Post by Barbara Ellen on Jun 4, 2007 8:15:38 GMT -5
Hi all,
I am certain this has been attended to before, but I thought I would bring it up again for any new people who may be having troubles.
As many of you know, I have taken the plunge, and installed FSX on my new home-built machine. During the setup I tried to do things as correctly as possible, but not all has went well. This has happened before for me on my old Dell, which I had to reinstall Windows XP. Anyway, I have been having trouble with FSX since day one, and after the SP1 package was installed, as well.
The idea is to install your drivers correctly, or they don't work properly. You would be amazed at the improvement in not only the Graphics, but also in the way your computer handles loads, and other processes.
I am no expert, but after correctly reinstalling my video drivers, I now have framerates that push way past the 32FPS mark on my machine with most of the sliders at half, or above, scenery is above.
The way I did it, and I am not so sure it is correct, was to remove all indications of the old video drivers on my machine. I made certain first that I had a recent copy of drivers for my cards. I went to Start/Control Panel/Add/Remove Programs, and removed the Nvidia driver entities from the list(remove the ones for your video card). Next, I Restarted my machine. When the machine came back, and this is important, the video display was in VGA mode, and at a rediculously low resolution. This is important, cause it shows that your video cards are running at the low end, and aren't using the more sofisticated drivers.
I then found my newer versions of the install program for the video drivers, and ran it. With my machine, I have two video cards, and they both need to have drivers for them. At this point, I knew I needed to have the drivers installed for both cards, so I went to Start/Control Panel/System/Hardware/Device Manager, went to each video card Display Adapters, and installed the drivers again using Update Drivers. I found the video card drivers through the manual procedure: No, not this time; next; Install from a list(advanced); next; Don't Search, I will choose a driver; next; and in the listing found my Nvidia drivers, and highlighted the selection, and clicked next. The drivers installed automatically, and I did this procedure for both cards. I then OKed my way back out of the control panel, and Restarted my machine.
When the machine came back, and I started FSX, I had twice to maybe three times the FPS I had before I updated the video drivers. And also, I was using the latest drivers before I updated, so the improvement wasn't because of installing the latest drivers, but because I reinstalled them properly.
Now I am enjoying FSX, FS9, and FSGW to the max, and haven't been getting much work done lately on my projects. "Slap that girl's hands" ...... *giggles*. It is all in fun for me. Gawd, I love this new machine !!!
If anyone has any added advice, feel free to add to this post. Have fun !
I am certain this has been attended to before, but I thought I would bring it up again for any new people who may be having troubles.
As many of you know, I have taken the plunge, and installed FSX on my new home-built machine. During the setup I tried to do things as correctly as possible, but not all has went well. This has happened before for me on my old Dell, which I had to reinstall Windows XP. Anyway, I have been having trouble with FSX since day one, and after the SP1 package was installed, as well.
The idea is to install your drivers correctly, or they don't work properly. You would be amazed at the improvement in not only the Graphics, but also in the way your computer handles loads, and other processes.
I am no expert, but after correctly reinstalling my video drivers, I now have framerates that push way past the 32FPS mark on my machine with most of the sliders at half, or above, scenery is above.
The way I did it, and I am not so sure it is correct, was to remove all indications of the old video drivers on my machine. I made certain first that I had a recent copy of drivers for my cards. I went to Start/Control Panel/Add/Remove Programs, and removed the Nvidia driver entities from the list(remove the ones for your video card). Next, I Restarted my machine. When the machine came back, and this is important, the video display was in VGA mode, and at a rediculously low resolution. This is important, cause it shows that your video cards are running at the low end, and aren't using the more sofisticated drivers.
I then found my newer versions of the install program for the video drivers, and ran it. With my machine, I have two video cards, and they both need to have drivers for them. At this point, I knew I needed to have the drivers installed for both cards, so I went to Start/Control Panel/System/Hardware/Device Manager, went to each video card Display Adapters, and installed the drivers again using Update Drivers. I found the video card drivers through the manual procedure: No, not this time; next; Install from a list(advanced); next; Don't Search, I will choose a driver; next; and in the listing found my Nvidia drivers, and highlighted the selection, and clicked next. The drivers installed automatically, and I did this procedure for both cards. I then OKed my way back out of the control panel, and Restarted my machine.
When the machine came back, and I started FSX, I had twice to maybe three times the FPS I had before I updated the video drivers. And also, I was using the latest drivers before I updated, so the improvement wasn't because of installing the latest drivers, but because I reinstalled them properly.
Now I am enjoying FSX, FS9, and FSGW to the max, and haven't been getting much work done lately on my projects. "Slap that girl's hands" ...... *giggles*. It is all in fun for me. Gawd, I love this new machine !!!
If anyone has any added advice, feel free to add to this post. Have fun !
