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BirdDog, Yeah, for me it's a considerable improvement. And I'm glad to hear you're benefiting as well. Cheers, Greg

The latest Catalyst drivers, 10.11, solve this old trouble. Now, I maintain frames in the mid-high forties in dense overcast, with little or no stuttering. (The FSX guys are delighted too as this has been a long standing problem for them.) So if you're using older versions still, give these later drivers a trial! Cheers, Greg

Everything looks great to me, the new terrain especially so. Looking very much forward to P4! Thank you to all involved for the effort. Cheers, Greg S

Great info, thanks BirdDog. Cheers, Greg S

Here's a tip for anyone with an Ati card and this particular trouble: try setting the anti-aliasing mode to “Adaptive Multi-sample”. Normally, this lowers frame-rates somewhat in relation to the standard “Multi-sample” mode, but with my OFF installation it killed most of the stuttering. So evidently this trouble is related to AA after all. Cheers, Greg

I'm still struggling with this! And it's definitely not a matter of AA or anisotropic filtering. As I've mentioned, reducing resolution eliminates the frame-rate plunge induced by heavy overcast. But, despite high frame-rates, stuttering remains when looking at the clouds. Oddly, this stuttering can in turn be eliminated by turning on “info cycle” (“z” key). I wish there were some other way as all that red text is a distraction. Cheers, Greg

Hi BirdDog, I'm glad this has helped you! As for me, I spoke a little too soon – disabling in cockpit fog causes texture corruption at the horizons, such that sections of the horizon appear to be discoloured or washed-out. Do you see this problem too? Cheers, Greg

After much – much! - experimentation, I've discovered that this problem is solved completely by disabling “Virtual Cockpit Fog” in overrides. (And I can't notice any graphic degradation.) I hope this is useful to someone. Cheers, Greg

It isn't aa or aniso. Rather, I suspect it's an ATI driver or hardware thing. But thanks for the suggestions gents. Lowering resolution will need do for now. Cheers, Greg

Hi All, I have just got a new notebook which I'm struggling a little to optimize for OFF. Specs are as follows: Clevo/Sager NP8690 Core i7-620M, 2.66-3.33GHz 6GB DDR3, 1333MHz ATI Radeon HD 5870, 1024MB DDR5 Windows 7 Home Premium 64 bit Catalyst 10.7 Generally OFF runs very well, but there's this exception: when the sky is fully overcast, and only when looking upwards such that the sky fills the display (no or little terrain/airframe rendering), framerates drop dramatically, into the high-teens. To no avail, I've tried resolving this via game settings as well as Catalyst Control Centre settings. For instance, the cloud detail slider has little impact. In dense cloud, a setting of one produces nearly the same framerates as a setting of five. Reducing screen resolution produces mildly positive gains, but I'd rather not lower the resolution due to fuzziness when running outside of native resolution. Again, this trouble only occurs during heavy overcast, and only when the overcast sky fills the display. Failing a proper solution, would it be possible to simply remove the dense overcast texture, or to replace it with a lighter version? Any help will be warmly received. Cheers, Greg

Hi Herr Prop-Wasche, Thanks so much again for this. Useful indeed. Cheers, Greg

Hi Herr Prop-Wasche, Thank you. Such a program would be a useful utility. I'll be looking forward to it. Cheers, Greg

Thanks so much, guys! Overwriting the corrupted file with one from another folder did the trick. Oddly, perhaps, on my computer the various file sizes are all slightly different, and there are no duplicates marked “backup”. I've made my own backup of the working file. Now to be extra cautious not to kill the guy too promptly upon his miraculous return to duty......

Hi, Damn – had a good career going but can't continue due to “error at position 3822, line 1 of ViewUI.XML”. CFS III.exe crashes while the mission is loading. I know I can correct this by resetting CFS III files to default, but......And I've tried resetting views to no avail. Any advice will be appreciated. Cheers, Greg

Thank you, Fortiesboy! But I gather that some cockpits work perfectly with 6 DF, others a little less that perfectly, and others still, not so well. But perhaps I should look into it further. Cheers, Greg