Man, That is screwed up

That's where I would start.  It could also be corrupted video drivers.  You could try uninstalling the driver, reboot in safe mode and run Driver Sweeper, reboot and reinstall the driver again & see if it fixes it.

You can rebuild the cfg too.  If you delete your cfg file then next time you start FSX you just have to reset your settings in the menus like graphics, scenery, traffic, etc.  Then close FSX and open the new cfg and add the edits in from the FSX optimization sticky.  If you use MyTraffic X you will need to run that routine that edits the cfg file as well.  There could be others like that if you have them.  Then you need to revalidate your addon aircraft by allowing them as trusted sources.

No big deal really, I never screwed any install by deleting & rebuilding the cfg file.  In fact it's a good thing to do once in a while, especially after installing new video cards or drivers.

-Jim

The first one appears to be an aeroplane wrapped in newspaper
I'd try re-installing your drivers first, also check you texture folder to see if there is any corruption, you might need to re-install FSX if that is the case.

My first suspect would be bad video drivers, but after that I would try:
- If videocard is overclocked, try run at factory defaults
- run CPU + ram at default instead of overclocked
- rebuild the config file.
- reinstall FSX

It is always a good idea to check system temperatures, ram and file system for errors. Reinstalling FSX is quite an undertaking, especially if you have a lot of addons. I would do so as a last resort, but it might be the best thing. If you can, you could also use another harddrive for a quick reinstall of Windows and FSX to check if it is a software issue.

I went back to the 182.50 drivers.
I rebuilt the cfg file.
Made sure that the video card was at factory clock (it's overclocked already)
All is well for the moment.....

I did notice that my bufferpools were set to the 490000000 for sound problems. I had some cracking sounds and tried that. I forgot that I had set it there. My bufferpool is back now to 100000000. I don't have any sound problems there. Also, my TBM was at 90. I don't remember setting it that high. It's at 70 now.

This weirdness started almost immediately. Even just sitting at the terminal. It wasn't overheating. I had checked that several times.

stevehookem wrote on Jun 28^th, 2009 at 8:42pm:


Turn off PhysX... It's good, but eats up alot of GPU and or CPU stuffs...It's a good little thing, I somehow set one core to use it and the other 3 to play the game (MoH:A) Hehe... But killing them with a pistol sometimes causes them to fly 50M backwards doing flips

Oh and FSX does not use it!

I am downloading 3dMark06 now. I ran OCCT 10 passes last night and it found no errors.

Also, I just tried to install .net 3.5 and I get a "setup error" message when it finishes. Any ideas what that may be about?

started running 3dmark06 and after about 45 seconds, the screen goes crazy with weird patterns and circles. I'm assuming this isn't part of the test, right? Does it stay showing the shooting game or is it supposed to switch to pattens? It looks like is has frozen up. My cursor doesn't move.

Bad video card?

If it wont run 3DMark06 and the drivers are confirmed (182.50 are) its a bad card

There is one other possibility and that is the PSU is shot on the PCIe rails. That I would consider very rare if everything else is working fine,.. but it is possible.

I would have the card replaced.