Hi all, recently I've started having some problems with FSX. If I'm flying one of the more detailed framerate heavy aircraft FSX will freeze momentarily and then the monitor will go black. I can still hear FSX running thru the speakers. The only way to solve this is to do a "hard-shutdown with the power switch." I've even had it happen once with fs9 and LOMAC. Sometimes when it happens the sound becomes distorted and garbled and seems to loop over and over again. I've let it run 10 minutes or longer, hoping maybe a CTD would happen and I could see some kind of message, but it never does, monitor just stays black and fsx continues to run. It's like the monitor is still getting "something" from the graphics card because the led next to the monitor switch never turns orange like when the computer is shut down though.
I've tried various different drivers for both my graphics card and sound card with no results, even lowered the acceleration to standard on my sound card, thinking maybe that could be the problem. I've opened the case, made sure all the air holes are clear, cleaned the fan on the graphics card and made sure everything is seated properly. I know my computer is getting tired and its going to be a little longer before I can upgrade to fully appreciate fsx I'm just wondering if it may be the power supply or something simple that I'm overlooking that could be causing the problem. I'm not overclocking and have monitored the temperatures on the graphics card with the Ati utility and everything appears to be normal.
Are there any logs generated or anything, that would report any system crashes that I could look for after doing a reset?
My computer specs:
tired Dell Dimension 4550 2.53 Ghz
ATi 9800 pro 128 mb card
Audigy SoundblasterII sound card
768Mb Ram
Darrell
I've tried various different drivers for both my graphics card and sound card with no results, even lowered the acceleration to standard on my sound card, thinking maybe that could be the problem. I've opened the case, made sure all the air holes are clear, cleaned the fan on the graphics card and made sure everything is seated properly. I know my computer is getting tired and its going to be a little longer before I can upgrade to fully appreciate fsx I'm just wondering if it may be the power supply or something simple that I'm overlooking that could be causing the problem. I'm not overclocking and have monitored the temperatures on the graphics card with the Ati utility and everything appears to be normal.
Are there any logs generated or anything, that would report any system crashes that I could look for after doing a reset?
My computer specs:
tired Dell Dimension 4550 2.53 Ghz
ATi 9800 pro 128 mb card
Audigy SoundblasterII sound card
768Mb Ram
Darrell