"Half Screen" when flying - video settings?

[chknbone]

Radeon 9600 series card with 6.12 drivers (last pre-Vista build ATI put out)

When I try flying up high in the chopper I start to see only 1/2 of the land at around 100 ft up and the other half of my screen turns into is a light blue/ grayish sky. It seemed like the guy I was gunning with could see a lot farther than me. He kept saying things like "he's straight out in front of us" but the objects he was talking about didn't get drawn on my screen until I moved in significantly closer.

I've currently got my game settings at "medium" for effects and geometry and low for everything else. I also have my Distance set at 100% so I'm at a loss for why I can't seem to see as far as others. Any suggestions?


Here's a pic of starting to see only "half" of my screen; Construction sight is 300 meters away and I'm at about 100 feet up. Is this a typical screen of what everybody else sees?

[BPCrusher01]

Increase geometry and view distance. See if that works.

[chknbone]

Thanks.

I bumped up the geometry and terrain up to "high" and now I can see the entire construction site (from the picture above) from much farther out.

I didn't realize those two setting would affect distance. I thought they would increase the amount of detail.

Just another note....

FYI: The normal gameplay has a very slight choppy feel but it's almost unnoticable. However, sniping became near impossible for me when I bumped up the Terrain and Geometry settings to "high" because once I zoomed in the display was extememly choppy.

[AmericanDad]

you can also explore your ATI control panel and select the 'performance' setting if it's not already slected.