Hi all, I just installed Microsoft Flight today on my laptop. It is a HP DV3 with ATI Radeon HD 3200 Graphics Card... Please see the photo below. I been trying change different graphics setting... Changing Details Resolutions didn't help at all... I do have the latest Graphics Driver from ATI... I don't know what to do..

 

I also tried reinstall... nothing help. Anyone have this problem???

 

From a little surfing, I don't believe the laptop has the horsepower necessary for Flight.

 

Here's a thread from Tom's hardware; http://www.tomshardware.com/forum/252841-33-card-good-radeon-3200-graphics-rs780

 

And here is a site that will look at your system and give feedback on running Flight; http://www.systemrequirementslab.com/cyri/intro.aspx

Actually the game ran pretty smooth... It is just the graphics problem that I have... otherwise everything ran fine. The funny part is this problem is only happen on game play. The sky worked fine when I see intro movies... even when I on the ground select aircrafts... The sky looks okay...

There were some comments in the Tom's thread about heat and that's to be expected in a laptop. There's also a difference between watching a video that the game plays and then getting into the game and stressing components and getting the resulting heat because of it. I wish I could offer some suggestions, such as manually modifying the Flight.cfg file down to some very basic settings and then see if the game will work or not. It's late for me, so maybe someone will pop in with an idea or two that can be followed up.

That's a weird problem indeed... If it was overheating you would expect the entire screen to get corrupt. The same goes for a broken GPU. But on your screenshot you clearly see only the sky is affected. Really odd...

 

Maybe you should register at the Steam forum which has the (sort of) official MS Flight forum. Here is a topic about how to get support:

 

http://forums.steampowered.com/forums/showthread.php?t=2634732

 

If I were you I'd post your problem in the forum there and use the mail support option too: [email protected] (called 'Tell MS Flight' on the page I posted).

Just an off-the-wall suggestion... have you tried turning the V-sync off?

I am having the same problem. I have the ATI Radeon HD 3400. ??

It really does look like overheating, but like J van E said it's strange that it's only the sky. I wonder if it's a memory problem on the graphics processor itself. Is it always the sky? And always the same problem? Does it matter if you use a different weather settings? Maybe the texture file got corrupted somehow?

 

Would still be a good idea to try and find out what the temp of your GPU is when it's running flight.

I would check my graphics card settings and make sure they are all at default. Also make sure you have the latest drivers.

The devs suggest that it is either a hardware or driver related problem. And that you could try running with another graphics card (although they probably did not understand that this is a laptop.)

 

Best regards.

Luis

From my reading yesterday, which was limited, the laptop video sub-system uses system ram. There is no dedicated ram or hardware, so to speak.

Thanks all for your reply.... Yes, I do have the leatest driver from AMD... and Yes, I did tried with V-Synec Off... I even tried to lower the resolution to 1024 X 768. Nothing works. I just register "steampowered" and posted my question there... Hopfully I can get an answer. If I ignore the black Stripes in the sky... the games still play pretty good and smooth.... I don't know what the hell is going on. But my machine ran okay with Microsoft Flight Simulator X. This is the first game I have this kind of problem on my machine.....

 

And yes, my video memories are share with the system memories... But I got 8GB in the system....

I am having the same problem. The stripes appear as a reflection in the water also. I have the ATI Radeon HD 3400 running on Dell XPS 420. I just recently installed the latest drivers from AMD. Before that I have been running Flight with no problems since it's release. I am going to roll back the driver for my graphics card and see if it corrects this.

I am having the same problem. The stripes appear as a reflection in the water also. I have the ATI Radeon HD 3400 running on Dell XPS 420. I just recently installed the latest drivers from AMD. Before that I have been running Flight with no problems since it's release. I am going to roll back the driver for my graphics card and see if it corrects this.

 

Let me know how it goes... I think I have to wait till the next release to come out... I don't have a copy of my old driver...

Just download the older driver from the manufacturer website.