I am running Vista 64 Ultimate with a Nvdia Quadro NVS 140m with 4GB of ram. For some reason, flight simulator runs fins until you try to change the view say from cockpit to spot plane or you change the day and time from the menu. Switching between windows will also cause a problem. The problem is that the screen appears to freeze, but it hasn't. As the engine sound still changes and all the file menus work. All I have to do is say click the map from the menu and press cancel then the screen returns to normal. I have installed all updates, Does anyone know a fix?I think it has to do with Hardware Acceleration, when I unchecked it from FS2002 it worked fine, but the graphics were crap. Does anyone else suffer this issue with FS2004?

Right-click on the shortcut for FS2004, choose the Compatibility tab, check "Disable desktop composition". It occurs due to Vista Aero running concurrent to FS2004.Regards,Jim Karn

>Right-click on the shortcut for FS2004, choose the>Compatibility tab, check "Disable desktop composition". It>occurs due to Vista Aero running concurrent to FS2004.>>Regards,>Jim KarnThanks a billion it works great now. I really cant tell you much how I greatly appreciated your help. If we met in person I would buy you a beer. But really thanks very much, integra144

You're very welcome. In all fairness, it's a known issue with Vista's Aero interface and other 3-D programs running at the same time attempting to use the same resources.Regards,Jim Karn