FSX & Vista
Posted by admin on May 13th, 2007
Operating System : Vista Ultimate7900 GTX Video CardWhen you try to bring up FSX it just flashes uncontrollably. It's both the sound & the video. I made no changes during setup, I just ran the program. I figured I could make the changes later.I have a friend with a similar machine, same operating system with a little lesser video card doing the exact same thing. This is why I installed this program ahead of others to see what would happen on my system.I've looked through the messages and can't see anyone else having this issue.Any ideas?I have my desktop @ 1600 x 1250. I have not made any changes to FSX in attempt to fix this. Do you think a lower resolution would help, although it probably wouldn't help the audio, but that could be a reset of the video?Thanks....Chip..
May 17th, 2007 at 04:59 pm
Have you got the latest video drivers for your card from the NVidia site? nvidia.com/page/home.html Have you got the latest drivers for your sound card, or is your sound on the board? If that doesn't help you try having a look through the forum over at Avsim Online avsim.com/ "Chip Shapiro"
May 21st, 2007 at 11:37 pm
I just installed Vista this morning and got the drivers from Nvidia.com at that time. The sound drivers I will have to check to see if they are the latest, It is onboard. Thanks for the AVSIM idea, I was fumbling around MS's site. Dummy me! :)...Chip.. "Dan"
May 24th, 2007 at 03:35 am
A lot of people are complaining about onboard sound with Vista. I think the biggest problem is the drivers. Try disabling your sound in the BIOS boot the computer and see if you can get into FSX. If you can at that point it would definitely narrow it down to being a sound problem because you say you already have the new nvidia video drivers. Other than that just keep searching I am sure other people have had the same problem and found a solution. "Chip Shapiro"
May 27th, 2007 at 02:14 am
Thanks Dan. I'll try disabling the sound and keep reading on AVSIM...Chip.."Dan"
May 30th, 2007 at 08:52 pm
Got it. It's something to do with the Nvidia drivers. I disabled the sound and that did not fix it so I changed from Dual View to Clone and the problem is gone. That is not the only issue we have found with the driver as it won't let you configure the desktop indenpendant from on another like you could previously. It in the Description on the Control panl page for Nvidia, but there is no option..Thanks for your suggestions. I guess it's CLONE view for now if you want to run FSX (on these two machines anyway)...Chip.. "Dan"
Jun 4th, 2007 at 08:49 pm
Runs fine on my rig e6600,8800gtx vista 32 bit"Chip Shapiro" wrote:
Jun 5th, 2007 at 10:08 pm
Runs fine on my rig e6600,8800gtx vista 32 bit"Chip Shapiro" wrote:
Jun 7th, 2007 at 01:32 am
Was going to suggest If you had your system set up for dual monitor, to disable your secondary monitor. I have had this same problem using an ati radeon x1600."Chip Shapiro" wrote:
Jun 8th, 2007 at 12:23 pm
Was going to suggest If you had your system set up for dual monitor, to disable your secondary monitor. I have had this same problem using an ati radeon x1600."Chip Shapiro" wrote:
Jun 13th, 2007 at 10:44 pm
Yeah it doesn't support dual monitors. I had mine setup previously and got the exact same flashing, diabled one and haven't had an issue since. I had it cloned but got dizzy so i recommend the disabling option"dfeifer" wrote:
Jun 19th, 2007 at 07:23 am
Received it today, and it's wonderful, I'm using Nvidia's 8800GTS and Vista x64 Thank you in advance Merci a l'avanceMartin "dfeifer"
Jun 20th, 2007 at 09:49 pm
Thanks, I'll give that a try. As soon as I figure out how to do it! :)...Chip.. "dfeifer"
Jun 25th, 2007 at 02:13 pm
I had the same flashing problem Ultimate, two monitor setup. I found that when it first loads, and gets to around 82% , you should ALTTAB to go back to the desktop. FSX will bring itself forward again and there's no flashing. It will start its silly business again if you go into Map or other setup change menus within FSX, but if you do the ALTTAB again....wait a couple of seconds then ALTTAB back into FSX I found everything is fine again.... and both monitors work fine.Paul"Chip Shapiro"