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i had no idea where to put this thread, so mods, feel free to move it.

ok, heres the deal, whenever i activate anti-aliasing, this happens:

This could be the cause of several things.
 Your card might not handle anti alising very well.
 your video card drivers may need to be updated
 your video card does not have enough on board ram to support this function
 You are not using the latest direct x I think it is up to version 9.

What are your systems specs and we might be able to spot the problem better.

my video board is: NVIDIA GeForce4 MX 440 with AGP8X
i have directx 9 (either b or c, cant remember)

AMD Athlon Processor
i have 512 MB of RAM

The mx440 aren't dx 9 (as far as im aware) so that could be your problem. Im assuming it only has 64mb of ram onboard which is probably your problem.

yes i do have 64 mb on the card, but isnt that quite a bit? what are the standards now days? (my whole systme is pretty old, if you havent already guessed)

Today's standards are around 256MB. I believe even Intel's graphics can allocate up to 224, which is alot for integrated.

As for your problem, try disabling Transform and Lighting and then enabling it. I used to have a similar problem, and that fixed it. It might be a longshot, but it's worth a try.

with a card that slow why are you even bothering with AA?

I mean the geforce4mx's are based on the geforce 2!

what is the latest GeForce?

The 7950GX2

But thats not important. Whats important right now is that you shouldn't turn on AA in FS. Let the card do it, you don't need the game trying to.

Cheers
Cameron

you mean turn on AA from the card settings?

Ya go into the nVidia menu and turn it on there. Then go into FS and turn it off.

Cheers
Cameron

YYYYYEEESS!!!!!!! its working!!!! ty ty ty ty ty!!!!!

no lines, and the sims acting like it not even there!!!

There you go. The simplst trick in the book worked.

Cheers
Cameron

The MX series of cards was very weak even in their own day, AA and AF filtering will kill off your frame rates with that card. If you must use AA, then try flying with no clouds and not around built up areas, that will help a lot.

Cheers

[quote]The MX series of cards was very weak even in their own day, AA and AF filtering will kill off your frame rates with that card. If you must use AA, then try flying with no clouds and not around built up areas, that will help a lot.

Cheers