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virtuali:
The screenshot clearly indicates the problem IS lack of Anisotropic filtering. I think the problem might be that you have set the filtering, but forgot to also set the nVidia Control Panel to "Enhance" the application setting, which was also discussed in the previous thread I linked.

If you don't do that, the FSX settings will take over, but the best quality is obtained with the nVidia Anisotropic filtering.

jimstiles:
Thanks for the reminder, I did check the nVidia control panel, where I set the Anisotropic Filtering to 16x but was unable to locate anything that mentioned "Enhanced". I did find the only other item with the name Anisotropic in it, it was under Texture Filtering, it was set to "Off", I changed it to "On".

I've gone through every item on the menu in the nVidia control panel menu and scrolled through the list under "Manage 3D settings" which is where I found the two items above.

Have I missed it somewhere?

Thanks

virtuali:
Yes, I think they removed the "Enhance" menu in latest versions of the drivers, it's available only for Antialiasing. But this should simply mean it should always Enhance.

However, from your screen, it really looks like you haven't enabled it, because it's the precise, exact, effect of total lack of Anisotropic filtering. There's a similar setting in FSX graphic settings too: None, Bilinear, Trilinear and Anisotropic. Try Anisotropic, with the nVidia Control Panel at 16x.

jimstiles:
Thanks, that made it much better, had never messed with that setting before. Just made a quick flight from Burbank to KLAX to test it and the runways/taxiways looked normal again. I also changed FSX back to windowed mode which eliminated the "fxs stopped working" message I had been getting, at least I didn't get it on this flight or the one before.

Thanks again for the help. Sorry for posting the same questions as before, I'm 70yrs old and sometimes have problems remembering what I did yesterday. Hopefully I can keep simming for awhile, its a great pasttime and with the great airports from your team makes it that much better.

It'll probably happen again even though I try to search for the answer first, if I do just drop me the link and I'll go from there.

Thanks
Jim

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