I got a brand new card, called tech 3 times and followed all their guesses, followed all the tweaks in forums I can find, but still about 300 feet down a runway get "the black screen of death" to reboot. But, with acceleration off it doesn't do that, just looks like Leggo-Sim. (CFS2, 2k2 and Fs9). Tech whines it's all here, I whine I want a whole new card. Who is probably right?

What system? Did you have an Nvidia card before. If so, did you uninstall their drivers and run a driver cleanup program making sure you got rid of all the left over garbage? If your system is not brand new, did you update the chipset drivers and all the other drivers on your system?

Sorry: Pentium 4 2.4, 512, XP, all updates. Yes, have nVidia, and uninstalled, and even went into regedit to get the last of it out, since the driver cleanups I found didn't list XP as an ops. Is there one? Tech also advised making aperture just 64...didn't work. (enditall didn't either).

If you have a smartgart tab on you control panel, turn off fastwrites. Also, change to 4xAGP under that same tab. You won't see any performance difference. Restart the machine. Radeon cards like the aperture set at 64 so leave that there. Which drivers are you running.PS: make sure you delete the fs9 cfg file if you changed cards or drivers and let the sim build a new one.

Well..someone with something new to try! Much appreciated..although it does seem that setting things down is odd. Latest Catalyst drivers.

Both fastwrites and 4xAGP is a Radeon thing. It doesn't make a sqaut of difference performance wise. Just provides for more stability when running these high end cards on the current systems. First advice to anyone with a Radeon whether they are having stability trouble or not is to do the above and set the aperture at 64. Guess you could call them the "three basic rules" of the radeon.

Seems so, haha...it's those cold winters they have up there. :-) Is uninstalling nvidia piece by piece, place by found place, and in regedit ok?

Couldn't tell you? I've never mixed Nvidia Drivers with my Radeon. It's on a machine of it's own. Maybe that's why it works so well?

One way to find out....will report back :-) Thanks!

Nope..it's hardware problem. Sooo..goes back to ATI.