Airports covered with ants ?

[Jamie]

Wonder why the sim folks cannot make airports look nice like other scenery .  In flying around DFW ( for instance ) , it appears that thousands of busy ants are all over the airport .  Looks fine when on approach or taking off from the selected runway .

Jamie

[Strategic Retreat]

Break out the insecticide.

Seriously, don't quite understand what do you mean with "airports covered with ants".

[Jamie]

Hello Strategic Retreat ,

If I fly around an airport , as for touch and go landings , etc. I look over on downwind and the runways are not clear at all , but appear to be " running " as if some sort of constant activity is taking place .  I don't know how else to describe the awful trashed constantly busy distorted appearance  .  I e-mailed a computer programmer friend and he said that his also has that appearance even in FSX .  We both have PC's that seem to be adequate .  I would very much like to know if others have noted such ??

Jamie

[Strategic Retreat]

I think I know your problem. It's called NO ANTIALIAS. Remember when it happened to me after a useless drivers update. Useless because the old drivers worked fine, I am a knight of the: "if it works leave it the hell alone" and yet that time I had go and mess it up anyway.

Download Nvidia Inspector, or Ati equivalent, and assign to FS9 at least an antialias of 4X. And I suggest an as high as you can level of Anisotropic Filter without cutting (too much) on the FPS. You'll see the improvements.

[Jamie]

SR ,
I got the inspector , but don't know what to do with it . How do you set anti-aliasing to 4X ?  I don't want to overclock as a friend ruined his card doing that . I also do not understand the isotope filter thing ( Ha !! )
I am still trying all sorts of usual settings , but still get a lot of shimmering of DFW and saw tooth appearance of runways .  Highways on the ground so not have that look and would seem the airport should not be distorted either ?? I noticed that scenery does shimmer also , but is not as noticeable .
Jamie

[Groundbound1]

What's your MIP mapping quality level set at in the sim? (settings-display-hardware tab) Drop it down a little and see if that helps. Generally speaking, 4 should be optimal in most cases.

[Jamie]

Hi GroundBound1 ,

I have it set at 4 .  I usually find default settings to work best . I have decided it is just the nature of the sim .
Thanks ,
Jamie

[Strategic Retreat]

Sorry for the lateness I answer. Do not talk bad of the Nvidia Inspector, that with the old nHancer you would be weeping right now. Read the instructions (no one thinks about reading the instructions, ever... sometimes I wonder why the coders put them there at all) and assign the FS9 an antialias of 4X.

Do not worry,