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Post by Falcon on May 23, 2011 18:31:59 GMT
???My Vista OS would not boot up last week, had to format the hard drive and re-install everything. Had most things backed up on a stand alone hard drive. Loaded FSX SP1 & 2, and copied over the add on aircraft from the hard drive along with the Effects files. Now the smoke and wing tip vortices's are black and pixels are square. Using a 4 month old NVIDIA GeForce 9500GTX GPU. I'm at a loss. Could it be the GPU going bad? Any suggestions would be most helpful.
Denny H
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Post by Dan K. Hansen on May 23, 2011 21:22:22 GMT
Definitely something with your graphic card or settings...!
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Post by Falcon on May 23, 2011 21:31:43 GMT
I kind of thought so. I forgot to mention the nav lights, strobes and beacons are at times non existent, or really dim. Similar to my......................I'm disgusted with the new card deal.
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Post by hitperson on May 24, 2011 17:51:05 GMT
are the cards drivers updated??
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Post by Falcon on May 25, 2011 15:03:54 GMT
Well fellow simmers, after much thought process and elimination I decided to run FSX off of my stand alone hard drive. I had copied it from the C: drive in Feb. It ran just perfect, so since smoke,lights,vortices etc are from "effects" files, I copied that file from my stand alone Hard drive to the C: drive installation, and guess what? It works perfectly. So for the present I don't need a new card or computer for that matter. But one never knows with this stuff.
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Post by Dan K. Hansen on May 25, 2011 17:34:08 GMT
Good that you're sorted
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Post by Jetranger on Nov 2, 2011 13:41:02 GMT
11/2/2011 - NOTE ON THIS ISSUE : I recently had the same exact thing happen with my FSX Gold edition - on a Brand New Computer, I checked everything,,, asked around on forum boards , got all kinds of , well, some kind of answers, heres what I did to FIX the problem !! I just "Inserted" my FSX Discs ( all 3), the 1st one Disc #1, will show a Screen asking you if you want to uninstall or "REPAIR" your flight Sim, CLICK REPAIR,,, and go thru the process, it will take you thru all 3 Discs, make sure you use all 3 discs too, as it checks itself and the files in your sim/hard drive for any corrupted files and over writes them back to default IF it finds a badd file. I had blocky/square smoke effects and square lights and blocky / square water when landing on water,,,, but NOT since I fixed it by re-inserting the FSX Discs,,,, NOTICE I did NOT un-install anything , just re-inserted the FSX Discs and went theu the FIX IT process !!! The JetRanger  |
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