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Posted: Thu Aug 08, 2002 10:49 pm Post subject: FS2002 safe mode

Having problems. Fs2002 will only start in safe mode says no hardware acceleration found. I am running Geforce 3 Ti4200 64mb graphics, Athlon thunderbird 1.4, 512 2700 ddr ram. Everthing else is working fine but not fs2002. Help please.
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Posted: Fri Aug 09, 2002 2:14 pm Post subject: as above

Are you using any tweaking programs on your graphics card?
I have found them to be a waste of time on top end stuff.

Try re-installing FS2002, remove it first using the Control Panel.

What is your operating system?
FS2002 should be used with Windows 98 or better.

Hope this helps.

artcom_4

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Posted: Tue Aug 13, 2002 1:53 pm Post subject: safe mode

artcom_4 is right. In addition to this..... If you do unistall, put your disk in and start it. hit unistall. this will uninstall everything but it will leave your downloaded aircraft and sceneries alone.

Try this as well or first rather.... Go to main folder of FS2k2. scroll around and find fs2002.cfg, not any others you see there like fs2000, etc. Just fs2002.cfg. Delete it and restart FS2k2. it will automatically rebuild it's cfg file. You will have to do some resetting in settings library.

Also, turn on the trilinear thing. Turn off anti-aliasing.
Turn off "cast ground shaddows".

More help- In desktop, hit start, run, type in.... dxdiag. run various tests for video, sound, etc. If no problems found there still may be problems but it shows dx is working. Make sure youi have dx8a or 8.1, the latest.

I don't know if athelon is the same, but the Nvidia, geforce 3 has no known issues with this game.

Go to Microsoft help, games, fs2k2. They will write back with no charge. They will ask youi to send a couple of files for them to look at. Here's what they will ask you to do:

DXdiag.txt and msinfo.txt are the files they will ask for.

Here's how to get them-

To generate a DxDiag report, please use the following steps.

1. Click on Start, choose Run, and type in DxDiag. Hit OK.
2. In the window that follows near the bottom, click on Save all Information.
3. When asked where you want to save it choose your Desktop
4. You will now have a file on your desktop called DxDiag.txt.

To generate an MSInfo report, please use the following steps:

1. Click Start, Run, and type "msinfo32" (without quotes) and hit Enter.
2. This will open another window, click on File menu, select Export.
3. Save the file by entering the name as msinfo on your desktop

Try these suggestions and get back to me through PM. jyd