Blurring attacks

[jordonj]

I've been getting more that a few of those in different areas.

Does anyone know of a setting I can change, or do I need more RAM?

[Katahu]

I occasionally get the blurring effect while flying over Downtown Miami or over the Port of Miami because of the Free Flow Florida scenery. However, that usually happens to me whenever there is too much AI planes for my computer to handle. It seems that reducing the AI traffic to 50% or less makes a difference.

[jordonj]

I think I have found a solution:

Reduce the Global Texture size...

Reducing the VC gauge quality seems to help too.

[MattNW]

Blurring is a resource related issue. If the sim can't find the resources it'll use a lower resolution ground texture to free up resources for flying the airplane without stutters. Turning down some settings will free up more resources as you found.

Also you may want to defrag your drive. Sometimes the sim will load a lower resolution texture because it's waiting on the page file to deliver higher resolution textures. You'll also get blurring if you use high time acceleration.

[Delta_]

I found moving upto 1GB of RAM reduced blurring significantly.  

Reducing global texture size reduces detail on scenery, things like buildings become more blurry close up. So that will help.

As MattNW said defragging can help.

[ashaman]

A little side note to the good suggestions already given.

I had a lot of blurrings around my main hub, LIRN, mainly because I installed all the freeware scenery available for it, but blurrings happened elsewhere as well.

My PC is not the fastest around, but it's a respectable AMD Athlon Xp 2400 overclocked at 2600 by virtue of it being one of the few that has its multiplier unlocked.

I resolved all the blurrings (even the most harsh cases) by going into the BIOS and bringing up the AGP Aperture Size from its original value of 32Mb (why was so low, I'll never fathom) to 128Mb. I tried higher values, but they did not seem to make things any faster, so I throttled it back to 128Mb.

Never before had my PC been so fast and smooth. Try to do the same. You never know.