Pixellated panels & sound cutting out problems

Hi all,

Just tried a flight in the NGX, and am having a couple problems, one being a game-breaker I had to give up on before pre-flight was finished due to annoyance...

Firstly... I recently had to buy a new monitor to replace my old, dead one. Upgraded in the process from a 21" 4:3 LCD (dead) to a 27" 16:9 1080p LED. Everything reconfigured fine. However, in the NGX, the panels appear very pixelated. The 2D panel quite so; the VC panel (not the gauges) not so much, but the MFD/PFD/etc screens on the VC are just as pixelated as the entire 2D panel. The scenery out the window is perfect.

WideViewAspect is True in FSX.cfg, and using the widescreen panel.cfg for the NGX. DirectX 10 is enabled. Opened the widescreen 2D panel bitmap, and it appears fine in Windows' picture viewer.

This is only the 2nd time I've tried a flight in the NGX since reinstalling and upgrading to Windows 7 Pro, don't remember if I set DirectX 10 before or after the first attempt, and this is the first time I've ever tried DirectX 10... Is this a DX10 issue? Or what might I have done wrong if it's not?

Secondly, and the game-breaker for this flight attempt...

Not sure if this is related to the NGX or FS2Crew, but all the aircraft sounds' volume would repeatedly and randomly drop to near-zero, and randomly return to normal. Maybe up to a minute at a time.

FSX default ATC, routed through my headset separately from the rest of the audio on the speakers, was not affected in any way. Couldn't find anything in the PMDG setup section of the FMC that might explain this. Never had this happen before, and did not happen at all on my last attempt at a flight (which ended up with an atc.dll crash shortly after takeoff).

Also not sure if this is a factor when using the DX10 mode, but as far as I know, I should be recent enough with my DirectX 9 runtimes...

Dave Coulter

Edit: Don't know if this was the actual solution, or if the above sound problem was only a one-time fluke, but I downloaded and installed several Gigabyte motherboard drivers (including the sound driver) and tried the NGX again, and no sound issues at all. So, I have to assume that this was related to the default Windows 7 drivers for my onboard sound, or that this was just a one-time fluke.