Hello everyone, not sure if this is the right place but here goes. Recently I optimised my FSX and now my PMDG aircraft are looking WAY BETTER texture wise, Which I love. I have my scenery all the way down as I care more about the VC etc than the scenery. After this I've noticed I'll get a bluescreen of death, I don't know why and I would love some help.

 

The screen and textures will first start playing up, flickering and going where they shouldn't, I've also had occasions where the screen will go fuzzy (Just ingame not when I tab to windows) and then it'll bluescreen and my pc will restart...

 

Running windows 7 on some acer desktop model, intel cpu, nvidia 9500GT (I'm pretty sure) and a couple of GB Ram. 

 

Any ideas for solutions would be awesome, thanks guys.

You need to download and run BlueScreenView - http://www.nirsoft.net/utils/blue_screen_view.html and let us know at least what the bug check code and bug check string is shown for each BSOD.  It will also show you the different drivers involved in the crash and that should give you a good indication as to what caused your BSOD(s).  Most BSOD's are driver related but many are also bad overclocks or your system is overheating.  Since you are seeing flickering and other video anomalies, I would guess your video card is not installed properly or the drivers are not installed properly.

 

Best regards,

Jim

Thanks for the reply Jim. 

 

The bug check code I'm getting is 0x00000116

 

And that's showing up as the DirectX Graphics Kernel

 

Thanks again

Bug Check 0x116: VIDEO_TDR_ERROR - http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windows/hardware/ff557263(v=vs.85).aspx.  The following link to Nvidia may help you since you had a TDR error -  https://forums.geforce.com/default/topic/389688/geforce-drivers/nvidia-statement-on-tdr-errors-display-driver-nvlddmkm-stopped-/.  I'm not sure what Operating System you have installed but this link applies to computers with the Vista OS and it should apply to Windows 7 too.

 

I can duplicate this BSOD 100% of the time if I try to overclock my video card and set one setting too high.  You have a Nvidia 9500GT so I seriously doubt you are trying to overclock.  I recall seeing this error a lot when fsx first came out in 2006 and I had a 8800GTX video card.  Back then it happened because the video card drivers were not properly installed.  So I would recommend completely removing your video card drivers, shutdown your system and let it restart (if the above link did not help).  It should load the Windows default VGA drivers.  Run a registry cleaner like CCleaner then reinstall your Nvidia drivers.  Make sure they are compatible with your video card and Windows installation (believe the Nvidia installer will not allow installation if it is not compatible but just being sure).

 

Another thing you can do is to run the Run command and in the Run command box type dxdiag (for DirectX Diagnostics).  You can look there to see if there are any problems with your video card or drivers or DirectX.

 

I doubt your problem has an issue with DirectX (except through a bad driver).  FSX and some FSX addons will install the proper version of DirectX for their product.

 

Best regards,

Jim