Where have all my 2D panels gone? Everything was working fine a few days ago, then when I ran FS2004 yesterday all my 2D panels had disappeared. The view out of the window was still there, but no panels, no instruments, nothing. Same for all aircraft, so it's not a single aircraft problem.I then discovered that when I right clicked the mouse button the panel would appear, but then disappear again. I also discovered that if I switch to windowed mode the panels reappear, but not in full screen mode.As far as I'm aware I didn't change anything before this problem occured.Does anyone have any idea what's caused this? I may have run Flight Sim Manager in the interim, but I don't think I changed anything.Any help appreciated.Paul

Happened to me a long time ago. I'll try to remember what it was and how i fixed it. Back tomorrow.Andrew Brownhttp://www.gordiusfs.pwp.blueyonder.co.uk/

Try disabling all antialiasing (the sim and in the properties of your graphics card). If that works then start experimenting with those sttings and see what happens. I think my problem had something to do with AA but as I said before it was quite a while ago. I also have a nagging feeling that it was about the time I updated my drivers so I rolled back to the older drivers and maybe that fixed it.Above is what I think I did here is what I would do now, bit radical so up to you. I would rename my fs9.cfg to something else forcing FS9 to create a new one with default settings which are pretty awful but I think would work. If it won't work on the default settings then I'm stuck.Next I would start changing the settings slowly back to my own preferences. Change a small amount at a time, see if it still works then change something else. If you change something and same problem then you know what caused it. Then I would delete that fs9.cfg and rename my original fs9.cfg back to its correct name (still with me?). Run FS9, find the setting there which you now know was the cause of the problem and change it.From what I know above can do no harm as long as you rename and do not delete you existing fs9.cfg so it is ready to put back if anything does go wrong. If it sounds a bit extreme sorry for that but sounds like your sim needs some pretty extreme attentionREAD THIS!!!!! THESE THINGS ARE WHAT I WOULD TRY BUT HAVE NEVER TRIED BEFORE. LEAVE THIS THREAD FOR A COUPLE OF DAYS TO GIVE SOMEONE A CHANCE TO SAY I AM A COMPLETE IDIOT :-)Andrew Brownhttp://www.gordiusfs.pwp.blueyonder.co.uk/

check if you run fs in 16 bit resolution instead of 32 bit.cheersJP.

>Try disabling all antialiasing (the sim >Andrew BrownThanks, that fixed it. But how did that happen? I've always used anti-aliasing in the past, so why would it suddenly cause that problem? I haven't installed any new graphics drivers recently. I have added a few freeware aircraft, but how could they affect the anti-aliasing? And how can anti-aliasing make the panels disappear?Baffled.Thanks again.Paul

How about Panel_As_Texture= Did you place entry in your FS9 config file? If so, that may cause it as well.

Perhaps the drivers for your graphics card werent dealing with the AA. Try an update of your drivers?Andrew BrownRoaring Thirtieshttp://www.gordiusfs.pwp.blueyonder.co.uk/

>How about Panel_As_Texture= Did you place entry in your FS9>config file? If so, that may cause it as well.That was it! Sorted now. I didn't put it there manually, I'd set the option in Flight Sim Manager then forgotten what I'd done.Thanks for the help, and for all the other suggestions.Paul