Hi everyone!

 

I have had this problem for a while now (on both my FS9 and FSX actually) but it's really starting to annoy me right now. Whenever I make a flight my FS window mimimizes on it's own and bringing me back to my desktop. And whenever I try to re-enter FS there's just a black screen. For FS to work I have to start up the tast manager and activate it from there to continue my flight. It's not as big of a deal for FSX as I can simply run it with the window unlocked but whenever I run FS9 with the window unlocked my FPS drop drastically for some reason. When I'm running on full screen I'll easily get 60FPS but when I run unlocked screen I never get above 20FPS. I think it has got something to do with the windows uodate from a while back. I'm currently running Windows 7 64bit with the latest updates installed. Can anyone help me fix this problem?

 

Thanks very much!

Are you opening FS9 from the exe file itself? Try running FS9 from a shortcut to the FS9.exe file: you can then specify in the shortcut properties whether to run FS9 in normal (or full screen) mode.

Go to your FS9.exe, right click and select properties. Go to compatability settings and tick boxes for "disable desktop composition" and "disable visual themes"