January 30, 201214 yr Hello Captains.I had to reinstall fsx yesterday. Everything went well did the install as per NickN.Installed the RTM and started fsx, everything was OK.Installed SP1 started fsx, everything was OK.Installed SP2 started fsx and got this error message: This graphic card does not meet minimum requirements for shader support. This product requires a geforce3/radeon8500 class or better graphics card, Flight simulator will exit now.My graphics card is an EVGA GTX580 so its far better than what fsx needs.Win7 is up to date, latest nvidia driver is installed.Any help would be appreciated.Laszlo Laszlo Meszaros
January 31, 201214 yr Nvidia has done something very wrong with drivers ever since the 280 series came out, and there is evidence it may be some before that. A large group of Geforce users..ALL series of gpu's are having "issues' with these drivers and particularly Win 7 installations. I recenlty pulled a new EVGA 560ti out and replaced it with a Radeon card because of it.
January 31, 201214 yr Nvidia has done something very wrong with drivers ever since the 280 series came out, and there is evidence it may be some before that. A large group of Geforce users..ALL series of gpu's are having "issues' with these drivers and particularly Win 7 installations. I recenlty pulled a new EVGA 560ti out and replaced it with a Radeon card because of it.I think this is a separate issue.The OP's problem has been around since 2007 when FSX SP2 first came out. Unlike RTM and SP1, SP2 (and/or FSX Acceleration) requires hardware vertex shader support...if the DX/driver combo isn't detecting/reporting the correct shader engine presence, then this happens. 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
January 31, 201214 yr Agree with Bob, Reinstall Direct X9, or at least check in; dxdiag ie.type in run box, look under display section to make sure direct 3d and direct draw are enabled. Do a clean install of video drivers, remove old ones etc. I have been using 275.33 and since there have been no improvements made for FSX since, no point in upgrading, and I have never had any issues with Nvidia cards and Win 7 +FS. If It ain't broke......... Ron. Edited January 31, 201214 yr by ronski
January 31, 201214 yr Agree with Bob,Reinstall Direct X9, or at least check in; dxdiag ie.type in run box, look under display section to make sure direct 3d and direct draw are enabled. Do a clean install of video drivers, remove old ones etc. I have been using 275.33 and since there have been no improvements made for FSX since, no point in upgrading, and I have never had any issues with Nvidia cards and Win 7 +FS. If It ain't broke......... Ron. One major improvement made in the 280+ driver versions is the driver-integrated frame rate limiter that can be configured with nVidiainspector. I think having the frame rate limiter built into the driver is a major deal, especially since it now allows rate limiting together with use of the ENB series lighting control. 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
January 31, 201214 yr Author Believe me I tried everything. I will do a complete reinstall of windows. That must help. Thanks for your help Laszlo Meszaros
February 7, 201214 yr Hi Bob, One major improvement made in the 280+ driver versions is the driver-integrated frame rate limiter that can be configured with nVidiainspector. I think having the frame rate limiter built into the driver is a major deal,yes, your right, but I have tried the 280+ etc. and tested, didn't see any performance improvement in FSX at all.but then, every system is different.Ron.
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