I can hit escape, and view the flight analysis page but when I view anything else it's completely black, and I can't see or do anything beyond that. Has anyone had this happen before? It happened randomly in the middle of a flight.

Try and delete fsx.cfg, open FSX and let it rebuild. If you have tweaks test behaviour after adding each tweak, see if one of them have adverse effects.

HeyDid this solution work? I am fairly new to FSX simming and I was able to remove my FSX.cfg file and have FSX reinstall it. But going through the PMDG menus will still crash my machine. Ive done some searching and I am realizing that this maybe a windows 7 x64 bit <->MSFSX interaction problem.I will try doing this method again and restarting my computer. If anyone else has suggestions on how to deal with sudden black screens in FSX please let me know!

Menu crashes in FSX with W7 is almost always caused by an incompatible uiautomationcore.dll. Put an older version of this file in your fsx folder. You can find more info about it if you search for uiautomationcore.dll

Try this:-Download this file:- Vista UIAutomationCore.dllFrom:-http://www.search-dll.com/dll-files/download/uiautomationcore.dll.htmlMake sure it is this version:-version 6.0.5840.16386..and place it in the root folder of FSX.Sorry, Wims - posted at the same time, I guess. Right answer, though!

Edited December 6, 201015 yr by Paul J