I have installed an ATI Radeon 9800 pro card in my HP Pavilion system and have had nothing but problems.  It occurs mainly wihile running FS9 but not usually running other programs except my Windows Media DVD (no picture but plays audio.  I have reset BIOS back to onboard graphics card (SiS 650) It runs ok but just back to slower FPS and poorer graphics.  Is this something as simple as the wrong card? I have updated downloaded and otherwise replaced all the drivers from ATI website with no success in resolving the problem

If anyone has had similar problems with this, please respond.  The Best Buy guy who looked at my system said something about nvidea FX 5600 as possible fic as ATI and Microsoft do not always work well with each other.

1.8 P4 processor
1 Gig ram

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Sure it does.  P4 2.4 is fine.

Lock n' Load huh?

That's how I feel every time HP PC's get mentioned...   

You could try reinstalling the sim.

Failing that, Post in everything you know about your HP.

Dubster,

Yeah.... that is what I think.... but 7 months of fiddling has not produced results.

BTW...... the issue is settings...... I am running everything maxed.  Cloud draw distance and view distance at midrange.... clouds at very dense.  And AI is 100%.  That is the way the designers intended the sim to be experienced..... so that is what I am trying to achieve.  AA on the card at 4x and ansio at 8X , screen at 1024x768x32, 75Hz.

Where do you run your settings?


best,

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

WElcome to the club of ATI problems has you can see in the forums i´ve posted several helps for the 9600 pro.My system weas always locking and i couldnt fly more than a few seconds there was loads of things to do from overheating to drivers, well i´ve solved my problem with the 4.1 from dna drivers now i´ve the flickering but hey i can live with that now that i can fly more than seconds.
And its proved that Ati have problems with configuration with hardware before anything change the drivers (I´ve install form the old ones (2.7.........4.1) to the last ones i´ve changed the cooling system anything you can imagine try to install fs9 with those drivers, just the fs9 because its also proved that other programs like cdr util may cause instability on the system.I know that you have a 9800 but it should be the same.
I know what you feel good luck, i hope it helped.

FS9 excellent for me.
CFS3 terrain flashing once solved, now back.
CFS2 no problem.

i have a 9800 Pro have never had any problems with it since i got it

Hey John,

I know from reading your posts that you like to test your system based on sliders being maxed and the game in a default, stock situation.  My question is, are you enabling full water detail and effects??  Man I cannot stress what kind of frame rate killer that is.  I know you don't like tampering with replacement textures and seem to want to stick with a stock installation, but man...there are some damn good replacement textures out there that look a helluva lot better and hardly impact frame rates at all.  Trust me, on my machine, the default water effects set at max will kill about 5-10 frames.  

While having everything stock and set to max would seem ideal, the fact of the matter is, for whatever reasons, some default situations cause far more performance reduction than they should.  

Are you aware of the autogen "bug"?  This probably wont be an appealing "tweak" for you, but you might want to give it a try.  After experiencing the kind of boost this will give you, you may reconsider.  This is a temporary tweak that can easily be reversed.  In your FS9 foler open the autogen folder and you should see a file called default.xml.  Rename that file to default.bak.  This will disable special autogen features such as gas stations, restuarants, etc. which seem to be linked with major performance reduction.  It will give you another good 5, MAYBE 10 FPS boost.  There is still PLENTY of autogen left after this tweak.  You hardly notice a difference, unless you fly around specifically looking for restaurants or something.

I promise you, if you are in the 10-15 FPS range with a default situation at maxed sliders, the two things mentioned above will get you in the 20-25, maybe 30 range on the ground (my confidence is based on results and experiences with FS9 on two seperate computers).  There is very little you can do to permanently effect the game.  TRY these tweaks and see for yourself the kind of performance improvemnet you get.  It just might weigh in to be worth it in the end.  If not, go back to default.  That simple.

Yeah I totally know what you mean about the slider changes affecting FPS.  I notice very little change for good or bad when I play with my sliders (with the exception of default water effects and weather).  Even on the card, changing AA and AS filtering seems to do very little not only performance wise, but visually.  Seems I can't decrease image quality if I wanted, especially to increase performance.  Maybe another ATI issue?!!?  My friend has an old Nvidia 128MB card and turning down sliders in his video card settings makes a world of difference.