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FSXA 2048 textures in VC?

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In my project I have decided to use a couple of 2048 size textures in the VC due to the small writing on the panels this seemed the best option. However in FSdS it looks fine but in FSX it looks very blurry with less detail....

Any ideas why it might be doing this?! The texture was saved as DXt3.
 
Check

Code: 
TEXTURE_MAX_LOAD=2048

in your fsx.CFG to have the best resolution in the sim. Or save your textures without mipmaps.
 
DXT3 -- why?

DXT3 is no longer the format of choice. Use DXT1 DDS if you don't need an alpha, else DXT5 DDS. And if you create them via ImageTool then use the one from the FSX SDK, not the FS9 one.
 
Thanks for the suggestion, it works. Why is dxt3 no longer the format of choice, what does dxt5 do over 3?
 
Overall better quality, much better alpha channel handling (full 256 grayscale).
 
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