NOOB here needs advise

[Blackdog_kt]

The gray window is probably a blank info window you created by accident.

Info windows are overlays that are part of the interface and you can display a variety of stuff on them: your engine control sliders, the radio chatter, the blue text about secondary aircraft systems, the server/chat text box, all of these are info windows.

To disable it:

1) Check to see if you have a mouse cursor on screen. Default key to toggle the mouse between view control and cursor modes is F10, so go ahead and press it if you don't see a cursor.

2) Alt-click on the gray rectangle to select it. This is done to differentiate from clicking on cockpit switches, to prevent from accidentally selecting info windows when you want to manipulate cockpit controls they made it so the info windows require an extra key to be pressed (in this case Alt).

3) With the rectangle now selected, right-click on it (no keys this time, just right-click) to invoke the pop-up menu. Choose the option to close it and you're done.

Hope it helps

[hiei1942]

Thanks Blackdog that worked, I could not figure it out for the longest time. I thought it was my computer doing it. I disabled crossfire that helped my frame rates some what, Still not where it should be.. Again thanks for your help..

[Rattlehead]

Originally Posted by hiei1942

Thanks Blackdog that worked, I could not figure it out for the longest time. I thought it was my computer doing it. I disabled crossfire that helped my frame rates some what, Still not where it should be.. Again thanks for your help..

Perhaps you can give us an idea of what sort of framerates you're getting? Try running the Black Death track and report back on framerates. It kind of helps to get an idea of where you're at, performance-wise. Post your graphical settings as well.

Have you disabled SSAO? (Tends to impact quite a bit on performance on some machines.)

[NedLynch]

Did you disable the UBIsoft intro movie?