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jcupido:
FSDT developers,
      When a man writes code for an app, it is the ultimate way to obtain expertise and so I appeal to you.  I do not know exactly how to describe what I am experiencing in FS9 but I will try.  The scenery sees to twinkle when the aircraft (or user) is in motion around that scenery.  It happens at the airports (especially the custom ones) and at altititude.  It reminds me of the FS5 days when the lights and scenery always shimmered or twinkled (even the lights at night).  Well this is happening on FS9 and I have a very high end system that runs FS9 with all the levers to the right.  The mipmap seems to have the biggest effect but there is no happy medium and when I go past 5 the scenery is more defined but shimmering and grainy textures appear.  Taxiways lines and grass all twinkle like stars.  Then is I pull it back to 4 and under the shimmering reduces (not entirely) but the scenery becomes dull and smudges (no clear roadways or details).  Almost like someone drew the scenery with a pencil and then took their findger and smudged it.  What is the cause of this and how can I fix it?  I have tried all settings on my video card and then just reprogrammed the card to allow the app control the mipmap.  The oddest part of this is that there is a square directly under my aircraft (a few square miles in area) where the shimmering is almost non-existstant and the scenery is clear.  Can you give me a push to resolution?  THx

Bruce Hamilton:
If this is specific to FSDT airports, you can always try one of the texture resizers available on the forum. If that doesn't work, just run the installer again to revert back.

jcupido:
No it's not specific to the airports.  It happens everywhere.  The FSDT is very knowledgeable and I am reaching out to them because I have tried everything.

virtuali:
I think your problem is probably due to shimmering because of badly filtered Mip Maps because you can't find a good compromise between the 4 and 5 positions on the slider.

Try to act on the video card control panel, to force Anisotropic filtering to 16x, don't leave it to the app, and see if it improves.

jcupido:
I have tried this but was not able to test yet.  Wil do so tonight and let you now.  Thank you for the tip!

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