Problem with ATI HD 4850 and FS9

[ivan.lybe]

I just got a new graphics card and a new processor: ATI HD 4850 and Intel Q6600. Everything works fine except FS.

FS, actually, performs fine ... partially. All I have to do to make it act funny is to press the ALT key. It takes a few seconds before i see the menu line, and then when I try to enter some of the menus, it takes something like 10 secs before anything happens. When I'm in the game

[gypsymoth]

Hello Ivan.   I once had a problem with a sticky FS & defragmented the drive & found things were quicker.   It can't hurt to try it.

[ivan.lybe]

I defrag my hard drives daily, so it's not an issue.

[gypsymoth]

OK.  Hardware issues then!

[NickN]

Try upgrading the video drivers with the most recent ATI CCC release for the 4850 from the ATI website

Make sure to properly uninstall them first, reboot before installing

[ivan.lybe]

Nick, thanks for trying but that's already done. Having newest drivers, defragmenting hard drives and things like that are second nature to me.

My guess is that my problems have something to do either with my board not supporting PCI Express 2.0 or some conflict between FS and .Net Framework. It really bugs me.

BTW, you were right about FSX not performing well on my computer. To be honest, I knew you would turn out to be right, but I tried anyway (I had to make sure).



Edit: I just found it doesn't behave this way in window mode. In window mode menus are really quick to respond. In full-screen mode, they are sluggish as hell!

[ivan.lybe]

Obviously, asking that first questions didn't produce any results. Instead, let me ask a different one: does anyone have a PC with HD4850 card that works fine in FS 2004? No latency when entering menus and everything else runs fine?

[ivan.lybe]

Is there really no one who has ATI 4850 card that either works or doesn't work with FS2004 and/or FSX. What, no one uses that card with FS?!

I sent a complaint to AMD customer care, but they say it might be the isolated case with my card. So if anyone is willing to write whether his card works fine in FS or acts like mine, it would be greatly appreciated.

Thanx.

[Mazza]

I have the same problem, but it does not bother me.

I have to just wait abit for fs to load that bar, I use a 4670 which is 2 models down from the 4850

[ivan.lybe]

Thank you my good man. I don't suppose you would be interested in reporting that problem to AMD? They seem to know nothing about it and mybe they'll listen to you (after all, you have AMD processor as well as ATI card,

[Slotback]

The menus in fs9 are VERY slow. I had same problem with my old computer, and the computer before that. Current computer doesn't have fs9.

[ivan.lybe]

Vodka Burner, what card are (were) you using?

[Groundbound1]

I've always had slow menus in FS9 when in full screen mode. In fact, I only run in windowed mode (maximized) for that very reason. I can't say whether or not it's an ATI issue or not, but those are the only cards I've ever used. (I'm not a fanboy, that's just how it worked out. )

[Slotback]

Vodka Burner, what card are (were) you using?

Was using X800XT, FX5700 before that, Geforce 4 MX420 before that... all had slow menues.

[ivan.lybe]

Strange! Previously I had Radeon 9200,9600XT and X1300, GForce 7300GT and 8600GT and menus were always quick.