Sharper aircraft textures

[airlinefly]

Isn't there something out there that will sharpen any or all of your aircraft textures??

[Tweek]

The Flight Sim display settings?

[wji]

A better videocard, perhaps?

[Ecko]

Try anisotropic filtering, it's applied in your monitor settings.

[MattNW]

Try going to the "Spot" view and using your "+" key zoom in on the airplane then zoom back out with the "-" key. Does the textures get sharper? If so you will need to download DXTbmp from here at SimV and remove the MIPs from your textures. This is an issue with some video cards. I had the problem when I first got FS2004 on a GForce4.

[airlinefly]

Try anisotropic filtering, it's applied in your monitor settings

What is anisotropic and how do I get that from my monitor settings?

[GA_Pilot]

Use DXTBMP to remove the mipmaps

[dave3cu]

What is anisotropic and how do I get that from my monitor settings?

"...anisotropic filtering is a

[Nav]

I was just going to mention Tony Gould. He does texture fixes for most default FS2004 aircraft - I've found all the ones I've downloaded work well.

airlinefly, go to the main simviation download page and search 'FS2004 texture fixes'. here's a sample page (scroll down to '10.':-

http://www.simviation.com/cgi-bin/perlfect/search/search.pl?p=1&lang=en&include=&exclude=&penalty=5&mode=all&q=FS2004+texture+fixes