FS2002 AA and 2D panel flickering

I not sure if this is the right place to post this, but there's a lot of knowledge here and I'm hoping to get this resolved in a timely manner.

I've set the nVidia inspector with the same standard tweaks as outlined by Nick. The only problem I'm having with FS2002 is the 2D panel flicker. When AA is enabled externally the panel flickers badly and is unusable. It's like it won't redraw the panel correctly. A lot of black space and the gauges flickering in and out. With AA disabled externally it works fine.

I tried adding the "PanelAsTexture=0" but that didn't seem to help.

Thanks,

-Matt

 

I'm going to have a guess at this, FS2002 is very old, but I recently went through something similar when using a high end 4K monitor with FS2004.

 

It is a similar situation when using 3 high resolution screens in surround mode and 2D panels.

The 2D window for the gauges is set to display across 3x 1920 res. monitors,  however the bitmap res. for the instrument panel and gauges is too low to stretch across, and they either flicker in and out or don't display at all with a constant spinning curser.

A Google search for triple wide panel fixes gives more info.

 

Now , back to 2002 and single monitor,  designed for older 4:3 monitors with around 1200 resolution and the 2d window with an even lower resolution bitmap is being stretched too far with new 1920 monitors.

 

What I did with the 4K monitor is apply the triple fix, and reduced the size of the panel window by about 25%  looked ok on such a big monitor, had to drag down the outside view to fill side spaces, but the flickering was gone.

 

To test this theory, try to undock the window, ( the panel one), resize it, or remove using 'w' key.  then create new one and resize it smaller,  can't even remember how in 2002.   

 

There is also an option (in 2004)  in FS display to choose high resolution 2D panels,  see if it's in 2002.

 

If reducing fixes the flickering then go into panel.cfg  and reduce 'window size' from 1. (ie. fullscreen)   to .9 to start, then .8 etc.  If you need more info let me know.

 

as I said, I'm guessing, FS2002 is in a cupboard somewhere collecting dust.

 

Hope this helps,

Ron.

 

 

I loaded FS2002 recently, and experience the same issue on Win10 and external AA applied. I noticed that if on-screen info is displayed (such as coords, speed FPS..., even parking brakes), the flickering is gone on the gauges...

now if I only just could figure out how to change the color of the info display to less intrusive one.... anu idea?