FSX-SE black screen when loading a flight

I recently build a new computer with Windows 10 replacing my old Windows 7 machine.

I just installed FSX SE. Everytime I want to start a flight in fullscreen mode I get a black screen instead of the loading bar and can't even start the task manager to end the process. I have to restart my system. Alt-enter is also not working.

FSX-SE is not installed in Program Fils (x86) but in the Steam folder directly under C:

No add-ons, just a clean FSX-SE. 

The latest Nvidia driver is installed following the instructions from NickN.

Tried running FSX-SE set to windows 7 or Windows 8 compatibiltiy, also as admin, no change.

FSX-SE loads a flight when DX10 preview is enabled or in DX9 window mode only.

Has anybody else had similar issues and could direct me towards a solution?

thanks

first of all, thanks for your answer.

The windows monitor resolution and FSX match, in my case it's 3440x1440 x32 at 60Hz.

I made sure there are no traces left of Teamviewer as I already read about this maybe causing an issue like that. Thanks for pointing me towards the DirectX installer, I ran it but it seems all the necessary files were installed. I checked my Nvidia drivers and found out that I had the DCH instead of the standard drivers. So I went through the whole process of disconnecting from the internet, removing the drivers in safemode (set up with bcdedit) with a program called DDU and installing the standard drivers from Nvidia. Next I heard somewhere it might be caused by the new type of Nvidia cards, I have an RTX 2080 Ti. So I exchanged that with my old 980 GTX.

I uninstalled FSX SE completely, including all traces in the registry and reinstalled with Steam set to "run this program as an administrator", just to make sure that is covered. Also FSX SE is set the same way.

All the testing with FSX SE has been done without any addons installed.

The sim runs fine with either DX10 preview enabled - both in fullscreen and window mode,

or as DX9 just in window mode using the setting Maximized=2 under [Main] in the FSX.cfg.

When in DX9 mode, whenever I try to load a flight in fullscreen I get the black screen. The same happens, when I load a flight in window mode and use ALT-Enter to go to fullscreen or use the corresponding entry in the dropdown menue in-sim.

When the black screen appears, the only thing I can do is use the Windows-key on the keyboard and restart the computer or shut it down from there. I can though start the Task Manager with CTRL-SHIFT-Esc. It won't be visible at first, because the focus goes back to the black screen. But when hitting the Windows key again I see the task manager being active in the taskbar. I can hover over it with the mouse which lets me see it on the desktop. It's showing FSX as "not responding". I can't access it, because once I move the mouse away from the taskbar I'm back at the black screen.

Sorry for the long text, I tried to rule out as much as possible. For now I'm using a tool to remove the border when in window mode, so FSX SE appears as being in fullscreen.

I don't really want to use DX10 preview, as I'm not sure how that would work with my addons.

My system:

9700K@ 5.1 GHz

Asus Hero XI

G.Skill 32GB CL14

RTX 2080 TI

Windows 10 Pro

If there is anything else I can check or try, please let me know.

Again, thanks for the help, it's much appreciated.

Malte

 

What ever it is, it appears to be local to your system.

After not believing anymore in finding a solution I can now report that the problem is fixed.

Funny enough installing Open Office on my system seems to have done the trick.

Every test I did that resulted in the issue of getting a black screen once I tried to go into fullscreen was done on a new install of Windows 10 64 bit Pro and FSX-SE.

After using a temporary fix, aprogram called borderless gaming - I went on with installing the rest of the programs I use on my system. The installer of Open Office put a bunch of different Visual C++ versions on my system, couple of 2008, 2010, 2013 and 2017. I did not test yet which one of these was needed in order to run FSX in fullscreen. But I can run FSX in fullscreen now.

Hopefully this will help anybody who encounters the same problem.

Thanks again NickN for your help.

Regards,

Malte