arghh a bug! please help!

stu007 Guest
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Tue Sep 21, 2004 5:17 pm

when im playin fs 2k4 in flight, and pres the alt button to bring up a menu, the game suddenly freezes! Please can anyone help me on how to resolve this.

Thx

Stu 😀

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RadarMan Chief Captain
Joined: Aug 25, 2003 Posts: 17934 Location: U.S.A
Answered
Tue Sep 21, 2004 5:22 pm

Pressing the "ALT" button to bring up the tool bar on the top is supposed to freeze the sim so you can make changes.
After you make the changes and "OK" them you should be able to return to the flight, possibly hit "P" for pause or un-pause.
Is this what you needed?

Radar

stu007 Guest
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Tue Sep 21, 2004 7:00 pm

sorry dude, i knew this its just it locks up completely, but thanks for trying m8, appreciated 🙂

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RadarMan Chief Captain
Joined: Aug 25, 2003 Posts: 17934 Location: U.S.A
Answered
Tue Sep 21, 2004 7:12 pm

What are your computer specs.
Do you have the latest DirectX 9.0c, all the Windows updates, or SP2 Wall Bashing and the latest video card drivers.

Radar

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David (The-GPS-Kid) Captain
Joined: Jul 12, 2004 Posts: 830 Location: Newcastle, England, UK
Answered
Wed Sep 22, 2004 12:36 pm

I've had something like this in the past...... When I pressed ALT, the game would freeze and also the menu bar wasn't displaying.

But this only happened in certain add-on planes...

I got around it by doing a complete uninstall of FS2004 and all add-ons, then deleting the "Flight Simulator 9" folder if it was still there, then shutting down the PC, booting it back up and installing everything again.

This takes me about 1.5 hours to do but I've done it 4 tines now in the last 3 months, and it usually sorted the problem out, plus it seems to give you higher FRAME RATES for a while after, too !

stu007 Guest
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Fri Sep 24, 2004 2:48 pm

Thanks for all your help guys! Appreciated 😀

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