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?

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

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.

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

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.

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