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FSFlyingSchool First Officer
 
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After loading FSX I minimize it so I can start FFS and connect it. Then when I bring back FSX it take very long time before it appears on the screen (minutes). In the taskmanager I see FSX taking 99% of the CPU resources. Does it really had to be like this? I had turned off background tasks.
My system
AMD 64 4000+ 2 Gb RAM 7950GT AGP 512M DDR3 WD raptor 150 Gb Win XP Home FSX SP1 FFS 2.0
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FSFlyingSchool Training Captain
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jfri (12/23/2008)
After loading FSX I minimize it so I can start FFS and connect it. Then when I bring back FSX it take very long time before it appears on the screen (minutes). In the taskmanager I see FSX taking 99% of the CPU resources. Does it really had to be like this? I had turned off background tasks.
My system
AMD 64 4000+ 2 Gb RAM 7950GT AGP 512M DDR3 WD raptor 150 Gb Win XP Home FSX SP1 FFS 2.0Well I really cannot say why it takes so long. Your system is not a state of the art FSX system, but you should be able to run it. I would suggest that you run FSX in a window - maximazed window, instead of full screen. Then put an icon of FSFS onto your process bar. This way you dont need to minimize FSX. Just click the FSFS icon, and it will emerge on top of the FSX window. Do your stuff in FSFS and just click somewhere on the FSX screen to bring FSX to front. I do that, and it works a lot faster than the ALT-TAB or minimize way of getting back and forth the two programs. I use a small program called "snapshot" to take screenshots in flight, and I work this program in the very same way, by just bringing it up on to of FSX and letting it stay behind FSX when done with it, by clicking somewhere on the FSX screen. Hope it will work for you as well. Merry Christmas 
Regards
Ole Andreasen, Denmark
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FSFlyingSchool First Officer
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| If I set FSX to Windowed mode there was no problem to minimise it and then get it back. And after that I could switch back to fullscreen and FFS seems to work fine. But minimising FSX from fullscreen has turned out to be a big problem. After that I can't make a window active or open any menues. It seems that the system no longer reacts on mouse events. And this is the case both with and without FFS running in the background. This I find strange since I don't remeber this problem with RC abd I don't have it in FS9.
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FSFlyingSchool Training Captain
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jfri (12/26/2008)
If I set FSX to Windowed mode there was no problem to minimise it and then get it back. And after that I could switch back to fullscreen and FFS seems to work fine. But minimising FSX from fullscreen has turned out to be a big problem. After that I can't make a window active or open any menus. It seems that the system no longer reacts on mouse events. And this is the case both with and without FFS running in the background. This I find strange since I don't remeber this problem with RC abd I don't have it in FS9.
Using minimize and maximize has always been a problem for me in FSX. I always had to use the CTRL-ALT-DELETE and then right click on FSX and choose maximize. But don´t do that, use ALT-TAB to switch task. That is much better, and the ´correct´ way to change programs in windows.
But if you use windowed mode, you don´t have to minimize anything. As I said, just bring one window on top of the other and vice versa. Works instantaneously. 
See you in the air...
Regards
Ole Andreasen, Denmark
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