After running fs for about 20 minutes with my new ATI Radeon 9800 Pro (128mb version), textures start blurring and than don't reload at all! This is true for the aircraft textures (a/c stays blank after loading), vc textures (blank parts too) and terrain textures (very blurred). I'm using the omega drivers version 5.6 and the card is overclocked to 430/750.I understand many people have a radeon 9800 pro using fs, is this a known issue? I'm thankfull for any advice!thanks-CG

CG, Does this problem happen when you use the ATI Drivers?http://www.ati.com/ I have the same 9800 pro card and I only use the ATI drivers. My only problems have been the squiggly lines on objects like towers or some building surfaces.Terry

Hi CG,This may be stating the obvious but have you tried running it at the default clock rates?I have been using an ATI Radeon 9800 Pro 128MB card for years, it has never put a foot wrong and I have never felt the need to overstress (and shorten its life) it by overclocking.I too am running the latest Omega driver set based on the 5.6 Cats and they appear to be very stable on my setup.Hope you work it out soon.Mike

I also tried the ati drivers 5.6 and it happend too. As you stated Mike it could be because of the overclocking, I'm just testing it at the normal levels now and so far the textures stayed sharp. It could have happend because of the memory modules getting too hot, but I'm not sure about that, also it may happen with normal clockings just after a longer period of time. I have to check that.I'm new to ati and don't know much about which settings to use etc. Could you tell me what settings you are using in the display settings and drivers when using fs with the 9800 pro? Are there some tricks to get better performance?thanks for the replies,-CG

If now tested the card at default clock rates and it still happens after about an hour of flying!My specs: HIS Excalibur Radeon 9800Pro IceQ/128Mb running the latest official Ati Driver 5.7, fast writes is of.Any help appreciated!regards-CG

did you uninstall your last drivers by using driver cleaner after booting into safe mode?

Yes I did a complete clean install with drivecleaner, but didn't boot in safe mode.It's a really weird phenomenon. It could be a heat problem, but that said it should work fine for with default clockings. I'll try to get a screen shot if it happens again (yesterday I flew 2 hours without problems).cheersCG

I'm having the same problem, using ATI Radeon 9500 Pro. It happens extremely rare here, but especially after longer flights. For example I yesterday made a flight with SSTSIM Concorde from EGLL to KJFK and when I was on final approach and switched to VC for a moment or external model, the textures didnt completely load on ground objects and went very blurry. When I switched back to 2D, they changed to normal again after 1 minute or so. And back to VC or spot view - textures blurred.Probably a restart right before starting FS would have prevented it (it did when I had the same issue some months ago), but it's anyways strange. I don't think its just because of overclocking, because I neither have any enabled.

I would think the overclocking you are doing is waaaaaayyyy to high, if you are having a shut down problem, then they are not as stable as you think once the heat begins to warm things up.On the 9600 and 9800 both, once the heat sink begins to get very hot, it transfers heat to everything else and you get your black out.Try cutting back to stock specs, and increase it 10% at a time, in equal increments, to both until the problem shows up again, then take it back a few steps.I've got an 9800 and have it oc'd am running 438.75/364.51, and that is all I can get without a black out within an hour. Your spec seem VERY high. PS I just went back and reread another post you did with standard clock rates -- either you have a bad card, OR, you have too much heat in your case. If you don't have a ton of airflow to that card with those clock rates you might have already fried something.Take the case or side off, leave the clock rates standard and get a small fan to blow on the card, try it then an see if the performance degrades. Check the temp of the card, and check the voltage the card is getting . . .if the voltage is too high or low, it will mess it up. If you can ck the voltage to the card in your BIOS or adjust it, you may wish to do that as the 9600 does NOT like voltage much higher than 1.50-1.55Best,Clayhttp://www.dreamfleet2000.com/gfx/images/F...ers/Dopke01.jpgClayton T. Dopke (Clay)Major, USAF (retired)"Drac"

FWIW, I have the exact same issue you described with my 9700 pro, but ONLY when I do taskswitching as well, for instance when running a graphics app in the background and alt-tabbing to that to paste in and edit screenshots; when using a lightweight app such as Fraps to capture and save screenshots the problem does not occur.It also happens when I'm beta-testing something and I have to shut down FS to make a change, and then restart FS again. After having shut down and restarted up FS 5 or 6 times, the problem occurs and I then have to reboot the system to get back to normal. I think it's a windows resource issue, in my experience OC/and heat related problems cause other symptoms, such as distorted models and weird random lines and triangles appearing.If I were you, I'd have a look at other stuff you may have running in the background, it might just be some kind of resource-hog app that may be getting in the way.Best,Martijn