deleting grafix drivers

[congo]

"How else could I test my many nLites, without spoiling my running system?"
________

That's just one reason for purchasing a second HDD.



The virtual drive sounds interesting though. I should give it a shot perhaps, as long as it doesn't frag my FS9 LOL!

Weird that you can't get FS9 to fire up properly.

Did you try that little HDR 3D demo I linked?

I think you need to get a performance baseline from another program, even 3Dmark would be good... so you can see if it's FS9 causing the problem or if you have a more serious hardware based problem.

[luke]

I tried Virtual Machine after the fs9 went jerky & a firend said on the fone try it on VM, which prompted me to try my nLite XP too.

RTHdribl is spinning coloured balls round the cathidral this minute, what am I supposed to be looking for?

MODIFY  

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[congo]

RTHdribl is spinning coloured balls round the cathidral this minute, what am I supposed to be looking for?

Post roughly what the average FPS is during the first few seconds it runs at default settings.

Also set your video driver settings as you would normally for that test and post them as well so we can get a baseline of performance. 3Dmark would be better.

[luke]

RTHdrip
FPS averages 42-43.

gfx card settings, what?,

AA & Aniso are 8 & 16

1024 x 768

Hiest (32bit)

60hrtz

Teemp 45

The 3Dmark :-
for 3mnts run,
Fps I saw around 26 to 107, too fast to see.
1024 x 768x32, no AA etc....
too fast change over to catch other write up.

Looks to me a modern arcade game with very realistic people & sharp scenery. Never played these games to judge.

Is this what you wanted?

PS
Virtual Machines:-

[congo]

With RTHdrip, was that running in it's default window size or did you open it full screen?

My system is pushing 138fps in the default size screen it opens with and my driver settings are 8s AA and 16x AF, high quality. yet if I maximise the screen to 1024x768 I get around 65-70fps.

Let 3Dmark complete, it doens't take too long, it will give you a score at the end, so post that score and say what version of 3Dmark you have. ( '05 or '06 or whatever)

Use no AA , no AF, and high performance driver settings in the 3Dmark test.

[luke]

RTHdrip, was running in it's default window size

3Dmark 2001 SE build 350
AA / ANISO both off,

[congo]

Great, my records show that my 6600GT was capable of 20,000 3dmarks  ('01 ) with everything overclocked, so your results are ok, maybe not the best, but still within range, so it looks as if you hardware / system configuration is all OK.

This leads me to believe that this is most likely a tweaking issue or problem with FS9, so it probably doesn't belong in the hardware forum Luke.

[luke]

OK thanx, I will look to see where else would get some info.

[NicksFXHouse]

I would set up the drivers exactly how I run them in FS9 and then rerun the default 3Dmark test...

and while it is running, watch it

see if it is smooth or jerky

I would probably run 3Dmark 03 instead of 01 because 01 was well before FS9 was released and may not be stressing the system enough

If the 3Dmark 03 test runs without issues and without being jerky, THEN I would say the issue is local to FS9

[luke]

3dmark run at 3, and fs9 as was.



Did I ever mentioned thet fs9 gives only .05 to 4 fps now?

Before over LHR with lots of cloud & set fps max, was giving 25 - 35fps.

[NicksFXHouse]

3dmark run at 3, and fs9 as was.


Did I ever mentioned thet fs9 gives only .05 to 4 fps now?

Before over LHR with lots of cloud & set fps max, was giving 25 - 35fps.

No, I do not recall you mentioning that which would suggest you have a problem which is local to FS9 only. I assume all the grahics tests ran smooth... if that is the case then there is something wrong with your FS9 install. It sounds like the modules are corrupt or you installed some type of cloud or texture add-on that is defective.

[luke]

Yes forgot to mention that the 3dmark grafix were very very smooth, sharp, colourfull & clear spectacular sort of games.

Then what in fs9, reloaded the thing so many times & changed so many combinatios of settings, and all you sugested for PC twicks & fs9 setings.

Must have the Jinks.

Thanx a lot anyway for you time,                luke

[NicksFXHouse]

[quote]Yes forgot to mention that the 3dmark grafix were very very smooth, sharp, colourfull & clear spectacular sort of games.

Then what in fs9, reloaded the thing so many times & changed so many combinatios of settings, and all you sugested for PC twicks & fs9 setings.

Must have the Jinks.

Thanx a lot anyway for you time,

[luke]

MODIFY this post:-
Just deleted fs9, the only application in F:\ & defraged, reinstalled fs9 but still jerky.
Copyed Update in its folder, run it but still jerky.

As mentioned earlier, only the last or previous week I did just that.

Zeroed the HD rebuild it and the first thing I loaded, after XPproSp2, was neat/basic fs9, tryed it & was jerky, then put a new download of "fs91upd.exe" in fs9 folder & installed it with no result again.

How do you Uninstall the Update?, as it does not show now in "add remove", and I tried just now to install it but it said "...appears to be installed...".

And there is no "FS9UpdateUninstall.exe" in fs9 root directory either.

Also no reference is made to fs9 Update in the registry.

I think I messed it up somewhere along the line very recently with driver updates; I will get rid of fs9 & start again.

And yet, even before all the abinitio actions above the thing was smooth, and then I knew nothing of your detailed instaructions to follow.

Also do you mean