FS2004: Flashing when accessing menus

[Guest alanrco]

Just installed FS2004. The sim runs okay but when I start it up and during menu accesing and accessing the kneeboard the screen flashes on and off many times. This happens all the time. I know Microsoft give a warning in their documentation about epilepsy and games playing but this is not helping!Got the latest viseo driversFS2002 has no problems on my systemAnyone else have this problem?AlanSYSTEM:P4 2.66GhzRadeon 9500Pro using the 3.8 driversAsus P4G8X mobo1Ghz matched Corsair XMS3200 ram

[Guest Tim13]

This is a known bug with FS9 and the Radeon cards. Hopefully it will be address soon either by ATI or MS.Tim13

[Guest Bigshot]

It's fixed with the latest Omega beta drivers. www.omegacorner.com . Driver version 2.4.96 or (a) or (:(.

[Guest alanrco]

>It's fixed with the latest Omega beta drivers. >www.omegacorner.com . Driver version 2.4.96 or (a) or (:(.I tried these. What a disaster. I have and Asus P4G8X mobo and the only way the Radeon 9500Pro (and 9700Pro for that matter) will work with this mobo is if fast writes is disabled. The Omega drivers leave out this option and I had such a serious crash that the only way back inti XP was from the DOS administrator logon (repair)!So until ATI accept there is problem (which they don't), I'm stuck with the problem:(Alan

[Guest SoarPics]

"I have and Asus P4G8X mobo and the only way the Radeon 9500Pro (and 9700Pro for that matter) will work with this mobo is if fast writes is disabled. The Omega drivers leave out this option..."The option to turn off Fastwrites is in the Omega driver packages. Right click on your desktop, click on Properties>Settings>Advanced. The option to enable/disable Fastwrites is under the SMARTGART tab.Also, there should be something in the BIOS to enable/disable Fastwrites.Regards,

[mrcaveman 1]

I read at the Omegacorner that the fastwrites are automaticly disabled with there drivers. They do not believe in them. I agree that you need to check in your Bios to ensure fastwrites are disabled if you are going to use there drivers.I use the original 3.8 dirvers and don't have any problems with or without fastwrites. Just a little screen flashing while accessing the menu options. But the sim flights great.

[Guest stevehow]

its funny.ive found that if i have Fsnavigator running..the flashing menus stop...work that one out!!!! steveUK

[Guest The Ancient Brit]

S'mae SteveUK (Hi),

[Guest alanrco]

>>The option to turn off Fastwrites is in the Omega driver>packages. Right click on your desktop, click on>Properties>Settings>Advanced. The option to enable/disable>Fastwrites is under the SMARTGART tab.>>Also, there should be something in the BIOS to enable/disable>Fastwrites.>>Regards,That's strange, I looked for the SMARTGUARD tab when I installed the Omega drivers. It wasn't there.Alan