New graphics card - texture problems

[chinookie]

I upgraded my graphics card a few weeks ago from an nVidia TNT2 Riva to a GeForce MX 440 (128MB), and now for some reason my terrain textures don't seem to be loading properly (FS2002).

Everything else is fine - the game runs smoother than it did before, and so do all my other games, but for some reason my ground textures seem to be stuck in the Medium setting - even when I select Maximum! I remember with my old card when you got close down to the terrain the textures would look very detailed, but not so with my new card!! They just seem to be stuck in Medium-resolution mode. It's funny, because all the buildings, houses, etc, are displaying correctly - but not the terrain....

I've downloaded the latest drivers for my graphics card, and I've also got the lastest DirectX - but it makes no difference. I've noticed also that the Transform/Lighting and the Mip-Mapping options in the Display Settings are giving me problems too - sometimes when I've got them turned on, the sky goes all flickery, and I have to turn them off to stop it. But then if I turn them on again a few minutes later, it works fine!!  ???

Any help/advice is much appreciated. I can post screenshots if this will help.

[congo]

Are you talking about the games display settings or the driver display settings?

If you go to the driver display settings, you can set it for "quality" settings.

Also , you didn't say what software you are having trouble with? FS9?

[Iroquois]

If your having problems with your Geforce4 MX440, try using an older driver. nVidia's 5x.xx and 6x.xx series are more for the GF4 TI, FX, and 6800 series. Try using some past drivers from the 3x.xx or 4x.xx series. Microsoft recomends driver version 44.67 if you have FS2004. You can try 30.82 as well.

[congo]

I had great success with 43.51 with the mx series, but I still think you have a settings problem is all.

Also, you will need the Reflection Fix for that card, it's an entry in the display.cfg file you have to add if you don't see aircraft/water reflections in the sim.

I haven't got a copy of the entry right now.

[chinookie]

Thanks for the suggestions. I'm using FlightSim 2002.

I'm sure it's a settings problem like you said, not hardware. I've tried altering both the Display Settings in the simulator itself, and the driver display settings too.

I've run 'dxdiag' from the command prompt, and all the tests seem to check out fine - no errors whatsoever.

I never thought I may need to download an earlier version of the nVidia drivers, though, so I'll try that and see if it works. I'll post back with the results.

[chinookie]

OK, I tried this last night - I downloaded three different versions of the display drivers and tried to install them, but none of them made any difference.

I uninstalled the old one first by doing: Control Panel/Add Remove Programs/nVidia Display Drivers, but then when I checked the video card's properties afterwards it said it was still using drivers version 60.13.


So I think the reason why none of the older drivers made any difference is because the current ones didn't uninstall properly. Any advice on how I can completely uninstall them from my system?? I noticed that one of the files being used was WINNT\System32\nv4_disp.dll.

I also tried removing the drivers manually by going to the display's Advanced property settings and doing 'Uninstall driver', but the machine crashed.

I remember now that the drivers I was using with my old card were version 30.82 (which I downloaded yesterday), so hopefully if I can get them re-installed it should start working properly again.

Thanks. Any help much appreciated.

[congo]

Two ways.....

1st and easiest.... Just run setup on the new driver, don't uninstall anything. (try this first)

and if that doesn't work.........


....... Download

[chinookie]

Yea, I'm thinking a re-install is the way to go.

I looked at some of FlightSim's configuration files last night (can't remember which exactly), and they didn't seem to have quite the correct info stored on my graphics card.

I'm presuming it creates/builds this information according to what your hardware setup is when you first install FlightSim, so I think I'll try that next.

[Pinchaser...]

sounds more like a software issue in MSFS than a hardware conifg problem.