Vic,

You may want to experiment with the Texture Bandwidth setting in FS9.CFG --
I believe 40 is MS default -- I'm at 80, some say 400. I had similar
problems as you (dump to desktop) caused by UTIL.DLL (microsoft library
code) -- this turned out to be the fault of a 3rd party add-on package (in
this case I think it was ActiveSky or FS Environment or possibly Flight1
727) -- check your Modules dir in FS9, you'll see a lot of 3rd party stuff
gets put there, some good, some not so good.

nVidia and ATI drivers are pretty stable for FS2004, they've long ago
covered the "issues"

Motherboard BIOS/Driver update is still a good idea regardless.

Rob.

"Vic Baron" <vgbaron@hotmail.com> wrote in message
news:O4hC8glhFHA.2180@TK2MSFTNGP15.phx.gbl...
>> Now you need to hammer the motherboard manufacturer so that setting is
>> corrected in their BIOS/drivers... This is why I wait a bit before
>> adopting relatively new technology such as PCIex, thanks for finding
>> out the problems for me ;-) Enjoy!
>
> Always happy to be of service!
>
> Vic
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