Simviation Forum - FSX / EAH4850 refuses to run

Oct 11^th, 2008 at 1:33pm

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I just installed a new Radeon EAH4850. I was thoroughly fed up with nVidia and after an evening cleaning out the older drivers I set to work installing my new card.

Problem is although I've downloaded the very latest XP drivers for this card, every time I run FSX Acceleration I get the message

"The drivers currently installed for your video card may cause your computer to stop responding when Flight Simulator is running"

It's got me scratching my head - anyone have any ideas?

AMD AM2 X2 dual core 4200+
Asrock SATA2-Glan mobo
4gb DDR2 memory
Radeon EAH4850 512mb card
Realtek mobo sound
Creative Labs sound
Windows XP latest SPs
FSX Acceleration

Cheers for any pointers,

Ian

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Reply #1 - Oct 11^th, 2008 at 1:37pm

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BAW19 wrote on Oct 11^th, 2008 at 1:33pm:

I just installed a new Radeon EAH4850. I was thoroughly fed up with nVidia and after an evening cleaning out the older drivers I set to work installing my new card.

Problem is although I've downloaded the very latest XP drivers for this card, every time I run FSX Acceleration I get the message

"The drivers currently installed for your video card may cause your computer to stop responding when Flight Simulator is running"

It's got me scratching my head - anyone have any ideas?

AMD AM2 X2 dual core 4200+
Asrock SATA2-Glan mobo
4gb DDR2 memory
Radeon EAH4850 512mb card
Realtek mobo sound
Creative Labs sound
Windows XP latest SPs
FSX Acceleration

Cheers for any pointers,

Ian

Did you try installing the recommended Drivers which came on the CD with the Card?

(Newer is not always better!).... Wink

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Reply #2 - Oct 11^th, 2008 at 1:53pm

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Hi F - yeah that was the first thing I did but Windows would only boot to a black screen. I can only get past that by going to thte ATI website and installing the latest drivers from there.

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Reply #3 - Oct 11^th, 2008 at 2:11pm

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So the Drivers and the new Video Card don't work even when you are NOT using the (FSX) Flight Sim?...(Boot-up)... Shocked

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Dell Dimension 5000 BTX Tower. Win7 Home Edition, 32 Bit. Intel Pentium 4, dual 2.8 GHz. 2.5GB RAM, nVidia GF 9500GT 1GB. SATA 500GB + 80GB. Philips 17" LCD Monitor. Micronet ADSL Modem only. Saitek Cyborg Evo Force. FS 2004 + FSX. Briggs and Stratton Petrol Lawn Mower...Motor Bikes. Gas Cooker... and lots of musical instruments!.... ...!
Yamaha MO6,MM6,DX7,DX11,DX21,DX100,MK100,EMT10,PSR400,PSS780,Roland GW-8L v2,TR505,Casio MT-205,Korg CX3v2 dual manual,+ Leslie 760,M-Audio Prokeys88,KeyRig,Cubase,Keyfax4,Guitars,Orchestral,Baroque,Renaissance,Medieval Instruments.

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Reply #4 - Oct 11^th, 2008 at 2:13pm

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Yep, I figured the installer threw the wrong drivers onto my sytstem.
The card works fine in every way with the ATI drivers until I run FSX, then it says "Uh, no, sorry..."
Iab

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Reply #5 - Oct 11^th, 2008 at 2:16pm

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BAW19 wrote on Oct 11^th, 2008 at 2:13pm:

Yep, I figured the installer threw the wrong drivers onto my sytstem.
The card works fine in every way with the ATI drivers until I run FSX, then it says "Uh, no, sorry..."
Iab

...serves you right for abandoning lovely-old FS 2004 in favour of FSX..

You only have yourself to blame!.. Angry

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Reply #6 - Oct 11^th, 2008 at 2:18pm

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Fozzer wrote on Oct 11^th, 2008 at 2:16pm:

BAW19 wrote on Oct 11^th, 2008 at 2:13pm:

Yep, I figured the installer threw the wrong drivers onto my sytstem.
The card works fine in every way with the ATI drivers until I run FSX, then it says "Uh, no, sorry..."
Iab

...serves you right for abandoning lovely-old FS 2004 in favour of FSX..

You only have yourself to blame!.. Angry

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F... Grin

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Nope, it's cause he bought an Ati.

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Reply #7 - Oct 11^th, 2008 at 2:37pm

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Anyone got any practical suggestions before I put it on eBay?

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Reply #8 - Oct 11^th, 2008 at 3:28pm

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Ian

This is strange

I know the card is FSX compliant if the drivers are correct

I am thinking you 'may' have a corrupt windows install or corrupt DirectX install or both, or some old onboard graphics chips has the system locked from using the new card. Does the board have any kind of onboard graphics card that has not been properly disabled in the BIOS?

Have you tried to update DirectX?

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?familyid=2da43d38-db71-4c1b-bc6a...

Run the web installer follow the directions and let it update directX as needed

Another thing you can check is to see if the DirectX diagnostics are working.. after updating DirectX click START - RUN - and type dxdiag and then click OK

Click the DISPLAY tab and CONFIRM the 3 selections under the DIRECTX FEATURES section are all ENABLED. If so, run the direct draw and Direct 3D tests

If you find one NOT enabled.. enable it

If you find one greyed out you have a problem with Windows or the hardware/drivers

The correct drivers for the card are here:
http://game.amd.com/us-en/drivers_catalyst.aspx?p=xp/radeonx-xp

Other possibilites... motherboard drivers are not properly installed, BIOS settings not correct, incorrect graphics adapter or monitor listed in the GRAPHICS properties in Windows

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Reply #9 - Oct 11^th, 2008 at 4:23pm

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Hi Nick, that's fantastic help thanks! I'll look into all that stuff and report back,
All the best!
Ian

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Reply #10 - Oct 12^th, 2008 at 5:18pm

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Just to complete the thread, it all seems to be wokring fine now.
All you need to do is reformat your hard drive, reinstall everything and get the drivers in a early as possible.
Sigh.

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Reply #11 - Oct 12^th, 2008 at 8:11pm

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I thought perhaps you may have had a corrupt Windows install

sorry you had to go through that but look on the bright side... clean installs that are set up right always net better results

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Reply #12 - Oct 13^th, 2008 at 3:51am

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Yeah, now I'm throught to the other side I'm gald I did - nothing on there now but flight sim stuff!
Cheers for the help earlier,
All the best
Ian

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