Im having propblems with my mip map setting in FSX. I can only set them via ATI Tray tools. When they are on my trees have a slight flicker but its anoying and when I turn it off the filcker goes away but my aircraft textures and in game menus are blurry. Can I edit the mip map settings in the FSX.CFG? I cant find a mip map entry in the .cfgPete

Ive been playing around all day but can fix my mip map. Any ideas?

Hi Pete,In FS2004 one could set mip map to 4 or lower to get rid of that flicker and still have good textures. This option is not anymore in the settingsmenu of FSX. I also have adjust (set to "Performance")it via ATI Tray Tools, but I still have some flicker. Not only in trees. but also in fences and building windows. Very annoying.My graphics adapter is an ATI X700 256 Mb. Installed the latest ATI drivers and then replaced them with the latest Omgega drivers. Same result for both of them. Sorry I cannot help you, perhaps someone else?Jozef K. http://homepages.onsnet.nu/~jkusters/signature.jpg

Turn on anti aliasing or ansitropic filtering might help.Matt

Yukon, I just tried adding the MipBias setting from the fs9 config (this is the value that the old mip slider affected) to FSX, and it *does* actually work, but...FSX deletes the setting from the config after a session close. Lame.The only thing I can think of to help you is to remove the mipmaps from all the aircraft textures of planes you fly, using imagetool. Then you can set your mip preference in your videocard to whatever you like, and it *shouldn't* affect your aircraft, as they will have no mips to drop down to. There's really no reason to have mips in any aircraft texture, unless you use those planes as AI traffic, or fly in congested multiplayer airspace. 95% of the time your camera is close enough to your plane, internally or externally that you'd never want to see the mips anyway.In fact removing the mips may buy you slightly faster loading of aircraft textures as each of them will contain less data. I just checked out some of the fsx default aircraft textures and they all have mipmaps. Waste of resources really. It's worth a shot, might be able to have your cake and eat it too. Like all things FS though, it takes some time and work on your part to fix up. If it bugs you that much, give it a try. Try removing mips from an aircraft that has text on it, like the Redbull Extra-300, then drop your vidcard mip preferences down to where you want them, whatever setting you liked that removed tree shimmering. You'll know right away in the sim if it's working by using the spot view or looking at the wings from inside.Good luck!

Its easy just add at display.cfg MipMap=0 at your video card type and done.If your card not listed then try to put it at the top of the file.It should work.

My understanding of the use of display.cfg though is that it's a series of special case settings for various older videocards no? I don't believe any of those settings are for cards made in the last two years, just from looking at the card types and driver revision numbers. Maybe I'm wrong though.To get accurate results by adding a new section to it for your own card, you'll have to dig through your system properties for your videocard and find out its unique product identifier code, then enter that in exactly the way the display.cfg expects it to be.And, Mipmap=0, wouldn't that turn off mipping altogether creating a flicker fest on all distant objects?

>Hi Pete,>>...but I still have some>flicker. Not only in trees. but also in fences and building>windows. Very annoying.>Hi,I can't be sure if your are calling flickering what 'I' would consider to be shimmering. I think of flickering as an item that is disappearing and reappearing, perhaps rapidly, perhaps slowly. Shimmering is what I consider to be bands of white and/or grey lines that flash across an item in a scrolling fashion(up and down or maybe even across).If you are getting shimmering with fences, building windows and trees, you might consider enabling 'Adaptive Anti-Aliasing' in your ATI driver. It reduces the shimmering by a very large margin, not 100%, but probably like something around 90%.Hope that helps,Jim