ksan1

Hi fellow flight simmers. Hope someone can help me out here. After switching to a windows 8 computer I started having a problem with fs9 ( the main panel frozen while the virtual panel works fine). When I use the safe mode the problem disappears. I would like to know exactly what the safe mode shuts down so I can try turning things back on one at a time to find out what exactly is causing the problem. The computer safe mode shutting down the startup programs and services routine didn't solve the problem. That's why I would like to know if the fs9 safe mode option in the troubleshooting shutting down section is turning off additional things??? thanks for your help. Ksan

I haven't been back here for a while but I recently posted a question and I noticed a little lock next to my questions. Does this mean no one is able to look at and respond to my question? How do I get the lock removed? Thanks ksan1

Thanks for the input Louis. I just glad it works now. I know several sites where others have had the same problem. ksan1.

I have put up with a very annoying problem for years in which the air traffic controllers stutter a lot while flying ifr. I used to just turn off the sound and used the written instructions. Just recently while preparing to get a new black Friday computer I copied all my fs9 files to a flash drive. I created a new folder on the flash drive called Program Files (x86) then inside that, a Microsoft Games folder , and then just copied the fs9 files into that. Next I renamed the original file ( in the C: drive) fs91 so it would not be used. To start the program I navigate in my flash drive to the fs9 folder, open it and double click on the fs9 application and to my amazement I suddenly got the sound. That tells me the problem was not with the computer, memory, or hardware, but something else conflicting with it. Hope this helps others with this problem. Ksan1

Need help with how to unlock the instrument panel. It is not responding until I undock it but then of course it is running with a windows pane around it. How do I get it to activate in the docked position? ( When I say not responding and locked I mean it appears as usual and I can use the engine controls, add power, take off and fly around but the instruments do not go along with the program. No airspeed, No altitude readouts, No attitude readouts. But when I undock it everything comes to life and the instruments respond as usual. Just installed it on a new HP running Windows 8 with a third generation i3 Pentium with plenty of gigs in memory both ram and disc space. The program runs fine on my old Acer using windows 7. I would appreciate any help or suggestions. Thanks KSAN1