May 24, 201115 yr I built a new machine with windows 7 64 bit and everything works on FS2004 except my Citation X version 1. The graphics crashes and the screen goes black. Anyone have an idea of the issue?
May 27, 201115 yr A week or so ago I put a work around here for this problem. EagleSoft says that the v1 is suppose to work OK on windows 7 (64 bit), BUT, a lot of people like you and I say otherwise. As far as I know, no one has really found the reason for our problem, screen going black and computer hangs up. I had a special problem as I fly with 4 monitors, not just one. I just finished a 1 1/2 hour flight with the v1 Cessna Citation X and it did "go black and lock up" once when I clicked on a certain gauge to fly a GPS trackline. No problem tho as I use that "save flight" feature in FSUIPC and RD4 also has a way to "restart a flight". I'm going to paste the work around below. It really does work pretty good. Your using just one monitor, you might have to change things up a bit but you will just have to play with it. I have two differant ways to show how to get to the active runway while using RC4 (the default ATC is NOT one of them). One of them works with the work around and the other one does not. I relly love this aircraft and I was determined not to give it up. Keep trying, you will find away to make it work for you. jerrycwo4WORK AROUND:For reasons unknown I can NOT log into the Eaglesoft Forum so I'll have to reply here. The Eaglesoft X (v1) is the ONLY aircraft I have in both FS2004 and FSX that does NOT fly satisfactory. It hangs UP BAD on my Windows 7 , 64 bit computer. Too bad this is one of my favorite aircraft, but I have figgured out a so, so work around that works most of the time. I hate "work arounds" but sometimes you have to use them.I have an elabrate flight sim system that uses 4 monitors: 3 - 26" monitors for the flight system and a 17" monitor for my GPS. To make the Eaglesoft X fly fairly well( most of the time) I had to pull my Garman 500 GPS onto the 17" monitor and open the "throttle" window ( ctrl/5) and make it smaller and drag it to the bottom of the VC cockpit window. Of course this took at least 15 trys and restarts of Fs2004 to get this done because of lockups. When I got these two things like I wanted them, I SAVED the flight and now when I selct this "flight" these two windows are where I want them at the start of the flight. Once you start flying you can NOT randomly start clicking on differant windows, etc like "CTRL/4 " or you will lockup.Of course the Citation X will freeze and lock up if I try to start RC4 (Radar Contact 4) with the Citation X up and running so I have to select the Cessna 182 aircraft, bring RC4 up, set and start my flight then I can start the Citation X up and select an airport that has good features to line up my right and left hand monitors for the correct views on my 3 monitors, then I select the flight that I want to make in the default Flight Planner and everytings works fairly well. Sometimes when openning a window for the radio or to turn on the landing lights, the computer will lock up again and I have to start the whole thing over, but most of the time I can make the complete flight OK. It's a lot of "messing around" but that's what it takes for me to fly the Eaglesoft Citation X (v1). About a year ago I bought the version 2 of this aircraft but found it too complication to be enjoyable for me. jerrycwo4
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