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Problem with ATI HD 4850 and FS9 (Read 1164 times)

Dec 18^th, 2008 at 5:47pm

ivan.lybe Offline
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I just got a new graphics card and a new processor: ATI HD 4850 and Intel Q6600. Everything works fine except FS.

FS, actually, performs fine ... partially. All I have to do to make it act funny is to press the ALT key. It takes a few seconds before i see the menu line, and then when I try to enter some of the menus, it takes something like 10 secs before anything happens. When I'm in the game and I press ALT+A+A (or W) it takes approximately 15 seconds (at least) before i see a dialog to select a new plane or the airport. Something's definitely not right.

I've covered the basics: thoroughly de-installed nvidia drivers before installing Catalyst drivers, re-installed FS , and ... nothing!

Finally, I installed XP and all the rest, and then FS, and ... nothing again.

What gives? I think my PC is strong enough for me to move on to FSX, but I also want to be able to play FS9.

Does anyone have a clue, cause I don't?

ASUS P5Q Pro; Intel Q6600@2.4GHz; 2x1GB Geil Black Dragon DDRII800: ASUS Radeon HD4850 512MB; Approx. 1.4TB of disk space on 2HDDs; 600W power supply; XP SP3

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Reply #1 - Dec 29^th, 2008 at 5:46am

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Hello Ivan. I once had a problem with a sticky FS & defragmented the drive & found things were quicker. It can't hurt to try it.

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Reply #2 - Dec 29^th, 2008 at 11:32am

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I defrag my hard drives daily, so it's not an issue.

ASUS P5Q Pro; Intel Q6600@2.4GHz; 2x1GB Geil Black Dragon DDRII800: ASUS Radeon HD4850 512MB; Approx. 1.4TB of disk space on 2HDDs; 600W power supply; XP SP3

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Reply #3 - Dec 29^th, 2008 at 5:33pm

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OK. Hardware issues then!

When the c**p hits the fan, get a tent.
It's never too late for a happy childhood....

1) Intel I7 980X Extreme CPU Professionally overclocked to 4.2Ghz
Gigabyte X58 UD7 Motherboard (USB 2 & 3)
12GB Corsair Vengeance (3 x 4Gb) Tri Channel DDR 3 1600Mhz
OCZ Bigfoot 2E 120 Gb SSD HDD (OS and applications)
2 x 1.5TB HDD’s Samsung Spin point F1 (RAID 1) Drives (Data inc maps, photos music etc.)
LG Blu-Ray RW Drive
Samsung DVDRW Drive
Asus GTX 590 Graphics Card, Dual GPU
Antec 1200 Twelve Hundred Tower Case
Corsair 1000w Modular True Power, Power Supply
Corsair H70 Water-cooled sealed CPU Cooler
Windows 7 Professional 64 Bit & I use a 24" Dell U2412M monitor.
2) AWD-IT GPC36 E8600 Overclocked Intel E8600 Core 2 Duo @ 4.0Ghz 6MB Cache 1333FSB CPU / Asus P5Q Pro Intel P45 Crossfire DDR2 Motherboard / ATI 4870 512Mb / OCZ 4GB DDR2 PC8500 1066Mhz Memory / 500Gb SATA Hard Drive / 22x DVD-RW/Vista 64bi & 20" Dell widescreen.

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Reply #4 - Dec 29^th, 2008 at 7:53pm

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Try upgrading the video drivers with the most recent ATI CCC release for the 4850 from the ATI website

Make sure to properly uninstall them first, reboot before installing

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Reply #5 - Dec 30^th, 2008 at 5:47am

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Nick, thanks for trying but that's already done. Having newest drivers, defragmenting hard drives and things like that are second nature to me.

My guess is that my problems have something to do either with my board not supporting PCI Express 2.0 or some conflict between FS and .Net Framework. It really bugs me.

BTW, you were right about FSX not performing well on my computer. To be honest, I knew you would turn out to be right, but I tried anyway (I had to make sure).

Edit: I just found it doesn't behave this way in window mode. In window mode menus are really quick to respond. In full-screen mode, they are sluggish as hell!

« Last Edit: Dec 30^th, 2008 at 6:57am by ivan.lybe »

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Reply #6 - Jan 20^th, 2009 at 9:03am

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Obviously, asking that first questions didn't produce any results. Instead, let me ask a different one: does anyone have a PC with HD4850 card that works fine in FS 2004? No latency when entering menus and everything else runs fine?

ASUS P5Q Pro; Intel Q6600@2.4GHz; 2x1GB Geil Black Dragon DDRII800: ASUS Radeon HD4850 512MB; Approx. 1.4TB of disk space on 2HDDs; 600W power supply; XP SP3

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Reply #7 - Jan 30^th, 2009 at 3:32pm

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Is there really no one who has ATI 4850 card that either works or doesn't work with FS2004 and/or FSX. What, no one uses that card with FS?!

I sent a complaint to AMD customer care, but they say it might be the isolated case with my card. So if anyone is willing to write whether his card works fine in FS or acts like mine, it would be greatly appreciated.

Thanx.

ASUS P5Q Pro; Intel Q6600@2.4GHz; 2x1GB Geil Black Dragon DDRII800: ASUS Radeon HD4850 512MB; Approx. 1.4TB of disk space on 2HDDs; 600W power supply; XP SP3

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Reply #8 - Jan 30^th, 2009 at 8:20pm

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I have the same problem, but it does not bother me.

I have to just wait abit for fs to load that bar, I use a 4670 which is 2 models down from the 4850 Wink

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Reply #9 - Jan 31^st, 2009 at 4:12am

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Thank you my good man. I don't suppose you would be interested in reporting that problem to AMD? They seem to know nothing about it and mybe they'll listen to you (after all, you have AMD processor as well as ATI card, and I don't)

Anyone else?
If we let them know they could probably fix it.

« Last Edit: Jan 31^st, 2009 at 8:27am by ivan.lybe »

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Reply #10 - Jan 31^st, 2009 at 10:42am

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The menus in fs9 are VERY slow. I had same problem with my old computer, and the computer before that. Current computer doesn't have fs9.

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Reply #11 - Jan 31^st, 2009 at 5:23pm

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Vodka Burner, what card are (were) you using?

ASUS P5Q Pro; Intel Q6600@2.4GHz; 2x1GB Geil Black Dragon DDRII800: ASUS Radeon HD4850 512MB; Approx. 1.4TB of disk space on 2HDDs; 600W power supply; XP SP3

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Reply #12 - Jan 31^st, 2009 at 7:58pm

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I've always had slow menus in FS9 when in full screen mode. In fact, I only run in windowed mode (maximized) for that very reason. I can't say whether or not it's an ATI issue or not, but those are the only cards I've ever used. (I'm not a fanboy, that's just how it worked out. Wink

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Reply #13 - Feb 1^st, 2009 at 1:59am

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ivan.lybe wrote on Jan 31^st, 2009 at 5:23pm:

Vodka Burner, what card are (were) you using?

Was using X800XT, FX5700 before that, Geforce 4 MX420 before that... all had slow menues.

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Reply #14 - Feb 1^st, 2009 at 2:32am

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Strange! Previously I had Radeon 9200,9600XT and X1300, GForce 7300GT and 8600GT and menus were always quick.

ASUS P5Q Pro; Intel Q6600@2.4GHz; 2x1GB Geil Black Dragon DDRII800: ASUS Radeon HD4850 512MB; Approx. 1.4TB of disk space on 2HDDs; 600W power supply; XP SP3

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