Merry Christmas everybody I hope you all are enjoying a great holiday season.

I just upgraded from a 9800 pro to a GTX 560TI.I'm using XP 64 bit and did a clean custom install of the 306.81 drivers.(also tried 285 drivers among others) upon loading FS9....I get the splash screen,The progress bar appears.....never moves across the screen and then FS9 appears at the default starting point.All appears well until I try to enter menus.I can't get into any menus.When I press the alt. key I see a split second flash of the splash screen.If I enter windowed mode the progress bar and menus work fine, no issues at all.My FS9.CFG shows 2 display adaptors, the old and new.

[DISPLAY.Device.NVIDIA GeForce 9800 GT.0]

Mode=1280x1024x32

TriLinear=1

TextureAGP=0

PanelAsTexture=0

MipBias=6

 

[DISPLAY.Device.NVIDIA GeForce GTX 560 Ti.0]

Mode=1280x1024x32

I've tried deleting old card references, no help.

If I delete fs9.cfg, the cfg rebuilds however all I see is a black screen with a working mouse pointer!

Same thing in FSX except FSX locks up when you try to get into any menus.Call of duty 5 works beautifully and All tests pass in dxdiag.This problem only seem to affect full screen FS!.I'm hesitant to remove/reinstall FS9 due to the addons installed. (If I just remove/reinstall FS will all addons need reinstallation?)Would that be a good next step?Do any of you fine folks have any ideas on this?

I'm darn near about to throw the old card back in!

Thanks

Stan

Try disabling your Antivirus software and starting up FS9. Also you can try running FS9 as an Administrator.

I find running in windowed mode rather than full screen helps avoid video problems.

 

Have you also tried right clicking the FS9.exe file and under properties tick "disable visual themes" and disable desktop composition"

 

Peter

For a start, FS.CFG should not show both cards. Delete the one you don't need. This may not solve your current problem but it will ensure that you don't get other ones.

 

Hope this helps.

 

David

I actually reinstalled my old 9800 pro.all problems fixed,I'm talking to EVGA now trying to figure out what to do next.It seems to run OPENGL games ok, but direct3d, no go!

So you went from ati to nvidia right? Have you tried to do a driver sweep after uninstalling ati drivers? They are notorious for leaving behind debris even after "uninstallation" and can cause driver display conflicts once you switch over to nvidia. Good luck with things

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