any help welcome!
Installed ati (Herculese) 9800xt classic in my windows XP machine.
Works fine with normal "office" applications. When I load FS2004 I get
different reactions ranging from:
1. freezes when FS starts.
2. frezzes when I change settings in FS.
3. Screen blanks and freezes for above.
4. PC crashes.
All of the above can also happen during flight.

I have taken the side off the PC case and blast cold air in to
elliminate overheating probs. Have tried older and newest drivers.
Have re-formatted and re-built from scratch.

When it does work (for up to 15 mins so far) on max settings it is
awesome - with some reality that I could crash at any moment!!!

Any ideas?

Iain

Sounds like a driver problem. Ensure that your chipset drivers,
particularly the AGP driver is installed correctly, then your Direct X 9
drivers, and then the drivers for your video card.

JK

"smooby" > wrote in message
om...
> any help welcome!
> Installed ati (Herculese) 9800xt classic in my windows XP machine.
> Works fine with normal "office" applications. When I load FS2004 I get
> different reactions ranging from:
> 1. freezes when FS starts.
> 2. frezzes when I change settings in FS.
> 3. Screen blanks and freezes for above.
> 4. PC crashes.
> All of the above can also happen during flight.
>
> I have taken the side off the PC case and blast cold air in to
> elliminate overheating probs. Have tried older and newest drivers.
> Have re-formatted and re-built from scratch.
>
> When it does work (for up to 15 mins so far) on max settings it is
> awesome - with some reality that I could crash at any moment!!!
>
> Any ideas?
>
> Iain