thanks yallI do have a fanless 7600 nvidia card, and driver, does it run w/cuda and vlc or wm 11?

Below is a copy of my display.cfg on my fs9 machine which can be found in the fs9 folder. As you can see I have deleted all entries of any reference to any other cards. You will have to add this in manually and also back up your original display.cfg. I actually just changed an old existing nvidia entry with my card type and details and also added the shader20plus mod as well. [000010DE:00000611:nv4_displ.dll] and MinDriverRev: are the important factors here and will have to be found manually using dxdiag.start>run>dxdiag>ok Wait for the page to load and then choose save all information. I saved to desktop. Open and scroll down to display devices. This is where you will find the info you need. So my info looked like this:Card name: NVIDIA GeForce 8800 GT Vendor ID=0x10DE > turns into 000010DEDevice ID=0x0611 > turns into 00000611Driver Name=nv4_displ.dllMinDriverRev=6.14.0011.8048Before doing this also try:start>all programs>microsoftgames>microsoft flight simulator 2004>troubleshooting>reset defaults. This might just be the longway round to the game recreating a new fs9.cfg but cant hurt to try.;**********************************************************************;; NVidia Cards;;**********************************************************************;----------------------------------------------------------------------; NVIDIA GeForce 8800GT;----------------------------------------------------------------------[000010DE:00000611:nv4_disp.dll]PanelAsTexture=0Shader20Plus=20UseShaders=1[000010DE:00000611:nv4_disp.dll.1]MinDriverRev=6.14.0011.8048PanelAsTexture=2Shader20Plus=20UseShaders=1

Hi Garys - I tried your recommendation for the display.cfg, to no avail. I also added the correct entry manually in the fs9.cfg for the nvidia card, to no avail. I go back to what I said above as what I believe the problem to be, and that a complete system kill and rebuild will be necessary to correct it. If anyone has any other ideas, please write them here, and I'll give them a shot.Thanks,Jim

Hi Garys - I tried your recommendation for the display.cfg, to no avail. I also added the correct entry manually in the fs9.cfg for the nvidia card, to no avail. I go back to what I said above as what I believe the problem to be, and that a complete system kill and rebuild will be necessary to correct it. If anyone has any other ideas, please write them here, and I'll give them a shot.Thanks,Jim

Thats too bad. It does look like the problem is external to fs9 as you say. It would be interesting to see what would happen if you were to revert back to your old ati card and catalyst drivers. It would be a shame to do a complete system install again only to find out the problem is a compatabilty issue with the smarttech/nvidia setup with fs9

Thats too bad. It does look like the problem is external to fs9 as you say. It would be interesting to see what would happen if you were to revert back to your old ati card and catalyst drivers. It would be a shame to do a complete system install again only to find out the problem is a compatabilty issue with the smarttech/nvidia setup with fs9

No, the problem also existed with the ATI card, so I'm afraid the total kill and rebuild will be the only fix...computers suck!