Invalid hardware or driver detected

[Driver170 42]

I just exited fsx and had this message waiting for me on the main screen it was in a box saying - 

 

Invalid hardware or driver detected

 

this graphics card does not meet minimum requirements for shader support. this product requires a geforce3/radeon8500 class or better graphics card

 

 

 

 

what the hell does that mean i posted my specs below i have the latest graphics card :(

 

 

 

 

Overclocked Intel® Core™i7-4770k Quad Core (3.50GHz @ max 
ASUS® Z87-A: ATX, USB3.0, SATA6GB/S, SLi, XFIRE
16GB KINGSTON HYPERX BEAST DUAL-DDR3 2400MHz X.M.P (2 x 8GB KIT)
3GB NVIDIA GEFORCE GTX 780 - 2 DVI, HDMI, DP - 3D Vision Ready

[dogtrack 18]

Perhaps not seated properly, dirty contacts even, dust in Pci slot or on the card (greasy fingers) ?

 

Power supply not enough ?

 

Just thoughts....perhaps try deleting the contents of your Shader folder and allow them to be rebuilt. Got to be worth a try.

 

Try reinstalling the card driver using the Clean Install option.

[Driver170 42]

Got this from nvidia support -

 

Really nothing you can do for this, plenty of older games all have this type of issue where they have a set list of graphics they detect, and show whether its supported or not. A few years later new graphics cards come up and the software cant correctly detect them because the software wasnt programed to detect them.

 

Basically nothing you need to change/fix on your end, its just a result of outdated software on the FSX side.

[dogtrack 18]

Take NVIDIA's reply with a large pinch of salt. Their is a huge number of folk with 780 cards and you are the first I have encountered with this problem.

[Driver170 42]

Is it worth while updating drivers all the time because thats what i've been doing? How do you do a clean install?

[JesC 88]

That is among the messages and errors I experienced with the Nvidia drivers later than 335.23.

 

With the 337.50, 337.88 and the 340.23 drivers I was getting promising performance but also random CTD's and BSOD's. Since reverting to 335.23 the issues have ceased.

 

That may be something worth trying.

[Driver170 42]

Hi thanks for that i've had about 3 driver updates since i got the 780

 

I'll uninstall drivers and go back to the original

 

I also got a kernelbase.dll ctd you think thats part of it too?

[Driver170 42]

ok i'm back to 331.82 is that ok? or will i get 335.23?

[JesC 88]

ok i'm back to 331.82 is that ok? or will i get 335.23?

 

 

The 335.23 has worked nicely for me. But, you might want to try a few flights with the 331.82 and see if that has eliminated your problems before moving  to the 335.23.

[Driver170 42]

too late i've got the 335.23 now but i'll try that out thanks alot

[JesC 88]

too late i've got the 335.23 now but i'll try that out thanks alot

 

Should be fine. Let us know how it works out.

[Driver170 42]

well i got a kernelbase.dll ctd just now?

[JesC 88]

Well... I'm very sorry to hear that. I was really hopeful for you. Also sorry for any wasted effort.

 

Perhaps someone else will have a better idea.

[Driver170 42]

and i got that graphics card message when going through the menu

[Luke 782]

My money's on flaky hardware.

 

Cheers!

 

Luke