FS9 Won't get past startup screen

[victor_alpha_charlie]

For some reason whenever I try to load FS9, It will get to the splash screen at the start and nothing will happen from there. It will freeze, even though everything else still works, and under the Ctrl+Alt+Del window says it is 'not responding'. I have tried a re-install, but it is still happening now, even though I have no addons installed. I'm doing an extra Virus scan now just in case.

Any Ideas?

[ardypilot]

Delete your FS9.cfg and let it rebuild a new one- happened to me a few weeks back, fixed everything.

[victor_alpha_charlie]

QUOTE (Trolly @ Apr 17 2008, 07:59 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>

Delete your FS9.cfg and let it rebuild a new one- happened to me a few weeks back, fixed everything.

Bugger, that simple? I uninstalled EVERYTHING step by step

EDIT:
All working now, thanks Andy!

[ZK-MAT]

QUOTE (victor_alpha_charlie @ Apr 17 2008, 08:14 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>

Bugger, that simple? I uninstalled EVERYTHING step by step

I hope your car never breaks down .....

[victor_alpha_charlie]

QUOTE (ZK-MAT @ Apr 17 2008, 08:19 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>

I hope your car never breaks down .....

I can imagine driving past a completely disassembled car on the side of the motorway because it was handling funny, then the driver figures out at the end that one of the tyres is a bit low

[ZK-MAT]

Hehe, yep ... "Oh, so all it needed was Petrol?"

[Ian Warren]

OK here come the witty remarks ..... , ...... many times had a prob ..... Me I just fix it .... go down the road and buy another computer

[victor_alpha_charlie]

QUOTE (Ian Warren @ Apr 17 2008, 09:24 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>

OK here come the witty remarks ..... , ...... many times had a prob ..... Me I just fix it .... go down the road and buy another computer

There's two things for certain in life:
1) The sun will rise (Unless you're in Auckland and it's raining as usual..)
2) Ian will always have a witty remark!

[victor_alpha_charlie]

Unfortunately it's happening again, deleting fs9.cfg doesn't fix it. Any other ideas?

[AlisterC]

Tom what does the windows error message say when you close the not responding program?

[victor_alpha_charlie]

QUOTE (Albatross @ Apr 18 2008, 07:05 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>

Tom what does the windows error message say when you close the not responding program?

Not 100% sure what you mean, but the 'Error Signature' in the Error Report window says "szAppName : fs9.exe szAppVer : 9.0.0.30612 szModName : hungapp
szModVer : 0.0.0.0 offset : 00000000 "

[AlisterC]

Ok.. so not much help
If you are looking for things to try and reinstall, perhaps try reinstalling/ repairing DirectX 9. My sim has a problem like this every few starts. Installing DX9 again hasn't helped me, but might you. I actually have to load FSX first, shut that down, and then start FS9 to bypass the problem. But, that's my problem not yours Perhaps try DX9 reinstall? Google it, and you'll find the download from MSft.

[toprob]

You could try deleting the default flight.

[victor_alpha_charlie]

QUOTE (Albatross @ Apr 18 2008, 07:12 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>

Ok.. so not much help
If you are looking for things to try and reinstall, perhaps try reinstalling/ repairing DirectX 9. My sim has a problem like this every few starts. Installing DX9 again hasn't helped me, but might you. I actually have to load FSX first, shut that down, and then start FS9 to bypass the problem. But, that's my problem not yours Perhaps try DX9 reinstall? Google it, and you'll find the download from MSft.

Trying that, thanks. DirectX 9.0c is 34Mb..

[ardypilot]

Have you remembered to download the 9.1 patch for fs2004?

[victor_alpha_charlie]

QUOTE (Trolly @ Apr 19 2008, 10:25 AM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>

Have you remembered to download the 9.1 patch for fs2004?

Yes, It's installed. I just downloaded a whole lot of a/c from flightsim.com and installed them, so I don't know which one it was.

Also the directx thing didn't work

[ardypilot]

Another thing I just remembered Tom- try resetting your default flight to the C172 at Meigs- I corrupt my custom saved default flight a while back and that caused the splash screen to hang... bloody frustrating it was, but a simple fix in the end. Hope you have simular luck.

[victor_alpha_charlie]

QUOTE (Trolly @ Apr 20 2008, 09:12 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>

Another thing I just remembered Tom- try resetting your default flight to the C172 at Meigs- I corrupt my custom saved default flight a while back and that caused the splash screen to hang... bloody frustrating it was, but a simple fix in the end. Hope you have simular luck.

How do I do that? I can't get on to FS to change it

[ardypilot]

Make sure this line is in your aircraft.cfg
SITUATION=C:\Documents and Settings\Andrew\My Documents\Flight Simulator Files\MEIGS

*obviously change the Andrew bit to whatever your PC user account is named