Greetings,This was a problem in my old system but I thought with all the new power, it might go away...When I use dual monitors and have flight sim in Windows Mode on the primary monitor, and I do ANYTHING on the secondary monitor, for kicks let's just say AIM, while active window is off flight sim, the graphics in flight sim go to pot. It doesn't pause (I tweaked that) but it looks awful. As soon as I click back in FS, it clears right up.TIA for any advice!Fly Happy, Fly Safe!Ted "Shureflight" ShureAAL333 - Assistant Hub Manager - KBOSAmerican Virtual Airlineswww.flyava.orghttp://ftp.appcenter.net/Shureflight/Pics/AmericanFlagAA.jpgGod Bless America!Proverbs 3:5,6Dell P4 3.06 GHz/5331 GB PC1066 RDRAMRadeon 9700 Pro (128)Dell 19" UltraSharp Flat Panel Monitor-Primary Dell 21" Trinitron-SecondaryWD 120 GB 7200 rpm 8 MB databurst cache &Maxtor DiamondMax 60 GB4X DVD WriterTurtle Beach Santa Cruz Digital with Altec Lansing 995 5.1 THX DigitalWindows XP Pro, (SP1 and DirectX 8.1 Preloaded by Dell)CH Flight Sim Yoke USB CH Pro Pedals USB

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I looked at your post but felt that is probably the way it reacts since you moved the focus to the other monitor and to another task. I am assuming you have the "Pause on task switch" deselected so FS can continue to calculate but not display properly.I have the same instance when I use the flight dynamics tools. I have FS in a 3/4 screen window with the flight dynamics tools on the left side of the screen. As soon as I focus on the flight dynamics tools to change properties, the graphics of FS, especially out the window look really bad.