Flight Simulator X and Vista Home Premium

[Gus Petrogiannis 824838]

Hi folks,

 

I recently upgraded my computer and I am running Vista Home Premium, which seems to dislike FS 2004 and FS X. Here are the problems:

 

FS 2004 will load FINE, however once you get into the cockpit if you pan left or right or change views the screen freezes and stays the same, the picture won't change.

 

FS X on the other hand will make it to the Free Flight screen, when I go into start flight it will load halfway and then it will stop responding.

 

I am running Service Pack 1 and 2 for FSX. My system specs are as follows:

 

Vista Home Premium

3.5 GB RAM

AMD Athlon Processor 6000+ 3.01 Ghz

Nvidia GeoForce 8600 GT Graphics Card

 

 

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As an old school flight simulator from the days of FS98... I'm sure there are others out there who can share my frustration, it seems that every time a new version is released there are nothing but problems. Hopefully someone else out there has experienced the same situation and knows the fix!

 

Thanks.

 

-Gus

[Gus Petrogiannis 824838]

Problem signature

Problem Event Name: APPCRASH

Application Name: fsx.exe

Application Version: 10.0.60905.0

Application Timestamp: 44fd0a92

Fault Module Name: g2d.dll

Fault Module Version: 10.0.60905.0

Fault Module Timestamp: 44fd0f33

Exception Code: c0000005

Exception Offset: 0003ea8c

OS Version: 6.0.6000.2.0.0.768.3

Locale ID: 1033

Additional Information 1: 00d8

Additional Information 2: 6ae91a22e11c7697e9b8ae6a8cd52c9f

Additional Information 3: d811

Additional Information 4: b4d34ab97dcbf06c3ece802b1d42087b

 

Extra information about the problem

Bucket ID: 338568362

[Kyle Steever 810905]

Gus,

 

I need the following before rendering [Mod - Happy Thoughts]istance:

Version of your graphics drivers

Is your windows vista completely updated (you can find out if you have them by going to windows updates)?

Do you have Vista SP1 installed? (Right click My computer---> Properties and it will be right there)

Are you running FS9.1 or 9.0?

[Steve Jones 971079]

I am having the same problem as well. I am running Vista Home Premium SP1, FS9.1, an ATI Radeon 1200 driver version 8.393.0.0 dated 7/13/07.

[Kyle Steever 810905]

Steve and gus,

 

When switching views, doubletap escape as fast as you can. See if that gets the screen moving again. You should only have to do it right after you switch the view. Let me know if this works and we can go from there...

(Edit) I had what sounds like the same problem as you guys. It's a driver issue with FS/your Card/Vista. I think if you turn off the Aero Interface for Vista it may correct the problem too, but it will take away all the "eye candy" for vista. I preferred the double tap escape method. You shouldn't be flipping views at critical times anyway (like on the flare).

Kyle

Edited July 29, 2008 at 10:05 PM by Guest

[Steve Jones 971079]

Thanks Kyle, I'll give it a try once I re-install FS again.

[Kyle Steever 810905]

At one time I did have FS configured to work, but new drivers came out and I had to go back to doing what I described in my earlier post with double tapping escape. Not much else you an do with Vista and FS9 since it's an older program.