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Posted: Mon Jul 11, 2005 12:31 pm Post subject: What happenned to my card?

Hopefully someone can help me here.

I have lost all ability to modify the "Display Settings" from inside FS9. i cant move any of the sliders. they are greyed out. My frames have gone from 35fps to 3-19 frames depending on where I am and what scenery is in use. I have tried to correct this today by uninstalling FS and then installing it again with no joy. It is very frustrating. I am thinking it must be something to do with dispaly adapter but for the life of me I cant figure out what it is.

System is

AMD Athlon 2600 Barton
VIA KT 600 "AK77-600GN" Mobo
1 Gig Ram
Saphire ATI Radeon 9600XT (256meg) AGP (latest catalyst drivers)
On board sound/network

I did some tweaking for Day of Defeat through that programmes .cfg file but cant see how that could effect FS.

PC is running first person shooters at exceptional frames so the degradation for FS is driving me crazy.

Any help, tweaks, internal tweaks etc anyone can suggest i am willing to try.

When I uninstalled FS9 today I went throgh add/remove programmes on all my addons first eg FSNAV and aircraft PMDG, Aerosoft etc. When I clicked on uninstall FS9 it would not let me due to an error I did not pay any attention to so I just deleted the entire Microsoft games directory. Could i have missed something i should have deleted for a clean install of FS?

Cheers in advance

Posted: Mon Jul 11, 2005 10:27 pm Post subject:

That's a strange problem you have there, and I've never experienced that before. My first suggestion would've been to do a "system restore" to a restore point before you started to have the problems. I understand your frustration, and I hope you're able to resolve the problem. Someone else will be along with better advice, but in the future, I would resort to "system restore" before I went so far as to delete fs9 and start from scratch. Wink

Did you already go to the hardware tab under "system properties" and check to see if everything shows ok there? Just a suggestion that might help you. Good luck!! Very Happy

Posted: Thu Jul 14, 2005 12:34 am Post subject:

Are you sure you are not running FS9 in its safe mode (or software rendering)? This usually happens because FS9 runs in software mode and hardware options are useless. I don't know, I have never experienced this before.

Posted: Thu Jul 14, 2005 1:06 am Post subject: also,

Also, did you have the 9.1 patch installed? If you did, you were supposed to run the FS9.1 uninstaller (found in the main Fs9 folder) first, then the Fs9 uninstaller. There is another detail that sometimes gets overlooked as well, that is when you run individual uninstallers of the addons, you sometimes have to restart FS to update its configuration files. Dont forget to sweep the registry after your uninstalls to clean up loose ends and prepare for a clean install. Once you have uninstalled and cleaned your registry, reboot the computer for all changes to take effect.

Posted: Thu Jul 14, 2005 7:56 am Post subject:

And check your FS9.cfg for a duplicate entry in the [display] entries. Delete the one that you think is incorrect.

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