From Mystic on comp.sys.ibm.pc.game.flight-sim
Alas, I downloaded Aces High yesterday with high hopes, but encountered the strangest
graphics problem when I tried it. The cockpit graphics (not outside world, just the panel
and other cockpit elements, and even the little flip-notepad thing) jerk back and forth
dramatically, rhythmically and very unpleasantly whenever the plane is doing anything
other than flying in a perfectly straight line ... and the faster I change the plane's
heading, the faster the rate of jerking. It's nasty enough to make a person sick to their
stomach within seconds (the "jerk length" is over half the diameter of the P-51 gunsight).
Totally unusable.
I wrote their tech support about it, and while they were amazing quick to respond and
tried to help, it doesn't seem like there is a solution short of changing video cards (I
currently have a Matrox G400 MAX with the latest drivers, and DirectX 8.1).
Before I throw up my hands and uninstall the program, I'm making one last-ditch effort and
asking about this here, in case some other newsgroup reader has encountered the same
problem with Aces High ... and maybe even solved it? Or is anyone out there using this
program successfully with a G400 card? I'll keep my fingers crossed, as I'd like to have
the ability to do some online WWII flying again, and I don't think I have enough computer
muscle to run Warbirds anymore (and it sounds like that one's a sinking ship anyway).
- Mystic
