I thought that this may be an oddity of my graphics card/driver, but I now have a new graphics card with different drivers and I still get the same odd thing: a white border, probably just a pixel in size along the top and left-hand side of my monitor. The bottom and right-hand edges are clear. Moreover, I only get this in Spot and Cockpit view. When I switch to VC view, it goes. And it is only there in FS - it's not on my desktop or when I am using Windows Explorer, or whatever.

 

It wouldn't be so much of a problem if the border didn't tend to flicker and so draw attention to itself. Anyone else had this problem (.. and solved it!)? It would be nice not to have to troubleshoot this from scratch.. could be a long, drawn-out process!

 

Thanks

 

Martin

I have the same thing on my GTX 680 running driver 310.90.  

I don't have this issue so these are pure guesses: Have you tried changing display dimension settings either in FS or on the graphics card ( for example 1600X900) to something else?   Is this setting the same in both FS and the graphics card (probably should be)?  Does it happen with any aircraft or only certain ones?   Do you have more than one monitor and does it happen with all of them or only some?

 

Mike

Just a quick reply for now. The native resolution of the monitor is 1920x1200. This is the resolution I have set in nVidia Control Panel and in FS9.

 

Not sure about whether this happens with all aircraft - will have to investigate that. When I originally posted my query (using my laptop) I was flying a PMDG 747-400 (on the PC). Now I am flying an A340-500 (trying Singapore to New York - world's longest non-stop commercial flight!) I see that the border is on  all four sides of the monitor, but again they disappear in VC view.

 

I run two monitors - the borders are only on the main one, showing FS. As I say, if I minimise FS to the taskbar, the desktop doesn't have the same issue.

I came to have another look at this today - and the borders are not there now! Well, I have had the problem for some time, so I expect to see this again at some stage. Will have a closer look then and post back. (I have read that this might be an effect of AA settings - if you look in the SweetFX settings file, those who use that software, there is an option for a black border ("...a workaround for the bright edge that forcing some AA modes sometimes causes"). At the moment I don't have the black border fix active in SweetFX, so that is not why it isn't there right now - but when it comes back, maybe enabling this tweak will at least make it invisible.

 

(If you don't have or know about SweetFX, you probably won't know what I am talking about here! Do go and investigate it, if you don't. Posts here on AVSIM(),

 

Martin