Problem Menu boxes do not display in fullscreen

[auricom]

This issue has been bugging me forever (I'm new to the forums but have been playing orbiter for a few years off and on)

Anyways maybe someone here knows the solution:

When I run Orbiter in fullscreen mode, I cannot bring up any of the meny boxes (F3 spacescraft switch, F4 main menu, Ctrl-F4 scenario editor Ctrl-f2 Time warp panel etc)

The menu's don't display, and I lose mouse interactivity with the program.. Nothing I do seems to recover it and I usually have to Ctrl-Q or end program to recover..

So I'm relegated to always running orbiter in a Window, which, well.. kinda stinks

Does anyone know a solution to this problem? I've searched the forums, but can find nothing.

 

[dbeachy1]

Hmm...which video mode are you using? Make sure it supports "T&L". It should work, though, even in a mode without T&L.

Have you tested in a completely clean Orbiter installation?

 

[auricom]

Yup I've tried all the video modes... HAL, T&L RGB EMU.. Tried on multiple installs of orbiter over the months, had the problem on XP and contue to have it on Win7

For kicks I'll try just an absolute bare bones orbiter install tonight with no mods installed .. maybe it's a mod I'm using that breaks it, but I think I've tried that already. (not sure) .. I'll try it on 2010 as well.. I'm thinking it's probably a video card driver issue..

 

[n72.75]

I never had any problem with this in Orbiter 2006, but now that I'm using Orbiter 2010 I get the same problem that you describe.

I would post a screenshot but Print Screen will not capture the problem. When I find my camera, I will take a picture of my screen.

This is on Vista X64.

The only thing I can think is causing the problem is that I have two 3840's in crossfire. One card may be overdrawing the other in fullscreen.

 

[statickid]

I just just started getting this SAME problem totally out of the blue! Orbiter was working fine, no problems about a week ago. I tried to run it yesterday and it took me a while to isolate this as what was wrong. For me if i push F4, I seem to loose mouse control, but if i push the "window" button next to "alt" orbiter minimizes to the bar. Then if i select orbiter, it will open ONLY showing the f4 menu with a white screen behind it. then if i choose anything but exit, i will have to repeat the process to see the menu i opened. If i choose exit the program exits normally. I also noticed launching in full screen mode the status line on the spash screen (all the file names it shows in rapid succession) does not appear. everything is normal in window mode. I've been using orbiter for YEARS and didn't tweek any settings or anything.

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more info:

Just uninstalled some things I recently installed to see if there was any difference. No difference.

I'm using Windows Vista

nvidia gefore 7950 gt

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Resolution:

If anybody else has this problem in the future, I was able to fix it by

SELECTING "LET THE 3D APPLICATION DECIDE"

'on the main Nvidia preference screen under the spinning green eyeball :thumbup:

Orbiter running normal again, the only other thing i have been using that is 3D is Minecraft, so maybe there was some kind of conflict there? not sure.