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Hide and Seek?

Postby Foxtrot Sport » Sat May 21, 2005 7:23 pm

Speaking of that game, I personally dont like being the seeker, but in this case I am.  I came over a problem where all my panels and Virtual cockpits compltely dissapeared. Haven't a clue why or when, it just happened.

I just did a re-install and it didn't do anything, any answers?

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Re: Hide and Seek?

Postby Foxtrot Sport » Sun May 22, 2005 4:36 pm

Please reply, this is a very frustrating problem.

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Re: Hide and Seek?

Postby Smoke2much » Mon May 23, 2005 4:27 am

Hello,

I had this problem a while back and it turned out to be a video card settings problem.  If I set the Antialias above 4x in the driver it would remove my 2D panels and the opening screens of FS would show only the rotating aircraft.

Setting the AA at 2x fixed it and so did downloading the latest NVidia drivers.

I hope this helps.

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Re: Hide and Seek?

Postby ozzy72 » Mon May 23, 2005 11:15 am

HF what are your system specs?
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Re: Hide and Seek?

Postby Foxtrot Sport » Mon May 23, 2005 5:29 pm

Ah yes sorry,

2.0 Ghz Pentium 4 processor
256mb Ram  (i know i know)
Nvidia GeForce MX 440 (128mb)
Directx 9.0

That's about all that matters i believe.

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Re: Hide and Seek?

Postby Smoke2much » Tue May 24, 2005 3:50 am

It sounds from your specs that you have the same issue that I had.  Try either updating your drivers or going back to an earlier set.  I have had issues with some software requiring older drivers.  That was a PITA!!!
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Re: Hide and Seek?

Postby Foxtrot Sport » Wed May 25, 2005 11:01 pm

Good news, I'm guessing on the re-install something flipped off of default, and my panels just weren't showing automatically.  In the view options, I found that if I click something, they will show up just fine.  Thanx for the help!

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Re: Hide and Seek?

Postby Tom_M » Thu May 26, 2005 6:12 am

From where I'm standing, you should be more worried about your video card spec than your lack of RAM :P

The GeForce 4 MX440 is a DirectX 7 card very far removed from the other GeForce 4 (and even 3) DirectX 8 cards. It performs about the same as a souped-up GeForce 2.

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