Well Gents,I'm Officially Beaten

I understand the frustration harleyman, before I discovered the on-line world of help, past FS games were used for the first 5 months then tossed aside becasue my machines would never run them nor did I have the money to get better hardware to make them go so best thing was to step aside until the new title came out and I would get all excited all over again and go through the vicious loop of disappointment again. Of course I hope you find the answer to the rippling affect and enjoy some time with your bike and the family and very glad you will still be hanging out here at the SOH.

Jim
 
I had similar problems as you are having and the truth is you will have to start by looking at what you have done, even starting over from scratch, this same type of thing happened to me and had to go thru the whole process from the beginning, I know how angry this makes you but sometimes the best place to start is from the beginning with a clean format and just load what is needed first,MS is notorious for some really messed up stuff:banghead:
 
I agree...But it has been done already over and over and over....All is partitioned,formatted.. Installed on several machines with the same results..I thought it seemed to act like the DVD had worn out or something...So I bought FSX Gold and tried that with the same problem....

Thanks .........:wavey:
 
Sorry to hear of your problems but understand where you are coming from. I'm lucky and have a machine that runs FSX great, but I'd be disappointed if I wanted to run FS9, it isn't half as smooth. Computers are a PITA at the best of times.
 
Sorry to hear this Mason. Getting away from it though will be nice and relaxing. :d You'll be able to think 'outside' the box and see things more clearly.

The sad thing is that its probably something so darn basic that its going to be hilarious. (At least lets hope so).

Wouldnt it be cool if you could shop for a computer by 'running' FSX on it 'first' to see what its like, then buy it and take it home and start flying right then!! No tweaking, just 'run' the dang thing! lol... Ahh to dream....


In the mean time, remember us developers that have to make planes. Your burdens are 3 fold then. Two sims, two platforms, two codes of parts, two gauge codes, two versions of materials, with FSX having 4 pages of material data per material item, new resolution technology that is enhanced by quadrupling the textures into one giant sheet / bitmap, different airfile tunes, different camera view systems (panel based versus config file based), etc, etc, etc. Making the right and proper plexi the first time for FSX took perhaps 1 full week, full time, trying to figure out why it wasnt transparent, then why it wasnt reflecting, then this, then that. My nose hairs turned crispy gray that week. Horrible.....

So remember, there are alot of us out there that dont have it easy either.


By the way.. Isnt 'Autotropic' or something similar sounding, the setting for cross line focus and resolution? (Indiosoptic or autotropic, something like that). I had an issue with this a few months back on my rig and I ended up downloading Catalyst and experimented for a couple of hours and finally found 8X to work perfect. 16X ran it faster, but wasnt as nice as 8X. But I had to tune this outside of FSX. FSX couldnt tune the cross lines to be gone...



Bill
 
Harleyman, if I was you I would try to find answers to you issue in the postnuclear Washington D.C. area, in the african jungles and deserts or way back in time.

Say: Forget your FSX issues for now and get Fallout 3, Far Cry 2 and Call Of Duty 5. Those will keep you busy for a while, maybe until ATI releases the überdriver for the 4870X2. ;)
 
Hi Mason,
Have you updated the mobo bios.Could be that is causing your problems.
Also try taking out your sound card or turning off in the bios your sound.Then fly without it to see if you are still getting the problem.You do not say how your sound is produced.May I also ask you to try a slower 7,200rpm harddrive.Several of my friends have reported problems with the 10,000 rpm drives causing lock ups and graphical issues in games like Crysis.

Buddha13
 
If all else fails there's that pimple-faced 13 yr old kid down the block who'll not only fix it but get you 50fps for the price of a new pair of baggy Gap jeansa prepaid cell card and a Red Bull
 
srgalahad said:
If all else fails there's that pimple-faced 13 yr old kid down the block who'll not only fix it but get you 50fps for the price of a new pair of baggy Gap jeansa prepaid cell card and a Red Bull
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LOL :costumes:

How come none of those gurus live in my neighborhood?? I am the one always fixing my nephews computer.. arrghh... :banghead: (and I know very little about computers.. double-arrrrghhh) :isadizzy:
 
harleyman said:
Ok For what its worth...

Case: Thermaltake VH8000BWS BK
Power: ThermalTake W0178RU 850W RT SLI Edition
MoBo: GIGABYTE GA-X48-DQ6 775 X48
CPU: INTEL|C2D E8600 3.33G 775 6M
CPU Cooler: Artic Pro 7
GPU: VISIONTEK Radion 900250 HD4870X2 2G
Mem: OCZ 2X2 @ 1066
HD1: 150 Gig Raptor @ 10,000
HD2: 300G VelociRaptor @ 10,000
OS: XP Pro SP 3


I have tried every setting with the help od Txnetcop...Every config tweak... Used ATI and Nvidia with the same issues...Bough a bigger monitor(more resolution 1920X1200 Installed FSX on two different machines...Same problem...Changed power sourses.....All other games run just fine.........

It just Ripples all over the place and is horrible....Unflyable to say the least...I have discovered one thing,SP2 makes it worse...But SP 1 just is not as bad....LOL
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Your computer is quite ok, but the fact that you have only two cores must be taken into consideration.
If I understood correctly your problem, no matter what kind of settings you choose, you always get stutters or something like that ? I had more or less the same problem for a while (with a quad core !!), and then finally I managed to solve it. When you're back (and your will to tweak as well), we can have a look... will cost nothing (but a beer :d)
 
I was having a hell of of a time with my rig just booting into windows for the last two weeks. When I finally got it booted and tried to play FSX, I kept getting crash's and lock-ups.

I was about to reformat yet once again, and a friend suggested I pull out my second video card (GTX8800). So I did and WAA-FRICKIN-LAA like magic the damm thing started working right.
 
Harleyman

Are you seeing a "ripping" effect as in graphics tearing or is it a "rippling" effect like a slow out of focus little wave that moves across the screen?
 
It just ripples all over the place..Thats the best I can describe it...I've had FSX on a V-Raptor and a Seagate &,200 drive with 32 Mb Cache also...All the same....LOL


And where is that pimply kid when you need him? :costumes:


Bios is updated......

Off tio dinner....Thanks
 
I feel your pain. I can play any new game that is supposed to knock out most systems flawless too. It's only really FSX that kills my system. I can barely run it on 'ok' settings and it only just looks good enough to keep it, thanks to addon scenery. The default is just utterly boring and downright ugly (texture wise) in a lot of places.

Just my two cents as I really feel your pain. I don't have a lot of good to say about the requirements of this sim.
 
hang in there harleyman. My view on computers is : " It's not if its going to break but when . " I'm running a ASUS Quad Extreme 6850 , nForce 680i (64bit) VISTA , 4 gigs 6400 RAM , 8800 card . FS9 screams . I was very reluctant at first on a 64bit Quad but now I would'nt have anything else . FSX is a beast.:costumes: I'm running mid to low teens in urban areas , 30 to 40's airborne in rural areas . I use to be a big ATI fan but switched to NVidea a couple of years ago and am very statisfied . My point :I could'nt begin to tell you the flustration I've experienced with FSX . I'm currenting on my fifth reinstall and so far so good. (Still don't have simconnect). I just recently discovered a bad PCI slot and possibly a power supply slowly dying . I just get away from it for a week or so and that really helps when I go back and tackle it again . SOH is probably the best group of people I've ever been associated with . If anyone can help you it is these very talented people .

Hang in there and good luck:ernae: (I've always wanted to own a Harley Sportser but wife won't let me , she says I'm retired and too old now:costumes:)

Rich
 
Sorry to hear of the problems you continue to experience. I wouldn't be surprised, however, if T2 pushs the performance envelope just like FSX did. I remeber difficulties with T1 back when I ran FS9 with no issues at all on the same box!

That's why I run 2 setups, the likelihood that both would melt down at the same time is low, LOL.

Taking a break sounds like a good idea, shift your focus. Enjoy the upcoming holiday season and de-stress.
 
Nah...Never to old to get a Harley..I got my first at age 16,and I will die with one even if I can't ride it any more....:d


I'm seriously looking at Silent Hunter 4......It looks fairly good to me..Its only 16 bucks at Best Buy....I may swing by there after the opening of the New Bond Movie today at 12:50.....HeHe.......:d :applause:
 
Hi Harleyman................Amigo, after all your problems you need a good bottle of Rum or Tequila or Corn Whiskey or whatever put it in your sack, and ride your bike into the sunset!!!!!!!!.....watch out for the women on the road they can give you as much problems as FSX!!!!!.................Bon Voyage!!!!!:kilroy::kilroy:
 
I shouldn't point this out but the November issue of Computer Pilot has an article on "Building a "Monster" Sim PC". I look at the specs and cost of the respective hardware components and the performance at high settings, (which I have no reason to doubt) and it's enough to make me jump head first off the bridge. Of course they run a stock FSX/Accel (or so it appears) but still...:banghead:

This looks like the "finesse approach", I took the brute force approach at much higher cost (and running a stock FSX/Accel for now) - so far so good, but still...:banghead:

:isadizzy:
 
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