Part of my train simulator program flicker??

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Part of my train simulator program flicker??

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I am not sure what is the exact problem with flicker of my Train Simulator on my monitor? Here is what the program of Microsoft Train Simulator start with upload -- everything is fine like normal but by the time you're in Route and Activity Selection to choose the route and activity then there is a flickering on the monitor screen. After I chose the route and activity -- the flickering goes away. Then everything is normal again except with that part -- a minor problem. Anyway I have PowerColor ATI 9250 with 128MB graphic card in my computer with PIII 800 MHz with 2 x 512MB SDRAM memory in it and at last with the operating system of Windows XP SP-2. Before I forget that my program of Microsoft Train Simulator is updated with ver 1.2.

I am not sure if I need to worry about this or just leave it because it's not a major problem. Any help will be appreciated.

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If this flicker is just at like the top edge of the screen or something similar I'd just ignore it, mine does it. I suspect its a graphics card driver issue or something.
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Thanks for your message that you posted through this forum. Maybe I should update the driver for my graphic card to see if the flicker go away. Will post this after the update of the driver for my graphic card.

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Re: Part of my train simulator program flicker??

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ImCanadian wrote:.............. flicker of my Train Simulator on my monitor? Here is what the program of Microsoft Train Simulator start with upload -- everything is fine like normal but by the time you're in Route and Activity Selection to choose the route and activity then there is a flickering on the monitor screen............
Hi
Mine does this sometimes...I think it is a DirectX fault.
However I just close MSTS....and restart again and its fine.
If I continue I seem to loose a good 10 FPS .
My PC only gets Rebooted once in a while....and it often occurs after a soft reboot ( It never gets a Hard ReBoot BTW).
No answers I'm afraid...just some information...hopefully of some use.
PS I'm still on DirectX9a
Cheers
Jon
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Post by ImCanadian »

Jon

I have the same experience with you had. When I restarted the computer and the flickering did go away. I wonder if we should upgrade or replace the DirectX program to see if that will help us down the road. I am not sure what mine is in the computer. I have to wait till in the morning when I get home from work to check it out. I believe that I have DirectX9a in my computer.

Thank you

John P. Mackay
Belleville, ON Canada eh!!
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