FSX: This graphics card does not meet minimum requirements...

[takl23 6]

New Zotac GTX970. Rest of the system specs: I2500k OC'd 4.4ghz MSI mobo 16gb ram. Win7 64bit. 

 

Installed new 970 tonight. Upgrading from 660ti. Installed new card, removed old drivers, reboot installed new drivers reboot. Received the error: This graphics card does not meet minimum requirements for shader support. This product requires a geForce3/Radeon8500 class or better graphics card. FSX will now exit.  

 

I tried removing the shaders in username/local/microsoft... and erasing the fsx.cfg. CFG shows the new card. Nothing is working. I got the card for FSX but also for another sim I run. 

 

I did remove FSX and reinstall. Rebooted and then installed Acceleration and that's when I got the error. FSX ran w/o Acceleration installed. 

 

Any thoughts are more than welcome!

 

Tim

[zmak 331]

Are you sure your not plugged into your MOBO socket? its easy to do and you would then be using the vastly inferior on board GPU

[takl23 6]

I found the issue. My GoogleFu was a little off. See this thread: http://community.vatsim-uk.co.uk/topic/29425-calling-any-fsx-expert/ and this from this thread: 

 

You pointed me in the right direction, and by disabling Shape Services iDisplay and Air Display Graphics Adapter in my Device Manager, I am now able to use FSX using SP2. I have wasted so much time trying to isolate this problem I am now over the moon! I can now start installing all my other aircraft and services and get back to a normal life....

 

Thanks Zoran, I'm not. I run triple screen 2DVI x 1 HDMI, but that would be a good thought. 

 

Thank you for your quick reply!

[CFIJose 5,485]

Tim,

Let us know how much better FSX performs with the new GPU.

Thanks.

Jose

[takl23 6]

I really like it so far. I brought AA to 32x in Nvidia Inspector as I was getting some shimmering trees. Using the flight 1 b200 at Blueprints LAX I noticed a marked fps improvement of about 8-10fps so from 15 to about 25 on very dense scenery settings up from dense.

 

I will sell my 660ti to offset the cost but the price point at $330usd was well worth it imho especially because I also run iRacing on triples.

 

Tim