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Title: dark clipboard, flashing views
Post by: Captain Virgil Hilts on February 13, 2008, 08:34:20 AM: When starting AH, my clipboard is dark, and what appears to be an open page (such as E6B, roster, etc.) is flopping about behind the clipboard. The game will load, but once in the tower, if I open a page on the clipboard, that page flops wildly behind the clipboard. If I launch, the views flail about like the page on the clipboard, and I cannot stop them. The second time I tried to launch, evidently I moved off of the runway despite not starting the engine, because I got the "you have ditched" message. The game was working fine, until recently, and it began doing this. I tried rebooting a couple of times, after two or three times, the problem stopped. But the next time I loaded the game, a couple days later, it did the same thing.

Of note, the flopping page seems to go wild when I move the cursor with the mouse.
Title: dark clipboard, flashing views
Post by: NHawk on February 13, 2008, 08:40:28 AM: http://forums.hitechcreations.com/forums/showthread.php?s=&threadid=199451
Title: dark clipboard, flashing views
Post by: Captain Virgil Hilts on February 13, 2008, 08:46:52 AM: Quote
Originally posted by NHawk
http://forums.hitechcreations.com/forums/showthread.php?s=&threadid=199451

Didn't see anything in that post about my problem. And I've been running AH on this rig for a year, without the problem.
Title: dark clipboard, flashing views
Post by: Skuzzy on February 13, 2008, 09:31:45 AM: Done any recent OS updates? Installed any video/audio software lately?

The link NHawk posted is the fix for the problem if you have a dual-core AMD CPU.
Title: dark clipboard, flashing views
Post by: Captain Virgil Hilts on February 13, 2008, 06:36:04 PM: No, I have not updated my OS (2000 Pro), nor installed any audio or video components. I do have a 64X2 Dual Core 4600 CPU. I never had the problems before, but I'll try the fix anyway.
Title: dark clipboard, flashing views
Post by: Captain Virgil Hilts on February 13, 2008, 08:33:18 PM: I've got the patches downloaded. This isn't gonna screw up stuff worse than it is, is it? I haven't read anything about this working with 2000 Pro, or 2000 Pro needing it.
Title: dark clipboard, flashing views
Post by: Skuzzy on February 14, 2008, 05:54:42 AM: You are positive you have not installed any software on your 2000? 2000 Pro never had the issue on its own. Only XP and Vista have the problem, that I am aware of.

I would bet something got installed that caused this. I do not think the patches are for 2000. They were for XP. This is a kernel level issue due to a problem with the dual-core AMD CPU's. 2000 did not have the problem as it did not have the threading bugs that XP and Vista have. So it never showed the problem,

The only way the problem would show in 2000 is if the kernel component from XP got installed on your 2000 system.
Title: dark clipboard, flashing views
Post by: Captain Virgil Hilts on February 14, 2008, 06:38:19 AM: I'm positive. I don't have anything new. I haven't done any Windows updates either. Oddly enough, we had a power outage last night, the computer rebooted, and this morning AH works fine.
Title: dark clipboard, flashing views
Post by: Skuzzy on February 14, 2008, 07:05:07 AM: Ok,...that is bizarre. Had the computer not been rebooted in a long while?
Title: dark clipboard, flashing views
Post by: Captain Virgil Hilts on February 14, 2008, 07:29:11 AM: Quote
Originally posted by Skuzzy
Ok,...that is bizarre. Had the computer not been rebooted in a long while?

I guess it gets shut down about 3-4 times a week, at the most, for a few hours. It acts as sort of a server here at the house.

Sometimes rebooting it fixes the problem, and sometimes it does not. When this began 2-3 weeks ago, I tried rebooting, with mixed results. I've been doing some diagnostic tests on it, when I have time.
Title: dark clipboard, flashing views
Post by: Captain Virgil Hilts on February 20, 2008, 10:15:15 PM: It did the same thing again tonight. Rebooting fixed it, again. I hope to have time to just format this thing and start over. Soon. Maybe.