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GEO colors keep changing!


Mike Nowinski 811269
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Mike Nowinski 811269
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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

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Mike Nowinski 811269
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Still looking for some help with the above.

 

Thanks,

Mike Nowinski - C3

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Jacques Malan 995061
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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

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Mike Nowinski 811269
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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

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Paul Byrne
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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.

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Mike Nowinski 811269
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Thanks Paul...I'll see if I can get a copy of those drivers and try it out.

 

Mike

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Paul Byrne
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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.

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Mike Nowinski 811269
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Thanks again Paul....on it as we speak.

Mike Nowinski - C3

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Paul Byrne
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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.

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Mike Nowinski 811269
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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

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Craig Phillips 947617
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Mike, u have a PM

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Developer: Aircraft Situation Editor (ASE)

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