Hello all,

 

I have an older system. I put it together in 2008 to run FS9 "good" on a scale of "poor" to "great". I really havent done much to it since then. I was always using hand me down CRT monitors until I got a tiny Dell LCD that someone was throwing out. Then I came across a really nice Samsung SyncMaster LED monitor, got rid of the VGA cable, plugged in the DVI cable and life was good for a few weeks. Then the video card blew, too old and used too much for such a strain I suppose. It was an EVGA 8400GS 512mb card. I replaced it with a brand new EVGA 8400GS card only this one has a gig of memory. $32 for this new card versus the almost $200 I paid for the old one at the time, great deal. Everything works fine, but I am having some odd displays of airplane textures in FS9. I looked in the Nvidia control panel and during the installation of the new card and drivers (version 335.28) all my previous settings were back to default, apparently. I would imagine my issues lie somewhere in there. My current values are as follows-

 

Anistropic filtering - Application controlled
Antialiasing/FXAA - Off
Antialiasing/Gamma correction - On
Antialiasing/mode - Application controlled
Antialiasing/setting - Application controlled
Antialiasing/transparency - Off
CUDA/GPUs - All
Extension limit - Off
Maximum pre rendered frames - Use the 3D application setting
Multi display/mixed GPU acceleration - Multiple display performance mode
Texture filtering/anistropic sample optimization - Off
Texture filtering/Negative LOD bias - Allow
Texture filtering/Quality - Quality
Texture filtering/Trilinear optimization - On
Threaded optimization - Auto
Triple buffering - Off
Vertical sync - Use the 3D application setting

 

As you can see in this screenshot, the default Cessna is dark and the door is oddly illuminated.

 

And in this one from the default PMDG MD-11F FedEx livery, the main cargo door and "something in the back" is displaying weird, including the engine cowling textures.

 

 

 

All my in-sim display settings are the same since before I changed the card. I havent noticed any scenery textures displaying oddly, but I havent spent a whole lot of time looking. I am kind of stuck with the system I have at the moment indefinitely, and I really would like to have FS9 run at least as good as it did before I had to make the switch. Any help would be much appreciated. Thanks!

Update- I ran into a topic in the FS2004 forum which explained my issue. Apparently its a driver issue that many are having with Nvidia drivers 320.18 and up. I installed version 314.22 and all is well again. Im just going to have to figure out which settings to use in the Nvidia control panel as I have no idea what they were previously. Anyone have any suggestions based on the profile I listed in the first post?