BaylorAirBear From United States of America, joined Jan 2005, 2913 posts, RR: 52 Posted (8 years 1 week 4 days 13 hours ago) and read 771 times:
Talk about irritating. I have a four year old laptop: 700MHz P3, 320 MB RAM(PC100), AGP 128 graphics card. I just installed FS9. On my desktop super computer everything runs smooth with all settings maxed out. On my laptop, with a settings at minimum, the sky flickers. The plane, terrain, and buildings are all okay, but the damned sky flickers. It's a steady flicker; on-off maybe twice a second. Any advice/suggestions?
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BaylorAirBear
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TedTAce From , joined Dec 1969, posts, RR: Reply 1, posted (8 years 1 week 4 days 13 hours ago) and read 762 times:
LCD's kind of suck for 'gaming'. That's why you almost never see 'gamer tournament' champions using them. Play with the settings, make sure that nothing might be interfering with it (radios, cellphones) try plugged V unplugged. Good luck
BaylorAirBear From United States of America, joined Jan 2005, 2913 posts, RR: 52 Reply 2, posted (8 years 1 week 4 days 10 hours ago) and read 744 times:
Oh no! I just discovered that my graphics card only has 8MB of memory. Could this be the obvious problem? 8MB is the minimum requirement.
LOT767-300ER From , joined Dec 1969, posts, RR: Reply 3, posted (8 years 1 week 4 days 10 hours ago) and read 739 times:
Quoting BaylorAirBear (Reply 2): Oh no! I just discovered that my graphics card only has 8MB of memory. Could this be the obvious problem? 8MB is the minimum requirement.
Yes. FS with a 128mb Radeon 9700 PRO still lags when I get to high graphic render areas (Like add on airport scenery the magnitude of ORD or LHR)
Your going to need a good card, with something like a ATI Radeon X700 will make it very nice.
Solarix From , joined Dec 1969, posts, RR: Reply 4, posted (8 years 1 week 4 days 9 hours ago) and read 732 times:
Try bumping up your refresh rate.
Right click Desktop and choose Properties. Then click Settings...
Click on Advanced button and then choose the Monitor tab.
For screen refresh push 70-80 Hz and you should be good. Your default setting is probably 60 Hz which causes flicker and gives migraines.
Klaus From Germany, joined Jul 2001, 20860 posts, RR: 55 Reply 5, posted (8 years 1 week 3 days 23 hours ago) and read 701 times:
The problem is apparently not the refresh rate of the screen; It seems the video RAM is so constricted that FS can´t allocate enough space for the textures and other visual resources so the ensuing memory and throughput bottlenecks prevent timely completion of the scenery. And every few frames, some of the rendered scenery will just not have been ready at the time it´s being displayed.
The frame buffer to screen refresh rate has nothing to do with it; It´s the drawing of the next image in the frame buffer that´s lagging or defective. More video RAM would help, but in a laptop you rarely have an option to upgrade the video memory. If you want to use 3d software, look for a good video component - and especially avoid "shared memory" ones. They may be able to avoid this particular problem a bit better, but they are very slow overall.
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