My FSX crashes before even loading

[K5054NZ]

Hi all

Bought the FSX Gold Edition from work the other day, installed FSX and Acceleration but FSX fails to progress past the title screen. The title comes up, it goes through the "generating scenery indexes", then says a fatal error has occured and Microsoft will notify me when a solution is available.

Huh?!

Any ideas? I'm on Vista and have had FS9 run on this machine no sweat.

[Adamski]

QUOTE (K5054NZ @ Feb 14 2010, 10:11 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>

Hi all

Bought the FSX Gold Edition from work the other day, installed FSX and Acceleration but FSX fails to progress past the title screen. The title comes up, it goes through the "generating scenery indexes", then says a fatal error has occured and Microsoft will notify me when a solution is available.

Huh?!

Any ideas? I'm on Vista and have had FS9 run on this machine no sweat.

Oooh dear. Shame. Enough HD space? I think FSX creates a whole heap of temporary scenery files in your profile. Checked/defragged your drive lately?

Also - have you checked you have the latest video drivers installed?AND .... are you running as Admin and/or have UAC turned off (User Access Control).

[creator2003]

You could also try removing the fsx.cfg found in the hidden folders C/ app data, then when you start the exe ,it would build a new one...

[Ian Warren]

Zac , FSX Gold Edition Ok , lets get you up and running , we need to see your PC specs , the nice thing is you have the FSX GOLD with all the bells and dongs .. ' FLICK" ouch i heard that ,....this part may hurt , install another HD (bugger spend more) , only for FSX , sure keep other FS9 and your saved files on the 'C'- Drive .

[K5054NZ]

HDD has 170gb of 288gb remaining.

UAC is definitely turned off - the damned thing keeps asking if I want to "fix this problem" - perhaps a defrag is a good idea

[Adamski]

QUOTE (K5054NZ @ Feb 15 2010, 08:30 AM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>

HDD has 170gb of 288gb remaining.

UAC is definitely turned off - the damned thing keeps asking if I want to "fix this problem" - perhaps a defrag is a good idea

See if you can delete the scenery cache/indexes (XX:\All Users\Microsoft\FSX\SceneryIndexes\) then do your defrag. Try Creator's fsx.cfg tip as well.

Question for others - would deleting the scenery.cfg file help as well?

[BigBird]

Oh bugger! I had the same problem a couple of years ago. Darned if I can remember the solution. I think it was something to do with a weather add on I had.

[happytraveller]

even better idea, instead of deleting the cfg. file, delete VISTA. Wish that I had got rid of it much sooner, I went back (upgraded) to XP and was much happier after the change. Vista = problems.

Smooth (XP) landings.

[Adamski]

QUOTE (happytraveller @ Feb 20 2010, 08:50 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>

even better idea, instead of deleting the cfg. file, delete VISTA. Wish that I had got rid of it much sooner, I went back (upgraded) to XP and was much happier after the change. Vista = problems.

Smooth (XP) landings.

I hated my Vista. Gave me no end of grief. The system's good enough to run Windows 7 (much better!).

[BigBird]

Agreed! Windows7 rocks. Vista is just a memory greedy black hole!

[Ian Warren]

QUOTE (BigBird @ Feb 22 2010, 10:46 AM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>

Windows7 rocks.

XP to Win7 ... Ha Vista i stayed away from , its name sounded more like a dried/just add water food package off the 70s

[Adamski]

QUOTE (Ian Warren @ Feb 22 2010, 11:05 AM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>

XP to Win7 ... Ha Vista i stayed away from , its name sounded more like a dried/just add water food package off the 70s

Hey, I remember those!!! (showing his age!) Horrific little cubes of something or other in primordial slime ... with separate boil-in-the-bag rice. Haven't we come a long way!

To the O/P ... any progress???

[JohnM]

100% its VISTA that is doing this to you. My mate had a similar problem even though he was installing FSX he needed to be doing this in ADMINISTRATOR mode.You might answer back "Iam the administrator" but so was he,apparently you have to be total ADMIN in Vista for FSX to install properly.

[Alfashark]

QUOTE (JohnM @ Feb 23 2010, 03:06 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>

100% its VISTA that is doing this to you. My mate had a similar problem even though he was installing FSX he needed to be doing this in ADMINISTRATOR mode.You might answer back "Iam the administrator" but so was he,apparently you have to be total ADMIN in Vista for FSX to install properly.

I shudder to think what your mate was up to with regards to admin rights...
Fresh install of Vista here (48hrs old), fresh clean install of FSX + Acceleration and all the usual goods - No worries, no problems... 8hrs spent flying in X today.

As for Vista... Had it since RTM and not a single problem! This rig gets everything thrown at it - gaming, the wife does her photo and video editing on here and might only be restarted to install updates and that's it.
Just throw some more RAM at your rig and it'll cure your ills

[K5054NZ]

Will buy 7 at some point Disappointingly it seems to have been Acceleration that wouldn't work? I tried to run FSX but is there a separate shortcut to run AAcceleration?

I uninstalled both and reinstalled FSX on its own and its working great

[Adamski]

QUOTE (K5054NZ @ Mar 1 2010, 11:21 AM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>

I uninstalled both and reinstalled FSX on its own and its working great

YAY!!!

I couldn't really see any advantages to Acceleration, so when I set up my new Win7/FSX install I left it off. Can't say I'm missing it