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having problems playing the game..

Postby blackgold89 » Sun Mar 22, 2009 2:12 pm

hi,

i just bought fsx. installed it and click on the icon to launch the game but an error message occured...

Unable to create default cache directory:
C:\ProgramData\Microsoft\FSX\SceneryCache'

can someone help me?..pls..
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Re: having problems playing the game..

Postby garymbuska » Sun Mar 22, 2009 4:26 pm

How much room do you have on your drive. Is your drive partitioned? :-?
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Re: having problems playing the game..

Postby blackgold89 » Mon Mar 23, 2009 7:28 am

How much room do you have on your drive. Is your drive partitioned?  

20.9 GB..my drive is not partitioned..
mine is windows vista and i'm playing it on my laptop.
would that be a problem?..
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Re: having problems playing the game..

Postby dave3cu » Mon Mar 23, 2009 8:11 am

Sounds like Vista security issue. I use XP so my comments are 'hear say'.  

Make sure you're logged in as administrator.

Find fsx.exe in your main FSX folder. Right click on fsx.exe and set the security to 'run as administrator'.

Someone running Vista can give you more details if necessary.

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Re: having problems playing the game..

Postby blackgold89 » Mon Mar 23, 2009 8:39 am

hey!!...it worked...thanx a lot!!..
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