Greetings,I posted this question a little while ago, but unfortunately no one was able to solve my problem at the time, so I post it again in the hopes that since that time someone else may have experienced the same problem and found a solution.Every time I return to FS after a task switch, all clouds lose thier shape and appear as boxes, and all external aircraft lights aswell as several other 'effects' appear to have black boxes around them (in place of the glow-effect). When using FS together with a program such as SquawkBox that necessitates task switches, this can get extremely frustrating.The only way I have found to recover from this after a task switch is to cycle on/off anti-aliasing from the display/hardware menu. I guess this causes FS to 'redraw' the display. But this is the last thing I want to be doing each time I return from a task switch.Please help! :-hmmmRegards,Chris BrunnerCYVR

Chris,Please provide your system specs, i.e., Operating System, MOBO or computer name, sound card, graphics card, driver versions for your controller chips, sound, and graphics card, RAM, and any other thing you think will help troubleshoot the problem. For your graphics card, what settings have you set in the graphics card menus, what setting have you set within fs2002?

Sorry, I should have known better to include my specs. Nevertheless, they are as follows:CPU / AMD Athlon 1.33 GHzMB / EMD K7S5A w/ onboard SB 16 soundVIDEO / GF4 Ti4400 on v40.72 drivers (problem also occurs with latest WHQL certified drivers)MEM / 256 MB PC 2100 DDROS / Windows 2000Graphics settings summary:NVIDIADual monitor setup3D Antialiasing 2xDirect 3D: Fog Emulation Table enabled, Texture Anisotropic OFFFS2002Transform & Lighting, MIP Mapping, Multi-Texturing all enabledTri-Linear Filtering enabledHope this helps to troubleshoot the problem. Thanks a lot for your time.Regards :-wave,Chris BrunnerCYVR

Several things catch my eye. The amount of RAM, dual monitor setup, on-board SB16 sound, latest/greatest??? graphics card drivers.Does the on-board sound and graphics card use the same IRQ? Are you actually using two monitors and have you tried just using one to see if the problem goes away? Have you tried earlier drivers for the graphics card?It seems you are forcing 2xAA on the NVidia control panel vice letting FS2002 make the decision, is this correct? Have you tried letting FS2002 make the decision?The amount of RAM is okay but I feel more comfortable at 512MB.

Hi William,Thanks for the reply. Here's a few answers to your questions:If I checked correctly, it appears as if the onboard sound and the video card ARE on the same IRQ. By looking in device manager under resources, it showed that both devices were on Interrupt Request 07. How do you change this?The problem persists both when using only a single monitor and when allowing FS to control the anti-aliasing and when using earlier versions of the driver.I'll look into getting a second stick of RAM. Maybe that's the problem.Again, thanks a lot for the feedback.Regards :-wave,Chris BrunnerCYVR