Flight Simulation Games, FS2002 and FS2004 Problems.........

"M" < XXXX@XXXXX.COM > wrote in message
news:IueXa.1797$ XXXX@XXXXX.COM ...
> I used to be able to run FS2002 without any problems; now I am finding
that
> the sound has gone weird and frames per second are down to 0-1 ! (used to
be
> fine upto 30fps with alot of detail)
> The sound pulses off and on with a regular rythmn and the animation
> corresponds accordingly ...
> I have tried changing grfx drivers with no luck and am thinking that the
> problem started after upgrading DX8 to DX9
> Having uninstalled FS2002 to install FS2004 I find exactly the same thing,
> yet other games (Grand Theft Auto3 and Vice City, Freelancer, IL2 FB,
> Medieval Total War) all work 100% fine!
> I have looked at DxDiag and although drivers for graphics and sound are
not
> WHQL compliant (Win98SE o/s) Direct 3D and Direct Sound check out
> fine......
> Any ideas or help would be much appreciated!
> TIA
>
> My system:-
>
> Win 98se
> AMD 1.4Mhz
> Jetway mobo (w/ on board sound Avance aC'97)
> MSI GeForce 4200Ti
> 512M Ram
> 40 Gb HD


I managed to find and download drivers for the AC'97 and the sound is fine
now.......but still not getting fps any higher than 1.0 ! .....
I am using 44.30 drivers from Nvidia, so they are the latest ones available,
so I am still clueless to what the problem may be ...

did you reinstall the video drivers after directx9 ? I found that that
works.

Your anti-virus software isn't scanning in the background is it? Might want
to check task manager to see what's running in the background.

--
... Carl Frisk




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I tried reinstalling video drivers, Via 4 in 1 drivers, AC97 sound card
drivers, removing swap file.....still nothing works

want

Installed and ran game with only explorer and systray running



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Hey,

try to deactivate FORCE FEEDBACK of your Joystick. It a bug in FS2004.

With deactivated FORCE FEEDBACK everything will be all right !!!


Regards

Mitch
"M" < XXXX@XXXXX.COM > schrieb im Newsbeitrag

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Oooooooooh!!! I havent tried that yet!!!!!!!!
Tried EVERYTHING else but not that!!!!
I do have a Force Feedback Sidewinder pro........
I have uninstalled FS2004 and was about to take it back to Game for a refund
(10 day return policy)...........
You may have just saved me from being Flight sim-less........

Going to reinstall it and give it a whirl........will post back anbd let you
know!
*crosses fingers and toes!*

Thanks for the info Mitch!





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Well........it WAS the force feedback causing the problem!!!
Thanks again to Mitch for that spot on help.........
Unfortunately I seem to have swapped one problem for another, the program is
so unstable I get around 3 minutes off flight time with great fps....better
than FS2002 I reckon..... (just enough to marvel at the clouds) before I
either get a bsod, crash to desktop or one of those internet report on
problems thingies.........
Ah well......

It may well be a problem with the Win98se driver being only 44.30 and nvidia
haven't seemed to want to update it (and probably wont now).......
WinXP is an option but I don't have the necessary moolah to buy a new
printer, scanner etc etc etc........

So to quote someone else
"Aargh,Fuck you Microsoft!"




refund
you


FS2004.

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