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Finally I have set up FSX to run smoothly on my system except that there is one thing that's been bugging me. I'd say that around three or four nautical miles the textures below and around me are clear but anymore than that and they become a blur. Is there anything I can do to remedy this blurry appearance at distances.

Forgot to mention it mainly occurs in big cities.

Have you set your AA to trilinear or anisotrop? That should improve your graphics though not every system may handle it (I have to saty at biliniear  :-[)...

In the [MAIN] section of your FSX.cfg file, enter the line FIBER_FRAME_TIME_FRACTION= and enter a value between 0.1 and 1.0 in the end. The low the value, the less blurries you should see, but FPS will also drop. I got mine at 0.8.

In the [MAIN] section of your FSX.cfg file, enter the line FIBER_FRAME_TIME_FRACTION= and enter a value between 0.1 and 1.0 in the end. The low the value, the less blurries you should see, but FPS will also drop. I got mine at 0.8.

a very bad tweak if running SP1 or SP2 and trying to run high scenery

the default value is .33 and at .80 you are placing all your resource eggs into the terain engine effectively killing the systems ability to display autogen, weather, scenery, etc

Finally I have set up FSX to run smoothly on my system except that there is one thing that's been bugging me. I'd say that around three or four nautical miles the textures below and around me are clear but anymore than that and they become a blur. Is there anything I can do to remedy this blurry appearance at distances.

Forgot to mention it mainly occurs in big cities.

The fact that is shows up in big cities tells me its simply the system not able to keep up with the load. What you are seeing is LOD blur where the higher LOD designed to show within 4 miles around the aircraft is clearer than the outer areas

Terrain engine LOD blur is typical of either CPU not able to keep up, fragmented hard drive, settings or a combination of all

Try bumping the Texture Resolution to 7cm with the Mesh resolution to 10m, LOD Radius to 100% and back off AI/Car traffic and see if you notice a difference

If I understood right he was asking for a cfg tweak.

[TERRAIN]
LOD_RADIUS=4.500000

= 100% with FSX slider

Any clue for an improvment?

Try

[TERRAIN]
LOD_RADIUS=6.500000

I'm running a E8400 @4GHz and loading Lod 10 Mesh + textures seems to load a little more "bumpy"
There is no fps impact ( mine is set to Fps max = 31 )



You may have to play with the texture tweak, it makes the textures loading faster.

[TERRAIN]

SWAP_WAIT_TIMEOUT=30

30 is standard, reducing it to minimum 5 may/will produce stutters