Hopefully others can answer with a fuller reply (I don't have any specific ATI experience myself.) But this does very much sound like a driver issue. Have you gone to the ATI web site and downloaded their latest drivers? I wouldn't trust the laptop manufacturer's video drivers, I would go straight to the chipset vendor.
Regards, Curt. Jeff Bleier wrote: > Hello FlightGear users: > > Not having used a flight simulator since I owned an Apple II, I am very > happy > to have FlightGear installed and running well on my laptop. What a great > program, I really like it! > > I am a bit frustrated though, because I can only fly during the daytime > hours. > Once dusk or nighttime falls, my laptop system video crashes and either > reboots > or restores to another frozen state, eventually blanking the video screen. A > couple of times the sun setting over the horizon would trigger the crash, but > the computer also crashed at midnight over the Grand Canyon on a star lit > night. If I sit the plane at an airport and press the 't' key to warp through > the day, the display will sometimes cycle through the night mode without > crashing and sometimes will not. The bottom line is that my computer is > crashing within 30 seconds of using FlightGear in the dark, and so I only fly > during daytime hours. > > My laptop is a Pavillion 6310 with an ATI Express 200M (Windows XP calls it > an > Express 200X) with an AMD 64 3200 Processor with specs listed at this page: > http://h10025.www1.hp.com/ewfrf/wc/document?lc=en&cc=us&dlc=en&product=500264&lang=en&docname=c00392189 > > I updated all the drivers I could. The video driver was the 8/3/05 driver, > so > then I installed the ATI Catalyst 5.5 (because Catalyst 6.6 does not support > the > 200M CARD) which reverted to the 5/3/05 driver. That did not work, so I went > back to the HP web site to reinstall the 8/05/05 driver with Catalyst 5 now > installed on this laptop, but I just could not get this thing configured to > fly > at night without freezing up. > I have only installed the FlightGear Windows XP 0.9.10 file, which works > beautifully otherwise. I've tried disabling most of the video options, and > I've > also tried the different Performance / Quality options of OpenGL > > Am I going about this the wrong way? Please offer any insight. Maybe > someone > else had this problem? > > Thanks very much, and thanks FlightGear for a great program. > > Jeff Bleier > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------- > Using Tomcat but need to do more? Need to support web services, security? > Get stuff done quickly with pre-integrated technology to make your job easier > Download IBM WebSphere Application Server v.1.0.1 based on Apache Geronimo > http://sel.as-us.falkag.net/sel?cmd=lnk&kid=120709&bid=263057&dat=121642 > _______________________________________________ > Flightgear-users mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/flightgear-users > -- Curtis Olson http://baron.flightgear.org/~curt HumanFIRST Program http://www.humanfirst.umn.edu/ FlightGear Project http://www.flightgear.org Unique text: 2f585eeea02e2c79d7b1d8c4963bae2d ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Using Tomcat but need to do more? Need to support web services, security? Get stuff done quickly with pre-integrated technology to make your job easier Download IBM WebSphere Application Server v.1.0.1 based on Apache Geronimo http://sel.as-us.falkag.net/sel?cmd=lnk&kid=120709&bid=263057&dat=121642 _______________________________________________ Flightgear-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/flightgear-users
