Airports won't show..?

[Terence Wallis]

Thanks George but technicals like 'root' don't tell me much but I checked the C\FS9 folder I set up & I see scenery is there.  There - another learning experience!    I had a screen freeze this evening so I thought I'd take Norman's advice so I'll run FS for a few days before I start adding things.    The device manager said the graphics drivers are up to date after I downloaded new ones on the advice of a blue screen error message that appeared after I started up this evening.   I didn;t see what happened as I was not at the wretched machine. 

[Terence Wallis]

Norman & George:  I put FS9 in C/FS9 but both it & FSX crash after 5 minutes producing a  striped blue screen & stuttering noises from the speakers.  I have to switch off manually as the machine is locked.
Sometimers I've had messages on a blue WARNING screen that said ATI Graphics drivers are the problem.  I think this is a manufacturing fault & nothing to do with software like AWD-IT say so I'm retuning it to them in the morning. 
Cheers,
Terry.

[Norman Dean]

Hi Terry,

Returning the system to the supplier to check may be the best option. However, there has been a lot of bother caused by graphic drivers recently, both Radion and nVidia.

Norman

[Terence Wallis]

Thanks Norman,  My graphics card is ATI, but what gets me is 3 or 4 minutes after starting either FS it crashes, & also I can't install your scenery in FS9.    AWD-IT just say it's the FS software that's not good enough for Vista 64bit but you run it OK!   I'm going to tell them if it doesn't work I want my money back.  Thankfully I still have the Dell!!   If the drivers are to blame them AWD-IT can sort it.  They're the experts not me.   I'll let you know what happens.
Terry.

[Norman Dean]

Well, Terry, you can tell them that many of us run FSX on Vista 64 with a great many addons and have no troubles at all (apart from the graphic drivers).

Norman