I upgraded my graphics card a few weeks ago from an nVidia TNT2 Riva to a GeForce MX 440 (128MB), and now for some reason my terrain textures don't seem to be loading properly (FS2002).

Everything else is fine - the game runs smoother than it did before, and so do all my other games, but for some reason my ground textures seem to be stuck in the Medium setting - even when I select Maximum! I remember with my old card when you got close down to the terrain the textures would look very detailed, but not so with my new card!! They just seem to be stuck in Medium-resolution mode. It's funny, because all the buildings, houses, etc, are displaying correctly - but not the terrain.... ???

I've downloaded the latest drivers for my graphics card, and I've also got the lastest DirectX - but it makes no difference. I've noticed also that the Transform/Lighting and the Mip-Mapping options in the Display Settings are giving me problems too - sometimes when I've got them turned on, the sky goes all flickery, and I have to turn them off to stop it. But then if I turn them on again a few minutes later, it works fine!!  ???

Any help/advice is much appreciated. I can post screenshots if this will help.

If your having problems with your Geforce4 MX440, try using an older driver. nVidia's 5x.xx and 6x.xx series are more for the GF4 TI, FX, and 6800 series. Try using some past drivers from the 3x.xx or 4x.xx series. Microsoft recomends driver version 44.67 if you have FS2004. You can try 30.82 as well.

Thanks for the suggestions. I'm using FlightSim 2002.

I'm sure it's a settings problem like you said, not hardware. I've tried altering both the Display Settings in the simulator itself, and the driver display settings too.

I've run 'dxdiag' from the command prompt, and all the tests seem to check out fine - no errors whatsoever.

I never thought I may need to download an earlier version of the nVidia drivers, though, so I'll try that and see if it works. I'll post back with the results.

Two ways.....

1st and easiest.... Just run setup on the new driver, don't uninstall anything. (try this first)

and if that doesn't work.........


....... Download  "Driver Cleaner" and carefully follow the instructions.

Sounds like your system is just autoloading the driver as soon as you uninstall it.



This is something that I would try if the driver solution doesn't work..........

Rename your FS9 folder to FS9.bak or something.

Uninstall the game thru control panel's add / remove option. It wont find it the game but it will remove it from the list.

You will have to back up your FS9.cfg ,  flight simulator files etc from your documents folders where they are hidden to retain your custom flights and settings etc.

Ask if you need more help on that.



Re-install FS9.

Test the new game to see if it works correctly.

If it doesn't make any difference, Rename or delete the new game folder and rename your original game folder to its original name and you have your old game back.

If the new game DOES work properly, then copy all the modified folders (gauges, aircraft, sound etc.) from your old game to the new one, but not the config files etc.

sounds more like a software issue in MSFS than a hardware conifg problem.