Hi all,
Recently I unistalled FS2004, mainly because it was turning into a rather large programe file – for example old aircraft I’ve downloaded were clogging up the ‘Gauges Folder’ file etc etc so I thought doing this would clean it out a little.
I had kept the downloaded files of aircraft I had wanted, I also have Ultimate Traffic installed and that was a simple process removing that. Then it came to the process of installing FS2004 again (which we all know with four discs can take a bit of time 😉 )
Anyway I did that – put all the downloaded aircraft files back in the ‘Aircraft Folder’and re-installed Ultimate Traffic and was looking foreward to playing it again to see if it was any faster.
How dissapointed I was 🙁 I don’t know what has happened but now all the graphics of the aircraft/AI aircraft and the landscape are really soft and blurry compared to how rather good they were before. I could do System Restore but I have done this Uninstall/Re-install a couple of weeks ago now and doing a Restore would be a bad option.
Also prior to me uninstalling FS2004 I noticed a new logo in the taskbar at the bottom of the desktop screen which is a blue computer screen saying…..
‘Intel(R) Extreme Graphics’ – I believe my brother installed this.
Does anyone know what has happened? or better yet how I can solve it? 🙁
Thanks for any help given 🙂
Tom
My System: Maybe of Use
Dell Dimension DIM2400
Windows XP – Service Pack 2
Intel(R) Pentium(R) 4 CPU 2.80 Ghz
256MB RAM
By: adamdowley - 9th December 2005 at 19:53
try moving the display sliders to the right a bit in FS.
IF those are your computers specs, then you have a very powerful processor which is let down by a (i dnt mean to be rude) rubbish integrated graphics system – i.e. you don’t have a graphics card as such – what you have is a graphics chip which is on your computers motherboard (if you know what that is). i would suggest looking into getting a new graphics card, and adding more RAM – an extra 256 Mb would be good.
also, you will need to find out for sure if your computer does indeed have an Intel extreme graphics chip. if it doesn’t, and it has a separate graphics card, then it may be that the Intel Extreme graphics drivers that your bro installed shouldn’t be there. i.e. wrong software for wrong hardware. try and find out what graphics card/chip the computer really is using. if it is something like an Nvidia or ATi card, then the Intel Extreme Graphics thing shouldn’t be there. if it is an Nvidia or ATi card, then download the correct drivers for the card.
i hope u can understand my babble, and i hope that helps.
EDIT – thinking about it, Dells do not tend to come with graphics cards – so it probably is an Intel Extreme Graphics chip that it uses.
go on to the Intel website, and download the latest drivers for the Intel Extreme Graphics
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December 9, 2005 at 7:33 pm