I am flying FS2004 with a Radeon 9600. Today I was flying from PABR to PANC when about 1/3 of the way my 2D panel started flashing. It wsa not constant but frequent. I tried things like cloud settings turning off light, that sort of thing. The only thing that stopped it was going to 3D view. No problem there. Go back to 2D & it flashed all the way to PANC. My video drivers are Catalyst 4.7. Any ideas what would be causing this? Thanks.Pat Callaghan

Hello Pat,Try unchecking the setting 'Render to Texture' in the sim and see if that cures the problem. I believe it's in the Hardware tab of the Display settings.Regards,Jim

Thanks Jim. I will give it a try.Pat

You can try putting the line: PanelAsTexture=0in the display driver section of your FS9.CFGfile. I find this works better overall (i.e., causesless problems elsewhere) than turning offRender to Texture.HTH,

I have this entry already in the [DISPLAY] section but ist is not under the section where the driver is listed. I will past below just the section I am talking about.[DISPLAY]UPPER_FRAMERATE_LIMIT=45TEXTURE_BANDWIDTH_MULT=40TextureAGP=0PanelAsTexture=0[DISPLAY.Device.VisionTek XTASY 9600.0]Mode=1024x768x32[DISPLAY.Device.RADEON 9600 SERIES .0]Mode=1024x768x32MipBias=6RenderToTexture=0Any idea what this means?Pat

Sure enough, when I uncheck Render to Texture, the flashing goes away. I wonder why it never had that happen with my old TI-4200 card? Thanks. Pat

I am renewing this topic because the flashing panel has started again. This time it is the Captain Sim 727 that just flicks on and off. I have render to texture off & panelastexture=0 set. This is annoying. I am about ready to scrap this Radeon 9600 card & go back to a Nvidia. Any thoughts or ideas? Thanks.Pat CallaghanKPDX

>I am renewing this topic because the flashing panel has>started again. This time it is the Captain Sim 727 that just>flicks on and off. I have render to texture off &>panelastexture=0 set. This is annoying. I am about ready to>scrap this Radeon 9600 card & go back to a Nvidia. Any>thoughts or ideas? Thanks.>>Pat Callaghan>KPDXHello,did you put the entry under [display] or [display.device.ati mobility radeon 9600/9700 Series.........] ?RLuca