Blurred panels

[ajmitch]

LAST EDITED ON Sep-21-02 AT 10:44PM (EDT)[p]LAST EDITED ON Sep-21-02 AT 10:44 PM (EDT)

LAST EDITED ON Sep-21-02 AT 10:43 PM (EDT)

After about an hour of flying around last night, I had just landed at a small airstrip when my panel went crazy. It blurred - moving from right to left and if I clicked on it with the mouse it came back to normal only to start again.
http://www.simworld.themutual.net/Screen_shots/blurries1.jpg
That was with the default driver 27.50 that came with the card.
I updated the driver to 30.82 and this is what it did...
http://www.simworld.themutual.net/Screen_shots/blurries2.jpg
It did the same with any aircraft - default or add-on, at any airfield.
The only thing that stopped it was turning off anti-aliasing.
My spec is:
Athlon XP2100+
ASUS A7V333 motherboard.
768Mb PC2100 DDR DIMMS
Creative GeForce 4 Ti4400
Soundblaster 4.1 digital
Windows XP Home Edition
FS 2K2 Pro
It was only the panel that blurred, every other view was OK.
I experimented with all the display settings within FS2K2 and the NVIDIA control panel, but only turning off anti-aliasing cured the problem.
I ran the temperature probe and that said CPU temp was 51 degrees C and mobo temp 23 degrees C.
Can't monitor the graphics processor temp, but I suspect it's related somehow as it ran OK for an hour before the fault occurred.

Postscript...
I started up FS again tonight and it did exactly the same right from the start with anti-aliasing turned on.
BUT.... I changed from 1024x768x16 to 1024x768x32 and all was well, even with anti-aliasing turned on.
No longer a problem, but I can't understand why anti-aliasing threw a wobbly with 16 bit mode.

Tony

[paulb]

Hi Tony

I have a similar problem. Last week I upgraded to a G4 TI 4400 and bought FS2002 pro.

Everything runs great apart from some 2D panels. I get a similar blurring - as though the panel is trying to melt and move left. Like you, I only have to move the mouse or joystick for the panel to temporarily correct itself. The problems doesn't occur in 3D/tower/spot.

I run at 1024 by 768 in 32 bit with AA and most other things turned on.

(P4 256 meg Windows ME)

Does anyone else have a similar problem/solution?

[paulb]

Hi again Tony

I just checked my driver - it is 4.13.01.2750. Sounds the same one that you had. I will get updated drivers and try again.

[ajmitch]

Hi Paul

I cured the problem by changing the simulator to 32 bit mode, in my case setting 1024 x 768 x 32
No problems since doing that and no noticeable drop in frame rates. Didn't check the numbers, but it's still very smooth - except at detailed add on scenery - I am using Great Britain and Ireland scenery on top of the Lago terramesh.

Tony

[wildbillnj1975]

I have seen this happen with even the default scenery.
It seemed to be related to anti-aliasing. I played with the four checkboxes for anti-aliasing, mip-mapping, etc. in the Display settings, and this is what seemed to cause this problem consistently. In general though, turning down the display settings overall will help.

I have an nVidia GeForce4 Ti 4200 AGP video card with 128MB of memory, on an Athlon XP 1800 machine with 512MB of RAM, and I still can't turn the display settings all the way up. I'd like to know what kind of behemoth machine you'd have to have to turn on all the bells and whistles.

[paulb]

Hi again

Thanks for the replies.

I have just downloaded the latest drivers from Creative (30.82)and it solves the problem! No more blurring!(at least after a 10 minute trial).....

Seems that it was just a driver issue.

Yes, I am using 1024 by 768 in 32 bit. Graphics are great. I used to run FS2000 on a Geforce 2 MX, but I was getting slow down with all the latest games and usually needed to restrict myself to 800 by 600. The G4 TI4400 seems to give me about twice the performance in FS. I can still get some slow down with detailed 3rd party scenery,but I spend most of the time in the air trying different planes!

Best wishes

Paul