Trees and lights have black boxes around them

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Trees and lights have black boxes around them

Postby Don D. » Wed Jul 16, 2003 11:06 am

Hey all... New guy here!
I just installed FS2002 and I am getting black boxes around trees, lights, some buildings, as well as some sections of terrain is multicolored (as in rainbow colors).  I am also having system crashes where I get the screen that asks me if I want to report the error to Microsoft as well as complete system reboots.

I have turned things off in my system tray, set my color to 32 bit, completely de installed software.  Defragged my drive and reinstalled the software.

My system: AMD k7, 700 mhz, 256 meg memory, running Win2K pro.

(FYI, I installed this on a DEL 733 with 256 mem, Win2kpr0 and it works fine, so I suspect the software is fine, no corruption.)
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Re: Trees and lights have black boxes around them

Postby Scottler » Wed Jul 16, 2003 1:21 pm

Having seen some of the screenshots these guys have posted, those could be THEIR "black boxes"!  lol
Great edit, Bob.


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Re: Trees and lights have black boxes around them

Postby Fozzer » Wed Jul 16, 2003 1:55 pm

Hi Don...!
What are the graphics board details on your own machine?
The rest of your spec looks fine...!

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Re: Trees and lights have black boxes around them

Postby Big_Al » Wed Jul 16, 2003 2:39 pm

what video card do you have? I was having the same problem until I re-installed older Det4 nvidia drivers. if you do have a geforce card, I suggest the 40.72 drivers.

i installed the new nvidia det drivers and was having those same exact problems, nothing would work except installing earlier drivers. i have a geforce 4 ti4600 and the new nvidia drivers seem to be made and tested mainly for the geforce fx cards.

if you don't have a geforce card, sorry :)
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Re: Trees and lights have black boxes around them

Postby Don D. » Wed Jul 16, 2003 3:47 pm

Thats the one part of my system I cannot remember the details on.  I'll pull it tonight and see if I can figure out what it is.

Your suspicions are probably correct...   Don
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Re: Trees and lights have black boxes around them

Postby Fozzer » Wed Jul 16, 2003 4:12 pm

[quote]Thats the one part of my system I cannot remember the details on.
Win 8.1 64-bit. DX11. Advent Tower. Intel i7-3770 3.9 GHz 8-core. 8 GB System RAM. AMD Radeon HD 7700 1GB RAM. DVD ROM. 2 Terra Byte SATA Hard Drive. Philips 17" LCD Monitor. Saitek Cyborg X Fly-5 Joystick. ...and a Briggs and Stratton Petrol Lawn Mower.
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Re: Trees and lights have black boxes around them

Postby Don D. » Wed Jul 16, 2003 5:46 pm

Awesome!
Thanks Paul,  I did not now about that command.  I just did it here on my work computer.  Beats pulling out my screw driver!
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