Xilence
September 1st, 2009, 10:56
Hey! Even though this is a tweak sub-forum, people seem to post problems running FSX here as well, so here is my problem :P.
I recently reïnstalled FSX since I had a lot of junk bogging it down and I wasn't sure what I could manually remove.
So, I took the opportunity to update my Quadro 570M drivers as well. Since I have a HP, and HP is late with updating their drivers (they are at 179.72) so I downloaded the latest driver from Nvidia.com.
So after following instructions on the internet for completely removing FSX, and reïnstalling FSX Deluxe afterwards I had no problems. So I installed Acceleration, rebooted, and tried to boot the default flight.
Then the problems started. As soon as I hit "Fly Now" FSX minimalises automatically. The only way I can get the black screen with the loading bar is by alt-tabbing to FSX. Activating in taskmanager makes FSX maximalize and minimalize right after that.
Now, by alt-tabbing I can get into the game and fly around. But when I use any of the options of the in-game menu which involves going to another black screen (options, sound, select aircraft etc...) the screen just turns black. Now the only way of getting it to show is by alt-tabbing to taskmanager and activating, and keep on doing that untill it works and does not minimalise automatically. In the case of selecting a new aircraft I have to make a blind guess where the aircraft I want to fly is, since I can't see any of the thumbnails. I can also only select the aircraft by double-clicking it, and as soon as I click the screen, the thumbnails appear, but nothing reacts anymore.
So I thought this might be caused by the display driver, since hp somehow has it's own thoughts about updating them. So I used Driver Sweeper to rid my pc of the drivers, rebooted, installed the display driver I downloaded from hp.com, rebooted and tried it again.
However.... no luck :(. I don't know what to do next and I don't feel like completely reïnstalling Windows for this stupid bug :(.
Can anyone help me? :O
David
I recently reïnstalled FSX since I had a lot of junk bogging it down and I wasn't sure what I could manually remove.
So, I took the opportunity to update my Quadro 570M drivers as well. Since I have a HP, and HP is late with updating their drivers (they are at 179.72) so I downloaded the latest driver from Nvidia.com.
So after following instructions on the internet for completely removing FSX, and reïnstalling FSX Deluxe afterwards I had no problems. So I installed Acceleration, rebooted, and tried to boot the default flight.
Then the problems started. As soon as I hit "Fly Now" FSX minimalises automatically. The only way I can get the black screen with the loading bar is by alt-tabbing to FSX. Activating in taskmanager makes FSX maximalize and minimalize right after that.
Now, by alt-tabbing I can get into the game and fly around. But when I use any of the options of the in-game menu which involves going to another black screen (options, sound, select aircraft etc...) the screen just turns black. Now the only way of getting it to show is by alt-tabbing to taskmanager and activating, and keep on doing that untill it works and does not minimalise automatically. In the case of selecting a new aircraft I have to make a blind guess where the aircraft I want to fly is, since I can't see any of the thumbnails. I can also only select the aircraft by double-clicking it, and as soon as I click the screen, the thumbnails appear, but nothing reacts anymore.
So I thought this might be caused by the display driver, since hp somehow has it's own thoughts about updating them. So I used Driver Sweeper to rid my pc of the drivers, rebooted, installed the display driver I downloaded from hp.com, rebooted and tried it again.
However.... no luck :(. I don't know what to do next and I don't feel like completely reïnstalling Windows for this stupid bug :(.
Can anyone help me? :O
David