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ThinkingManNeil

ThinkingManNeil

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Hi All;

Back on the 23rd of April I posted a thread - PC Technical Question - about what appeared to be some video issues. I was able to launch FSX, create a flight, but when I went to start the flight the cockpit would be completely blank and a black screen. I also tried launching FS2004 but all I'd get is a rapid, staccato flickering of the Create a Flight page - which would force a shutdown to escape - and when trying to launch IL-2 Sturmovik: 1946 the screen went blank and black from the get-go. I also had some issues with icon sizes on my PC's opening page, but that's more or less resolved itself somewhat after I reset my system to a date a couple of days prior to when this seemed to have all started. I did try fiddling with the resolution settings and I did try replacing the drivers for the graphics card, but nothing seems to have changed or been resolved, so I guess I'm going to have to replace my old ATI HD Radeon 5450 - assuming I can find one or one similar.

And just to clarify again, here are my system's basic stats:

Make: Dell Studio XPS 9000 purchased March, 2010
Motherboard: Unknown (Model and specs not listed on invoice)
Processor: Intel Core I7-960 processor (8MB L3-Cache 3.2GHz - no overclocking)
Memory: 12GB DDR3 SDRAM @ 1066MHz)
Primary Drive: 500GB Serial ATA 1 Hard Drive 7200 RPM
Secondary Drive: 1TB Serial ATA 2 Hard Drive 7200 RPM (This is where all my FS stuff is stored; FSX FS9, IL-2 Sturmovik: 1946. When I put this system together I wanted to make sure I had all my FS stuff dedicated to a separate drive)
Video Card: AMD HD Radeon 5450 (1GB)
Operating System: Windows 7 Home Premium 64-bit

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ThinkingManNeil said:
Hi All;

Back on the 23rd of April I posted a thread - PC Technical Question - about what appeared to be some video issues. I was able to launch FSX, create a flight, but when I went to start the flight the cockpit would be completely blank and a black screen. I also tried launching FS2004 but all I'd get is a rapid, staccato flickering of the Create a Flight page - which would force a shutdown to escape - and when trying to launch IL-2 Sturmovik: 1946 the screen went blank and black from the get-go. I also had some issues with icon sizes on my PC's opening page, but that's more or less resolved itself somewhat after I reset my system to a date a couple of days prior to when this seemed to have all started. I did try fiddling with the resolution settings and I did try replacing the drivers for the graphics card, but nothing seems to have changed or been resolved, so I guess I'm going to have to replace my old ATI HD Radeon 5450 - assuming I can find one or one similar.

And just to clarify again, here are my system's basic stats:

Make: Dell Studio XPS 9000 purchased March, 2010
Motherboard: Unknown (Model and specs not listed on invoice)
Processor: Intel Core I7-960 processor (8MB L3-Cache 3.2GHz - no overclocking)
Memory: 12GB DDR3 SDRAM @ 1066MHz)
Primary Drive: 500GB Serial ATA 1 Hard Drive 7200 RPM
Secondary Drive: 1TB Serial ATA 2 Hard Drive 7200 RPM (This is where all my FS stuff is stored; FSX FS9, IL-2 Sturmovik: 1946. When I put this system together I wanted to make sure I had all my FS stuff dedicated to a separate drive)
Video Card: AMD HD Radeon 5450 (1GB)
Operating System: Windows 7 Home Premium 64-bit

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I just replaced a Sapphire Radeon HD 6950 (2 GB) video card on my flightsim PC. It was running FSX perfectly when I removed it, but I wanted a faster GPU and 4 GB of memory in order to run P3D. If you are interested in buying it, please PM me with an offer.
 
Thanks for the offer, Mike. I'm on a permanent disability pension, so I'm going to have to sit down and figure out what I can afford. I'm also not sure how compatible your card would be in my old system as I just don't know enough about these things (eg, are my power supply and other on-board systems up to handling it?). I'm going to have to do a little research...

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That should be a 475 Watt PSU in that Dell.

Its border line to run a much bigger card. It also depends on it it has an 8 pin and 6 pic power cable on it too.
 
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