Hi, I bought FSX a few months ago and just decided to start playing recently. When playing in free flight (that's all I've tried), no matter what airport I choose, it stops loading on 80% 'Adjusting Scenery Objects'. It doesn't advance past that, and I can't even close the window/game (meaning I have to restart my computer to try again). I have no mods, I've tried verifying the game cache, doing a clean install, and several different airports and planes. I'd like to play the game, can anyone help?
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Lower your slides, especially autogen, shadows, clouds and AI.
It should load then.
Let us know how you do.

To my surprise, I was about to restart and do what you said when I alt-tabbed into game and found myself flying a plane lol. I wasn't really planning on flying so I basically just pressed buttons and was disappointed to find out the plane can't crash lol
You changed from full screen to Windows.
It looks as if that helped, good work!

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