Rwolf

I've had the same with my BS since day 1 (and made a bugreport about it). The image overlay seems to be misplaced/invisible, but the menu actually works - just click on the buttons. But what are the selections you ask? Look in the game manual, there the missing single-player menu is printed, so you can make yourself a printout hardcopy to refer to. (e.g. pdf GUI manual pg 4, or paper manual pg 20) Probably this is a graphics card/driver dependent bug. (I have an ATI X1950 running XP64 btw.)

Known bug with Catalyst 9.x drivers. Only current fix is to rollback to Cat8.x

Yes that is a simple one, good for this kind of use as all diodes are accessible; just rewire it as needed with your decoder. btw, there are green ones too (and orange & yellow). http://www.datasheetcatalog.org/datasheet/fairchild/MAN72A.pdf

If it does not contain an integrated BCD decoder it should work fine, usually each segment can be accessed individually. http://www.thelearningpit.com/lp/doc/7seg/7seg.html What's the part no?

Found the culprit; ATI catalyst AI needs to be disabled, then the launcher works. (seems the Cat9.1 AI was a problem for other users of DCS:BS) I'm using Cat9.3, as I have an AGP X1950pro gfx, non-dx10 capable. (And I was administrator already, but ty for the suggestion Distiller) edit: I found it's enough to set Catalyst AI to 'normal' and keep it on, if one wants to. Still the cat9.x drivers have the 'white menu' problem; no known workaround but rolling back to cat8.x drivers What I first thought was some fancy designer menu with only icons and no text, was actually a known bug. (the menu is still useful, and that is all the effect I have seen so far from cat9.x) Same issue as before using catalyst 10.2 and DCS:BS game update 1.0.1c (english) and 1.0.2 Setting Catalyst AI to 'standard' lets the launcher run, but it still has a *white* screen instead of the normal menu background. (one can learn the icons meaning by trial & error, or looking in the manual) edit: the buggy white menu only appears in single play, for multi-play the menu is normal with a helicopter picture and text for the buttons.

yep, that is almost the same o/s...ty, I'll dig deeper.

Is DCS:BS supposed to work in XP/64? I've just tried installing DCS:BS in XP/64, and it installed, but I cannot launch it, despite using XP compatibility mode, I get an exception (with ms crash report tool coming up). I get the 1st window titled SdlApp -> BlackShark and then the popup saying (in short): Launcher.exe has encountered a problem and needs to close. (send error report to microsoft) During install, the DirectX supplied failed to install (being the 32 bit version) but I have updated to the latest (march-09) runtime with DXwebupdate. (ps. I have the DCS:BS english retail version 1.0, if it matters)