Nvidia woe's

FERG · Post by **FERG** » 28 Jan 2007, 16:55

I have AMD 64 x 2 4200+, nVidia nForce 4 PCI-Express mainboard, 2GB DDR RAM with a 256mb Nvidia 6800GT Graphics card. O :crying: n board sound.

Have been running FS9 with no problem for months with up to 8 x AA.

Now the game crashes if I turn the AA up above 2x. Manifests itself as I switch between views (full screen/windowed) or when I try to escape. Screen goes tiled or I get a translucent instrument panel and the screen freezes completely.

I have updated graphics card drivers and the Nforce 4 drivers.

Any ideas welcomed.

Ferg

jeggsy · Post by **jeggsy** » 29 Jan 2007, 18:41

Sounds like something iffy with your graphics drivers....

Usual thing is to get latest graphics & motherboard drivers and then re-install latest DirectX 9.0c.

Run FS9 on Nvidia 6800 AGP and Nforce 2 board without any troubles but only running 2 x AA.

TobyV · Post by **TobyV** » 29 Jan 2007, 18:52

Other option is to do the reverse and fully uninstall the old g/c drivers (until your system boots up with the generic SVGA driver) and then reinstall the old ones you knew work. I dont see the point of continually upgrading the drivers unless you have abug that needs fixing. Moe foten than not they seem to introduce new bugs!

FERG · Post by **FERG** » 29 Jan 2007, 19:23

Have updated all my drivers and also tried going back to older ones that worked in the past.

My prefrence for minimum acceptable for quality is 4 x AA so running at 2 x would be a real compromise.

In the FS9 Read Me it mentiones that Nvidia motherboards with onboard sound may require updated BIOS - but that's a whole new scary world.

Ferg