Aircraft & Buildings in shadows

[uncleyuk]

:-/    Good Morning... In a word, HELP!  I have installed Vista Premium, an ATI Radeon Express 1950pro PCI-E, 2gb ram on a 3.2gig processor.  All aircraft and buildings on FS9 and FSX have become shaded.  I have the newest drivers for my graphics card, have played with the settings in Flight Simulator but to no avail.  Water,trees, ground, runways, everything else is normal.   Any Ideas?

Thanks
Uncleyuk

[ozzy72]

For both FSs to go sounds very odd. Have you recently installed any new add-ons for either FS?

[tennm1980]

I posted a similar question the other day. I just bought a new notebook, installed fs04, and buildings and planes are very shaded, while everything else is fine, along with the game performance. Ive checked and drivers are updated...Im also on Vista Home Basic.

[uncleyuk]

No...I haven't added a thing.  I talked to a microsoft representitive and we never did figure out what the problem was.  That was reassuring.  Odds are it is a problem with vista.  Anyone else switching to vista have a problem? :-/

[ashaman]

I've been told to stay off dismissals, but one thing must be said, regardless, to all users and for all users. When one goes from the old secure and known road to a unknown and uncertain one, problems MUST be expected and taken into account.

While your choice of OS is none of my business, a thing must be said for any and every new and still in development OS against old, consolidated and more known ones.

If you've tried changing video drivers, and you've tried playing with video options, with no results whatsoever, you can hope a newer release of the video drivers or perhaps a future patch to the OS will solve your problems... while keeping and using your FS as it is for the moment, hoping that M$ will be moved by your woes, or you can roll back to XP.

No other solutions I can think at this moment for this problem that's been talked about not only on this forum and remains at this very moment with no solution in sight.

[JBaymore]

uncleyuk,

If you look around the web, you'll find that it is pretty common knowledge that for gameing at the moment.,... Vista video drivers are "problematic".  That is likely the cause.  I imagine that there will be "service updates" coming soon .... since Vista is the OS of the future.  But for now, you might be stuck... or have to fly on an XP machine.

Like ashaman says so well above, new software often presents new problems.  And new OS-es typically present more than other software.  

best,

................john

[uncleyuk]

 Good A.M.    I've played with the display and found that if I change resolution everytime I change planes the problem will go away for that session.  I can either go up or down, it doesn't matter.  I agree with you folks, wait and see what the future brings.  In the meantime I'll be the "Grey Ghost".