Hello Dene
I have done some testing on a very old box today and
all I can say is it is a problem with the graphics card or your
operating system or both.It is certainly not the speed of your
machine.
In light of this thread I loaded windows 98se onto a 2 gig drive
on a PII 400Mhz machine took my Nvidia FX 5200 card out of my
main machine and installed it in the 400 Mhz machine and loaded up the
drivers which included direct X 9.
I then installed FG 9.5a,FG 9.8 and FG 9.9 in that order using the uninstall
program each time to remove a version before installing the next version.
Every time FG loaded,with 9.8 and 9.9 it took almost 6 mins to load but once
loaded it worked even if it froze from time to time.It never crashed.
My advice would be to beg borrow or steal(no not realy) an aleast GF4 MX420
or better and install it and see what happens as it is a GF4 MX420 that I
use on
my 850 Mhz and 9.9 seems to be running ok on that although it does also
freeze
momentairly some times.Maybe it is getting near to the end of its usefull
life
to.
If we want all the bells and whistles then there is a price to pay. When I
first started
with FG if you used a texture greater than 512x512 for a whole aircraft it
was unusuall
but now I see 4 or 5 texture sheets of 1024x1024 or bigger.
"dene maxwell" writes
I tried about 20 combinations of aircraft/airports/runways and no
joy...still crashes at exactly the same place ( just see the "generating
sky elements" message then bang, back to the wizard).
Disabled all the features eg clouds totally, AI, enhanced effects etc
another suggestion I had was to disable the Nimitz Demo, I take it that
this is where you do it (extract from preferences.xml);
<ai>
<enabled type="bool">false</enabled>
<!-- scenario>nimitz_demo</scenario -->
<!-- <scenario>aircraft_demo</scenario> -->
</ai>
no difference....
... guess I just wait 'til there's either a fix or more information
requested to help the resolution effort.
Dene
Cheers
Innis
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