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FSX Full Screen, cant get back in..?

To be fair (and I still seriously dislike Vista), most of the serious problems with it were ironed out with SP1. Turn off Aero, turn off UAC and most things will work fine.

I still find it a gross resource hog, but I am prepared to use it now, which I certainly wasn't pre-SP1.
 
IanP said:
To be fair (and I still seriously dislike Vista), most of the serious problems with it were ironed out with SP1. Turn off Aero, turn off UAC and most things will work fine.

I still find it a gross resource hog, but I am prepared to use it now, which I certainly wasn't pre-SP1.
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Is there places or even software that can optimise VISTA? I know there are heaps for XP. I also remember a heavly modified (hacked) XP going around call XP Lite or something. Never saw it though, just heard.

:kilroy:

Ben
 
There are plenty of sites out there that provide you with information to slim down Vista, but even with everything turned off, it's still a resource hog. I'm sure Ted, or one of the other "system tweaker" types, will be able to give you specific links.

Although I now have Vista64 installed on my main system, I'm also keeping my pre-existing XP32 install on there as well, even though it doesn't recognise or use all my RAM... There's too much that I have which doesn't work, or doesn't work properly, on Vista for me to change completely.
 
Well drats.. Going to windows mode (Alt - Enter) and temporarily doing an adjustment just makes the small screen version turn black as well, lol..

This must be a update issue. Its never happened before..


Bill
 
Speaking of updates, I just got a notification for a Framework 3.5 update of 248MB.

Did you already download this?
Do you think that that might be the problem?
 
I always had that problem with Vista...It always froze or would never open back up properly....So I learned to trick it with task Manager like Bjoern said..It did not always work....

I always thought it was a vid driver issue with vista not agreeing somehow...


This is how I fixed it Bill....Pay attention here....LOL

I never dropped it till my flight was over or I was done..... It was a real pain for tweaking and testing too,having to reload the whole thing time and time again to have a quick look....

But I guess its a XP thang too now......:caked:


I wish I new more..I have seen nothing in any forums for Windows about fixing this with a tip or tweak....:faint:
 
Man, it was wierd yesterday with this issue. Mason, I too had it working now and then with the 'Task Manager/Switch To' button. It would work, and sometimes not.

If I paused the sim, then Alt-Tab out, I could sometimes Alt-Tab back in, but rarely.

If I 'Switched Too' about two to three times, I could get back in, but not every time.

A couple of times, it allowed me to Alt-Tab back in.



I did update my drivers on my vid card the other week, so perhaps this is an issue. Reason I say this, is even though I could Alt-Tab back in, when I Alt-Tab back out again, there would be a huge black area taking up 50% of my screen, and moving program windows around didnt bring the black area back, so I still had to turn off FSX in order to view/modify airplane configs and use Gmax, etc.


Man, I would sure love to tackle this beast that has krept in...

arrghh.. :banghead:



Bill
 
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