Guys,I searched but did not find the problem I am having. I just bought and downloaded FSX yesterday. When I start up FSX the everything looks great. You can change the options and anything you want. BUT when go to fly the screen flashes a few times then a black screen comes up on the left hand portion of the desktop. The program does not crash. The sound comes through ok but nothing else.Here's my specs:System Information------------------Time of this report: 2/8/2012, 08:09:27 Machine name: PETESPC Operating System: Windows 7 Home Premium 64-bit (6.1, Build 7601) Service Pack 1 (7601.win7sp1_gdr.110622-1506) Language: English (Regional Setting: English)System Manufacturer: System manufacturer System Model: System Product Name BIOS: BIOS Date: 03/31/09 11:23:08 Ver: 08.00.15 Processor: AMD Phenom II X3 720 Processor (3 CPUs), ~2.8GHz Memory: 4096MB RAMAvailable OS Memory: 3840MB RAM Page File: 2339MB used, 5336MB available Windows Dir: C:\Windows DirectX Version: DirectX 11DX Setup Parameters: Not found User DPI Setting: Using System DPI System DPI Setting: 96 DPI (100 percent) DWM DPI Scaling: Disabled DxDiag Version: 6.01.7601.17514 32bit Unicode Any ideas?Thanks!!

Have you rebuilt your shader cache?

I having kind of the same issue here only on win7 32; My specs. are not great for running FSX, I jsut installed and run Alacrity together with Paul J a few days ago and that has helped enourmously.(20 FPS)! Thank you Paul! :( ... But I get the screen splits in to two halves, one black and the other white depending on what command I've given the sim to do

All is OK. I tweaked the graphic options and everything looks great.Thanks!

HI Pete, I'm not computer literate...Would be nice if you posted what you did in details; pleaseBerlopez

I continue to have this partila blaxk screen, it covers half the screen whne I go and use the menus,thne they load and I can continue with what I'm doing be it changinf planes, getting weather etc...