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Postby 1958biggles » Sat Feb 24, 2007 3:11 pm

Hi Guys

My FS2004 has started to "lose " the aircraft preview pic on the start up page. I just get a black area now. Any ideas?
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Re: loss of aircraft preview pic

Postby N2744X » Sat Feb 24, 2007 3:31 pm

Does this happen on all aircraft?
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Re: loss of aircraft preview pic

Postby Zaphod » Sat Feb 24, 2007 3:33 pm

Hi Biggles and welcome!
I think you'll find this is an issue with the Anti aliasing settings on your video card. If it's an Nvidia card they don't like being set above 4 (I think.) I'm sure someone more knowledgeable will be along shortly.
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Re: loss of aircraft preview pic

Postby swordfish1227 » Sat Feb 24, 2007 8:49 pm

just make sure your AA settings in your video card drivers are at or below 4x and the aircraft will return.
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Re: loss of aircraft preview pic

Postby mrjake2002 » Sun Feb 25, 2007 11:04 am

I've had a similar problem for a long time. I get the aircraft but i can no longer click and rotate it round. Any ideas?
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Re: loss of aircraft preview pic

Postby Sir_Crashalot » Sun Feb 25, 2007 11:14 am

Like it's been said before. If you use a Nvidia videocard reduce you Anti-Aliasing to 4. Your preview will return that way.

Note this is only for Nvidia cards

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Re: loss of aircraft preview pic

Postby Zaphod » Sun Feb 25, 2007 11:58 am

I've had a similar problem for a long time. I get the aircraft but i can no longer click and rotate it round. Any ideas?


I don't actually think this is a feature in FS9. You could click on the aircraft in FS2002 and rotate it in any direction but I've never been able to do it in FS9. The cursor disappears as soon as you move it over the aircraft. :'(
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Re: loss of aircraft preview pic

Postby 1958biggles » Sun Feb 25, 2007 2:31 pm

Thanks Guys! It was the video card anti aliasing after all! All good now! Many thanks
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Re: loss of aircraft preview pic

Postby dave3cu » Sun Feb 25, 2007 2:36 pm

MrJake,
I've had a similar problem for a long time. I get the aircraft but i can no longer click and rotate it round. Any ideas?


You can only 'click and rotate' if you are in window mode, not full screen mode.

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Re: loss of aircraft preview pic

Postby Zaphod » Sun Feb 25, 2007 3:14 pm

You can only 'click and rotate' if you are in window mode, not full screen mode.

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That's interesting Dave. As I never use window mode I never realised.
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Re: loss of aircraft preview pic

Postby Zaphod » Sun Feb 25, 2007 3:21 pm

You can only 'click and rotate' if you are in window mode, not full screen mode.

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That's interesting Dave. As I never use window mode I never realised.
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Yep. Checked it out and it works. Not sure of the advantage though.
Are there any more features available in Window mode that aren't available in full screen?

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