Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!van-bc!rsoft!mindlink!a752
From: a752@mindlink.UUCP (Bruce Dunn)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.ms
Subject: MS Flight Simulator and Windows
Message-ID: <3657@mindlink.UUCP>
Date: 27 Oct 90 16:34:17 GMT
Organization: MIND LINK! - British Columbia, Canada
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I am finding that Microsoft Flight Simulator seems to be fundamentally
incompatible with Windows 3.0.  Can anyone shed light on the following two
problems:

1)  Flight simulator seems to be almost completely paralyzed when running full
screen from Windows.  Scenery updates take 5 to 10 seconds each, instead of
several per second when not using Windows.  No amount of playing with PIF
parameters seems to help.

2) After having run Flight Simulator from DOS, it seems to be an extremely poor
idea to run Windows without rebooting first.  Flight Simulator seems to do
something to the computer which does not prevent Windows from running, but
makes it unstable.  Typical problems are "unrecoverable application errors" in
the middle of normally well behaved programs such as Word for Windows, and "not
enough memory" messages when the Help menu from Program Manager shows several
megabytes free.

     I am running on a 386 in 386 enhanced mode.  I have previously noted
strange behaviour of DOS programs when run from DOS after running Flight
Simulator.
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Bruce Dunn   Vancouver, Canada    a752@mindlink.UUCP