FS2004 crashes straight away..

[Guest petepawn]

A little bit of history first. I got my copy of COF some 7 days ago. I tested it with my system (XP1700+, 512Mb, Radeon 7000...) and was satisfied with a night flight in clear weather. The next day it was a bit cloudy day here and I chose to fly again this time with the realweather. FPS's were 3-5 and depressing.. I understand this was due to my graphic card. Yesterday I decided to throw away more money and acquired a Connect3D Radeon 9600 with 128mb... Well... I couldn't make it work at all before I today updated my BIOS. Then I tested my new card with FS2002 with nice results. I could see more around me with still good FPS. I even installed brand new drivers and gave FS2004 a go. My machine froze at once after having loaded the cockpit.I lowered all the details/settings and tried again. Same result. I got the panel but the world around me was a mess and my computer crashed. Then I installed FS2004 again (as I thought that maybe my new graph card would like it..). A crash again exactly in the same situation...I remember having read somewhere that running a windowed mode could help.. How is it done?Any help would be appreciated.. Even if I enjoy flying on-line with 2002, the new COF would also be nice for the future..Thanks in advancePetteri Pulkkinen

[Ed 0]

Hi,I myself have had lots of crashes and lockups with this program. The only thing I can tell you is delete the fs9.cfg file and let the program build you a new one. To get to windowed mode, when fs9 is up and running hit the "alt and enter" keys at the same time.Ed

[Guest bradley]

To run in windowed mode just press ALT and ENTER to jump between the two.