Reinstall FS? I have no idea. Sounds like your FS got currupted somehow. Also run 3DMark. See if your card is dieing (however I doubt that it is)

Cheers
Cameron

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No; once the sim is up and running everything's OK- except for the freezing every few seconds, but that clears up after about 20 seconds.
Should have known better than to try to fix this...
At any rate, it's hardly worth a reinstall of FS9- I already know what my planes look like.
Wish I could tell you what to do about your problem, but I don't have a clue.... although i may reinstall the drivers or go back to the old ones; that may work for both of us.

You all need new cards. Its your card, not your FS thats the problem. The card you have cant handel the FS engine very well. 6600GT is the minimum anyone should have.

Cheers
Cameron

I think it could possibly be your hard disk getting fuller, and load times (for textures and views as well) are increasing.

Not to mention that all this Driver updating usually ends in misery eventually.

Drivers made it so I prolly gotta RMA my card soon! ah!!!!!!!!!!! Sucks..... these are what happened to my card then it just started failing in everything! I cant run FS in full screen and when I do, and load up like FSpas it turns it black and white and 70% of the screen is game and 30% is screen in back, so my cards shot! dunno why, worked fine till I did newest drivers (bout two hours) then died! Cheers, Gunny

your card can do it maxed, without massive addons then you might run into trouble rotty, Its driver related, I can attest for that, my 6200 worked damn good with stock drivers, installed 81.92 or something, and it hasnt worked right since, Reinstalled windows even and clean install didnt fix it, so drivers prolly really screwed it up or it was a big coincidence! Cheers, Gunny

Why don't you go and put the drivers that the card was boxed with and worked perfectly with back on your systems guys? Or at least go back to some driver that did work.

I'm telling you, 8x..xx whatever series drivers were just not optimised for your cards.

I suppose you all have automatic updates enabled as well, allowing microsoft update to screw up your PC's whenever it's automated evil arse is inclined to do so?

That probably goes for more automated software on your PC's as well, how many processes are running automatically now, 10, 30, 50 ?

It makes diagnosis a nightmare.

Imagine plugging a newly installed hard disk/op sys/FS9 into your rig, I bet your issues evaporate, providing you don't immediately link to automated updates and run tons of antivirus junk and every other automated, spying, "I am the most important bit of code ever written" software all over your PC.

Not only are automated programs a hassle, but how many times have you uninstalled a perfectly functioning driver for "the latest" piece of junk?

Someone else said it recently, and I'll say it again, when we first bought FS9, we were using old GeForce MX440's and such. They worked without issue, albeit, they were slow. It's not the hardware's fault, in almost all cases it's mis-configuration.