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Ok, now that i have CFS3 up and running , i tried playing it. it looked good when i was on the ground but when i got up into the air, i noticed that all the ground textures under my aircraft were perfect but the ground any distance away was sort of black! how can i fix this?

ANYBODY??? PLEASE!

Turn up the graphics settings in CFS3 config.

meaning the graphics menu on the main screen of the sim? becuase if that's so i already tried that and i got nothing

Go to Start-Programs-Microsoft Games-CFS3- Run CFS3 Config and have a play in there.

wow. there are so many things to play with, do you think that you could narrow it down for me and tell me which thing to play with? thanks

Anything that looks as if it might related to terrain or textures. Can't be any more specific I'm afraid. This problem is a little more complicated than your last one.

[img]C:\Documents%20and%20Settings\Michael\My%20Documents\My%20Pictures\untitled.bmp[/img] If This helps, this is what i mean by all the black on the ground. Ive played with some of the settings but it seems like nothing i do will help it at all!

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Ok. The only think I can suggest is that you continue to play with the terrain texture in CFS3 config. If that fails to get any results then I'm afraid I'm all out of ideas.

Either it's this :

http://www.simviation.com/cgi-bin/yabb/ ... 1107974141

Or more likely the drivers of your vid card needs to be changed / updated. Some people reported having similar issues with some Nvidia drivers. I bet you have a nvidia, haven't you ?

His Graphics card is an Intel Extreme 64mb. Upgrading, if you can afford it, to either an nVidia or Raedeon could only do you system good.

Byzhoyo, I've just followed your link and my jaw has hit the ground at how your CFS3 looks. May I ask how?

First the system :
specs :
- PIVc 2.6Ghz @ 3.1 Ghz
- 1024 Mo ram
- Radeon 9800 pro with cat3.9 (very important, the only ATI drivers to give these nice specular reflexions on the planes)
- playing at 1280x1024 with AAx2 and FSAAx4.

Then the settings :
http://www.simhq.com/simhq3/sims/boards ... 8;t=000002

Finally, the add-ons :
- Winding Man's scenery manager
- Avhistory Spit IX by Zuyax

Last thing : I've always found the colours too contrasted in cfs3 so I created a setting in my vid card driver panel. In ATI cards (this is not the CCC), there's a tab called colour : I increased the gamma to give a more bleached look, decreased the lighting and finally adjusted the contrast to my liking. This setting is used every time a 3d application is launched.