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Video Display w/MS Flight Sim 9 (FS9)
I have a Dimension 8400 with a nVidia GeForce 6800 GTO 256MB video card. My
computer w/video card was purchased in Dec, 2004. I recently downloaded and installed a new video driver from nVidia web site. The version was Forceware 84.21. I selected that version based upon my research of what others have downloaded and used. When I start my FS9, the splash screen flashes as does the main screen whenever I press the ALT key or F10 for example. I have tried various combinations of antialiasing and anisotropic settings along with the display quality setting. If any one has any suggestions on how to fix the flashes, I would sure appreciate some help. BTW, I cannot find any driver specifically for the GTO version of this card. Before downloading and installing the new driver, there wasn't anything wrong with my display. Also, just so as not to waste anyone's time, I have followed every set of instructions I can find on uninstalling old drivers, using SAFE MODE for installing new drivers, running a clean-up utility to remove any fragments of old driver files, etc. I even printed out and followed step-by-step the instructions from the nVidia web site. Thanks. Harry |
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Video Display w/MS Flight Sim 9 (FS9)
Harry Gordon wrote:
When I start my FS9, the splash screen flashes as does the main screen whenever I press the ALT key or F10 for example. I have tried various combinations of antialiasing and anisotropic settings along with the display quality setting. If any one has any suggestions on how to fix the flashes, I would sure appreciate some help. Have you tried turning off Hardware Acceleration (graphics Properties, Settings, Advanced, Troubleshoot, move slider to None)? That worked for a friend who had flickering problems with his mouse in MS Flight Sim. HTH, Pete. |
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Video Display w/MS Flight Sim 9 (FS9)
"Harry Gordon" wrote in message ... I have a Dimension 8400 with a nVidia GeForce 6800 GTO 256MB video card. My computer w/video card was purchased in Dec, 2004. I recently downloaded and installed a new video driver from nVidia web site. The version was Forceware 84.21. I selected that version based upon my research of what others have downloaded and used. When I start my FS9, the splash screen flashes as does the main screen whenever I press the ALT key or F10 for example. I have tried various combinations of antialiasing and anisotropic settings along with the display quality setting. If any one has any suggestions on how to fix the flashes, I would sure appreciate some help. BTW, I cannot find any driver specifically for the GTO version of this card. Before downloading and installing the new driver, there wasn't anything wrong with my display. Also, just so as not to waste anyone's time, I have followed every set of instructions I can find on uninstalling old drivers, using SAFE MODE for installing new drivers, running a clean-up utility to remove any fragments of old driver files, etc. I even printed out and followed step-by-step the instructions from the nVidia web site. Thanks. Harry If Pete's suggestion does not help try posting in the alt.games.Microsoft.flight-sim newsgroup. Lots of help there especially with video cards and issues Bill |
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Video Display w/MS Flight Sim 9 (FS9)
"P" wrote in message ... Harry Gordon wrote: When I start my FS9, the splash screen flashes as does the main screen whenever I press the ALT key or F10 for example. I have tried various combinations of antialiasing and anisotropic settings along with the display quality setting. If any one has any suggestions on how to fix the flashes, I would sure appreciate some help. Have you tried turning off Hardware Acceleration (graphics Properties, Settings, Advanced, Troubleshoot, move slider to None)? That worked for a friend who had flickering problems with his mouse in MS Flight Sim. HTH, Pete. Thanks, Pete. But unfortunately that didn't work. Appreciate the help! Harry |
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Video Display w/MS Flight Sim 9 (FS9)
"W" wrote in message news "Harry Gordon" wrote in message ... I have a Dimension 8400 with a nVidia GeForce 6800 GTO 256MB video card. My computer w/video card was purchased in Dec, 2004. I recently downloaded and installed a new video driver from nVidia web site. The version was Forceware 84.21. I selected that version based upon my research of what others have downloaded and used. When I start my FS9, the splash screen flashes as does the main screen whenever I press the ALT key or F10 for example. I have tried various combinations of antialiasing and anisotropic settings along with the display quality setting. If any one has any suggestions on how to fix the flashes, I would sure appreciate some help. BTW, I cannot find any driver specifically for the GTO version of this card. Before downloading and installing the new driver, there wasn't anything wrong with my display. Also, just so as not to waste anyone's time, I have followed every set of instructions I can find on uninstalling old drivers, using SAFE MODE for installing new drivers, running a clean-up utility to remove any fragments of old driver files, etc. I even printed out and followed step-by-step the instructions from the nVidia web site. Thanks. Harry If Pete's suggestion does not help try posting in the alt.games.Microsoft.flight-sim newsgroup. Lots of help there especially with video cards and issues Bill Bill, thank you. I have done a lot of research in the flight-sim NG. I was hoping to find someone in this NG with the exact same Dell configuration that I have and had experienced the same problem. In fact, after asking my question here last night, I went to the flight-sim NG and found some very helpful information that I didn't see before. Again, I appreciate your suggestion. Harry |
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Video Display w/MS Flight Sim 9 (FS9)
"Harry Gordon" wrote in message ... "W" wrote in message news "Harry Gordon" wrote in message ... I have a Dimension 8400 with a nVidia GeForce 6800 GTO 256MB video card. My computer w/video card was purchased in Dec, 2004. I recently downloaded and installed a new video driver from nVidia web site. The version was Forceware 84.21. I selected that version based upon my research of what others have downloaded and used. When I start my FS9, the splash screen flashes as does the main screen whenever I press the ALT key or F10 for example. I have tried various combinations of antialiasing and anisotropic settings along with the display quality setting. If any one has any suggestions on how to fix the flashes, I would sure appreciate some help. BTW, I cannot find any driver specifically for the GTO version of this card. Before downloading and installing the new driver, there wasn't anything wrong with my display. Also, just so as not to waste anyone's time, I have followed every set of instructions I can find on uninstalling old drivers, using SAFE MODE for installing new drivers, running a clean-up utility to remove any fragments of old driver files, etc. I even printed out and followed step-by-step the instructions from the nVidia web site. Thanks. Harry If Pete's suggestion does not help try posting in the alt.games.Microsoft.flight-sim newsgroup. Lots of help there especially with video cards and issues Bill Bill, thank you. I have done a lot of research in the flight-sim NG. I was hoping to find someone in this NG with the exact same Dell configuration that I have and had experienced the same problem. In fact, after asking my question here last night, I went to the flight-sim NG and found some very helpful information that I didn't see before. Again, I appreciate your suggestion. Harry Harry - Throw a post back here should you come across a solution. It helps all of us to learn new information. Thanks, Stew |
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Video Display w/MS Flight Sim 9 (FS9)
"Harry Gordon" wrote in message ... "W" wrote in message news "Harry Gordon" wrote in message ... I have a Dimension 8400 with a nVidia GeForce 6800 GTO 256MB video card. My computer w/video card was purchased in Dec, 2004. I recently downloaded and installed a new video driver from nVidia web site. The version was Forceware 84.21. I selected that version based upon my research of what others have downloaded and used. When I start my FS9, the splash screen flashes as does the main screen whenever I press the ALT key or F10 for example. I have tried various combinations of antialiasing and anisotropic settings along with the display quality setting. If any one has any suggestions on how to fix the flashes, I would sure appreciate some help. BTW, I cannot find any driver specifically for the GTO version of this card. Before downloading and installing the new driver, there wasn't anything wrong with my display. Also, just so as not to waste anyone's time, I have followed every set of instructions I can find on uninstalling old drivers, using SAFE MODE for installing new drivers, running a clean-up utility to remove any fragments of old driver files, etc. I even printed out and followed step-by-step the instructions from the nVidia web site. Thanks. Harry If Pete's suggestion does not help try posting in the alt.games.Microsoft.flight-sim newsgroup. Lots of help there especially with video cards and issues Bill Bill, thank you. I have done a lot of research in the flight-sim NG. I was hoping to find someone in this NG with the exact same Dell configuration that I have and had experienced the same problem. In fact, after asking my question here last night, I went to the flight-sim NG and found some very helpful information that I didn't see before. Again, I appreciate your suggestion. Harry I have an 8400 as well except with an ATI video card. They do get finicky from time to time :-) Hope you get it resolved Bill |
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Video Display w/MS Flight Sim 9 (FS9)
"S.Lewis" wrote in message news "Harry Gordon" wrote in message ... "W" wrote in message news "Harry Gordon" wrote in message ... I have a Dimension 8400 with a nVidia GeForce 6800 GTO 256MB video card. My computer w/video card was purchased in Dec, 2004. I recently downloaded and installed a new video driver from nVidia web site. The version was Forceware 84.21. I selected that version based upon my research of what others have downloaded and used. When I start my FS9, the splash screen flashes as does the main screen whenever I press the ALT key or F10 for example. I have tried various combinations of antialiasing and anisotropic settings along with the display quality setting. If any one has any suggestions on how to fix the flashes, I would sure appreciate some help. BTW, I cannot find any driver specifically for the GTO version of this card. Before downloading and installing the new driver, there wasn't anything wrong with my display. Also, just so as not to waste anyone's time, I have followed every set of instructions I can find on uninstalling old drivers, using SAFE MODE for installing new drivers, running a clean-up utility to remove any fragments of old driver files, etc. I even printed out and followed step-by-step the instructions from the nVidia web site. Thanks. Harry If Pete's suggestion does not help try posting in the alt.games.Microsoft.flight-sim newsgroup. Lots of help there especially with video cards and issues Bill Bill, thank you. I have done a lot of research in the flight-sim NG. I was hoping to find someone in this NG with the exact same Dell configuration that I have and had experienced the same problem. In fact, after asking my question here last night, I went to the flight-sim NG and found some very helpful information that I didn't see before. Again, I appreciate your suggestion. Harry Harry - Throw a post back here should you come across a solution. It helps all of us to learn new information. Thanks, Stew I ended up trashing the new driver and re-installing the old one. After adding FS9 to the driver list of applications and maxing out the antialiasing and anisotropic settings, things are pretty much back to normal again. With the new driver, I was finally able to eliminate the flashing by maxing out the A/A's but I wasn't able to eliminate the aircraft preview screen being black as well as other views being black. Oddly enough, only when I was in full-screen mode did I get the black windows. In window mode, everything was fine. Oh well, you can't win them all. Harry |
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Video Display w/MS Flight Sim 9 (FS9)
"W" wrote in message news "Harry Gordon" wrote in message ... "W" wrote in message news "Harry Gordon" wrote in message ... I have a Dimension 8400 with a nVidia GeForce 6800 GTO 256MB video card. My computer w/video card was purchased in Dec, 2004. I recently downloaded and installed a new video driver from nVidia web site. The version was Forceware 84.21. I selected that version based upon my research of what others have downloaded and used. When I start my FS9, the splash screen flashes as does the main screen whenever I press the ALT key or F10 for example. I have tried various combinations of antialiasing and anisotropic settings along with the display quality setting. If any one has any suggestions on how to fix the flashes, I would sure appreciate some help. BTW, I cannot find any driver specifically for the GTO version of this card. Before downloading and installing the new driver, there wasn't anything wrong with my display. Also, just so as not to waste anyone's time, I have followed every set of instructions I can find on uninstalling old drivers, using SAFE MODE for installing new drivers, running a clean-up utility to remove any fragments of old driver files, etc. I even printed out and followed step-by-step the instructions from the nVidia web site. Thanks. Harry If Pete's suggestion does not help try posting in the alt.games.Microsoft.flight-sim newsgroup. Lots of help there especially with video cards and issues Bill Bill, thank you. I have done a lot of research in the flight-sim NG. I was hoping to find someone in this NG with the exact same Dell configuration that I have and had experienced the same problem. In fact, after asking my question here last night, I went to the flight-sim NG and found some very helpful information that I didn't see before. Again, I appreciate your suggestion. Harry I have an 8400 as well except with an ATI video card. They do get finicky from time to time :-) Hope you get it resolved Bill Thanks, Bill. See my response to Stew :-). Harry |
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