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EHM-1025 Len

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« on: March 05, 2004, 07:17:06 am »
Whenever I try FS 2004, within a few minutes of being airborne, in any of their a/c, the normally beautiful screenshots start to exhibit bold colour swathes that are randomly sourced from odd colour pixels. The whole effect just blots out the screen eventually. Anybody else have this problem?
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« Reply #1 on: March 05, 2004, 10:05:39 am »
hmm......maybe your graphic card's running out of ram? which card do you use?
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« Reply #2 on: March 05, 2004, 08:30:12 pm »
I have a problem too! Can anybody help?

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« Reply #3 on: March 06, 2004, 12:57:16 am »
Is your problem the same problem as the problem that len foster has?
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« Reply #4 on: March 06, 2004, 05:48:56 am »
I sent a picture in the forum! I'll send it in email or search you on MSN!

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« Reply #5 on: March 08, 2004, 09:52:02 am »
What card do you have? What ram is it? and what is your PC spec and ram?

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« Reply #6 on: March 08, 2004, 01:21:27 pm »
Picture in the forum? could you please guide me to it? :P and post your card model and ram too! it would help a lot! :)
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« Reply #7 on: March 10, 2004, 09:51:07 am »
ok based on the specs you sent me, there can be several things that could cause that problem. Firstly, a GeForce 4 with 64MB should not have any problems running Microsoft Flight Simulator. However, if your view has been in the cockpit for a long time and you switch to an outside view after that, the card may not be able to catch up with processing the images as they were not mostly processed while you were in the cockpit as the panel covers most of the view. Because of the long time spent in the cockpit, your plane would have covered quite some ground and thus almost all of your surrounding would have to be processed, resulting in the image you sent me. Another reason could be that since your processor is only 800MHz, if your graphics option is set quite high, the processor wouldn't be able to 'help' out as much, putting even more burden on the card which leads to the above problem.

Another reason could be that your computer is out of ram as 128 mb of ram is considered to be little nowadays. After travelling for some distance, the scenery could have changed a lot. as your ram size is small, not a lot of textures can be stored for easy access by the card or the processor, and thus the computer would have to get it through the harddisk, which is significantly slower that the other components in the computer and resulting in a bottleneck and causes the image problem. I've personally have had this problem before but turning down the graphics setting makes most of the problem go away for me. Also the image would correct itself after sometime if you wait long enough and also if you are not travelling too fast like in a jet plane or when using time acceleration. Also the problem is especially severe if you had minimised Flight Simulator and brought it back up again. It could also occur when you pause and unpause the game. Of course it could be a combination of any or all of the factors that results in the eventual problem. Does my describtion fit your problem? If there were inaccuracies in my explanations please pardon me! :P (i would add more explantions as i think of them!)

Edit : It could also happen when you zoom into and out of the plane. Using a flight model that is very detailed could also be the cause of the problem.

Edit 2 : Running intensive background programmes could also result in the problem as resources are drawn away from Flight Simuator. So try to shut down as many programmes as possible as your computer is rather slow before playing flight simulator.

Edit 3 : Also please check for software running in the background. Some of these softwares could be spywares, adwares trogans or viruses and could be hogging all the avaliable resources. Of couse some of the times it could just be an antivirus schuduled scan which happened to me a couple of times. If you are using Windows XP there is a built in taskmanager. You can just right click the toolbar and select the task manager. From there you can find out which programmes are diverting the resources. Otherwise you could download third party taskmanagers like TaskInfo that i use. To clean out viruses you could run your own antivirus software but make sure that it is updated, or use an online virus scanner such as the Panda Active Scan and the Trend Micro Free Online Virus Scanner. To deal with adwares you could download Adaware by Lavasoft and for spywares the Spybot Search & Destroy and finally for trojans the Trojan Hunter. At the same time to free up your memory constantly, you could get Ram Idle LE which i also use :P (There are lots more free scanners and programmes out there to help you but beware of some as they may contain their own spywares or adwares to replace those that they removed!)

Here's the resized image if anyone's interested to see what the problem is



So Len is your problem the same one as this?
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« Reply #8 on: March 12, 2004, 08:52:19 am »
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« Reply #9 on: March 12, 2004, 08:53:34 am »
Thank you! I installed winXP yestersday I'll try to istall and try FS2004! I hope it works better! And I'll install a program which ereases RAM when i goes under a limit!
Thanks again for helping me!!!!:]

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« Reply #10 on: March 12, 2004, 11:40:36 am »
Glad i was of some help! Be sure to come back if you encounter more problems!
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« Reply #11 on: March 12, 2004, 05:02:08 pm »
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However, if your view has been in the cockpit for a long time and you switch to an outside view after that, the card may not be able to catch up with processing the images as they were not mostly processed while you were in the cockpit as the panel covers most of the view. Because of the long time spent in the cockpit, your plane would have covered quite some ground and thus almost all of your surrounding would have to be processed, resulting in the image you sent me.  


Interesting, does this mean that flying the plane in an outside view is faster than flying in cockpit view and switch to outside views for short moments?

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« Reply #12 on: March 14, 2004, 01:10:48 am »
Well actually no. It's just that when you are in the cockpit, here is no need to process much of the graphics around you, only right in front of you, and thus when you look around in the cockpit or go outside for a look, the processor and graphics cards races to process these originally not processed graphics but they are usually not fast enough to do it all in such a short time between the change in perspective and thus results in the kind of picture that you sent me.
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« Reply #13 on: March 14, 2004, 01:07:02 pm »
i use a ge force 4 64mb card and my computer has a similar speck by the looks of thngs but I didn't expeirience these problems
Wonder what could have happened
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« Reply #14 on: March 14, 2004, 03:31:39 pm »
There could be many reasons for this. many a computer that looks to be identical according to their hardware specs actually turn out to respond rather differently to programmes. One reason may be that your harddrive is cleaner than his and thus it is easier to locate the textures. Another reason could be that you do not have much programmes running and thus less competition for the extra processing power. Thirdly it could be that when you fly you spend much more time looking at the plane from the outside (or stay with FS without minimising all the time) and thus do not have this problem. Sometimes it all boils down to flying habits.
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« Reply #15 on: March 14, 2004, 09:13:31 pm »
1. One of my RAMs is not good so I get it out of my PC

2. I installed XP

And know everyrhing is working!!!!  :D