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== Troubleshooting your crash == | == Troubleshooting your crash == | ||
FlightGear crashes are due to a number of reasons, not necessarily to bugs in its code. After all, it works "out of the box" for most users, so if something's broken it's often a system-specific issue, and yet again, it could be a system configuration that the developers couldn't test - [[Volunteer#Pre-Release Testers|you can help with that]]!) | FlightGear crashes are due to a number of reasons, not necessarily to bugs in its code. After all, it works "out of the box" for most users, so if something's broken it's often a system-specific issue, and yet again, it could be a system configuration that the developers couldn't test - [[Volunteer#Pre-Release Testers|you can help with that]]!) | ||
It's just as well possible that the FlightGear default settings are not supported with your hardware/drivers. Since version 2.6, FlightGear will assume support for certain features that hardware older than 4-5 years might not give (especially graphics cards), so the default settings need to be customized to disable all unsupported features. See [[Troubleshooting performance issues]], [[Problematic Video Cards]] and [[FlightGear Hardware Recommendations]] for more details. | It's just as well possible that the FlightGear default settings are not supported with your hardware/drivers. Since version 2.6, FlightGear will assume support for certain features that hardware older than 4-5 years might not give (especially graphics cards), so the default settings need to be customized to disable all unsupported features. See [[Troubleshooting performance issues]], [[Problematic Video Cards]] and [[FlightGear Hardware Recommendations]] for more details. | ||
=== Preliminary check === | |||
Make sure you've got the newest driver for your video card installed and running without errors. A suggestion for a thorough updating procedure can be found at [[Graphics drivers configuration]]. '''Before proceeding any further, please make sure that you are actually able to run other OpenGL-based software/simulators/games, unrelated to FlightGear!''' | |||
=== The standard procedure === | === The standard procedure === | ||