Well....I picked up an eVGA GeForce 6800 Ultra AGP8X at a goog price and installed it last night. The display looks OK, not an improvement over the FX5950 Ultra, but the frame rates are a wee bit higher. However, I'm still having the same problem as the 5950. After starting the sim and flying for a few minutes, when I switch views in 2d with the hat, I see a momentary flash of a previous view, mainly the front view. If I had it in spot mode previously and now main 2D panel, I'll see a momentary view of of the spot view when using the hat switch. Also, whenever the mouse hovers over a spot where a tool tip will display, the main panel flashes and shows a previous view. It seems to lock onto a previous view for the flash showing gauge readings that were in effect when the problem started. For example, I start flying, the first few minutes, OK. Then when the panel flashing starts (when changing views or switching to minimum gauge view) I would be at maybe 3500 feet and heading of 060. After that, if I'm still climbing at 6500 feet and changed heading to say 350, when I switch views, I'll see a half second flash of the main panel at 3500 and 060. The clock in the panel also shows the previous time as well as all the gauges. It seems to be remembering a previous view and flashing this for a brief moment. Really annoying when the curser is moved around the panel. The same thing happened with the 5950 and the newest Nvidia drivers. I have 71.89 installed now. With the 5950, I had to revert back to the 61.XX drivers to eliminate the problem but the display was nowhere near as clear as the 71.89 drivers. I tried all drivers in between and all combinations of display and option settings. I recently haerd of one other person experiencing this problem but no one has replied. My system is a Dell Demension 8300, P4 3.2ghz, 1024k RAM, Windows XP Home SP2, bios up to date. I hope I don't have to wait for a new driver release from Nvidia. Who knows when that will be. Need some help please!Michael

Ok, the fact that you experience the same thing with another Vid card may rule out the Vid card and Driver issue, IMHO.I believe it is possibly related to the Hardware on your joystick/yoke hat switch.The Hat switch is one of the most used items on my CH Yoke, so I experience the same thing once in a while, and just live with it as far as Hat Switch goes. Maybe try recalibrating the Harwdware. As for the Guage readings flashing old views, I've not heard of that one, so I'm a bit stumped there.Driver preference is a personal thing, IMHO, as I think it depends on over all system specs and how they relate to one another.Regards,JoeGrab My FREEWARE Voice recognition Profiles here:[a href=http://library.avsim.net/esearch.php?CatID=fs2004misc&DLID=58334]Cessna 172 Voice Profile[/a][a href=http://library.avsim.net/esearch.php?CatID=fs2004misc&DLID=60740]FSD Avanti Voice Profile[/a].You will need the main FREEWARE Flight Assistant program to use it, get it here:[a href=http://library.avsim.net/esearch.php?CatID=genutils&DLID=39661]Flight Assistant 2.2[/a]

I have the exact same problem with a GF 6600GT and four different sets of drivers (66.xx, 71.89, 72.10, 76.45). Turn off (NOT "application controlled," all the way off) anti-aliasing and anisotropic filtering in your nVidia control panel, reboot, and see if that fixes it. It did for me.Lewis "Moose" GregoryRichmond, Virginia

That simply doesn't sound right. If you have to switch off all the features that the card has, surely that indicates a problem elsewhere in the system?I would run driver cleaner pro, remove all traces of ALL previous drivers as what you are both describing really does sound like a conflict with an older/newer driver set. Clean out, and start againHowever, before doing that, I would reinstall or update chipset drivers for your mobo, even just reinstalling may allow the mobo drivers to recognise the card correctly. You may want to use Powerstrip to check that all accelearation features on the card are actually running - you don't say if its PCI Express or AGP but assuming it's AGP check that it is running at full (8x) speed, and check by enabling/disabling Fast Writes as this can often be a problem on some cards.Also run a DirectX diagnostic and verify you have full video acceleration.Allcott

I've always run a driver cleaner when changing drivers. I'm still testing different configurations but discovered the problem does not occur with antialiasing turned off. I have anisotropic filtering at 16x. Maybe it's the combination of these two. Trouble is, scenery looks choppy without antialiasing even though I enabled it in FS9 options. I did reinstall the MB bios(if that is what you ment by chipset drivers) and the card is an AGP 8X.<>Where and how is this done?<>Again, how do I check this?Thanks for your help.Michael

I tried uninstalling the nVidia drivers (72.10), used Driver Cleaner Pro to sweep things up, then installed 76.45 and turned on 2xAA and 2xAF...uh-uh. Every time I brought up a pop-up window, it ghost-imaged the screen all around it. I uninstalled, cleaned, re-installed 71.89 (the latest version from nVidia's website), and it still doesn't work with AA/AF, it does the usual screen-ghosting.I'm running the latest BIOS for my Asus A7N8X, and I *think* I've got the latest set of nVidia nForce drivers. I'm not sure I want to risk messing with those, I've had some nasty problems in the past when I did.DXDiag is showing full video acceleration and reporting no problems (I have DirectX 9.0c installed). I think I may need to find a good nVidia tweaking program and check some settings out. AGP aperture size is set in the BIOS to 128 MB.BTW, this was reported back in April on nVidia's nZone boards, but I don't think nVidia tech reps actually frequent those boards, and I don't know how to report this to them. Considering the 71.89 drivers are two months old, if there is a driver bug, it's been out there for quite a while.Lewis "Moose" GregoryRichmond, Virginia

It seems I can run AF maxed out at 16X but when I add in AA, I get the flashing problem. Trouble is, display looks fantastic at AA 8xS. Like you said, maybe there is a utility program. Or I can wait for new drivers. I'll probably call eVGA or Nvidia this week for some help.Michael

The problem was using antialiasing on the card setup. I was just trying FS9 antialiasing to see if it did something. It apparently does nothing worthwhile (at least for me) but I did resolve the problem. I have a Dell FP2001 monitor and have been using it at 1280x960. I set it to max (1600x1200) and the flashing is eliminated even with AA at 8xS and AF at 16X. All my sliders are maxed out as are options except AI traffic (set at 20). Scenery is great now and so far no flashing. I'll keep trying.

Interesting, I came across lots of bugs running nvidia drivers for some reason. I have problems with my ATI card now, waveing textures... still can't figure out how to get rid of it