Hi chaps (and chapesses too I hope). I am experiencing the strangest behaviour, and I'm reluctant to say it's a "bug" 'cos no-one else has reported anything like this: I'll be flying along nice and happily then suddenly the dust-cover or what ever you call it on the base of the throttles acts as if someone's just hooked it on a fishing line, and it stretches out across the cockpit, through the fuselage and off into the distance (see screenshots). When this happens, everything in the cockpit goes crazy. The air-conditioning, fuel and hydraulics fail. N1 and FF just continually swing between zero and maximum, and there is a continuous alarm that I've never heard except under these circumstances. On one occasion the stretched throttle lever cover did slowly shrink back to normal, then everything was OK, but this was only once. These symptoms ocurr about one flight in six or so. The aircraft has been completely re-installed, and all hot-fixes are on. System is Asus P5E3 Premium M/B; Intel Quad Core @ 2.66MHz; 4Gb Corsair DDR3 RAM; ATI Radeon HD 4870 X2 graphics, under Windows 7 64b. Any reasonable suggestions would be welcome. Kevin O'Connell

Well your are correct that is weird. I can't say I have seen this occur so I am afraid I am unable to help. If you do get to the bottom of that however I would like to know the cause. Good luck and regards

I had something similar happen with the weird lines and it turned out my graphics card, which is the same as yours, was getting way too hot.

Sweet. This is nothing compared to how my FSX looked like the past months (before the NGX, I should say). You only have those two stripes there, I had regular huge 3D "structures", spikes and the like. In the scenery, the landscape, the sky, but worst of all in the VC. Big 3D planes that obscured the whole view and made flying totally impossible. Textures got fancy colors. The sky lost all its smoothing and turned black sometimes. The problems also started to occur under W7. The task bar popups would flicker like mad when hovering over with the mouse. Stripes and fancy colors everywhere. Replacing the good old video card sure enough did the trick.

Hi chaps (and chapesses too I hope). I am experiencing the strangest behaviour, and I'm reluctant to say it's a "bug" 'cos no-one else has reported anything like this: I'll be flying along nice and happily then suddenly the dust-cover or what ever you call it on the base of the throttles acts as if someone's just hooked it on a fishing line, and it stretches out across the cockpit, through the fuselage and off into the distance (see screenshots). When this happens, everything in the cockpit goes crazy. The air-conditioning, fuel and hydraulics fail. N1 and FF just continually swing between zero and maximum, and there is a continuous alarm that I've never heard except under these circumstances. On one occasion the stretched throttle lever cover did slowly shrink back to normal, then everything was OK, but this was only once. These symptoms ocurr about one flight in six or so. The aircraft has been completely re-installed, and all hot-fixes are on. System is Asus P5E3 Premium M/B; Intel Quad Core @ 2.66MHz; 4Gb Corsair DDR3 RAM; ATI Radeon HD 4870 X2 graphics, under Windows 7 64b. Any reasonable suggestions would be welcome. Kevin O'Connell

Kevin,Not just the same effect but comparable. I've had strange lines following from the horizon my path. This happened when I got in trouble with my total memory use. Try to use MS Process Explorer in order to find out the remaining reserves of your system (max. use is 4 GB including your video memory).

Thank you gentlemen. I must admit that I've never really liked the idea of an ATI card; the consensus of opinion seems to be that Nvidia works best with FSX.Ah well, that solves the problem of what my wife can buy me for Christmas then. Kevin O'Connell

Kevin,Make sure you tell your wife that christmas now falls on October 1st.

Tried that Julian; she just reminded me that her birthday is on October 22nd. Kevin OConnell