December 28, 200916 yr I have a single 19" monitor, running FS9 on an older Win XP SP3 system. Many months ago when I installed FS9 my AGP card was a Radeon 7000 (64MB). To delay the expense of buying a real gaming system I recently replaced the card with an nVidia GEForce 6200 (256MB). Since then I have started to install new mesh and scenery and was looking in my FS9.CFG file to see what settings were there. I found the following entry:[DISPLAY.Device.RADEON 7000 SERIES.0]Mode=1024x768x16MipBias=5TriLinear=1AntiAlias=1[DISPLAY]RUNWAY_LIGHTS_SURFACE_SCALAR=1.0 //scales edge,center,end,touchdown,runways -etc, on down through the rest of the settings...Is it possible that FS9 may think my PC still has the old AGP card? If so, I wonder what the consequences of that might be. -Gary
December 28, 200916 yr I have a single 19" monitor, running FS9 on an older Win XP SP3 system. Many months ago when I installed FS9 my AGP card was a Radeon 7000 (64MB). To delay the expense of buying a real gaming system I recently replaced the card with an nVidia GEForce 6200 (256MB). Since then I have started to install new mesh and scenery and was looking in my FS9.CFG file to see what settings were there. I found the following entry:[DISPLAY.Device.RADEON 7000 SERIES.0]Mode=1024x768x16MipBias=5TriLinear=1AntiAlias=1[DISPLAY]RUNWAY_LIGHTS_SURFACE_SCALAR=1.0 //scales edge,center,end,touchdown,runways -etc, on down through the rest of the settings...Is it possible that FS9 may think my PC still has the old AGP card? If so, I wonder what the consequences of that might be. -GaryNo, those are the settings FS will use if it detects that particular display. You can take the Display.Device section out, but it's not hurting anything to be there. With the nVidia card in the machine, there should be another Display.Device section in the config file for it, too.RegardsBob ScottColonel, USAF (ret)ATP IMEL Gulfstream II-III-IV-VColorado Springs, CO Bob Scott | President and CEO, AVSIM Inc ATP Gulfstream II-III-IV-V Sys1 (MSFS20+24/XPlane12+11): AMD 9800X3D, water 2x240mm, MSI MPG X670E Carbon, 64GB GSkill 6000/30, nVidia RTX4090FE Alienware AW3821DW 38" 21:9 GSync, 2x4TB Crucial T705 PCIe5 + 2x2TB Samsung 990 SSD, EVGA 1000P2 PSU, 12.9" iPad Pro Thrustmaster TCA Boeing Yoke, TCA Airbus Sidestick, Twin TCA Airbus Throttle quads, PFC Cirrus Pedals, Coolermaster HAF932 case Sys2 (P3Dv5/v4): i9-13900KS, water 2x360mm, ASUS Z790 Hero, 32GB GSkill 7800MHz CAS36, ASUS RTX4090 Samsung 55" JS8500 4K TV@60Hz, 3x 2TB WD SN850X 1x 4TB Crucial P3 M.2 NVME SSD, EVGA 1600T2 PSU Fiber link to Yamaha RX-V467 Home Theater Receiver, Polk/Klipsch 6" bookshelf speakers, Polk 12" subwoofer, 12.9" iPad Pro PFC yoke/throttle quad/pedals with custom Hall sensor retrofit, Thermaltake View 71 case, Stream Deck XL button box Sys3 (DCS/P3Dv4/ATS/ETS): AMD 7800X3D, MSI MPG X870E Carbon, Noctua NH-D15S, 64GB GSkill 6000/30, EVGA RTX3090 Alienware AW3420DW 34" 21:9 GSync, Corsair HX1000i PSU, 4TB Crucial T705 PCIe5 + 2TB Samsung 970Evo Plus, TM TCA Officer Pack, Saitek combat pedals, TM Warthog, TM RS300 FF wheel/pedals, Coolermaster HAF XB case
December 28, 200916 yr I have a single 19" monitor, running FS9 on an older Win XP SP3 system. Many months ago when I installed FS9 my AGP card was a Radeon 7000 (64MB). To delay the expense of buying a real gaming system I recently replaced the card with an nVidia GEForce 6200 (256MB). Since then I have started to install new mesh and scenery and was looking in my FS9.CFG file to see what settings were there. I found the following entry:[DISPLAY.Device.RADEON 7000 SERIES.0]Mode=1024x768x16MipBias=5TriLinear=1AntiAlias=1[DISPLAY]RUNWAY_LIGHTS_SURFACE_SCALAR=1.0 //scales edge,center,end,touchdown,runways-etc, on down through the rest of the settings...Is it possible that FS9 may think my PC still has the old AGP card? If so, I wonder what the consequences of that might be. -GaryI would double check your FS9.cfg file for another Display.device entry which refers to your new Nvidia card.If it is not there (and/or you want a "clean" FS9.cfg file) I would disable the current one by renaming it to something like FS9.cfg.BAK.Then restart FS2004 and it will rebuild your FS9.cfg file using all of the default settings and will reference the Nvidia card only. You will have to reset some things in the sim and/or edit the FS9.cfg file using items from your disabled copy (special tweaks you may have made) but rebuilding the FS9.cfg file is normally recommended whenever you change graphic cards.Hope that helps.
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