Simviation Forum - MS FSX - TH2GO Fullscreen(Wide)

Jan 10^th, 2010 at 11:26am

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Hi,
I have recently updated my TH2GO setup from 3x19" to 3x22" from standard to widescreen monitors.
FSX was running fine in fullscreen, but now I have a number of problems. I have the typical black 2D panel, crazy cursor issue described in another post on wsgf - fine.
My biggest grip is even when sticking to a VC if I hit the brakes - or get another on screen alert (overspeed for example) the screen flashes several times (showing what looks like the contents of the previous loading screen as it has "loading 100%" box centered on it).
Switching back to 3840x1024 and it goes away. Also windowed mode seems to cure it - although windowed FSX is not for me.

Using latest Nvidia drivers - 195.62
Did have 182.50 which seem a FS favourite and they were no better for this problem.
Could this be related to the 2D panel issue also?

Any other FSX users out there have a clue?

Cheers.
Gav.

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Reply #1 - Jan 11^th, 2010 at 11:20pm

snippyfsxer Offline
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macdrack wrote on Jan 10^th, 2010 at 11:26am:

Hi,
I have recently updated my TH2GO setup from 3x19" to 3x22" from standard to widescreen monitors.
FSX was running fine in fullscreen, but now I have a number of problems. I have the typical black 2D panel, crazy cursor issue described in another post on wsgf - fine.
My biggest grip is even when sticking to a VC if I hit the brakes - or get another on screen alert (overspeed for example) the screen flashes several times (showing what looks like the contents of the previous loading screen as it has "loading 100%" box centered on it).
Switching back to 3840x1024 and it goes away. Also windowed mode seems to cure it - although windowed FSX is not for me.

Using latest Nvidia drivers - 195.62
Did have 182.50 which seem a FS favourite and they were no better for this problem.
Could this be related to the 2D panel issue also?

Any other FSX users out there have a clue?

Cheers.
Gav.

For the crazy cursor, you will need to go into your panel configs and add the line "pixel_size=" for each 2d window

For instance:

[Window04]
Background_color=0,0,0
size_mm=400,100
//window_size_ratio=1.000
pixel_size=400,100
position=0
visible=0
ident=10010
//window_size= 0.340, 0.120
window_pos= 0.663, 0.890
zorder=7

note, that I have commented out the window_size entries.

As far as the flashing screen problem, I am in the middle of a rebuild, and now I am experiencing this problem as well, for the first time. I am not done with adding things back in like Nhancer, or tweaking the config, or what, but if I find a solution, which I will, I will tell you what I think fixes it.

And my biggest gripe with Matrox/Nvidia is that I can't get any of the higher screen resolutions to work except with 1.82/Beta Powerdesk and then only 4320x900. I have tried every solution of WS gaming forum Angry

I see an Eyefinity in my future!

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Reply #2 - Jan 13^th, 2010 at 12:30am

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FLASHING PROBLEM when you hit the BRAKES

I got it!

As I said, while doing a rebuild/complete reinstall (For DAYS!!!), I have also been getting the flashes. Didn't happen to me before. I think this will work for you: You must uncheck the Anti-Aliasing checkbox in FSX. Download Nhancer from www.nhancer.com and follow Nick's tuning guide to set that up which will provide much better AA anyway.

Some other things I did in addition to turning off the anti-aliasing: Disabled Tool Tips/Flying Tips...Also, went into the Nvidia Control Panel and set Nvidia for Single Display instead of Multiple Display. I don't know if those things had any effect on the flashing...it didn't go away until I disabled the AA checkbox, which if you are using Nhancer, you should anyway.

I would be curious to hear if this works for you.

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Reply #3 - Jan 13^th, 2010 at 5:39am

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How bizarre.
I had already tried this before (suggested on wsgf) without success, but this time it does seem to do the trick at the moment.
Like you I have been doing a rebuild and had not pushed through with the normal stuff (nhancer etc). Still I must've changed something - hmmm. Ho hum - lets hope it's a while till the next rebuild.
I was rushing somewhat, I just wanted to check out the 3x22" + 2x19" combo that I have waited a while for. Shouldn't have jumped the gun

Cheers alot for getting back to me I was getting rather glum.

Cheers.
Gav.

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