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FS2004 Gauge in window causes problems when closing

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ireland
Hi,

I cannot remember this happening until recently.

I press a hot-spot on the screen to display a new window (radio, ATC, GPS or whatever). It comes up just grand.

I press again to close that window and there is a flash in the cockpit, the display of the cockpit appears to jump (not a high jump now, just a mini-jump!), an extra, slightly faint image of the instrument panel itself appears up on the windscreen squashed up, the window in question closes and then all is well.

It is very off-putting! It makes flights very unrealistic.

I have been using a very much modded C172 cockpit and had blamed something that I had done within that aircraft to cause this phenomenon. I lost patience today and re-installed the original MS Beech Baron to test that aircraft, just to find it happens there too. Phew, problem not caused by what I have done to the C172 anyway - relief!

Within the last while, I have upgraded to Win 10, I have a new-ish hand-me-down replacement computer and I have also installed a new-ish hand-me-down replacement video-card.

It may well be one of these changes, or a combination of them, that is giving me grief.

I certainly cannot remember seeing it before the changes - I would not have been able to put up with the effect.

Has anyone seen this before?

I would really appreciate some help in solving this problem.

My current configuration is:

Windows 10 Home (x64) Version 1607 (build 14393.576)
3.40 gigahertz Intel Core i5-3570K
8GB Megabytes Memory
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970 Video Card, 4GB Memory, Driver 376.33
DELL E190S Monitor

I am using FS9.1.

I also have FSX-SE and it doesn't happen in that sim.

Thanks

Walter
 

Heretic

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Have you tried running the sim in windowed mode and see if it happens there?
 
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ireland
Hi Heretic,

I have always used full-screen, so I just tried windowed there now.

No jumps, flashes, faint images or anything.

Everything works the way it used to in full-screen.

Please tell me now that you have an instant solution to my problem :), that doesn't involve me using windowed mode.

Thanks

Walter
 

Heretic

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I wish I had, but I don't.
Since switching to Windows 10, I wasn't able to use full screen in FSX(SE) as the menus will not draw. My workaround ever since has been BorderlessGaming, which will resize the window of an application to get rid of the frame to basically emulate full screen. An advantage of using windowed mode is that it will get rid of the annoying ALT+TAB problem, which prevented FSX from instantly maximizing after having been minimized.
https://github.com/Codeusa/Borderless-Gaming/releases/tag/8.4
 

tgibson

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In Settings/Display/Hardware, try changing the setting Render to Texture. You can also try changing the other choices there as well.

Also, try right clicking the FS9 icon/program and choose Properties/Compatibility/Disable Desktop Composition. You can also try the other Compatibility choices there.
 
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258
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ireland
Hi,

thanks for the advice.

I have the setting Render to Texture already set. Unset it and the sim crashed :-(

I played about with most of the other settings in Settings/Display/Hardware but to no avail.

I changed the compatibility of fs9.exe to XP Service Pack3, then Win 7 and then Win 8, causing black screens when loading in some cases but not helping the gauge window problem at all.

I downloaded the Borderless Gaming program but cannot master it at all - it seems to have no effect on FS2004, as far as I have managed to test. I will continue experimenting with it.

Thanks

Walter
 
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ireland
Sorry, I meant to say that the Disable Desktop Composition option didn't seem to be available.

Walter
 
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