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Graham King
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Blank screen in FS9

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On my new computer running Vista 64 I have a problem with the spot plane view, which is what I use most for looking at my paints. If I switch the time from day to night, to check the nightmaps, I get a blank screen. One way is to fix this is to go to the aircraft selection screen, NOT change the aircraft and it then appears. The blank screen also happens with other things and I can the aircraft to reappear by going to the view menu but not changing from spot view.

I also have FSX installed in a different folder on the same partition. I have installed the lastest video drivers, EVGA Nividia 9800 GT+, and FS9 SP1. Anybody have any thoughts before I uninstall and re-install?
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Post by Firebird »

It does sound to me like a bug in the latest drivers for your card. Try using the oldest vista version driver available for that card and seeing if the problem exists back them.
If it does then you will have to try switching some of the graphics variables, using something like nHancer. I know that I had to do some frigging around under XP to get rid of the jaggies due to the default FS9 driver settings.
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Post by campbeme »

Hey Graham,

I too run Vista 64bit. I get a black screen regulary with FS9 usually when I first run the game. On my set up I just minimize the screen then open it again. This seems to solve it for the rest of my session.

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Post by BadPvtDan »

Graham I have the same issue. I just click on select aircraft, then cancel it...and everything pops back in. I never found a reason for it or a fix. I don't think I have seen the same problem in FSX.
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Post by eli »

I am running FSX with Vista 64. I just experienced a black screen a few minutes ago while flying. I had just purchased and installed La Guardia airport from IMAGINE SIM. I thought the black screen had something to do with the new scenery install. I had to shut off power and re-boot.

Since others are having black screen problems maybe it's something else?
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Post by Graham King »

OK, thanks for that. It will save me un-installing and re-installing FS9. I like the minimze trick.
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Post by Graham King »

As an update I had to reformat the hard disk and reinstall everything, a problem with codecs. Since then I now have no problems with FS9, no blank screens. What has changed I have no idea, I just thought I would comment it is possible.
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Post by msm8378 »

I run Vista 64 Home Premium as well. I have been doing a lot of "trial and error" education on Vista here lately and have found that when installing software I avoid a lot of headaches by running a registry cleaner/repair program and disk defrag program after the initial software install. I use the two free programs described above from www.auslogics.com

If you have ever operated Windows NT before, you will probably remember how "touchy" the registry could be. Vista 64 is the same, but we have a lot of good programs out to keep it healthy now.

Hope this helps. Since I started really watching the condition of the registry, all of my new installs have been going a lot smoother... :P

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Post by N35W »

Forgive me, but I'm not even close to Vista in OS's, But in the old school way, stuff like this was most of the time connected to renegade apps shifting around the Directx files. Try reinstalling your current Directx drivers or getting the latest Directx version for Vista.

Try that for style. :)
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