pabloc720

Hey everyone, My friend is a huge flight sim fan and he has a pretty good setup with a triple monitor. I was over his house to check it out and he wanted me to troubleshoot what is going on with his sims. He is running Windows * and he runs the Trackir software before he runs DCS world. The sim starts just fine and when I am wearing the hat with the IR pickups? The software tracks my head movements just fine but he has no keyboard control and his flight stick, I want to say it is a Thrustmaster, but nothing works. I have never used this tracking software before and I have never used the DCS world software either. I am used to the MS flight sims. Is there a problem with Windows 8.1 when it comes to flight sims? Is there any work arounds or soultions? thanks friends Paul

Just a heads up. This morning I am seeing the reviews of the 7900 and 7600 series of cards. Most impressive even on a budget the 7600 beats the 6800gt/s in most game apps and the 7900 is a monster. At sub $200, I suspect that the price will go down even futher, this makes an excellent upgrade choice for the PCI-E crowd who havent made an upgrade choice yet.Paul

Hey Paul,I cant tell you anything about the ATI cards but I can tell you about the 7800 and its a world of difference from my 6600gt and not just in the flight sims but in every game I had ran at high res, 1280x960, with 4x AA with little to no slow down. The shimmering effect you are talking about I have not come across yet, but that 7800 was just on loan. I would have to guess it comes down to personal preference, ATI or Nvidia. I like Nvidia. Also I would ask about your budget if you got money to burn then you could wait till the newer cards come out, should be unveiled at the end of this month in Germany if memory serves right, to see what they would have to offer.Paul

>Hi folks >>Question: Why do I constantly forget that brilliant little>program called CPU-z? >>Reply: I want Ulf to remind me my brain is like a Swiss>cheese! :-) >>>@ Paul, I'm glad you did a little bit of research. I fully>agree with the concept of not mixing different kind of>modules. However, for different reasons as originally posted>and nevertheless, probably very much in line with what you>were trying to say. I also try my very best to stay out of>certain polemics... So, thanks for looking up the details,>Paul, much appreciated. :-) >>Cheers, good luck and kind regards >>Jaap No thank you Jaap sometimes I get lazy in my knowledge, and yes sometimes a little arrogant:-lol so you made me work and thats always a good thing.thanksPaul

>>@ Paul, although some of your mentions are pointing in the>right direction, it isn't true you won't get dual channel when>using modules with i.e. different latencies or nominal>frequencies. >>Hope this helps, good luck and kind regards >>Jaap I never said that dual channel will work with different latencies I actually said ...."If your memory is different from each other like in speed, ie dr 400 or ddr 500, and timing is different, CAS timming, then you wont get the benefit of the dual channel mode.The motherboard MIGHT reduce the speed of the faster memory to match but that varies from motherboard to motherboard." and my motherboard ASN-SLI will NOT run in dual channel mode if the memory modules are not matched and Dom most motherboards have colored memory slots for example, my Asus board has 4 slots two blue two black and to get dual channel both sticks of ram must be in the same colored slots.edit: i just did some research yes it is possible to run different speed ram in dual channel but it will run as fast as the slowest module...always learning something new everyday

Hey Dom,Usually when you buy memory that is designed for dual channel they are sold in matched pairs, which I assume is not the case if your asking. If your memory is different from each other like in speed, ie dr 400 or ddr 500, and timing is different, CAS timming, then you wont get the benefit of the dual channel mode. The motherboard MIGHT reduce the speed of the faster memory to match but that varies from motherboard to motherboard. There is also a school of thought that says if your going to run memory in dual channel mode the memory should be from the same maker. I havent tried this so I cant be sure if this is true or not.hope it helpsPaul

ah my mistake i thought you went from LCD to CRT and file corruption in my years of pc building and repairing doesnt happen with a monitor switch, however installing new drivers it MIGHT happen especially if they are beta or untested drivers. By the way who or what company makes the video card you are using?edit: never mind about the video card what version of the nvidia drivers are you using?thanksPaul

Yes I would agree with the above post. I have the 6600gt and I turned of the hardware settings like AA etc in FS9 and did it through my Nvidia control panel. I took a huge performance hit if I did not do it this way. Also you may want to look that your background tasks are not interfering with the game. Close the aps like chat programs and in some cases antiviruses would help.Paul

Sure there are more powerful cards than the 9800 that are in the AGP sytle. Are you planning to switch the card or were you just asking? If you want to know the 6800 and 7800 series of the Nvidia series are much more powerful than the 9800 and on the ATI side I would assume the X19xx or X18xx series are more powerful, but I am not that familar with the ATI brand of cards so someone here will correct me if I am wrong about the ATI cards.thanksPaul

Sounds like to me the resoultion was incorrect for the old monitor that you switched. LCD and CRT monitors dont use the same resoultions or frame rates. I would tried going into safe mode, pressing F8 after the ram count screen just when it goes black, and adjust the resoultion from there. A complete reformat just automatically adjusted the resoultion to whatever monitor was hooked up at the time of a new install. I am not sure about the missing icon that could just be a fluke as a result of the monitors being switched and you could also have tried a system restore and that should bring your system back to the state it was, which you can choose, before you installed the CRT.I hope this clears things up for youPaul

Hey Paul,There are tons of cards you can use. First what is your budget like? Second are you particular to Nvidia or ATI or something else. Me personally I have been very happy with the Nvidia series of cards. From my experience you can get a AGP 6600gt or 6800 series and of course if your wallet allows they just made the 7800 for the AGP slot.Paul

yes the 7800gt i played with, XFX brand, was extremely smooth and from what i saw there was no stutters. As far as the overclock was concerned since i am using a 3200 with a venice core its using a much lower cpu voltage, 1.4 to be exact, I didnt have to raise the voltage at all just increased the FSB and my memory handled it with easy also my Asus board had some built in overclock presets, raised to a max of 10%, but it wasnt good enough so i used the manual setting and went to a FSB of 208 mhz where is was stable running my PRIME mem test and SYSANDRA test. I also use Shin Etsu thermal paste which I think its the best stuff out there. Its a little tricky applying but well worth the effort.thanksPaul

lol good luck convincing the "boss"paul

Hey Jason,My rig is almost the same as yours and I was very lucky to test my rig with a 7800gt and all I can say is WOW. There is a huge difference in performance, but I didnt run only FS i did it with FEAR HL2 Need for speed most wanted as well as FS 2004 and I saw a world of difference with higher effects on ans still staying smooth. As far as the CPU the difference between the 3200 and 4000 is small. The 4000 runs at 2.4 and my 3200(venny core),2.0 stock,overclocked hits 2.8 on stock cooling without a problem.Paul

yep thats going to be a good rig. I assume thats a Althon 64 4000? If your up in the air about a board I can suggest the Asus A8N-SLI Deluxe or Premimum cause it will grow with you if you decide to go dual core and it runs like a champ and overclocks very well. It also has SLI if you decided to go that way and loves the dual channel ram.Its going to be night and day difference between your old and new systemPaul