OneTinSoldier66

I went through this same frustration before deciding to stick with DX9. I would always get this same thing after about 10 minutes or so. My system just doesn't seem to like the DX10 thang. Btw, my video card is an HIS(ATI/AMD) IceQ HD 7850 2 GB. Perhaps if you get help and get it figured out here yotgosGK I might try DX10 again. It seemed like a lost cause, for me.

No problem. You're welcome.

Years ago ATI developed the Catalyst Install Manager with cleanly removing old drivers in mind as one of it's functions. Driver Sweeper may have been a good idea prior to that but I wouldn't recommend using it now, especially after hearing about your woes abax200. It's possible using Driver Sweeper caused/contributed to things going bonkers on you. I don't know though. I did use Driver Sweeper in the time prior to Catalyst Install Manager coming out. But now I always use the Catalyst Install Manager to install/uninstall the AMD/ATI Catalyst drivers and haven't had any hassles. Hope that helps fwiw, Jim Richards

Okay, another update. I uninstalled the 13.9's fine using the Catalyst Install Manager. Installed the 13.4's with no problems to report. The sim is back to behaving great now. I hadn't flown in several days and upon switching between the two drivers, I believe that the color saturation was a little washed out looking under the 13.9's. With the 13.4's the coloration is good and crisp, no crashes going to the map view, nor when exiting a flight or exiting the sim from a flight. Everything seem pretty solid again. Hope that helps fwiw, Jim Richards

Thanks for the link to that other thread abax2000. I rebooted the computer for the second time since installing the 13.9's, just in case. Well, there is something that has been happening that I didn't mention before but should have. Whenever I press 'Esc'(the Escape key) and either select to exit the flight or the sim, it crashes. The 13.9's do seem to be wonky. I decided I'm going to go back to the Catalyst 13.4's which worked great.

Okay, I made a change in the Catalyst Control Panel before starting the sim again. I had previously been using 4x Adaptive Anti-Aliasing and I changed it to Multisampling just to see what that was like. I loaded up the plane and after a minute I went to the map. No crash. I then exited the sim to come here and report. I'll go back to Adaptive Anti-Aliasing to see if that causes a crash. I must say I'm a little leery of the new drivers since you have reported having an issue, and I had a crash when trying to go to the map the first time after installing them. But I'll stick with the new drivers for little while to see how it goes. Regards Errr sorry, when I said Adaptive Anti-Aliasing I meant Adaptive Multisampling. I'll try Supersampling too.

Well, flying seems to work okay. Everything seems to look just fine. I just tried to go to the map and the sim crashed. Don't know if it has anything to do with the driver change or not. But anyway, I'm going to start the sim again and go to the map right away and see what happens. If it crashes again when trying to go to the map I'm going to revert to the 13.4's and see if the sim still crashes. Cheers

I just installed the 13.9 drivers. I also had the 13.4 driver installed prior to installing the Catalyst 13.9 driver. Right after installing the newer driver I came on to the forums here and saw this thread. After reading your post sleightflight I was cringing with an "Oh no, I just installed them!" Of course, I decided to fire up FSX to see what would happen. Nothing wrong, no issue here that I can see so far. I loaded up the MilViz 737-200 and it seemed just fine. It was all I did before coming back to reply here. I haven't flown yet. Anyway, whew! Sigh of relief on my end. I'd rather not have to go back to the older drivers if I don't need to. My card is an HIS(ATI) IceQ Radeon HD 7850 You did uninstall the old driver before installing the newer one, correct? Good luck, Jim Richards

I wish someone would make a Lake Renegade for FSX. I liked one the freeware one by John L. Woodward for FS2004. Just a wish!

I'd recommend checking out... 1) Eaglesoft Cessna Citation X v2 (already mentioned) 2) FeelThere E-Jets Volume 2 Embraer 175-195 3) Xtreme Prototypes 20 Series - Model 24 and 25 LearJets (VC only, no 2D panel)

Nice. I have the same combination. Or at least I think I do. My Landclass is by Scenery "Tech". I'm guessing that's what you meant. Cheers

By CS MD-80 I take it you mean CoolSky. But when you follow that with 727, 757 & 767 I'm thinking you mean Captain Sim. Or did CoolSky make those models for FSX as well?

I'm rusty at flight simming right now. Only recently did I get FSX installed, tweaked, and going. I like(d) the Eaglesoft Cessna Citation X in FS2004 a lot. So I purchased the v2 for FSX and I see I need to learn to use the FMS to get the most out of it, which I look forward to. I have purchased a couple of other aircrafts to have some variety to choose from and have flown them a little as well, the Captain Sim 707 and Xtreme Prototypes Learjet 24/25. All very nice in my opinion. I plan on getting some GA Aircraft at some point too. The Flight1 B200 looks interesting. Anyway, for the time being for me its going to be the: Eaglesoft Cessna Citation X v2

Hi all, I found that I needed to make a tweak or two to my Win8 OS, as well as tweak FSX. In case it might be of help to someone, here's the OS tweak from the guide that I followed that seemed to make a big difference for me. Go to Control Panel – Power Options. In the window that appears there is a dropdown that says: Show Additional Plans, expand it. Place a bullet in the power profile: HIGH PERFORMANCE and then click PLAN SETTINGS. For the monitor you can set this to what ever you like, 20min is usually a good value. For the ‘Put Computer to Sleep option, select NEVER. Click the ADVANCED power settings link. In the advanced power setting box go down the list and make sure these are set or change them as outlined: HARD DISK – Turn off hard disk: NEVER SLEEP – Sleep After: NEVER These next 2 settings may or may not appear, if they are there, change them as shown - Hibernate after: NEVER - Allow hybrid sleep: OFF PCI EXPRESS: Link State Power Management: OFF PROCESSOR POWER MANAGEMENT: System cooling Policy: ACTIVE Click Apply if you made any changes and then OK to close the box. Close the Edit Power Settings window. Open a elevated ADMIN command prompt which is different from a standard command prompt: On the Windows task bar click Start and in the search box type: cmd in the box that appears above, right click on cmd.exe and select Run as Administrator. In the command prompt type - powercfg.exe /hibernate off - and then press ENTER NOTE: Instead of typing you can use the mouse to highlight and copy - powercfg.exe /hibernate off - then place the mouse pointer in the command window, right click and select PASTE and then click ENTER. --------------------- My FSX runs really nice with settings turned up pretty high overall with let's say... the Eaglesoft Cessna Citation X v2, except at large airports due to the amount of AI Traffic. I still fly her on in at large airports. Most anywhere besides large airports(KDEN) it's really great and stays pretty much at the locked 30 FPS. I highly recommend finding a good guide, tweak your OS, don't have it loaded down with a bunch of stuff running in the background(check into what's getting loaded at startup). Tweak FSX, play with settings, etc. Naturally you'll need to have a decent rig to have settings turned up fairly high. I built mine a few years ago and it seems to work just fine after some tweaking. Cheers Addons so far: MyTrafficX v5.4 Scenery Tech North America Landclass FSGenesis North America and World Terrain Mesh Orbx FTX Global FSUIPC And a few payware and freeware aircrafts of course System: Asus P6X58D Premium Intel iCore7 980x Extreme 6-Core CPU @3.33GHz(no overclocking) Mushkin High Performance 6GB RAM(custom bios timing settings) HIS(ATI/AMD) IceQ 7850 2GB GPU

Howdy, Just recently rejoined and my first avsim post since many years ago. Upon seeing this subject I wanted to chime in and say that I would love to have a PMDG 787-8 if they decided to make one! For now, I fly the Freeware TDS 787-8 if I feel like taking a trip in one within FSX. It's a nice labor of love. At the moment I'm really looking forward to the 747-400X v2, and purchasing the 737NGX come next payday. From what I've seen the 737NGX looks really great. I love(d) the PMDG 737 in FS9. I don't think I'll ever forget how the FS9 PMDG 737 set a new bar/standard for flight simulator aircraft at the time. As someone who was pretty uninitiated to modern avionics that plane really blew my mind! Although I'm still not all that educated about the stuff at least I no longer feel completely lost and uninitiated, thanks to PMDG and other avid flight simmers. I managed to learn some FMC programming. It was hard getting the hang of it at first, but it was very interesting, fun, and satisfying. Anyway I wanted to say that, if it's in the stars, I would love to see a PMDG 787-8! Cheers, Jim Richards