My ground textures and terrain mesh get very blurry when i look at them from far away at an angle.  If I look straight down the detail is somewhat good but when i look at an angle the texture gets blurry and the mesh less detailed.  When i move closer they get clearer a square at a time.  im sure this is called something but this is the only way i know how to describe it.  is there any way to tweak the fs9.cfg file to make the ground clearer at a farther distance?

You have the mip-map quality set to a low level. The higher you set it the less blurry textures will be, however when set to a high level they look grainy. You can change it in FS9, no need to edit the CFG.

DAMNIT MAN THE SPECS!!

We really cant give you more than vauge outlines of what to do until we know what we are working with. So heres what I want,

Processer name and speed
Total amount of RAM
Graphics card.

Cheers
Cameron

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Sorry, how would I find out what those are for my computer?

Sorry about that, thanks.

Pentium 4 processor 3.2GHz
1 gig of RAM
Radeon X300 SE 1.28MB HyperMemory built in

yeah, what does that mean

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thankyou mees fore repeating what cam said

woot dell FTW....joking!

I dont really have a budget at all, i dont really want to spend any money.  Im sure i cant get very far that way, but that's ok with me.

What i meant when i said "what does that mean" is what does having a dell mean, i understood the bad card thing, sorry if i didnt clarify.

im not very good at clarification , i knew that having a dell meant a dell computer, i was just wonder if dell's came with a standard system that wasn't good for FS.
Anyway, doesnt really matter, thanks for the help, my scenery isn't terrible so i'll just live with what i have, but i do need that terrain mesh that's being transfered here at SimV!

FS-GS is not worth it, with an onboard video card the money is better spent on a video card. Assuming you have a PCI-E slot.

Now i am considering getting a new card.  I'm still not sure, but if i were to get one, which is the best and cheapest card and which is the best card overall?

if your tight on money, a 7800 will do good, personally its the card I would have bought had I had a little more money lying about! It runs everything pretty good from what Gunnerman told me (BF2,GW,FEAR, etc etc) I dont know too much about 7900s or 7950s, and I definatly am a noob to ATI cards.... Cheers, Gunny (DO NOT buy a lower card like I have done, you'll kill yourself over it!)

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I think the best value cards are:

7600GT - Around $120 US

7900GS - Around $200 US

Assuming you have PCI-E, not AGP.

So ... while we're at it why not add to it

If you don't have a PCIe slot but an AGP slot in your Dell you might want to consider buying a Gainward 7800 GS+ which is the fastest AGP card around these days. I have one an there's a G71 core in it, which (I believe) is the 7900 core (right Nick?). They're not cheap (around €350) and they're not the fastest but if you're happy with your system (like me) you might want to buy one of those cards ...

You'll probably end up with shots like these or these (if you like them).

BTW: a Dell is a greaat machine ... I have one too! Don't be fooled that they are bad machines. The only "bad" thing is that you can't overclock your motherboard and the likes because you can't adjust those settings in you Dell BIOS. But as long as you have your system tuned to the max your fine with a 3 Ghz. Dell with a gig of RAM.

But like the others said ... it's you card that's the weakest point