February 9, 200521 yr The new card is: NVIDIA GeForce4 MX4000The problem is that add-on panels do not display correctly in full window mode. What I see with add-on panels is a very close-up view of the upper left 1/4 part of the panel. The panels are fine in windowed mode. The default panels are fine. Panel views are the only problems I'm having with FS.What I've tried so far:* Updated drivers.* Installed latest version of Direct X.* Adjusted the display settings.* Doubled checked display and video card settings.There is probably something basic that I missed, but for the life of me I can't figure out what it is. Any ideas?
February 9, 200521 yr the resolutions may have changed after the new card was installed. you could try to click and drag the panel and see if that works and or change the horizonal and vertical display in your monitor. just wanted to throw that in. good luck. william
February 9, 200521 yr Try adding this line:PanelAsTexture=0To the display settings of your fs9.cfg-John
February 10, 200521 yr Thank you for your ideas. I've tried the suggestions in both replies and neither have solved the mystery. I can move the panel around, but it still is in extreme close-up view. When I tried adding the PanelAsTexture line to the cfg. file the panel was gone altogether, kind of like a VC view when there is no VC. When I was in the cfg. file I noticed there was still some info on my previous video card. I deleted that info. but it did not change anything.I'm still working on it. Thanks again to John and William. When/if I get it figured out I will post my solution here just in case somebody elese has this problem.
February 10, 200521 yr If your panel goes away with the PanelAsTexture=0 line, it may be that you've set AA (Anti-Aliasing) to be "forced") by your video card. Check your video card settings, and set AA to be application controlled, then enable it in FS9. I know that's contrary to most advice you'd get on the subject, but there's an issue with PanelAsTexture=0 and forced AA.-John
February 10, 200521 yr BINGO!I already had AA set as application controlled in the video card settings and enabled in FS9. So, I thought what the heck, let's do the reverse, That is I unchecked AA as application controlled and unchecked the AA box in FS9. That did the trick. Thanks again. It's great when you get some minds after a 'problem', because you know it'll be solved.
February 10, 200521 yr Great news--interesting that MSFS's native AA would cause that problem. You may want to experiment with forcing the AA then, just to see if you get better visuals, although AA on the MX 4000 may challenge FS9 a bit in the FPS dept.-John
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