Hello, I have a dell laptop, 4GB ram, dual core processor, running Vista Home 64 bit. I installed flight simulator 2004, and it works fine, but when I get to a flight, some things happen. When I start, I am in the plane, everything looks good. However, when I go to change the view, to either spot, virtual, anything, I hear the view sound change, but I am still in the cockpit. For instance if I am in the cockpit, and hit change to spot plane view, I will hear the pllane engines from the outside, the same sound you get in spot, view, but it is still in cockpit view. For some reason the screen wont change to match the sound. #####?? What is this?

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What kind of video card does your laptop have? What framerates are you getting while in the cockpit before you try to change views? Does the sim run normally outside of not being able to change views?

Hello, I have a dell laptop, 4GB ram, dual core processor, running Vista Home 64 bit. I installed flight simulator 2004, and it works fine, but when I get to a flight, some things happen. When I start, I am in the plane, everything looks good. However, when I go to change the view, to either spot, virtual, anything, I hear the view sound change, but I am still in the cockpit. For instance if I am in the cockpit, and hit change to spot plane view, I will hear the pllane engines from the outside, the same sound you get in spot, view, but it is still in cockpit view. For some reason the screen wont change to match the sound. #####?? What is this?

FS9 was developed for use under WindowsXP. Most add-ons for it were designed for use under that OS as well. Some have gotten FS9 to work under Vista 32bit but I haven't heard many using it under Vista 64bit (they are out there though). The bottom line is unless you know what your doing you'll have problem using software on OS's not outlined on the box but it's not impossible.

Thats weird, before this I had windows 7 on here, 64 bit, and it ran just fine. Weird. IDK the video card but it has like 1.5 GB on it

Did youve tried windowed mode?

There is two ways to find out what graphics adapter you are using, run DxDiag (64 bit systems have 2 versions of DxDiag) or download Belarc Advisor and run it. Both will tell you which graphics adapter you are using.I run FS9 on Vista Home Premium 64 bit with no problems.