Flight Sim 9 finally died after trying to die for the last couple weeks. Per the Task Manager, an EXE titled NTVDM is sucking up all CPU resources when the game tries to start - the splash screen appears, then a blue box (NTVDM) appears and the game immediately crashes to the desk-top. Now all of a sudden my Sound Blaster isn't working and I suspect somehow NTVDM has corrupted the software. I deleted it out of Win/System32 but XP SP2 just cloned a new NTVDM. I tried three different Registry cleaners, Disk Scan, etc. to no avail. Is there anything I can do to stop NTVDM short of wiping out my hard drive and starting over?
