July 28, 200421 yr Many times when I unlock a secondary window in FS9 and move it to my secondary monitor (on my primary ATI card), I get a rapid flicker of the Mouse pointer. In many of these cases the window does not display the objects, or only partially shows them. Often restarting the computer remedies this problem. I really have not established the pattern. Sometimes it does it and sometimes it does not. For example, I just restarted my computer, moved a secondary window from my default startup plane (Boeing 717) and everything worked fine. I then closed the secondary window and switched aircraft to an IFDG Airbus. When I tried a secondary window with the Airbus, the flicker was there and the window was not filled.I then restarted the computer, moved a window from my default aircraft, then switched aircraft (without closing the secondary window) and everything was still ok. I have not tried this enough yet to know if this is a permanent solution or not.Please note that this happens only with FS9 secondary windows (i.e. spot view, GPS, Radios etc.) Any other windows from secondary programs like SB, VatSim, Servinfo, AVC etc. are totally stable and have no problem.I can also move the secondary windows to my third monitor off of a secondary PCI video card and there is no problem. Unfortunately of course, that card is so slow that such a view is useless for anything like a spot view.My secondary question is relative to the old Jaggies appearing. Here again there seems to be no set pattern. Some aircraft have none. Some seem to have some regardless of what I do. Irony of Irony I have discovered however that when the jaggies are present on some aircraft in the windows mode, I can go to the full screen mode and they are still there. Then back to windows mode and they are totally gone. (I could swear that sometime in the past just the opposite was true - none in full screen and there in windows mode, but I would not want to be hung for it.) My memory may have failed on that point.Obvioulsy, the way the individual aircraft were developed has some influence on whether jaggies are present, and how difficult they are.Is there any video or FS9 setting I have overlooked which might totally cure either one of these issues? I have tried about every combination I can think of.Mr. Monitor, if this should have been in the hardware forum, please forgive me and move it accordingly. It seemed to be a gray area to me as it is unique and specific to FS9Thanks:RTHNOTE EDIT: I may or may not have discovered the problem to the first issue of the flickering mouse pointer on the secondary monitor. I just set the resolution to the same setting (1600x1200x32) on each monitor. First try had no flicker. Time will tell whether that is the problem or not.P4C800 Deluxe MotherboardPentium 4, 3.2G CPU1G PC3200/400 MemoryWinXP ProDirectX9.0cATI Radeon 9800Pro 128MBSecondary Graphics Diamond Stealth III S540 PCI 21
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