Ok, I know that Fs9 has some wonderful graphics, but I can not seem to get the 'photo quality' that some have screenshots of.

System specs:
AMD Athlon +3200xp (stock) Watercooled
3GB of DDR400 RAM
200GB SATA 10,000RPM HDD w/8mb Cache
Asus A7N8X-Deluxe Motherboard
ATI x700Pro w/512MB (Stock)
Soundblaster Live! Audigy 2 XG
520Watt Powersupply

Now am running these settings:
Display
Terrain Mesh: 100
Texture Size: High
Terrain Detail: Land Only
Water Effects: High
Dawn/Dusk Texture Blending: On
Extended Terrain Textures: On
Special Effects: High
Scenery Complexity: Extremely Dense
Autogen Density: Extremely Dense
Add-on Dynamic: On/Extremely Dense
Ground Shadows Cast Shading: On
Sun Glare + Lens Flare: Off (Those get tiring and don't really add to the game)

Aircraft
Aircraft Details: **High**
Virtual Cockpit Gauge: High
Reflections: On
A/C Cast Shadows: On
Landing Lights: On

Weather
Sight Distance: 80 miles
Cloud Drawing Distance: 40 Miles
3-D Cloud Percentage: 100%
Detailed Clouds: On
Cloud Coverage: Mx

Hardware
1600x1200x32
Target Frames: 35
Render To Texture: On
Transform and Lighting: On
Anti-Aliasing: OFF (I let my x700 run this)
Triliner Filtering
Mip Map: 4
Hardware Rendered Lights: 8
Global Max Texture: Massive

Sound
High

Traffic
100%

Yes, I can get 30-40FPS...even in New York or San Fran with 100% Traffic.

Now, here is what I don't understand. I can set the A/C Details to Ultra-High, but it will not save it at UH nor will it allows it to run UH...even if everything else is set to it's lowest settings.

I also set my ATI x700PRO to Quality settings...no change.

It seems that I am missing all the nice reflections and mirror-like textures on metels.

Here is what I was getting when I had AA turned on in fs9...but even with it off now, I still don't get the great graphics.



http://myweb.cableone.net/bschott/ac/2.JPG

What I would like (this is the same aircraft but taken from someone else)




These Screenshots came with the PROJECT OPENSKY BOEING 747-400

Can anyone help?

thanks...resized.

Could anyone help with how I can get the A/C set to ultra-high details?

bchott,

You are right; you should be getting much nicer airplane textures with your setup..
My system is not nearly up to yours in resources although my nvidia card is about the same price range/quality as yours.
My settings on average are about 10% lower than yours except for clouds and water detail which I keep on low..My FPS are capped at 30.

What are your AA settings at the ATI properties? As you know, turn AA of in the game  properties.

The pics below were at 4X AA which I run all the time on my system.

It looks like video drivers to me, maybe dry some different ones.
How about DX9 settings?  All display options enabled?


http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v495/mhoratio/ScreenHunter_202.jpg

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v495/mhoratio/ScreenHunter_149.jpg

Those two close ups are edited. Look at the heat waves under the engines on the third one.


Go to the control panel and force all setting to max good via the driver, that should/might help.