I was getting some spikes and blue rectangles but they only lasted half a second and were intermittent. But I called Alienware tech support jic. The end result was them sending a certified Dell tech to my house to install a new video card. Before the tech left we fired up FSX and when changing views with the 'A' key, I briefly got a tan screen. But then it seemed to settle down and other than a slight drop in frame rate, was fine. A couple of hours later my Saitek was returned after repair so I hooked it up to check. I started getting the blue/tan/black screens everytime I changed views, as well as lock ups. And when it did work, stutters with very low frame rates. Suspecting the Saitek might not be fixed, I disconnected and tried using just the keyboard. Same result. It has since stabilized slightly allowing some extended flight, but the problems still show up on occasion. There were no changes in any settings or any additions when it was working fine shortly before the tech arrived and since he left. It is exactly the same in the original install and the copy/duplicate install. And I have to run FSX in window mode because full screen frame rate/stutters will not allow flight. Before, I always ran in full screen with frame rates around 30.
I also sometimes get an error message saying the display driver has stopped responding and has recovered, though the lock up continues. Sometimes it will stabilize and allow flight, sometimes not. I also found two identical entries for the video card under Display adapters in Device Manager, identical except one is on PCI buss 10, the other on PCI buss 11. I have no idea which one was the original. I tried disabling one, then the other and both times system reverted to default. It would seem to me that if one was the original which is no longer connected, disabling it should have little or no affect but this was not the case. Any help appreciated.
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