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PostPosted: Thu Apr 17, 2008 7:19 pm
by 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?

PostPosted: Thu Apr 17, 2008 7:59 pm
by ardypilot
Delete your FS9.cfg and let it rebuild a new one- happened to me a few weeks back, fixed everything.

PostPosted: Thu Apr 17, 2008 8:14 pm
by victor_alpha_charlie
Trolly wrote:
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 :lol:

EDIT:
All working now, thanks Andy!

PostPosted: Thu Apr 17, 2008 8:19 pm
by ZK-MAT
victor_alpha_charlie wrote:
QUOTE (victor_alpha_charlie @ Apr 17 2008, 08:14 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>
Bugger, that simple? I uninstalled EVERYTHING step by step :lol:


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




:clap:

PostPosted: Thu Apr 17, 2008 8:58 pm
by victor_alpha_charlie
ZK-MAT wrote:
QUOTE (ZK-MAT @ Apr 17 2008, 08:19 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>
I hope your car never breaks down .....




:clap:


:lol: 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 :D

PostPosted: Thu Apr 17, 2008 9:16 pm
by ZK-MAT


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

PostPosted: Thu Apr 17, 2008 9:24 pm
by 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 :D

PostPosted: Thu Apr 17, 2008 9:29 pm
by victor_alpha_charlie
Ian Warren wrote:
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 :D


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! :P

PostPosted: Fri Apr 18, 2008 6:10 pm
by victor_alpha_charlie
Unfortunately it's happening again, deleting fs9.cfg doesn't fix it. Any other ideas?

PostPosted: Fri Apr 18, 2008 7:05 pm
by AlisterC
Tom what does the windows error message say when you close the not responding program?

PostPosted: Fri Apr 18, 2008 7:09 pm
by victor_alpha_charlie
Albatross wrote:
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 "

PostPosted: Fri Apr 18, 2008 7:12 pm
by AlisterC
Ok.. so not much help :lol:
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 :P Perhaps try DX9 reinstall? Google it, and you'll find the download from MSft.

PostPosted: Fri Apr 18, 2008 7:37 pm
by toprob
You could try deleting the default flight.

PostPosted: Fri Apr 18, 2008 7:39 pm
by victor_alpha_charlie
Albatross wrote:
QUOTE (Albatross @ Apr 18 2008, 07:12 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>
Ok.. so not much help :lol:
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 :P Perhaps try DX9 reinstall? Google it, and you'll find the download from MSft.


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

PostPosted: Sat Apr 19, 2008 10:25 am
by ardypilot
Have you remembered to download the 9.1 patch for fs2004?

PostPosted: Sat Apr 19, 2008 10:44 am
by victor_alpha_charlie
Trolly wrote:
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 ;)

PostPosted: Sun Apr 20, 2008 9:12 pm
by 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.

PostPosted: Mon Apr 21, 2008 10:57 am
by victor_alpha_charlie
Trolly wrote:
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 :D

PostPosted: Mon Apr 21, 2008 4:49 pm
by 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 ;)