FS2004 ATI/Radeon Driver Problem

I have got a bad dose of the Radeon problems mentioned in a lot of posts,
the "bleeding" text, which although a pain is not the end of the world, but
the"swimming" scenery on my machine (High end Dell, 512mb, Radeon 9700 pro
128mb) makes FS2004 almost unusable.

Some folks on Radeon drivers have posted that they just have the text
problem, otherwise everything else is fine.

Would be really useful if those that have a reasonably stable FS2004
experience, on Radeon drivers, posted their graphics settings, so others
could try them, trial and error hasn't helped me.

fyi, Like may others I have posted the problem on ATI support pages, but no
response other than a system acknowledgment, makes for excellent Customer
Service on their part.

To help with the shimmering of texture (especially bad with ATI cards)
try those settings: mipmap to 4 in FS, no anti-aliasing, autogen
scenery to medium. In the drivers properties push anisotropic
filtering to the maximum available, set anti-aliasing to a medium
setting...

---
Best
Katy Pluta

FS2004 FAQ at http://www.simflight.com/news5/modules.php?name=FAQ

"Katy" wrote in message
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I have got a bad dose of the Radeon problems mentioned in a lot of posts,
the "bleeding" text, which although a pain is not the end of the world,
but
the"swimming" scenery on my machine (High end Dell, 512mb, Radeon 9700
pro
128mb) makes FS2004 almost unusable.

Some folks on Radeon drivers have posted that they just have the text
problem, otherwise everything else is fine.

Would be really useful if those that have a reasonably stable FS2004
experience, on Radeon drivers, posted their graphics settings, so others
could try them, trial and error hasn't helped me.

fyi, Like may others I have posted the problem on ATI support pages, but
no
response other than a system acknowledgment, makes for excellent Customer
Service on their part.

To help with the shimmering of texture (especially bad with ATI cards)
try those settings: mipmap to 4 in FS, no anti-aliasing, autogen
scenery to medium. In the drivers properties push anisotropic
filtering to the maximum available, set anti-aliasing to a medium
setting...

---
Best
Katy Pluta

FS2004 FAQ at http://www.simflight.com/news5/modules.php?name=FAQ


Posted by ATI FYI

http://www.ati.com/support/infobase/4256.html

Dont know if this will ease the pain, only MSoft can do that :-)

Bill

On Sat, 9 Aug 2003 Katy wrote:

To help with the shimmering of texture (especially bad with ATI cards)
try those settings: mipmap to 4 in FS

[...]

I can vouch for the mip-mapping thing being critical to solving texture
problems with the ATI cards. At 1024x768 some textures, particularly
night textures, looked terrible on my 9700Pro. The after-dark NYC
skyline was almost unrecognisable beneath a mess of flickering light
textures. Dropping the mip-mapping to 4 all but cured it. Personal
preferences will dictate how many of the other features are turned on or
off but this one is a must-do.

On a related note, if anyone's really ****ed off with the 'mode change'
flicker that FS2004 does every time you re-start a flight or choose a
menu option on a Radeon card, try changing the full-screen depth to
16bit instead of 32bit. It doesn't cure it but it reduces the number of
flickers, and they seem to cycle slightly faster. Not the best solution,
but it reduces the frustration a bit while we wait for new drivers
and/or a patch.

--
Kev
__________________________________________________ ________________________
"Caution: remove infant before folding for storage."
Warning on portable baby stroller

Katy:

Can you tell me why my 2D panels disappear when I turn antialiasing on? I'm
running win98SE with an AMD 1.2ghz processor, 512 mb ram, and a radeon 9000
64mb card.

Thanks for any help.

Steve

"Katy" wrote in message
...
I have got a bad dose of the Radeon problems mentioned in a lot of posts,
the "bleeding" text, which although a pain is not the end of the world,
but
the"swimming" scenery on my machine (High end Dell, 512mb, Radeon 9700
pro
128mb) makes FS2004 almost unusable.

Some folks on Radeon drivers have posted that they just have the text
problem, otherwise everything else is fine.

Would be really useful if those that have a reasonably stable FS2004
experience, on Radeon drivers, posted their graphics settings, so others
could try them, trial and error hasn't helped me.

fyi, Like may others I have posted the problem on ATI support pages, but
no
response other than a system acknowledgment, makes for excellent Customer
Service on their part.

To help with the shimmering of texture (especially bad with ATI cards)
try those settings: mipmap to 4 in FS, no anti-aliasing, autogen
scenery to medium. In the drivers properties push anisotropic
filtering to the maximum available, set anti-aliasing to a medium
setting...

---
Best
Katy Pluta

FS2004 FAQ at http://www.simflight.com/news5/modules.php?name=FAQ

I can tell you that I'm running a Radeon 9000 on an Athlon 1.2 with 256 meg
ram and I don't have any problems with the panels. I get occasional
re-boots for some reason though. Culprit was temperature at firs but
hardware monitoring shows all temps in the normal range.

Chris
--
I'm learning to fly! See what's going on.
www.home.bellsouth.net/p/pwp-cehlbeck

"ccsuwxman" wrote in message
news:R0jZa.20223$tf.2583@lakeread03...
Katy:

Can you tell me why my 2D panels disappear when I turn antialiasing on?
I'm
running win98SE with an AMD 1.2ghz processor, 512 mb ram, and a radeon
9000
64mb card.

Thanks for any help.

Steve

"Katy" wrote in message
...
I have got a bad dose of the Radeon problems mentioned in a lot of
posts,
the "bleeding" text, which although a pain is not the end of the world,
but
the"swimming" scenery on my machine (High end Dell, 512mb, Radeon 9700
pro
128mb) makes FS2004 almost unusable.

Some folks on Radeon drivers have posted that they just have the text
problem, otherwise everything else is fine.

Would be really useful if those that have a reasonably stable FS2004
experience, on Radeon drivers, posted their graphics settings, so
others
could try them, trial and error hasn't helped me.

fyi, Like may others I have posted the problem on ATI support pages,
but
no
response other than a system acknowledgment, makes for excellent
Customer
Service on their part.

To help with the shimmering of texture (especially bad with ATI cards)
try those settings: mipmap to 4 in FS, no anti-aliasing, autogen
scenery to medium. In the drivers properties push anisotropic
filtering to the maximum available, set anti-aliasing to a medium
setting...

---
Best
Katy Pluta

FS2004 FAQ at http://www.simflight.com/news5/modules.php?name=FAQ