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Jul 14^th, 2004 at 12:51am

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I installed FS 2004 on a Pentium IV, 2.6 GHZ with 256 Meg RAM, 64 Meg Intel 82845G video card. When I run MS2004, I get the opening screen, with the DC-3, but soon after, the screen goes black. A flashing message tells me "FREQUENCY OUT OF RANGE, 75.3 KHZ / 75.2 HZ". (That is Kilo hertz for the first number).

If I run FS2004 in 256 color, it will load, but looks like crap. I then close it, return to 32 bit, it loads fine, but if I go to full screen, it gives me the same error.

I downloaded and installed the latest driver for the video card and DirectX 9.0 with the same results. 2002 worked great on this machine, what gives with 2004? Any help will be greatly appreciated.

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Reply #1 - Jul 14^th, 2004 at 1:08am

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That is a monitor problem. your vidcard may be pushing it to hard. The higher your resolution the lower the freqs and the lower the res. the higher the freqs (usually). If your Monitor can't go higher than 75kHz, you may consider buying a new one. Just in case your wondering, or don't know, the first number 75.3 is the vertical refresh rate of your monitor. The second is the horizontal rate. The higher the numbers, the less flicker. Your Monitors max rate seems to be 75kHz or 75,000 cycles per second. My Monitor runs at 60kHz when in 1600x1200 and can get up to 120Khz.

What's your Operating System and Moniter specs. Assuming you have WinXP (most people do) try Right-clicking on your desktop and select Properties.

Then the Settings tab. Then the Advanced button on the lower-right.

Look for a Monitor tab. You may see a box for Refresh Frequency. Try setting it to the lowest and run FS again. If it works, select the next highest and so on until you get the error. You should have found a working freq.

Tell me what kind of monitor your using, include a part number if available, I'll do a search for you to find the operating freqs.
Joe

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Reply #2 - Jul 14^th, 2004 at 5:08am

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Doing what Skittles says (assuming you have XP) when you find the refresh rate section on the "adapter" tab make sure you have checked the box "hide modes this monitor can't display", this way you won't accidentally set your refresh rate to high.
I had a similar problem once and the reason was my monitor can't run a refresh rate over 85, I had it set higher, opps!

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Reply #3 - Jul 14^th, 2004 at 5:26am

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If that does not work try this:
http://downloads.guru3d.com/download.php?det=354
I use it for Half life, but it should work for FS9 aswell.

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Reply #4 - Jul 14^th, 2004 at 10:58am

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Thanks for the backup.

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