WindowsXP Pro and SP1 still driving me crazy at times.

[Guest]

Every now and then I still get the FS2002 menu with black boxes on them when I fly in 3D mode. The only way to stop this from happening is to turn off FSAA. Anyone have a work around for this and is anyone still getting this problem. I have a G4ti4400 with the 40.72 drivers. I have reinstalled the video drivers and it still comes up. I hate to turn off FSAA but what else is there to do.

[Guest Stratus_Fractus]

You could upgrade to the latest drivers. Hope that would work. Nice system btw.

[Guest Rob]

On a very similar system I use the 41.09's. Work a treat. :)

[Guest jase439]

Appears to be a timing related issue when the graphics card is first initialized by the driver. The 41.xx series seem to mitigate this problem somewhat but I occassionally experience this when starting and restarting FS. It usually works fine for me the first time.J

[Guest Stratus_Fractus]

Just had a thought, could be texture sharpening in your AA options.

[Guest simpilot]

Talon,How is that nForce2 mobo working out with FS2K2? The reason I ask is because I have an Epox 8RDA+ on order and will pair it with a 1800+ T'bred, 2x256 Samsung PC2700 and a Ti4200. I primarily use this rig for this consuming habit of ours :-) and would like to know about performance on your rig.Cheers!

[Guest]

The setup I have runs great. Been running it for a month without a single problem. I have everything maxed out except for AI's and Autogen and she purrs like a kitten. I can land at Simflyers DFW or LAX with out a problem. I'll try the new video drivers and see if that fixes the problem. Thanks for the advice.

[Guest]

I turned off texture sharpening but left FSAA turned on. Looks like that may have fixed it. I noticed that my FPS numbers at the top of the screen look a lot more crisp and not blury as before. I'll leave it at that for awhile and see how it goes. Thanks again for the advice.

[Guest]

jerrycwo4I know that this is NOT a help but after waiting a number of months I finally installed Directx 9 and the windows SP1. Although I do not have any problems with either one of them I also do NOT see ANY differance on my computer since I installed both programs?????jerry

[Guest Rob]

Jerry,Microsoft Flight Simulator currently does not take advantage of any DirectX 9 features. Windows XP Service Pack 1 patches Windows (mainly security flaws), and in no way affects Flight Simulator.Although neither of these programs directly affect Flight Sim, it is always a good idea to install them.

[Guest jase439]

The blurries in the text are an artifact of anisotropic filtering. Regrettably, Microsoft included "Texture Sharpening" on the FSAA page which is just a "quickie" checkbox for enabling AF. Technically speaking, it doubles your existing level of anisotropic filtering (or sets it to 2x if the slider is set to OFF on the AF page). This has caused people no end of headache on here since this checkbox has nothing to do with anti aliasing.Never mess with this check box. Leave it blank. If you desire AF in the future, do it from the AF page ;-)Glad you got it sorted out. Don't be alarmed if you get the 'black box' effect every once in a while - it still happens to me, but pretty rarely. Restarting the sim is generally all it takes.J