This is an FSX problem, but I've noticed it while flying CS planes... Anyways, Whenever I start climbing much above 10,000 feet, the ground below me stops refining the textures (by that I mean they are still blurry, as if they were far-off). This was not a big deal while I was flying at FL320, but when I descended down to 2000 feet, the ground textures looked awful and very few buildings loaded (not even one autogen building appeared). I don't have a particularly powerful system, but I have been able to run FSX at high settings in the past and maintain reasonable frame rates. When this problem occurred, my frame rates were still fine, but the graphics were poor, as if I had the settings turned down (which I don't). Is there anything I can do to fix this?

Oh, I wonder if it would have something to do with the fact that I installed the frame rate limiter suggested at http://www.venetubo.com/fsx.html, but I don't think it installed correctly, so I have my FPS target set at Unlimited without a working FPS limiter. Could this be the problem?

Thanks,
boeing247

Thanks! Oh, while I was looking at my scenery library, I noticed that Default Scenery and Default Terrain had the lowest priorities, would it help to move them up?

boeing247 wrote on Apr 9^th, 2011 at 6:54pm:

Add-on scenery goes to the top because when FSX is loading scenery, it starts at 1 and goes down the list. Once the add-on scenery is loaded, it ignores the default (because the add-on scenery was given precedence). It would look silly if an add-on airport AND a default airport were both seen together.

Mark

This may seem like an obvious question, but it can't hurt to ask. Would it be better to turn up the texture resolution and hope that the computer devotes more time to it and makes the textures sharper, or would it be better to turn down the resolution in hopes that the computer will completely load the textures to what they're set at?

Thanks,
boeing247

Turning them down might actually improve the quality. The thing is that my poor computer can't even load low-end textures. It's loading a blurry mess.

I was able to actually substantially improve (though they're not perfect, but pretty good) the textures by going into the fsx.cfg file and setting TextureMaxLoad to 12 (it was at 6). It cost me two FPS, but that's not so bad (though it's more than it sounds, considering I get generally low FPS).

When Microsoft Flight comes out, I'll likely be installing it (and maybe FSX, if I can't get any addons onto it) on a brand-new desktop (or really good laptop, like one suggested to me in another topic). I have to do some searching for a good computer, though. 

No change. Perhaps I didn't turn off enough? I turned off all the unneeded continents (leaving on only Eastern and Central North America, since I wasn't sure where the divisions were), the city custom sceneries that I wasn't near (which I think was all of them), and a good number of the "base" areas (e.g. 0989 base). What exactly are those base ones, and how many/which ones should I turn off?

The scenery does come up after awhile, but the problem is that I have to pause FSX in and wait for it to load properly. 

I'll post a screenshot when I get the chance.