Very strange happenings here I only recently noticed...first of all, im running WindowsXP Pro on an Intel 3.06 CPU w/512 MB DDR PC3200 and Radeon 9800 Pro/128mb. NO Overclocking of any kind.Im wondering if anyone has encountered this problem and might have some insight as to whats causing it and how they might have fixed it.Its a 2 fold problem that has suddenly cropped up and may be wrong but im assuming that they are both being caused by the same source.1. when i right click in the sim to bring up that little context menu, i can only scroll up & down the menu for a second or 2 before the highlight freezes (stops redrawing). The sim does not freeze at all, in fact i can just left click out of the context menu after it freezes without a problem...but anytime i try to rightclick back to the little menu i get a redraw freeze.2. active camera 2004 version 1.1 causes a black screen whenever i try to enter one of its menus, i can usually escape out of this without a problem. The only way to get some of the ac2004 menus to draw properly is to cycle through all my views a few times first. This was a problem for many in version 1.0 but version 1.1 patch had fixed this a long time ago and this is the first time ive ever had this problem at all.Possibly most important is the fact that BOTH these problems only ocurr in full screen 3d mode...both probs go away if im in windowed mode...keep in mind ive always used full screen before and never had either of these probs.Lastly...i know a video driver glitch seems obvious but ive sort of ruled it out by now since ive uninstalled my card (was originally a radeon 9700 and i tried swapping out to a 9800 pro) and have also tried several different driver sets just in case, nothing helped.Ive noticed alot of little stutteres lately which i dont recall from the past so it seems to be affecting the smoothness of the sim's performance....could it be some sort of fs2004 corrupt file somehow?, ive even tried doing a winxp install/repair option to no avail. It all seems to have started some short time after i installed fs panel studio and edited a few panels...but i dont see how that would cause this, even when i switch to stock panels which i never edited at all.Been struggling for 2 weeks now and im really stumped this time.Any ideas?Dave

This is also certainly driver/DX related. You might try upgrading to the most recent DirectX. 9.0b is available now and 9.0c should be shortly. All menus are extremely fragile anyway in full screen mode because of the way in which DirectX supports (or doesn't support ) Windows GDI calls. Flaky drivers just makes this worse. If you can't find a fix about the only other resort is to find the keyboard equivalent of whatever menu commands you're using and use them.

Hi, thanks but i was already running dx9.0b since its release...i always use latest drivers, besides the fact that i even tried reinstalling dx as well which had no positive effect...im wondering if this may be some sort of registry problem at this point as ive all but exhausted the driver uninstalls/reinstalls. I should probably just bite the bullet and re-format my winxp partition and also do a fresh re-install of fs9...i just dont have alot of time these days to mess around reinstalling the OS and fs9 from scratch again (you know how time consuming that can be).I only wish there were some sort of diagnostic program that could pinpoint my exact problem.Dave