Strange thing just started happening. I'm on the runway sitting behind the 2d cockpit in the C172.Everything looks fine. The runway is directly out the window to the front. I check the MAP to get a VOR heading to fly to. Coming back from the map,the 2d panel is visible and ok,but the view out the window is totally black. Switching to the "spot view" shows ok,but there is a black square over the tail that is flashing. The only way to cure this I have found is a restart of FSX.

Happens with ALL aircraft.....

I have no new add-ons. Running Rex Ess;UTX;GEX;

any help would be grateful.

Skip D

Map view is extremely resource intensive.  You have to open and close it with caution and, if you use another monitor and pull the map to the other monitor, it will crash your system when you click on it. I do not know of any fix other than to get one of those programs where the map is sent to your SmartPhone or IPad.  I'll send this to the FSX Forum and see if the experts there have any suggestions.

 

Best regards,

OK...Thanks Jim.

the funny thing about it....it just recently started,and I've been doing this the same way since owning FSX,going on from 2008.

Forgot to enter I'm running Win 7 64

I think I've solved it.....at least temp.bypass.

I'm exiting the MAP by using the "Cancel" button instead of the "OK" button.

Seems to work just fine.