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Thanx, cheers.

I think it is also worthy posting here the Mango's guide from FlightSimWorld forums (sorry for linking to other forums, I hope this is ok) that is good explaining the FS2004 config and is giving some good tips and tricks. Quoting: Cheers.

If you have the paint kit for 145LR then you can take the textures from 145XR and try fitting them inside using an image editor like Photoshop, Paint, GIMP etc. You will need texture converter as well, like this one http://dxtbmp.softpedia.com/ . Cheers.

Im also looking for the best wingtip vortices addon available on the market. Any suggestions?

This could be helpful for you. Cheers.

Could you please tell more about "Silver Wings"?

If you are a fresh (re) starter these are kind of highly recommended: REX Xtreme + Overdrive Ground Environment Pro Fly Tampa all airports FS Dreamteam all airports and my personal recommendation is to add SweetFX for excellent visual results.

Considering the other issues Maribell has at the moment, I would go with fresh build. Im not advising here, just giving options, cheers.

Well, call it whatever you like advise, in many cases you end up re installing the software. Sometimes it saves you time when you build up from scratch rather wasting time trying to recover. Do not forget this is Microsoft made...

Thanx Zeljko, I found it under this search - http://library.avsim.net/search.php?SearchTerm=Christian+Mohr&CatID=root&Go=Search This guy makes really impressive paints. Cheers, Alex

basic advise - fresh install and stick up with the sceneries you love and usually use, get rid from the rest.

Hey guys, my first post in this section. I am looking for a particular paint that I found on this (http://www.leveldsim.com/forums/condor-767300er-peanuts-preview_topic22400.html) topic at Level-D forums. Do you know if the guy ever released this paint, and if so, where it is available?

Sounds mostly like your machine not able to handle the 3D and graphic calculations smoothly. Try with lowering the Display Settings. The other option is something to be running in the background causing CPU spikes, check the task manager...

Not even daring to flame a video cards debate here. Nvidia output great products, but that is too awkward to get your FS messed up because of driver update...

Reason why I choose ATI?

As soon as you stop tweaking your fs9.cfg it will get better. Install fresh fs9, tweak your video card control center, adjust fs9 internal display config to maximum possible for your machine, and you get the best. Be on the topic, this looks like bad scenario build, dont blame fs9 lol

This tool lacks any ingame screenshot or video. I never trust such hidden rocks lol.

lol no, didnt notice...

I didnt get any issues with loading weather in FS9 in the last several days... DNS issue may be?

Ok, so I played a while with switching on and off video settings between my ATI Catalyst and the internal FS9 display setup. Didn't manage to get a difference. Then I realized that there should be something else making the problem and found this is the sharpening - the Luma Sharpen in SweetFX particularly. After decreasing the strength of the effect and playing for a while I got to a good result and now Im satisfied. I will post some more good pictures soon. Not a problem. Here is what effects I have enabled. // Set to 1 for ON or 0 for OFF #define USE_SMAA_ANTIALIASING 1 #define USE_FXAA_ANTIALIASING 0 #define USE_CARTOON 0 #define USE_ADVANCED_CRT 0 #define USE_BLOOM 1 #define USE_HDR 0 #define USE_LUMASHARPEN 1 #define USE_TECHNICOLOR 0 #define USE_DPX 0 #define USE_MONOCHROME 0 #define USE_LIFTGAMMAGAIN 0 #define USE_TONEMAP 0 #define USE_VIBRANCE 1 #define USE_CURVES 0 #define USE_SEPIA 0 #define USE_VIGNETTE 0 #define USE_DITHER 0 #define USE_BORDER 0 #define USE_SPLITSCREEN 0 SMAA Anti-aliasing settings #define SMAA_THRESHOLD 0.10 #define SMAA_MAX_SEARCH_STEPS 96 #define SMAA_MAX_SEARCH_STEPS_DIAG 16 #define SMAA_CORNER_ROUNDING 0 // -- Advanced SMAA settings -- #define COLOR_EDGE_DETECTION 0 #define SMAA_DIRECTX9_LINEAR_BLEND 0 Bloom #define BloomThreshold 24.25 #define BloomPower 2.546 #define BloomWidth 0.142 LumaSharpen #define sharp_strength 0.30 #define sharp_clamp 0.135 // -- Advanced sharpening settings -- #define pattern 3 #define offset_bias 1.0 // -- Debug sharpening settings -- #define show_sharpen 0 Vibrance #define Vibrance 0.35 Full config here - http://pastebin.com/8GPrHyVH

Looking marvellous. Thanx for giving a hand here. What is your VC btw?

Hey WingZ, Thanx replying. Is this the way you use SweetFX? I have tried SWFX in another game - World Of Tanks and it works perfectly there without breaking the AA. However, it is much newer game and I run it on W7 rather on WXP...

what happens if you run it in compatibility mode, lets say for Win XP?

You are very correct. DPI is needed when we have something to print on large formats. Though, an image that is 256x256 on 72dpi is two times smaller than an image 256x256 on 150dpi, obviously. Having this in mind, I was wondering if we can cheat FS that the two times larger image is still "normal" 256x256...

Many said it is impossible, before it was done...