FS2004 Graphics Card Problem

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Flight Sim 2004 gives me an error message saying that my computer cannot use
3D hardware acceleration because I don't have enough video memory, so
Software 3D was enabled. Then another error comes up saying that my computer
cannot use 3D hardware acceleration, so Software 3D mode was enabled. This is
my computer specs:
Intel Celeron D 2.4GHz (Overclocked to 2.8GHz)
256MB DDR333 RAM
40GB 5400RPM Maxtor hard drive
Intel i845GV Integrated video card with 64MB shared
Windows 98SE

Thank you

 

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>Flight Sim 2004 gives me an error message saying that my computer cannot use
>3D hardware acceleration because I don't have enough video memory, so
>Software 3D was enabled. Then another error comes up saying that my computer
>cannot use 3D hardware acceleration, so Software 3D mode was enabled. This is
>my computer specs:
>Intel Celeron D 2.4GHz (Overclocked to 2.8GHz)
>256MB DDR333 RAM
>40GB 5400RPM Maxtor hard drive
>Intel i845GV Integrated video card with 64MB shared
>Windows 98SE

This integrated video chipset may not be compatible, did you check the
simulator release notes? Did you try to update the drivers from the
Intel web site and install the latest DirectX from MS? Then run
dxdiag.exe to test D3D.

You may simply need to install a decent video card with a minimum of
128MB vram, the Intel integrated chipset do not cut it for games and
you will never get acceptable performance for FS2004 (especially
associated with a Celeron) unless you set all its settings extremely
low...

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Katy P.
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I have the latest drivers off Intel's site, and the latest DirectX. dxdiag
doesn't have any problem with my card, execpt it says that I only have
6.5MB. I don't think it finds the 64MB shard . My Intel has worked pretty
well for all the games I've given it exept NHL 2003(which doesn't load).
Rise of Nations Gold works fine and it requires a bigger video card the
FS2004. FS2004 works on a computer with a P3 600MHz, 256MB PC100, 7200RPM
10GB, and a Radeon 7000 32MB.

Thank you for your suggestions,
jkb

 

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>I have the latest drivers off Intel's site, and the latest DirectX. dxdiag
>doesn't have any problem with my card, execpt it says that I only have
>6.5MB. I don't think it finds the 64MB shard . My Intel has worked pretty
>well for all the games I've given it exept NHL 2003(which doesn't load).
>Rise of Nations Gold works fine and it requires a bigger video card the
>FS2004. FS2004 works on a computer with a P3 600MHz, 256MB PC100, 7200RPM
>10GB, and a Radeon 7000 32MB.

I guess the problem then lies with the system reporting only 6.5Mb of
video RAM, is there a utility in the Intel drivers suite to allocate
more memory to the video? Or in the BIOS?

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Katy P.
MS_MVP for Flight Simulator

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Thank you again, I found a fix for my prob by opening the the display.cfg
file in the FS2004 dir and under the "Intel 845" section pasting in a
"VideoMemoryOverride=8388608" from the "Intel 810" section. However, as you
said it has bad performance.

jkb