Anyone see this anomaly before?

[Navy Chief]

Has happened a few times......restarting FSX does not remove it. Only reboot of PC.

NC

[icycle]

Yes I have. At first thought it was a malicious piece of software, but ESET dos not think so.

Seems like a video driver issue, as it is more than just FSX. Have to re-boot the PC to clear it. Thought I was maxing my video card (Nvidia 275), but don't think so.

I'm just as puzzled as you.

Bill

[oakfloor]

Looks like my ati 4870 card when I max it out with the overclock sliders, You may be pushing your GPU card too much.

[sade60461]

Are you by chance running the BP=0 tweak in your fsx.cfg? I had the same thing happening when I used it. Would start happening after a few minutes of flight. Restarting fsx would not cure it, only a reboot of the pc. I removed the bp=0 entry from the fsx.cfg and have not had the problem occur again. Hope this help.

-Dave

[Daube]

Navy Chief, not to scare you or anything, but last time I saw this kind of phenomenom on my PC, it was just weeks before my 8800 GTX died from a cooling or a memory problem.
At the beginning, only the autogen textures were concerned. Then progressively, the problem extended to all screen, and the card would become less and less stable...

[Quixoticish]

I can only concur with what has already been said in this thread, those kind of visual artifacts usually symptom a graphics card that is being pushed too hard or is about to die.

[Dain Arns]

Navy Chief, not to scare you or anything, but last time I saw this kind of phenomenom on my PC, it was just weeks before my 8800 GTX died from a cooling or a memory problem.
At the beginning, only the autogen textures were concerned. Then progressively, the problem extended to all screen, and the card would become less and less stable...

Ditto. That was my first thought as well.
Mine is a 8600 GT and does that when it's not cooling enough.

Not to get too personal, but have ya dusted the fan and heat sink lately? :)

[Navy Chief]

Thanks for all your tips. I haven't tweaked the cards settings any. Don't plan to. I did blow off the heatsink and fan; will wait to see if that makes a difference. Have not changed anything in the FSX.cfg file, so that couldn't be the culprit.

Will keep you posted!

NC

[italoc]

Has happened a few times......restarting FSX does not remove it. Only reboot of PC.

NC

Hi
I am probably blind (age) or stupid (age, too) but I dont see any anomaly!!!!!http://www.sim-outhouse.com/sohforums/images/icons/icon8.gif
http://www.sim-outhouse.com/sohforums/images/icons/icon9.gif ?!?!?!
Italo

[Navy Chief]

Hi
I am probably blind (age) or stupid (age, too) but I dont see any anomaly!!!!!http://www.sim-outhouse.com/sohforums/images/icons/icon8.gif
http://www.sim-outhouse.com/sohforums/images/icons/icon9.gif ?!?!?!
Italo


Look closely, and you will see speckles in the screenshot....... NC

[Cazzie]

Ooooh nice paisley snow! :isadizzy:

Agree with the other that it looks like a video problem. Thanks fer showing mah paint on the HM-4 too Chief, Patrick has them at the RareWings site for hose that can't get them here.

Caz