No 2D Cockpit

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Can anyone help me with a display problem? Today I changed from an older GForce 2PRO to an MSI 5900 (non-ultra). I can't get any 2D cockpit (just the panel) to show up in any plane. VC works fine for them all. It doesn't matter if I am in full screen or windowed. When the mouse is over where a guage should be, I do get tool tips and the cursor does change to a hand to click on an area. The entire panel is black. I am using Detonator 44.03 drivers. I have uninstalled and reinstalled the sim. When I uninstalled, I also removed the files in the application data area of my profile. I still have FS2002 installed and it worked fine. I have an AMD 1800+ with a SOYO Dragon Plus MB and 768 MB memory.Thanks for your helpKen Lavigne

[Bert Pieke 7,585]

Others have reported similar problems.. try the newest drivers from www.guru3d.com.. the 45.20's (or the 44.67s) may do the job.

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I have a ATI 9x card and initially had the same problem-it fixed itself after I hit the "restore defaults" option under troubleshooting in the start menu pullout. I don't know if it will work with your card but It's worth a try.

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Hi Ken,I have an FX59000 with 44.03's for Win98se with the same problem. I was able to get things fixed reasonably well by adding the following line to the FS9.cfg file:[Diplay.Device.NVIDIA GeForce FX 5900] %find similar entry for your card.Mode=1024x768x32Trilinear=1PanelAsTexture=0 <---- Add this!This restored the 2D panels, however there was some remaining instability (freezes) when I accessed the map or kneeboard. To fix this I always go to windowed mode (Alt+Enter) before pulling down either.Someone suggested starting in windowed mode and only going to full screen in flight. To do this, in the FS9.cfg file under [Graphics] change Full_Screen=1 to Full_Screen=0.I've been crash free since.Hoping for a real solution in the next driver release...

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Sorry it took so long to get back to everyone who responded.I meant to mention that I have XP Pro on my machine. So far I have the 44.67 drivers and it seemed to help. I still had a problem where the machine would reboot itself. As soon as I turned off AA on the card, that problem went away. I still haven't tried to turn it on again. I actually wanted to fly.:-) I will be running some more tests though and I will let everyone know how I do. Maybe the problem with these drivers is AA. I never experienced any of this with my old GForce2 Pro card. This must be the definition of "bleeding edge" Ken Lavigne