Hi,
My Video Card just died and I am now using the on board video.
Does anyone know where I can get hold of a decent PCI-E video card?
I am using Vista on my PC.

Regards Geoff

Hi,
Been away from home as my Mum got sick and was transfered to Orange hospital.
She is getting better.

I obtained a Nvidea card and downloaded the latest driver but it still flashes as in the horizontal and vertical planes.
Platforms,the horizontal textures for example flash.

I have tried the settings Bernard Grant posted on the Mophouse forum but no good.

Could Russell or Rowie or some one with Nvidea card take a snapshot of there Nvidea Video Control settings and post it,
it would be appreciated.

Regards Geoff

Hi Geoff

What type of Nvidea card is it?

Hi Geoff

I run a NVidia Geforce 9600GT, and have no probs with MSTS. My settings set out below.
Screen resolution: 1680 x 1050 pixels
Screen refresh rate: 60Htz
Colour quality: 32 bit
Image Settings: Quality
Anistropic filtering: Application Controlled
Antialiasing Mode: Application Controlled

See screenshot for other settings:

[img=http://img198.imageshack.us/img198/2388/nvidiai.png]

Items cutoff screenshot see below:

Texture filtering quality: Quality
Texture filtering trilinear optimization: On
Threaded optimization: Auto
Triple buffering: Off
Vertical Sync: Use the 3D application setting

Hope this helps

Regards
Kym

It could be a Vista thing with the drivers.
Try updating to the latest Nvidea drivers.

I agree, download from here:

http://www.nvidia.com/object/win7_winvista_32bit_191.07_whql.html

Vista is a funny beast, i'm running a older Nvidia 8800GT card and using the latest drivers (above) with no problems at all, also running Windows 7 with the same, all good.

Cheers,

Craig.

Hi,
The video card is a Geforce 9500 GT with 512mb of memory.
I have installed the latest driver version 191.07.

The problem still exists.
I would describe it as a shimmer more than flashing actually.

I would try running XP or Windows 7 except I do not wish to stuff up this PC.
Since Craig has no problem using Vista I will persist in trying to solve the problem.

I have tried different Msts settings and normally run Msts at 1280x1024x32bit.

I will try some different settings in the Nvidea control panel some more.

Thanks for the replies.

Regards Geoff.

Hi,
I found another list of settings for the Nvidea control panel.
The platform textures are now OK and the trees no longer look like they are rustling in a breeze.

I will post these settings when I get a chance.

Regards Geoff.

Here are the Nvidea control settings that work for me.
These are with Microsoft Train Simulator selected in the program settings tab.

Anistropic Filtering.......................8x

Antialiasing-Gamma Correction.......Use Global setting (On)

Antialiasing-Mode........................Overide any application setting

Antialiasing setting......................8x

Antialiasing-Transparency.............Off

Conforming texture clamp..............Use OpenGL specification

Extension Limit............................Use Global setting (Off)

Maximum pre-rendered frames........Use Global setting (3)

Multi-display/mixed GPU
acceleration...............................Single display performance mode

Texture Filtering
Anistropic sample opti..................Off

Texture Filtering-
Negative LOD bias.......................Clamp

Texture Filtering-Quality...............Quality

Texture Filtering
Trilinear optimization....................On

Triple buffering...........................On

Vertical Sync.............................Force on

Regards Geoff

Thanks for sharing these settings Geoff.
Have set my card the same and I have lost the artifact flashes that I used to get from time to time.

Hi Russell,
There are still a couple of issues I have to solve with mine.
However glad those settings are helpfull for you.

Regards Geoff.

Hi Geoff, thanks for that, did have a bit of flashing going on in some routes
with my old 8800GT Nvidia, This seems to have made a difference.
Regards Ross