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Well I finally finished re-installing my FS9 and all its add-ons with my new graphics card (Radeon X800XL) and things look really good, except that my ground textures are grainy (my clouds however have never looked so good). I've re-installed GE Pro and I've got the latest drivers but looking at the ground the picture seems to have pixels flicking between green and black. Does anyone know of any FS tweaks to cure this? Just I've always been an nVidia man and this is a new one on me and I'm a tad mystified. Or is this a Radeon issue and if so why is it only affecting my ground textures and not any others?

Welcome to the Radeon club Oz! Check to see if there is a setting called "temporal anti-aliasing" in your advanced display properties. If there is, and it's active, try de-activating it and see if that helps. That causes the shaking pixels look your talking about on my system, though my card and drivers are MUCH older than your's are. Also, by default, Catalyst settings are set for neutral performance levels. Increasing the settings in the display properties toward the quality side may help. I don't know what to tell you about the "grainy" textures though.

Thanks, I'll give that a whirl

Dont know if it will help or not Oz, but I also run on a radeon. I've noticed some "grainy" textures to the ground before as well when I was playing around with my settings. It was caused by my mip-mapping though. I bumped it all the way to 8 (from 4) to see what it looked like. That's the first time I've seen anything "grainy" in my textures. As I decreased the mip mapping the "grains" in the texture went away. I decided to just leave it at 4.

So, double check your mip-mapping settings. I doubt this is what it it, but it's the only time I've noticed "grains" in my textures with my Radeon.

Now go post some screenies

I just changed from a ATI Radeon 1900 GT (Supposedly, one of the best there was a year ago) I noticed when I raised mip mapping to full blast, everything was grainy, sparkilly (sp?) and just overall, hard on the eyes. I turned my mip to either to 4 or 6 and that seemed to help. Last week I found a good deal on an NVidia 8500 GT and I've decided I'll never use a Radeon again. Good luck. Hope you can get everything tweaked properly. Semper Fi, Dave

Thanks for all the advice guys. After a long night of tweaking and twiddling I've got the system running pretty well with Mip Mapping at 7 and even in heavy scenery I'm getting 20FPS and the graininess is gone 8-) Four hours well spent!

Glad it's all worked out Oz!

Very cool, glad to know you got it to work properly. Semper Fi, Dave

I am always tweaking lol what do you have your settings at?