Software White Screen Flash and Vsync of death.

[Hadron]

Hi there,
A mixture introduction/problem thread and a hopefully simple question. I get white flashes on screen from time to time that make the game unplayable. It goes away when I enable hardware pageflip but is replaced by the most monumental screen tearing I have ever encountered that was not there beforehand.
Can I have both Vsync enabled and cut out the white flashes. Forcing Vsync through CCC or D3Doverrider does not work. I've searched through this site and found a similar problem solved by removing the sidebar off of Vista. I'm running Windows 7 so that option is not available but I have tried turning aero off.
Thanks in advance for any ideas.

 

[ED_4]

Do you run the sim windowed or full screen? Have you tried the full screen if that's not how you run it? Just to see if there's any difference?

 

[Hadron]

Do you run the sim windowed or full screen? Have you tried the full screen if that's not how you run it? Just to see if there's any difference?

I run full screen. I have tried windowed mode and a few different resolutions just out of desperation but no luck. I'm probably going to have to give up after trying a few more things and deal with the flashing or tearing depending on which one annoys me less on the day. That's what Ive been doing so far anyway.

 

[Hadron]

Just in case anyone has a similar problem in the future, this worked for me.

1. Check Disable vsync in orbiter video tab
2. Uncheck hardware pageflip (Counter-intuitive for both I know)
3. Get rivatuner's D3doverdrive and create a specific profile for orbiter.
4. Force V-sync in D3Dod and leave the vsynch option in your video cards manager as defualt.
5. Restart orbiter (from exe not just a scenario)
6. Alt-Tab out of orbiter and restart D3D. For whatever reason it works now. Step 6 has to be repeated every time you start a scenario.

 

[jgrillo2002]

Can you give me your full specs of your computer. it sounds like a graphics card issue.

 

[Hadron]

Can you give me your full specs of your computer. it sounds like a graphics card issue.

Windows 7
Intel Core 2 Quad
4G RAM
Radeon HD 4870

 

[jgrillo2002]

Theres your problem right there. Orbiter doesn't cooperate well with ATI cars. I suggest getting a GeForce GPU

 

[Bonanza123d]

Did you try the D3D9 and OGL graphics clients?

 

[Loru]

Theres your problem right there. Orbiter doesn't cooperate well with ATI cars. I suggest getting a GeForce GPU

Strange - I've tried it on 3 different Radeons without any issues.

Cards:
Radeon 9250SE (AGPx4)
Radeon 9600 (AGPx8)
Radeon HD 9650 (PCI-E)

Those white flashes occured me once when I had old dos 3d studio R4 opened in DOSBOX at the same time as orbiter.