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Anyone have the experience of flying in either Windows or the full screen mode and all of a sudden the menu bar and its pull downs or the right click choice menu gets garbled ... either the text disappears or appears to be a smudge.

When it happens I can recover by changing from windows to full screen and back.

I have 2 MB of memory, 2.9 Ghz processor, and a ATI Radeon HD 2400 PCI graphics card (yup I have only a PCI slot).
 
Let me add one more item to the original post.

I also notice parts of the my instrument panel will loose resolution also. The instruments stay sharp but panel areas in between, or knobs, etc get a tad blurry.
 
That sounds like a problem with vram saturation. The sim is sending more data to the video card than it is capable of handling, so bits are falling into oblivion.

There are only two choices. Either reduce the load (by lowering some settings in the sim, or upgrade the computer and video card.
 
What are your addons…

Just so happens I’m experimenting with hooking external dialogues onto FS, and in full screen mode it’s giving me a @#^! headache.
It smears the display and the windows don’t come and go like they should in windows.

So perhaps it’s the same thing…

Apps like windows, and a pretty habit to get into is to shut down FS as a window so that it starts as a window… perhaps that will help?

If you getting smears but the plane and AI is still smooth… my guess, a problem addon ;)

Gauges are also addons, but should be less prone to this sort of thing, but then a gauge that plays music and makes your tea and coffee may be pushing the envelope ;)

What have you just added to FS?

So really weird stuff can happen, I had a thermal file that turned my compass upside down, no kidding, took me forever to figure out what it was, just one file, literally made the compass point the wrong way ;)

Maybe!
 
No add ons other than some payware aircraft. My video card only has 256mb.

Maybe my graphics and scenery settings. But there are so many options that is would be hard to find the correct set of settings.

Maybe I'll make everything minimal and work my way up the totem pole until I have a problem.
 
clueless_joe said:
No add ons other than some payware aircraft. My video card only has 256mb.
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That is the problem then. Your video card is being oversaturated with data and simply cannot keep up. The only mitigation possible is to throttle back the data stream to a manageable level.
 
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