I have no problems using windowed mode. 

 

Right click on the desktop, select Personalize.  Scroll down and select Windows Classic theme.  When you open FSX, maximize the window.  The only border you'll see is the title bar at the top.  Change the color to very dark blue, and make the text smaller, but not so small you can't click on the minimize/maximize/close buttons.  The title bar isn't very noticeable when doing this.

 

Hook

I have no problems using windowed mode. 

 

Right click on the desktop, select Personalize.  Scroll down and select Windows Classic theme.  When you open FSX, maximize the window.  The only border you'll see is the title bar at the top.  Change the color to very dark blue, and make the text smaller, but not so small you can't click on the minimize/maximize/close buttons.  The title bar isn't very noticeable when doing this.

 

Hook

Will try that. I still prefer the Windows 7 theme for work though. Maybe I'll just switch to classic before every flight  :lol:

 

 

Maybe I'll just switch to classic before every flight

 

That's the way I do it!  I couldn't live with my FSX theme for any other use.

 

Hook

 

 

That's what I was thinking. I have a laptop currently, but it's quite old

 

How old ?

I run FSCommander, ActiveSky Next, and Radar Contact here using an old networked IBM T42 laptop

This is a single core Pentium M 1.8 ghz machine, now that is old, but it copes ok.

I usually have a browser open as well on longer flights.

 

Having all that stuff running on another machine does help.

How old ?

I run FSCommander, ActiveSky Next, and Radar Contact here using an old networked IBM T42 laptop

This is a single core Pentium M 1.8 ghz machine, now that is old, but it copes ok.

I usually have a browser open as well on longer flights.

 

Having all that stuff running on another machine does help.

Um, maybe 10 years, I think? It's an old Sony VAIO, got it from New York waaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaay back ago. 

Try converting to DX10. If you read the DX10Fixer forum, there are many many who no longer have crashes.

 

Regards

Bob

Try converting to DX10. If you read the DX10Fixer forum, there are many many who no longer have crashes.

 

Regards

Bob

I have tried DX10 before. INstead I was getting weird crashes, related to BEX and stackhash. Was never able to fix the problem and I didn't see much improvements in terms of performance so I never really bothered looking into the crashes. Steve's DX10 Fixer looks like it might be able to fix it, but if it doesnt, I dont want to have wasted my money on it. 

Agreeing with suggestions from other posters.

 

1) Buy FSUIPC and it saves the flight every couple of minutes. Even saves the state of the PMDG737 CDU. Very good!

2) Run associated software on another PC via WideFS. Any old laptop or desktop will be fine for undemanding programs.

3) Install AlacrityPC. Works fine with W7. Closes Aero mode and unwanted services automatically then restarts them after FSX exits.

 

Most of my crashes were stackhash ones and after identifying and fixing corrupt aircraft textures in MyTrafficX FSX has been very stable.

i use Fscaptain. and Fsuipc together they save all your flight information so you can restart from where it crashed.

since switching on the autosave in Fsuipc...no more ctd's...spooky

 

   steve

A couple of days ago I flew VHHH - EGLL on vatsim. It's a 12 hour flight and I always fly in full screen mode. Even vatsimmers with little experience knows this can't have a happy ending... I actually managed to fly for about 9 hours with just smaller hitches. Sure, PMDG777 would occassionally disconnect the ap and go into a death spin, sometimes the Heading select meant just a wish, not a command and so on (all problems disappeared shutting down FS Global Real Weather and clearing the weather). Squawkbox 4 froze but only perhaps 6-7 times. So I was pretty content with the situation. Over the Baltic sea (I can see home weeee....) I started preparing for the approach and checking the charts, then wham bam thank you mam I was looking at the windows 7 desktop. I didn't say a word, just finished my cognac shut down the computer and went to bed.

 

A couple of years earlier I would be cursing, banging my head against the cat and do all sorts of unproductive things. Now I am just so used it and realize running in full screen is really just torturing myself. The number of unfinished vs finished flights in FSX on Vatsim is about 15:1. That's why I almost always fly long hauls and Vatsim in fs9! But one day, I will prevail!!!

Agreeing with suggestions from other posters.

 

1) Buy FSUIPC and it saves the flight every couple of minutes. Even saves the state of the PMDG737 CDU. Very good!

2) Run associated software on another PC via WideFS. Any old laptop or desktop will be fine for undemanding programs.

3) Install AlacrityPC. Works fine with W7. Closes Aero mode and unwanted services automatically then restarts them after FSX exits.

 

Most of my crashes were stackhash ones and after identifying and fixing corrupt aircraft textures in MyTrafficX FSX has been very stable.

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I never disable aero under any circumstance, it causes issues with vsync when you don't have it running and (for me) causes a FPS drop. In fact with P3DV2 it must be running...

Thanks for the replies guys. I've found out that XACARS was causing my sim to crash when I switched to windowed mode. I'll keep your suggestions just in case I need them but for now it's all good. Your suggestions might save more keyboard from getting destroyed by me  :lol: