Having had a little time to fly recently I found that as well as the menu to change things ie:aircraft, airport etc takes a long time, (and sometimes won't at all) the sim won't shut down except by Ctrl,Alt,Del and stopping it through task manager. Is there something in the CFG that might be preventing a shut down? or is this a re install :(

Having had a little time to fly recently I found that as well as the menu to change things ie:aircraft, airport etc takes a long time, (and sometimes won't at all) the sim won't shut down except by Ctrl,Alt,Del and stopping it through task manager. Is there something in the CFG that might be preventing a shut down? or is this a re install :(

Have you recently done a video driver change or change any video card settings, ie AA level? If not I would reload your video driver.

Having had a little time to fly recently I found that as well as the menu to change things ie:aircraft, airport etc takes a long time, (and sometimes won't at all) the sim won't shut down except by Ctrl,Alt,Del and stopping it through task manager. Is there something in the CFG that might be preventing a shut down? or is this a re install :(

I think jwenham is right on and it probably is a display driver issue. Just clicking on the menu caused FSX to freeze if the display drivers were not installed properly. Completely uninstall and reinstall the display driver. You might also take a look at your Event Viewer and see if there's any type of error message or issue that occurred when FSX failed to shut down (or froze). Sometimes it will reference a .dll or .exe file that will give you a clue as to what was preventing the shutdown. I would also try returning your FSX settings to the default and see if that fixes the problem. You can go into the settings and click on default or rename your FSX.cfg to FSX.old and restart FSX and let the config rebuild. Best regards,Jim Young

Thanks Guys. First, I've tried resetting the fsx.cfg. Still the menu stuff doesn't work (some parts do) until using Ctrl,Alt,Del so the next thing then is the video driver. It's only FSX there is a prob. FS9 works fine so I would have thought it would affect both sims - no?On to the video driver. I'm using Nvidia Geforce 8600GT (1MB) and driver version 185.85. Any comments on that before I 'tinker'. I've no idea what I'm doing from here on in :(LATER: Fixed it, reset the default settings in the nvidia control panel. Just need to redo some tweaking :( Thanks again for your help :(

Thanks Guys. First, I've tried resetting the fsx.cfg. Still the menu stuff doesn't work (some parts do) until using Ctrl,Alt,Del so the next thing then is the video driver. It's only FSX there is a prob. FS9 works fine so I would have thought it would affect both sims - no?On to the video driver. I'm using Nvidia Geforce 8600GT (1MB) and driver version 185.85. Any comments on that before I 'tinker'. I've no idea what I'm doing from here on in :(LATER: Fixed it, reset the default settings in the nvidia control panel. Just need to redo some tweaking :( Thanks again for your help :(

You might also like to install the latest Nvidia drivers 191.07, I found that they are much better than the 185 series.

I'll DL the drivers now. Thanks.