)I clearly see a huge difference when flying. Before there was continues flickering basicly on everything in the scenery, specially at night. Now instead, the scenery is rock solid and no flickering what so ever.Also, the jaggies on aircraft liveries when using non mipmapped alphalayers, has dissapered completely. Now I have smooth livery lines on all my aircraft.What you have to do though, is to only use ATI drivers, not the Omega drivers. Because with those I didn

>Forgive my ignorance but...>how in the world does a dll load itself in memory when>starting FS?!?>The dll's in the fs/modules folder are loaded by FS but how>are dll's loaded by just copying them into a folder?Hi,

I don

SteffanI too Have a ATI9800 pro 128 meg. And the change using this new dll borders on a MIRACLE!I turned mipmapping all the way up to the max and all It did was increase the detail and clarity of FS9.Autogen is breath taking! NO SHIMMERING!!!!RegardsDennis Waggoner

Staffan,someone used Omegadrivers and got it to work too. Personally wether I use Omega or the Catalyst 5.8 drivers, FS9 simply won't load.I have an ATI X850XT card.

Hi,found with Google on "d3d9.dll":"d3d9.dll is DirectX DLL for DirectX9. It adds DirectX functionality for Windows Multimedia tasks and games."Probably DirectX will look first in the active map to find it's Dll's, next in the installation map. Therefore this dll and it's ini can overwrite the default parameters. Strange, however, is that it seemes only to work on an ATI and not Nvidia card. In any case on my system (ATI 9800) most shimmering is definitely gone. This is a very valuable tip. Thank you "Humus"!Hugo

Doesn't change a thing on my system... :-(

Hi hm,The version found via Google states to place it in the Windows System directory. I have another version from the original post that states to place it in the FS9 folder. Since it works for you, were did you copy the dll?Thanks...Bob :)

were did you copy the dll?I personally placed the dll and the ini file in the fs9 root folder.I might add that I have antialiasing disabled which might be different than many people.RegardsDennis Waggoner

Hi Bob,I copied both files (.dll and .ini) to the FS9 main directory. Next go to a scenery with a lot of trees and fly, shimmering of the tree "leaves" should be gone. There will be still some minimal moir

I put the files on my machine and was told I didn't have sufficient memory. What's with that?

Got it working, but I haven't had the big improvements that some of you had. It did help.

With the files in the main directory I get a message saying I need to reload DX9! I'm using a card with a Radeon 9550 AGP chip.Robert

I repeated the process three times. It gave me the memory warning. The fourth time it opened up and showed some improvement, but no great shakes. I downloaded the ATI 5.9 drivers and that probably helped as much as anything. You might try that.

I was about to post on this thread yesterday and say; NO; NOT WORKING; can't see any improvements.It most situations I can't see any difference on my X800XL but on some third party airports where shimmmering was a major issue it's now fixed;So it is doing something and it's working and there seems to be no negative side effects I can see so far?

Yep, it's no rocket sience!1. It ONLY works on ATI based cards - 4th generation on2. It is NOT DRASTIC, only subtle... and it may not apply to all likings, it antialiases the semi transparent alpha channels, like the edges of trees. (just slew close to one and look at the edges of the tree's branches / leaves)3. YES... the two files go into the main directory of FS9, where FS9.exe is located4. When DirectX(9!!!!) is called by an application it scans the main directory of that application for the file d3d9.dll - and it's associated ini file. Most newer games have that file by default in their directory, but fs does not... guess why!5. For all that are interested, ATI just released their newest driver - 5.9 and there is an interesting new feature called : Directional Motion Adaptive Deinterlacing Algorithm.. I'm doing some studies as to what excactly it does but it sounds cool.. (LOL)ENJOY