Icarus

Thanks, Bert. My error - new to this forum...

My Q9650 is good. Very good. But I'm having graphics problems, and I suspect my GTX 260 video card may need replacing. The best bang for buck is the GTX 560 Ti. Before I buy - I'd welcome opinion on that pairing. Will they be happy together?

I can't make AP function at all. The button is permanently greyed out. Alt and Heading buttons light when pressed, but don't do their job. Help!

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Thanks for that. Sounds reasonable to me. But I have a tendency to screw up unless I know the abc of what to do. In this case I'm not sure, so if you could spell it out for me, that would be a big help.CheersPeter

Several days after installing REX, blue screen and crash. "Kernel error...boot disc failure." After that, all hard runways and tarmac areas in FSX and FTX turned black. No all-grass airfields were affected. I've just installed Orbis PNW, and haveb the same problem. I've tried rebuilding the FSX cfg, running Repair in Acceleration, updating video drivers, handing the PC to a computer engineer,who found and killed a virus which presumably is/was a suspect. But still no cure for the black runways. Something must have corrupted textures somewhere. Any suggestions would be much appreciated.

Thanks, Jon. But how do I find which texture?

Several days after installing REX, blue screen and crash. 'Kernel error...boot disc failure.' After that, all hard runways and tarmac/concrete areas in FSX and Orbis FTX turned black, sometimes with multi-colour stripes as well. No grass/turf/gravel runways were affected. Now the new Orbis PNW shows the same errors. Given that REX replaces default textures, I suspeted a link, but that was discounted. I have tried rebuilding FSX cfg, running Acceleration repair, changing video driver, handing PC to a computer engineer who is also a flightsim addict. He did find and kill a virus which presumably caused the initial crash, and possibly could have affected runway textures. But still no cure for the black runways. I have ransacked Google, but could find only a single similar case, and the trick which solved that - switching off/on the filtering on the FSX in-game graphics tab - doesn't work for me.Any suggestions or clues would be much appreciatedPeter

That's good to hear. Thanks again. Geforce just arived - here we go!

Miquel, I forgot to ask: [1] which drivers did you use? [2] did you have the notorious 8800 AA problems? Thanks -

Miquel, that's very interesting [especially since I've also ordered an E6850 as well]. Your comments are mirrored in the Guru 3d review: "...bang for bucks...one of the fastest cards to date...close to 8800 GTX performance, for a lot less money...for the end user the 8800 GTS 512mb is a small step forward in the series 8 products...you get to play around with GTX performance at a lower price...skip the 8800 GTX or Ultra, just go for either a Geforce 8800 GT 512 mb or 8800 GTS 512 mb, as these two products are where the real value is to be found."

Still waiting ...but will do.

Thanks, people, for your interest - and the useful reference to Phil's blog. For what it's worth,I ordered the card from BFG on the strength of a very positive Guru 3d review. It's their OC version: Core Clock 675 MHz vs 650 MHz standard. Not much, but every little helps, and I haven't the competence or confidence to experiment with overclocking myself.

I have one on order, and user opinions would be welcome...

Thanks, Frank. No AA problems with fs9 or fsx??