Driver unloading

It's possible that the card is dying. Mine just kept throwing artifacts and I had to pull it and put my old card back it for now.

GoneGolfing wrote:

Hi guys, for the last 2 days i been suffering from the case of the unloading driver when i start up FS2004.

Radarman has a point about the card dying. Did you download any Windows updates or load new drivers for something else? If you can't think of any changes to the operating system or new software you loaded I would suspect the card as it's fairly old.

Hi ya RM, Multiplayer works awsome now that i got that all figured out as for the Vid card looks like it will be heading to the nursing home have you or anyone here heard about this card is it any good for FS2004

Hi wscott52, Actually the vid card has the latest updates from nvidia and microsoft. 2 days ago when i fired up FS it started doing it, prior to that i made no driver or hardware changes. I guess the card had its days, although a few months ago i had tweaked the card a bit and have 2 cooling fans on it free and clear of dirt buildup but never presented any problems, oh well i guess ole betsy finally wants to rest.

GoneGolfing wrote:

Hi ya RM, Multiplayer works awsome now that i got that all figured out as for the Vid card looks like it will be heading to the nursing home have you or anyone here heard about this card is it any good for FS2004

GG,
It's a good card but don't forget, it won't support DirectX 10 when Vista and FSX come out.

RD, well i havent given up on this card yet i like the challenge just for the heck of it i jiggled the card in the slot and booted back up. i ran the dxdiag tests agian and came up error free.

DirectDraw test results: All tests were successful.
Direct3D 7 test results: All tests were successful.
Direct3D 8 test results: All tests were successful.
Direct3D 9 test results: All tests were successful.


The thing that bothers me now is i can play the game in windowed mode only, when i goto full screen the game will shut out in under a minute. Im still going to get another card sometime in the next couple of weeks but for now i have no card to fall back on if this one craps out. So i guess ill baby this one till i get another one, anyhow what card would you recommend in the 128 to 256 area?

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I see that you joined, welcome!

For an inexpensive card while your waiting for the DirectX cards to come out The one I "had" is good, especially now for the $.
Mine just crapped out after 2½ years (unusual) but I'd still get one,
The ATi Radeon 9800 128mb DDR AGP.
If you go to the ATi site they have it for $59, I don't know if that can be beaten anywhere on the net but you should try.
I believe the nVIDIA equivalent is the 5200 or the 5500, don't know too much about them.

Thanks Radarman good to be here, wow 59 bux for an 128 ATI nice i goto check that out. I think im going to give up on NVidia i had nothing but problems with there product, NVidia put one out at bestbuy for 39 bux but i dont dare try it but i will be looking into that ati card today thanks for the info.

TY sir ill check that out now.

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Thank You, Greekman72 lots of helpful folks here. 🙂