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FSX Black Screen in the middle of a VA flight! Help needed!

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Hey,

 

My FSX will not open back up after i Alt+Tabbed out of fsx to check something, and i am in the middle of my longest VA flight to date.

I really need some help with getting it back up and running normally.

 

Any tips?

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It's going to take a lot of persistence but eventually you might get FSX back.  I have a couple of times.  Try going into the Task Manager (ctrl-alt-del) and end some processes or applications you might not need.  I have been successful by shutting down my weather program.  Even so, you're going to have to continue to hit alt-tab until fsx pops up again.  Next time, don't you alt-tab and use alt-enter to go to Windowed Mode, do your thing, then go back to FSX.  (NOTE:  I had this happen on my old i7 2600K system and not my current system.  So far this has not happened on my current system).

 

Best regards,

Jim

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It's going to take a lot of persistence but eventually you might get FSX back.  I have a couple of times.  Try going into the Task Manager (ctrl-alt-del) and end some processes or applications you might not need.  I have been successful by shutting down my weather program.  Even so, you're going to have to continue to hit alt-tab until fsx pops up again.  Next time, don't you alt-tab and use alt-enter to go to Windowed Mode, do your thing, then go back to FSX.  (NOTE:  I had this happen on my old i7 2600K system and not my current system.  So far this has not happened on my current system).

 

Best regards,

Jim

Hey Jim i always thought blackscreen only happen when your system is overheating or some overclock gone wrong . But as i see many simmer reporting the blackscreen issue it might be trigger by something else also . I always thought it might be ENB or overheating system. Soon i said to myself i might need something like this for my rig because of the high temperature in the US Virgin island 

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Getting back to the OP CTD by any chance he might be running ENB ? Or in this case i think it might be overheating since clearly he was on the longest flight ever that might be a reason for an overheating system huh Jim ?

Mr Leny

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