Plane Icons acting very strange.

[RicOShay]

Got a brand new Dell computer with Windows 7.   Enemy planes at a distance do not have red icons but are white or gray, and transparent. Friendly planes at a distance do not have green icons but are also white or gray and transparent. Also planes way off in the distance show up as small black squares rather than specks. When planes get closer their true icon colors show up but when they are really close the colors jump back and forth from what they should be to gray white. Very annoying and distracting.

Does anyone have any idea what is going on. Is it a bug that is fixable?

[The Fugitive]

Most likely you graphics card is not strong enough to run the settings you are trying to run. It is running out of resources. Turn down the eye candy.

Post a dxdiag for more details.

[gyrene81]

Got a brand new Dell computer with Windows 7. 

that right there is the root of your issue...

[blazer65]

Most likely you graphics card is not strong enough to run the settings you are trying to run. It is running out of resources. Turn down the eye candy.

Post a dxdiag for more details.

+1.

Check out these threads, which appear to address the same issue:

http://bbs.hitechcreations.com/smf/index.php/topic,337066.0.html

http://bbs.hitechcreations.com/smf/index.php/topic,333595.0.html  (This is the thread that helped me figure out how to fix my problem, as you can read)

Is your computer a laptop?  When I got my new laptop I also had this exact same problem.  My laptop came with two graphics cards, one Intel HD or something card, and 1 AMD radeon card.  By default, the computer runs every program on the lower powered Intel card, I believe this is because its a laptop and it is set to run everything at the best settings for saving battery life, which means running programs on the lower powered graphics card.  However, when I right click on my desktop, there is an option in the pop up menu that says "Configure Switchable Graphics".  After selecting this, it bring me to a menu where I can select any program that I have on the computer, and set it to either run as "Power Saver" or "High Performace".  This is where I have to select which graphics card I want to run a program on.  After swithcing Aces High to the "high performance" option, the Gray Icon problem, as well as the black box's problem, and a few other small graphics issues completely went away.  I was also able to turn on a lot of the Eye Candy settings that I couldn't have on before this.

[Skuzzy]

If the video chip is an Intel video chip, it is a limitation of the Intel video chip.

[RTR]

Driver issues maybe?

just a thought.

RTR

[RicOShay]

The update on my problems is that this particular computer's graphic's card sucks. It has a spare slot for an upgraded card.
Took it in to the local computer shop in town and had a better gaming graphic's card installed but it wouldn't work because the
bios won't recognize the card. So what was the point for providing the spare slot?    IT'S A CONSPIRACY!!
NO!! IT'S WHAT HAPPENS WHEN YOUR OLD LADY ORDERS THE NEW COMPUTER!!

So this computer goes to my son away in college and I ordered a top of the line machine.  
Plan to be back on AH by this coming tuesday. SO YOU ARE ALL HEREBY WARNED!!!