I have spent the last few days/weeks fiddling with the various tweaks that Bojote has introduced/clarified for us, and have had this happen a couple of times:It seems to happen after running particularly demanding settings in FSX, (settings that give serious spike problems, like dense autogen). The spots shimmer and move around as things move on the screen (eg windows, mouse pointer or panning the view).This happens quite infrequently, and has happened on two cards - one GTX 280 that had a fan issue (fan ran at 100% continuously), and on my current one, which is an RMA replacement. After installing the new card I reinstalled the drivers.The first shot is from within FSX, the second and third my desktop, and the fourth a photo.Any help would be greatly appreciated!

Hi,Those look like artifacts caused by your video card. Could be caused by a number of things, that accompany over stressing it. I suggest moving your target FPS or autogen slider down a notch.Stephen

If you are overclocking the card, try and go back to factory settings. Could also be a PSU problem. Not enough power getting to the card?

You sneezed on the glitter container. :(

do u use Bufferpools=0 on a card of less then 1 GB of memory? If so thats it.Jordan (formerly realatp :()c

I have spent the last few days/weeks fiddling with the various tweaks that Bojote has introduced/clarified for us, and have had this happen a couple of times:It seems to happen after running particularly demanding settings in FSX, (settings that give serious spike problems, like dense autogen). The spots shimmer and move around as things move on the screen (eg windows, mouse pointer or panning the view).This happens quite infrequently, and has happened on two cards - one GTX 280 that had a fan issue (fan ran at 100% continuously), and on my current one, which is an RMA replacement. After installing the new card I reinstalled the drivers.The first shot is from within FSX, the second and third my desktop, and the fourth a photo.Any help would be greatly appreciated!

I have recently had the same issue. all sorts of snowy spots flicking on my monitor.I believe it might be related to the latest video drivers. Nvidia GTX 260 197.45 Win7. Not sure but that's the only thing that really changed that might have affected my screen.

Same here after upgrading to 197.45. May need to downgrade my 9800.What do you use for card fan/temp Monitoring?Aaron

I have recently had the same issue. all sorts of snowy spots flicking on my monitor.I believe it might be related to the latest video drivers. Nvidia GTX 260 197.45 Win7. Not sure but that's the only thing that really changed that might have affected my screen.

This happened to me and other people i know, when using BP=0 with unlimited frames in FSX (and without FPS Limiter).When using FPS Limiter it doesn't happen anymore.

My win7 gtx 285 has no issue with these drivers.I agree with the "artifact" assessments above - clock it back or just reduce AG, see if the spots go. I've had all sorts of weirdness with settings that are too high.

Same here, I would get this with BP=0 in some combinations of scenery add-ons.

This is the GPU being overloaded and possibly overheated. This can happen when the GPU is overclocked beyond its limit, and the BP=0 tweak can definitely make this happen.

It also happens to me after BP=0 and I can confirm no overheating, and with FPS Limiter locked at 30.Windows 7 Home 64 Bits|ASUS P6T Deluxe|Core I7 920 @ 3.8 GHZ |GTX 285 |6GB

Nice to see that I'm not to only one affected by this 'snowy' effect in FSX. I've had it happen twice, but only after flying about 40 minutes in FSX. What is interesting is that in both cases I exited FSX and let the system rest 'at desk top' for a few minutes with no avail, though a reboot fixed the problem. For weeks now my teenage son spends lots of time on my rig (more than I ever have) playing the latest "BattleField" series game which has state-of-the-art graphics and he's never had this problem. I've seen this 'snow' happen in the past when attempting to overclock a graphics card but I've yet to touch anything about my gtx 275; I've been watching the fan/temps and it does OK though it'll go into the mid 80s c which is within spec. I'm using the 197.45 drivers and only modest tweaks (no BP=0). I sure hope this card is not on its way out, I've only had it for about 3 months; had a 8800 gt fail that showed this sort of stuff but it'd always crash to reboot within several seconds of the snow storm and reboot usually didn't help it.

Deacampos, have you tried toning down your scenery/LoD/Autogen sliders, to see if that makes the spots go away?

Deacampos, have you tried toning down your scenery/LoD/Autogen sliders, to see if that makes the spots go away?

Yes, reducing the work load on the GPU will help eliminate this problem as it is a result of pushing the card to far.