Graphics sets to min in windows due to incompatibility with fsX

[keneRMD 0]

when I start fsX in win 7 .. it sets the theme to min (no aero) ... which reduces alot of the cool things in fsX .. waves .. is there a possible fix for this?

 

thanks

 

kenny

 

AMD FX8320 8 core 4 Ghz

16 Gb patriot ram

SSD 

Nvidia GeForce 750Ti 2 Gb

Win 7 professional

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when I start fsX in win 7 .. it sets the theme to min (no aero) ... which reduces alot of the cool things in fsX .. waves .. is there a possible fix for this?

 

i don't think having aero turned off affects anything with FSX... the waves should still work fine it just depends on what setting you have for water... .

 

it's basically just an incompatibility with aero which was released many years after FSX..

 

p3d works with aero enabled although that is a whole different can of worms

 

cheers

-andy crosby

[PookyMacMan 4]

Sounds like to me that your water effects are too low. It needs to be set to 2.0x or higher to enable the waves.

 

As Andy mentioned the lack of Aero is perfectly normal.

[Slayer 190]

No, disabling aero was due  incompatibilities with Windows Vista. Turning off Aero doesn't need to be done for Windows 7 and it is a known problem of causing vsync not to work. Here's a freeware fix from the maker of the migration tool. It stops FSX from disabling aero and is exactly what you are looking for:

 

http://www.flightsim.ee/freeware/fsx-scheme-fix

 

Enjoy

[PookyMacMan 4]

Nice, Steve, thanks for that! I might just use it myself.

[W2DR 1,859]

Great tip Steve. Thanks. And to think that for all these years I never ran across this fix. Works like a charm.

 

Doug

[keneRMD 0]

thanks steve . muchly appreciated