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Heads up Vista FSX flyers – Vista multiple monitor fix now available!

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There has been a known issue with Vista and multiple monitors, where trying to go full-screen with any application did not work. A black or flickering screen was the result. Fortunately running windowed was no problem.

Customers who called in were sent to the KB page here.

Now there is a fix available here. And the KB page has been updated to reflect that.

Just to clarify, this is a Windows Vista OS fix, not an FSX fix and not related in any way to SP1 for FSX.

Edit: Here is the link for 64-bit Vista.

Comments

  • Anonymous
    April 26, 2007
    Thanks Phil, With this KB finally i use all FSX potential with my multimonitor setup.... :) Thanks Fabio

  • Anonymous
    April 27, 2007
    Ah, glad to see this... thanks Phil.  I was expecting this fix in SP1 but I didn't realize it was Vista related.  I had actually been working around it by hitting Ctrl-Alt-Del and then hitting Cancel after the screen starts flashing. ^_^

  • Anonymous
    April 28, 2007
    Thanks for the heads up, it was really annoying to have to switch in and out of full screen mode to get it to work. Looking forward to SP1...

  • Anonymous
    April 30, 2007
    Interestingly enough, that fix does NOT work for FS2004. I still have flickering screens when going to fullscreen on two monitors. Wonder if this is the same issue, though. The screens seem to "alternate", like left right left right left... and so on...

  • Anonymous
    May 02, 2007
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  • Anonymous
    May 09, 2007
    So, I can't tell if this happened before or after the hotfix was applied (worked great, BTW and a huge relief) but my cursor is black which makes it hard/impossible to find when it's outside an active window. This may not be related to the hotfix, but really needs to be fixed. Nvidia GeForce 7600 GS, DirectX 10, Processor: Intel(R) Pentium(R) 4 CPU 3.20GHz (2 CPUs), ~3.2GHz Actually, the HyperThread issue brings up something else I noticed. FsX only binds to one thread - that one is flat-out 100% utilized whilst my other is idling along. Is this a perfmeter error or is FsX only using half capacity? Surely it's a multi-threaded app?! Task Manager screenshot: http://s3.amazonaws.com/kuyper-pictures/CPU-util.jpg

  • Anonymous
    July 08, 2007
    my cursor was black too - could not see it on dark backgrounds. I went and changed the settings in mouse pointers under personalization (in vista). I hope this helps.