Mike Nowinski 811269 Posted February 7, 2009 at 04:41 PM Posted February 7, 2009 at 04:41 PM After having been away from VRC for awhile, I logged in yesterday to do some controlling. When I did I noticed some of the colors of my [GEO] section obects (coastlines) had stange colors. I double checked the SCT2 file and everything looks good. I actually haven't made any changes to it since the last time I logged in and everything was fine. During the session I noticed that when I received text messages the colors would change again. Very strange. I uninstalled VRC, rebooted and reinstalled. Same situation. Any suggestions on what might be wrong Thanks, Mike Mike Nowinski - C3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mike Nowinski 811269 Posted February 16, 2009 at 01:09 AM Author Posted February 16, 2009 at 01:09 AM Still looking for some help with the above. Thanks, Mike Nowinski - C3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jacques Malan 995061 Posted February 21, 2009 at 09:49 AM Posted February 21, 2009 at 09:49 AM Mike, this sounds more like a hardware problem with your graphics card, rather than a VRC problem. Is the problem limited to VRC? Good luck Jacques Malan VATSIM Supervisor Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mike Nowinski 811269 Posted February 21, 2009 at 01:23 PM Author Posted February 21, 2009 at 01:23 PM Jacques, Yes, it appears to only be with VRC. I'm using an ATI Radeon X850 with up-to-date drivers. The only thing I have done with my video card is tweak it for FlightSim FS9 using Radeon's ATI Catalyst program. I thought that might be a problem, so I reset it to default values and I still get the same problem. Thanks, Mike Nowinski - C3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paul Byrne Posted February 22, 2009 at 03:19 AM Posted February 22, 2009 at 03:19 AM Hi Mike, I have a Radeon X1600XT and I have found that the 5.1 or 6.1 catalyst drivers are the best for VRC. I installed the 9.1 drivers recently and found that fine line drawing was messy and would constantly cause color clashes with overlapping lines etc. I am using the 5.1 drivers at the moment with no problems in FS9 (not sure about FSX) and VRC. Newest drivers are not always the best. Cheers! Paul. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mike Nowinski 811269 Posted February 22, 2009 at 01:24 PM Author Posted February 22, 2009 at 01:24 PM Thanks Paul...I'll see if I can get a copy of those drivers and try it out. Mike Mike Nowinski - C3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paul Byrne Posted February 22, 2009 at 11:10 PM Posted February 22, 2009 at 11:10 PM Hi Mike, Oh and a word of advise. Uninstall the catalyst control center and install a program called ATI Tray Tools by a gent called Ray Adams. It is far more configurable and takes up less resources on your computer. Especially with OpenGL features, the latest drivers and CCC don't really handle OpenGL all too well. Even with older drivers the latest CCC doesn't have all the OpenGL features listed. ATI Tray Tools will solve that for you. Cheers! Paul. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mike Nowinski 811269 Posted February 24, 2009 at 04:05 PM Author Posted February 24, 2009 at 04:05 PM Thanks again Paul....on it as we speak. Mike Nowinski - C3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paul Byrne Posted March 3, 2009 at 02:09 AM Posted March 3, 2009 at 02:09 AM Hi Mike, Did this work for you? It would be good to get a report for this as we will then know the best drivers so far to run VRC with a Radeon card. Cheers! Paul. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mike Nowinski 811269 Posted March 4, 2009 at 11:49 AM Author Posted March 4, 2009 at 11:49 AM Paul, Unfortunately, the ATI Tools didn't correct the VRC problem. Perahps I didn't use the right settings, if I had to use any special ones at all. IF you use the ATI Tools, what settings do you use that allow VRC to display properly? Thanks for the follow up. Mike Nowinski - C3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Craig Phillips 947617 Posted March 4, 2009 at 01:04 PM Posted March 4, 2009 at 01:04 PM Mike, u have a PM Craig Phillips Senior Student - UK South East - Mentor Developer: Aircraft Situation Editor (ASE) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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