Delta Virtual Airlines Water Cooler - Switching Between FSX and ACARS

Delta Virtual Airlines Water Cooler | PC Support | Switching Between FSX and ACARS

DVA5025
Captain, B757-200

Joined on July 29 2007

Northeastern United States

96 legs, 198.4 hours
59 legs, 122.6 hours online
86 legs, 176.3 hours ACARS
3 legs, 6.3 hours event

Posted onPost created on August 05 2011 23:06 ET by Xavier Mcnulty

Hi guys,
I have a bit of a problem. I am running a paware aircraft and therefore to start a flight in ACARS I need to switch back and forth between FSX and ACARS in order to start a flight. I can return to the desktop, start ACARS and load the flight info and load the fuel tanks... but when I click on FSX to start it up again all I get is a black screen that never returns to FSX. Are there any solutions to this problem?

- Xavier McNulty KBOS

Xavier Mcnulty

Captain, B757-200

DVA8452
Captain, A320
OLP

Joined on March 28 2010
50 State Club
Event Half Century Club
Online Fifteen Century
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B757 100 Club
Three Million Mile Club
Toulouse Millennium Club
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"Cabin crew, please take your seats for takeoff."
Novi, MI

2,970 legs, 9,136.9 hours
1,629 legs, 4,166.2 hours online
2,893 legs, 8,878.5 hours ACARS
65 legs, 189.4 hours event

Posted onPost created on August 05 2011 23:07 ET by Justin Lawrence

Are you running it in windowed mode? If not, when FSX is open press alt+enter.

Justin Lawrence

Captain, A320

DVA9677
Captain, B737-800
OLP

Joined on April 11 2011
50 State Club
Online Double Century Club
Quincentenary Club

"American 1482, your APU is leaking baggage."
Kissimmee, FL USA

543 legs, 735.9 hours
247 legs, 299.2 hours online
538 legs, 725.6 hours ACARS
2 legs, 2.8 hours event

Posted onPost created on August 06 2011 05:46 ET by John Anderson

I have a similar problem. I have to make sure everything is minimized, then cntrl+alt+del get the task manager and <Switch To> FSX.

I've no idea what the solution is, MS tells me it's a graphics issue. Hmmmmmmmmmmmmm

John Anderson (DVA9677)

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