First, let me say that I really like the forums here. I've been lurking for a while and find them very useful.
I've been a long time FS fan going back to the mid 80's. I've always looked forward to each new release, and have almost always been pleased with only a few exceptions. Unfortunately, FSX is one of them.
When FSX came out, I had purchased what was then a near state of the art computer to run it on - an amd 5000x2 or something, an x1800xl vid card, and 2 GB memory. Reasonably fast for its time. When I first ran FSX, I was really impressed - they had fixed the dreaded blurries!!! Or so I thought. As long as I stuck with the ultralight, and didn't go near major airports, etc, etc, the graphics were astounding. And it was a lot smoother, with the exception of stuttering once in a while. No big deal I thought, I could probably tweak to get rid of them or the "patch" would fix that. Worse case scenario is that I would have to upgrade again and all would be well.
Well, the patch came and while it fixed the stutters, the blurries were a problem again as you all know. So, I figure OK, I'll just tweak it out or upgrade. So I tweaked, and I tweaked, and I tweaked. Nothing, nada, zilch. So on to plan B - I upgraded. Now I have a E6750 C2D, a gigabyte p35 mobo, 4 GB ram, at first using the old x1800xl, and now an xfx 8800gts512.
Tell me if I am expecting too much here, but I really think that this equipment should have no problem with the blurries, given my out of the box experience starting out with a lesser system. With the new system, I have been trying everything I can think of to make this work. Again, nothing, nada, zilch. I have gone to the extreme of setting everything to minimal, and then bumping only those sliders which affect the actual textures and mesh, along with every variation of filtering and AA. And guess what? Yep, I still have the blurries!! Nothing works. I also have tried NickN's recommendations and am also using nHancer, to no avail.
I've read everything I can get my hands on to try and sort through this, and nothing seems to help. I don't think there is a problem with my computer - it runs Crysis beautifully at max settings using DX9 and Windows MC. ( I had some initial issues with both Crysis and FSX crashing due to a failure of the mobo to accurately set the ram timings on auto, but now they have been manually set and the computer is solid and stable as a rock.) Crysis is gorgeous graphics-wise and a hell of a fun game to play to boot. Those guys know how to program!! Maybe MS could hire them for FSXI.
Anyhow, I am absolutely frustrated, and feel that MS rushed out a product that was not really ready for prime time. (What else is new right?) OTOH, maybe I have overlooked something, though it is unlikely. But I am willing to listen to any suggestions.
If anyone has any ideas after reading this I would be most grateful if you could share them.
Thanks a bunch for listening, and thanks in advance.
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