Vista - Flight Simulator 2004 freezing

I am having some problems with my FS2004. I will be able to fly for sometime
and then "ALL" of Vista will just lock up. It only happens with this game. I
have 3 GB ram and a ATI Radeon 9600 pro but this always worked good in
winXP. Does anyone have any suggestions on how to make it not freeze
up??

I dont have any addon scenery installed and i have tried deleting my
fs9.cfg.

Hi Mate

I had -exactly- the same problem! Do you run the simulator in full
screen mode or in window mode?

Because I found that running it in full screen mode stopped it from
freezing so much...

Of course, if you're like me and like your multiple monitors for flight
simulator, that's going to be a right pain in the bum, because full
screen mode won't support the multiple monitors...

So, if you don't use multiple monitors, just run it in full screen
mode, otherwise, just run it on XP, as I now do...

Hope that helps!


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jclish
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I had this problem until I found out that if you disable Vista Aero, it will
run in all windows modes with no freezing.
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Paul


"jclish" wrote:

Also if you right click on the short cut for Flight Simulator and select the
compatibility tab and check "Disable desk top composition" Vista aero will be
disabled while in Flight simulator and reenabled when you exit.
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Paul


"unknown" wrote:

=?Utf-8?B?UGF1bEI=?= <PaulB@xxxxxx> wrote in
news:7868C269-61B5-4C7C-A0CC-0B02A377408F@xxxxxx:
I think you also want Disable Visual Themes to make sure Windows switches
to Vista Basic Aero. Desktop Composition basically changes your desktop
into a video player for various effects (DreamScene) So disable both, just
in case.


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-A.

Changing to Vista Basic from Windows Vista Aero fixed all the strange FS2004 problems in Window view. I didn't have to play with Themes at all. Thanks, Paul.

For others like me who are new to Vista, to switch from Windows (Vista) Aero to Vista Basic go to Control Panel>Personalization>Windows Color and Appearance>Open Classic Appearance Properties for More Color Options, then select Windows Vista Basic instead of Windows Aero. I usually change back to Windows Aero after each session.

I couldn't figure out what "right click on the short cut for Flight Simulator" meant. I tried right clicking on the FS9.exe icon and on a shortcut for that icon and could find no compatibility tab.

Paul, to which Flight Simulator icon (or shortcut to it) are you referring? The FS9.exe icon in the Programs (x86) folder? If not the primary FS9.exe icon, in what folder, control panel or program do I find the icon to which you refer?

There should be an icon in Start/Programs/Microsoft Games/Flight Simulator
2004. Right-click on this shortcut and choose properties then the
compatibility tab to finds the option that you are looking for...

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Best Regards
Katy Pluta

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