Hi all,I am experiencing a very strange crash on my pc when loading FS9. This problem is not related to the FS9.1 update, and I have had this happen to me maybe 7 or 8 times in the last two months, at random.My default aircraft is the 737-800 so when starting FS9 you see the rotating 737 and the Airac databases loading up. However, in the crash scenario, rather than seeing the 737 you see a mass of weird shapes and textures where the 737 should be. After a few seconds the monitor goes black and stops responding.Rather than the PC or FS9 crashing, it appears the monitor stops working and becomes a blackscreen, and even a CTRL-ALT-DEL wont recover the PC and I am left to reset the computer because of monitor failure.Has anyone experienced this problem before or is it a graphics card / monitor / driver issue.Many thanks in advance.Armen at EGLLP4 3.2C at 3.6Ghz, 1 gig RAM, OCed Radeon 9800pro, cat 4.8, XPSP2www.veryquiet.com

Did you save this default load before updating to the v9.1 update?Try using a regular FS9 aircraft as the default and see what happens.

Armen,It seems to me that you have quite a bit of overclocked things ticking in your system.. I am not much of an overclocker, but a O/C'd CPU and GPU, plus XPSP2 grows a very large purple cloud in my mind about "strange crash"es. FS and MS applications in general produce strange crashes even on a full normal system. Try resetting those for once..Just my 2 cents..Cheers,

I agree with Balint, I'll bet it is an overclock issue. The only other possibility I can think of is a vid card driver issue. I have done a lot of overclocking in my day and I have seen the same problem you describe on occasion and have to lower the overclock to get rid of the problem. I wish you luck in getting things back in order!Philip OlsonI'm the luckiest man in the world, my girl friend has a yoke and rudder pedals! Eat your hearts out!http://www.precisionmanuals.com/images/forum/supporter.jpg

Yep, indeed sounds like a O/C problem - had the same kind of crasches myself when O/C'ing too high...