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andor Certificates/Ratings/Crew Stations: "Scenery&Fr.Rates" 07-04-01, 16:57z  G,day All... looks like Darkmoment & I are on similar tortuous paths My "Rig" is now as follows:- Monitor NEC Multisync V920 19" CPU Genuine Intel Pen.(r)111 Family6Model7 450mhz Hard disc 6.04Gb Free 2.14Gb (Shortly upping to 40Gb) RAM 320Mb 90% Free Video Card 3D Force2 MX NVIDIA 64Mb GE Force2 MX Video Driver Direct X Version Direct X 8.0 (4.08.00.0400) Sound SB Live E400 Creative value NABTS/FEC VBI Codec Wave Top caption de-coder. Resolution used in FS2K 1024x768x16 Desktop 800x600x16 Fl Sim 2000 pro update 2b ------------------------------- To get FS2K to run beyond the first loading scenery ( when it froze and had to switch off and restart) we ended with the following settings in the (DirectX Diagnostic Tools) 1. Direct Draw Accelerator Enabled. 2. Direct 3D Acceleration shows Not Available 3. AGP Texture Accelerator Disabled ------------------------- With all the above the Scenery still "shimmers" . Have tried all varied slider settings. Frame rate is slower than when using the old Viper V770 card with 132RAM. Is very slow in loading the VPC page and Message Board etc. Have somehow lost the TX capabilities in RW Scenery is a lot more detailed but "ragged" Above all rather longwinded but would appreciate any info. and help.. As you say Ben nothing good is gained easily and I will get on top of this eventually. TIA. Regards AndyC Top

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Ben Chiu Certificates/Ratings/Crew Stations: 1. "RE: Scenery&Fr.Rates" 07-04-01, 19:27z  ____________________ Greetings Andy: There are a couple of things that don't look right (pardon the pun!): > Video Driver Direct X Version Direct X 8.0 (4.08.00.0400) > 2. Direct 3D Acceleration shows Not Available > 3. AGP Texture Accelerator Disabled It sounds like you installed the video drivers and DirectX in the wrong order or had a bad install with one of them. First, please download and install DX8a (be sure it's the one for your OS). DX8 didn't work for many people. Now check to see if FS2K will work and that Direct3D is enabled and AGP Texture is enabled. If all is well, you're done. If not, try installing the newest video drivers you downloaded. The latest ones should be OK with DX8a, but you need to follow the instructions included with them. The reason why things look terrible and are slow is you're not using the 3D portion of your video card. Just a silly question, you did remove your old video card before putting this on in, right? Also, what's this Wave Top caption de-coder? Does it conflict with anything in Control Panel, System? Finally, the slow response from the VPC probably is due to a problem on our end--our ISP has a router problem which is causeing very bad connection rates due to lost data packets. They've been informed and hopefully they'll get around to fixing it faster than they did the last time. Hope this helps! Ben Top

darkmoment Certificates/Ratings/Crew Stations: 2. "RE: Scenery&Fr.Rates" 07-04-01, 20:59z  Oh men of momentous MS minds, Ain't it crazy that we're all filling up your forum with questions on how to get FS2000 to run properly, rather than how to use it i.e., fly? I just hope all the good things we hear about FS2002 are true and that MS have recognised that there are a lot of unhappy punters out there who've invested in "rebateless next versions" every two years expecting wondrous things only to find that the latest FS is slower than ever. Buy a new computer, and they do it again. I've now got to the stage where I've fiddled about so much with my own FS2000 installation that I don't know how to go back to square one. I'll swear that despite following all advice given, I'm getting slower frame rates than ever and cannot understand why the visual system "pauses" sometimes (actually quite often) with sound and frame rate indicator still actively rabbiting away. Needless to say, when everything snaps back into action, I'm fifteen feet off the threshold, nose down with attitude, coffee in hand, a hostie in my lap, fighting a 35' offset doing 280 knots and wondering what happened when the screen goes black and my 'Bill Gates Special' starts making noises like an epileptic goat in a biscuit tin. Thank God it's not for real. I think I'm going to go back to flying aircraft with one 64KB texture file, flying IFR on six instruments, sound off, all scenery thrown in the bin ... you get the picture, or rather, wouldn't. I'd get magic frame rates ... maybe I could get a patent to release it under a name like .... let's think .... FS5? Stutteringly, Mark "Dark Moment" Beaumont "The two most useless things in aviation are altitude above you and runway behind you" Top

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