[Sledgehammer427]

hello all,
I wish I didnt have to come here to complain almost every 3 weeks, but my pc is homebuilt, and i wish i had the money (18 and a horrible time to be that age) to make everything right with the world.

down to business

I bought X-plane 9 to enjoy something different (and far more realistic) than FSX. unfortunately, i have some interesting graphical issues.

the game runs fine (even though somewhere along the line is HAS to tell me i set my GFX settings a bit high, it really bugs me) but when i fly over mountainous terrain (we are talking northern texas-ish (((forgive me if im wrong, but im trying to detail wher i am flying by a non-lined globe map))) and, no matter what, i see these huge...things coming up from the ground and shooting up into infinity.
they are robins egg blue and have some black "noise" its not static, the column "flickers" but does not disappear. also, sometimes i have other anomalies, where there are long "pipes that run horozontally across the aircraft. it doesnt happena ll the time, but its usually over land.
i dont know what graphics setting causes this (i ruled out AA and AF) but perhaps someone can shed some light on the subj.

ill try to get (and post) some screens to show what i mean