Stuffed yet again - but problem solved
Posted: Tue Aug 16, 2005 8:03 amHad graphics card grief last week - as posted elsewhere, got hold of a shiney new 9800Pro to replace my old-faithful GeForce3 Ti that I had to go back to after my ebay 9700Pro died. But....the 9800Pro had bad pixels, so back it has gone to itself be replaced by a 6600GT.
Meantime, went back to the GeForce3 - can't use latest drivers because the aircraft window in the FS2004 'select aircraft' screen stays black. So reinstalled the old drivers and started up the game.
Totally stuffed and unflyable. Kept halting and refreshing textures about every 5 seconds.
Tried with the default 9.1 'with CD' exe and it seemed to be OK. Hmmmmmm.
So what I did, I deleted the 'no-CD' exe that I was using, downloaded a fresh one and restarted. Guess what - seems to be fine.
So anyone who still has these kinds of problems, maybe worth giving it a try. No idea how the 'no-CD' fs9.exe could have got damaged - but it obviously had been.
Meantime, went back to the GeForce3 - can't use latest drivers because the aircraft window in the FS2004 'select aircraft' screen stays black. So reinstalled the old drivers and started up the game.
Totally stuffed and unflyable. Kept halting and refreshing textures about every 5 seconds.
Tried with the default 9.1 'with CD' exe and it seemed to be OK. Hmmmmmm.
So what I did, I deleted the 'no-CD' exe that I was using, downloaded a fresh one and restarted. Guess what - seems to be fine.
So anyone who still has these kinds of problems, maybe worth giving it a try. No idea how the 'no-CD' fs9.exe could have got damaged - but it obviously had been.
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