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Originally Posted By: pollyp40 I'm afraid it's no help at all. (sorry) I guess that if I can't find a solution to this then Santa gets one of his toys back. Cheers PollyP, If your son doesn't already have them, you can get copies of Flight Simulator 2004 (which has a lot of interesting material on flight in general, including the Wright Flyer) or Fly! (which is an older sim but still well done), relatively cheap.... These are great starter sims and have a good tutorial base if he is interested in civilian flying.

PollyP, I think the issue might be your video card (and/or the driver that is running it) as neither can handle Direct X 9.0c graphics What kind of computer are you running? go to: START>PROGRAMS>ACCESSORIES>SYSTEM TOOLS>SYSTEM INFORMATION and copy/paste the system details here so that you can see what else might be wrong...if the computer is as old as the video card though, it might be a big problem ie: OS Name Microsoft Windows XP Home Edition Version 5.1.2600 Service Pack 2 Build 2600 OS Manufacturer Microsoft Corporation System Name EMMA System Manufacturer IBM System Model 8305NSU System Type X86-based PC Processor x86 Family 15 Model 2 Stepping 7 GenuineIntel ~1794 Mhz BIOS Version/Date IBM 24KT33AUS, 02/12/2002 SMBIOS Version 2.31 Windows Directory C:\WINDOWS System Directory C:\WINDOWS\system32 Boot Device \Device\HarddiskVolume1 Locale United States Hardware Abstraction Layer Version = "5.1.2600.2180 (xpsp_sp2_rtm.040803-2158)" User Name EMMA\Sheena Riley-Marini Time Zone Eastern Standard Time Total Physical Memory 2,048.00 MB Available Physical Memory 1.48 GB Total Virtual Memory 2.00 GB Available Virtual Memory 1.96 GB Page File Space 3.85 GB Page File C:\pagefile.sys