Never had a problem before but...

[Mitch.]

I have never had a problem with FSX up until just lately. It seems I can't get longer than a 5minute flight in without the screen freezing up. I can't even get to the runway before it freezes up.

[dave3cu]

When's the last time you cleaned the GPU heatsink/fan?

Dave

[garymbuska]

I would not think that changing monitor size would not cause the issue you are having unless you do not have a plug and play monitor, which I highly doubt. But for the latest nvida drivers just go to there web site http://www.nvidia.com/Download/index.aspx?lang=en-us
8-)
REMEMBER you have to uninstall the old driver first before updating.
the proper way is to download the update uninstall old driver reboot then install new driver and reboot again. I would strongly suggest that you make a system restore point before you do anything it makes it easier to go back. 8-)

[Daube]

I would not think that changing monitor size would not cause the issue you are having unless you do not have a plug and play monitor, which I highly doubt. But for the latest nvida drivers just go to there web site http://www.nvidia.com/Download/index.aspx?lang=en-us
8-)
REMEMBER you have to uninstall the old driver first before updating.
the proper way is to download the update uninstall old driver reboot then install new driver and reboot again. I would strongly suggest that you make a system restore point before you do anything it makes it easier to go back. 8-)

There *could* be a reason though: a bigger monitor might force him to play with a higher resolution, meaning (MUCH) more effort for the card, thus more heat, thus more instability

[dharris]

I am using winxp pro sp2 . I had this problem as well.

[NickN]

try another driver
The 6600 is an older card too so you may be having some issues with the current driver and the resolution you are trying to run

[Mitch.]

Ok, thanks for the help guys. I just downloaded the lastest drivers.

Could someone explain the exact process to installing the new driver more throughly, it would be much appreciated.

[dharris]

Follow this link from NickN. The guru knows the ins and outs of the pc and software.  http://www.simviation.com/cgi-bin/yabb2/YaBB.pl?action=search2

[NickN]

Ok, thanks for the help guys. I just downloaded the lastest drivers.

Could someone explain the exact process to installing the new driver more throughly, it would be much appreciated.

http://www.simviation.com/cgi-bin/yabb2 ... 0641/30#41

[Mitch.]

Ok thanks again. Now though, FSX automatically shrinks and goes to the desktop, where it says in a little error message "Failed to read from file" and then I can only click OK, FSX then closes. :-/

Anything I can do?