FS2002 Scenery Flickering

[cheesegrater]

I just installed FS2002 and there is this weird scenery flicker. Whenever you pan around the plane in spot plane view the building momentairly appear and disappear making the scenery flicker. Some textures on the buildings flicker too. This only happens when you are paning around or flying. When you are paused and not changing the view it's fine.

I have Geforce 4 MX4000 with DirectX 9.0c and 66.93 drivers. As far as I know my video card is functioning properly.

I remember reading about some patch for Gerforce 4 MX cards for FS2002 but I may be mistaken.

Please help!

 

[microlight]

Sounds like the flickering may be your card attempting to keep up with the panning motion - not sure there's a lot you can do - anybody else know?

[cheesegrater]

No matter what detail level I choose the flicker is there.

[Jamie]

Hi cheesegrater .
On this forum Rootbeer made me thirsty and you make me hungry .  Love cheese !!!!!  Hope this was of some help !!  Just kidding .  I began to notice that scenery on the runway was acting crazy in front of the plane .  My video card was apparently failing and could not keep up with even small changes in scenery . I purchased a new card , but still wonder if I needed it ?  Found out that the cooling fan for the card was full of lint and was making noises .  I might have just cleaned it out and gone on my merry way , but shall never know -- unless I re-install it someday just to see if it will work .  I bought a fairly inexpensive GeForce 5200 and has performed pretty well  . My PC is older .
Jamie

[cheesegrater]

Hi cheesegrater .
On this forum Rootbeer made me thirsty and you make me hungry .  Love cheese !!!!!  Hope this was of some help !!  Just kidding .  I began to notice that scenery on the runway was acting crazy in front of the plane .  My video card was apparently failing and could not keep up with even small changes in scenery . I purchased a new card , but still wonder if I needed it ?  Found out that the cooling fan for the card was full of lint and was making noises .  I might have just cleaned it out and gone on my merry way , but shall never know -- unless I re-install it someday just to see if it will work .  I bought a fairly inexpensive GeForce 5200 and has performed pretty well  . My PC is older .
Jamie

Strange. Well, I bought the MX 4000 because the cooling fans kept failing on my previous cards and I wanted a worry free card. Before I had 2 Hercules Prophet cards and one Geforce 4 Ti4200. Every time the cooling fan failed causing pernament damage to the card.

Well, this is what I feared - a hardware problem. I tried out some other games to test my card recently and Virtual Sailor demo had the same problem as Fs2002. Il-2 Sturmovik, Half-Life, and Quake1 have a very minor graphic problem where two polygons meet at a right angle there is some dots. You have to be really looking to spot it and it could be easily overlooked. Rally Trophy run flawlessly without any graphical glitches. However it is strange that some games have no problems and some have massive flicker and bleedthrough.

Thanks for responding to my post.

[cheesegrater]

I'm still trying to fix it. I installed new BIOS and drivers and nothing.

My video card is functioning the same way as the day I bought it that means I bought a damaged card or there is something wrong with the settings.

Does anyone use DirectX 9.0c on a Geforce 4 MX card? I think that could be the problem.

God, I was looking forward to playing FS2002, now my heart is shattered.

[mab]

Well, it's now March 2006, and I notice that I have the same problem down here in sunny Victoria, Australia. The scenery jerks every 10 seconds or so, or as some users call it, "stutters".  The effect is very off-putting, and on occasion results in a "program minimisation" mid-stutter. There are suggestions to shut down background programs (what are they and how do I do it?) and some users tell me to download the patches allowing MS service pack 2 to co-exist with my flight sim 2002. Unfortunately, I can't find these patches, and wonder if they actually exist. One chap even told me to upgrade to a processor capable of speeds faster than those obtainable on my 2001 vintage 1.2 Ghz. PC. (At a price, mind you!!) Any other ideas?  Thanks  

[pilotguy191]

same thing happens to me and it sometimes happens to my plane like the thrust takes away part of the wings or when i land the entire plane dissapears but either it stopped or i got used to it and never noticed it...sry this probably didn't help

[mab]

Actually, it does help, as I recall seeing that on several occasions, although at the time I put it down to a fault with the plane I had downloaded. The pointer rests on either a slow processor or a problem background program. On my days off, I'll see if either is the case. Thanks, MAB.

[rootbeer]

cheesegrater...

I have the same problem, but it seems only to rear its ugly head when I am taxiing around the tarmac at Reno-Tahoe International (KRNO). The pavement will flicker and disappear, then reappear and then disappear again in an annoying cycle that doesn't end until I am setting on the end of the runway. I know less than nothing about simulated flight, so I just start FS and let it put me at the end of the runway and I go from there. I'm not one for pushing back from the gate and all those things that accomplished sim pilots do, although I'd like to do that thorough a job. It would enhance the experience and give me a sense of satisfaction, along with raising the sim above the level of an arcade game.


mab...

I have an old AMD Athlon 1400MHz chip if you want it. It also comes with a copper shim to keep it level during installation. The die on an AMD is quite small and there were problems with it getting crushed when being put in because the spring used to hold it down was quite stiff. People would clip one side, causing the heatsink to exhibit a sideforce on the die and that sometimes screwed them up to where they were junk before ever feeling the sting of electricity through them. The chip I have is the Socket A, 462-pin variety. If you need it, let me know and we'll go from there. It's yours for free. How much could postage to Australia cost for such a small item? I'll bet I could send it for less than $10 USD. I have several sticks of 168-pin, PC133 RAM you can have if you need it. I have an ATI Radeon 7500 video card (4X AGP) that ran FS2002PE very well when it was in my previous computer in Summer and Fall of 2002. I don't know if (or think) it has DirectX9.0, so you may not need it. Let me know in these pages what you want to do next.

[mab]

Thanks for the kind offer, I have a few options to try first, so I will let you know on this site how I go. I have just seen the screenshots from FSX, & I am tempted to hang out for the new release in late Nov. 2006, although that's for the US, so heaven knows how long it will take to slow-boat it's way down here to Oz! I may need that delay to convince my wife how we need a new super-computer with at least a 3 ghz motherboard!!  Then all my troubles would be solved in one hit. I'm not sure what the postage to Oz from the US is, but I will ask at the local post office next time I'm in there. Thanks again. MAB

[mab]

Hey Cheesegrater, guess what.... I ran AVAST (it's a free virus scanner) on the advice of a friend, and it found a hidden trojan. I removed the trojan, surprise... FS 2002 runs better then ever. I'll keep you posted. Regards mab

[rootbeer]

I found avast and installed it. It ran and ran and ran, then a screen comes up and tells me that it found Norton. It then had the gall to tell me that Norton and avast cannot get along and that something that I wanted to happen (the reason for downloading avast) is not going to happen.

So now my question is: How do I make avast scan for viruses and trojans, et cetera, with Norton turned off? If Norton is turned off, what's protecting my computer from all those hackers in Rumania?