Greetings,Just purchased AS2004, installed, and fired up the Flightsim. A huge problem FS9 is on the fritz. I start off creating a flight, and this is what I see:http://forums.avsim.net/user_files/86768.jpgI then select the aircraft...once the flight is loaded I have no view of anything. The view commands, like spot plane view do not work. In short FS9 is unresponsive and unusable. I will have to uninstall AS2004 until a solution can be found.My system is a 2.6Ghz P4 512MB DDR RAM NVIDIA Ge Force FX 5950 Ultra 256MB running Windows XP.v/rTodd Hontz

Hi Todd,Welcome to AS2004! Sorry you are having trouble..Have you disabled RENDER TO TEXTURE as required? If you have a 3rd party cloud set, is it 32-bit as required? It looks like you might also need a video driver update... check nvidia.com for the latest.Hope that helps!

Hi Todd,Sorry you are having trouble. I am going to start this off, but I am going to be out of town on Thursday. Others will be by to help though!First, as far as I can tell AS is not even running here. During installation AS touches nothing video related. So this might be a video driver problem. Also, Render to Texture should be turned Off.Second, the Weather must be user defined and the clear weather theme used, with dynamic change set to None.If you start with your default flight does this happen?Any 3rd party cloud textures installed?Please let us know.Edit: Seeeee I told you someone would be along!!!Hope this helps,JimActiveSky Supporthttp://www.hifisim.com/images/as2004proudsupporter.jpg

I note that your aircraft window in the selection is over black. I do not recall without firing up FS9, but that does not look correct.Do not fire up AS2004 but before firing up FS9 go into the modules folder and rename FSUIPC.dll something else or drag into into a new folder under modules for safe keeping. See if you still have that problem. You might also want to drag your activeradar.dll into that reserved folder as well just to keep a clean FS9.As stated in FS9.CFG or in the hardware video setup, turn off render to texture. Here's a copy of my display section with an experimental line commented out:[DISPLAY.Device.NVIDIA GeForce4 Ti 4200 with AGP8X.0]Mode=1152x864x32RenderToTexture=0//PanelAsTexture=0If the problem was FSUIPC, download the newest version from:http://www.schiratti.com/dowson.html. Unzip this file into a seperate folder, then copy the FSUIPC.dll only to your modules folder. Do not do anything yet to your FSUIPC.INI. While FSUIPC does not normally affect video, there have been some timing issues. My problem which occurred only on exiting a flight and only under W98SE was resolved in a beta. The next version above 3.30 will have that built in and it only applies to W98SE, but I thought it was worth mentioning. FS 9 requires version 3 and early versions had issues.Make sure you have also downloaded the latest MR2 update beta as in the first few topics pinned in the forum. While not an official release it does solve some problems other than video and works well with the latest FSUIPC.Check your version of DirectX. Version 9b works for most. In addition, some people are experiencing problems with FS9 in WXP Service Pack 2 beta. Make sure you are not higher than SP1.Make sure you NVidia driver is WHQL certified. Some versions (beta) have FS issues and add-ons can cause further problems. www.nvidia.com.On your desktop (right click, properties) or from CP, go to display settings,advanced, maybe advanced again, and a tree should open up under your NVidia dialog. Check the various DirectX3d options. Also try running FS in 1024x resolution (in the hardware settings dialog) and your desktop the same.I realize this is a lot, but how everything ties together is complex for any DirectX3D application since the "standard" portion of video drivers are bypassed by Direct X.One more issue: On starting your rig, go into your BIOS setup advanced, memory area, and see if there is a setting for the AGP Aperture. You want at least 128 Mb. Note the current setting so you can return to it.Hope something works for you.

Thanks for the help guys you were right! Rener to texture is off, drivers updated. Now I still need a little help with this:http://forums.avsim.net/user_files/86903.jpgI have the weather set to user defined and clear skies. The change rate is none. Note the current ASOS banner on top. Do not know why it keeps reverting to rain and very low visibility. I keep refreshing then it goes back to this rain and fog. Any help would be greatly appreciated.CheersTodd Hontz

Hi Todd,Just tried, can't duplicate.Might be related to older versions.Please download MR2 B130 Beta (from top of forum pinned topic) and install. Does this fix things?

Don't forget to update the FSUIPC.DLL with the one in the install package (Read the install directions)

Hi:I have version 3.30...is there a newer version? I will download the update and see how that goes.CheersTodd Hontz

Hi Todd,The new version in located in your AS2004 folder. You need to manually copy and paste into your main modules folder.Hope this helps,JimActiveSky Supporthttp://www.hifisim.com/images/as2004proudsupporter.jpg