"FLight Simulator does not support 24-bit color"??

oh, and I don't have Vista, just the themes and such, I'm using XP Home.

hmmm, the only thing I can think of is to right click on the desktop, click properties, settings, then see what it says in the color quality tab. Should say (highest) 32 Bit.

I'm no computer guy but maybe that will help?

Btw, I used to have a 1600 Pro, 512MB AGP card and FSX could not push past Low settings. Even with low my FPS were abismal. Hopefuly you have the PCIE or a great system to help that card!

Old Specs: ATI Radeon AGP 512MB 1600 Pro, Pentium 4 3.0 Ghz, 512 Ram. Just a heads up!

lydhndrxca wrote:

hmmm, the only thing I can think of is to right click on the desktop, click properties, settings, then see what it says in the color quality tab. Should say (highest) 32 Bit.

I'm no computer guy but maybe that will help?

Btw, I used to have a 1600 Pro, 512MB AGP card and FSX could not push past Low settings. Even with low my FPS were abismal. Hopefuly you have the PCIE or a great system to help that card!

Old Specs: ATI Radeon AGP 512MB 1600 Pro, Pentium 4 3.0 Ghz, 512 Ram. Just a heads up!

yeah...that was the first thing I tried, this error isn't even in the microsoft errors databse... but my vid card is an ATI Radeon X1600 Pro PCIe 512MB RAM, 3.1GHz processor, 1.5 gigs RAM

Have you got the latest drivers for you graphics card?

yeah

You still haven't said what your settings actually are. or what options you have available for those settings. Your graphics card may be capable of running 32 bit, but if you don't have it doing so, the problems won't go away.

all my settings that have anything to do with bit color, I have set to 32. Not a single option says 24-bit. If a computer expert has NetMeeting, it'd be nice if we could use that and they could control my desktop and check it out for themselves.

Just took a look at your screenshot and noticed 'Tivo desktop'. Do you have some other screen device (maybe a DVR connected via a network) plugged into your machine apart from standard monitor? Could this explain why a 'monitor device' is being asked to display at 24bit?

Monitors within the Windows environment will display at 16 or 32bit coulour. Don't know about this Tivo.......something for you to consider.

BashDaBish wrote:

Just took a look at your screenshot and noticed 'Tivo desktop'. Do you have some other screen device (maybe a DVR connected via a network) plugged into your machine apart from standard monitor? Could this explain why a 'monitor device' is being asked to display at 24bit?

Monitors within the Windows environment will display at 16 or 32bit coulour. Don't know about this Tivo.......something for you to consider.

good idea, but I loaded up my computer under Diagnostic startup (through msconfig, loads only system necessary services at startup) and still gave me the problem... this is really starting to confuse me because I can't possibly think of a single reason why this can't work...

Did you physically disconnect the equipment?

BashDaBish wrote:

Did you physically disconnect the equipment?

no equipment to disconnect; my Tivo desktop is wireless over the network. but lemme see, what else do I have on my network...

I am not sure if the error message is mis-leading or whether it is being 100% accurate? It is stating that one or more of your monitors (not graphics card) is using 24bit.

Maybe try and find the latest driver for your monitor? If your card does not know your monitors limitations then maybe this could explain it?

wow, this REALLY makes no sense; I just updated my monitor drivers and STILL no luck! This makes absolutely NO SENSE.... Could the monitor itself be the problem??? I'm getting a flat panel in a few days, might that work...

See if this helps.

hm... looks like it's just another explanation of re-installing the driver, which I've done many a time... I'll look a bit more hardly at the column later.

I had a similar problem with the 24 bit error message. Go into device manager and disable the intergated Graphics Controller. I installed a new Nvidia card but the game still recognized the old 24 bit settings from the intergrated card. I tested this by removing the new card an the 24 bit setting apppeared as an option. The game worked after I disabled the intergrated graphics controller. This should work. Good luck.

thx, sounds like it might work, but can I get specific instructions? I don't wanna disable the wrong thing.

Take a look in your bios usually by pressing 'Del' before Windows starts. If you have onboard graphics there will be a setting to disable Onboard VGA or Onboard Video/ Display etc. It will be apparent. Press F10 (I think) to save and exit.

If you disable the onboard video card in the Bios then Windows will not find it and there will be no need to disable it within Windows.

Generally speaking however, having onboard graphics and a dedicated graphics should have caused an issue well before now and in some cases the machine would often not boot or would crash as soon as any application is run.

Do you have a chance to re-install XP?

OMG I DID IT!! ok, ok, the problem was that I had microsoft remote desktop sharing enabled!! Once I disabled and exited the toolbar icon, it worked!! 😀 😀 😀

I guess I wasn't far off then......something external requesting 24bit!

Glad you are sorted.

supacasey, you rock! I just read your post about disabling desktop sharing and that worked for me also.

I think i work for me as well, I started it up and than shut it down, and FS X workt.

Good job

I have xp pro installed with same issue, but remote desktop is built in. I have not been able to find a solution.

Ive tried everthing .. no solution yet.

Problem Solved.

The workaround/solution was found at ..

I think I found a solution, if you go into youre "Program" folder and fin the
folder called NetMeeting, start "conf", and let it load up, when it pops up
in the rigt corner on the start menu next to the clock, right click it and
shut it down, than try if it works, if it do, please send a reply, to help
other people.

Long story short and I know this is going to sound crazy but it worked for me.
Start Netmeeting.. "C:\Program Files\NetMeeting\conf.exe" and then I right click on the taskbar icon and close it. thats it.