I broke fs2002...help!

[ja222]

I used to be fairly good at this, and I had loads of home-made scenery, ai traffic and so on, but a while ago I installed a few new downloads at once (big mistake), one of them was a GMAX chinook for fs2004 with some 'modules' (?) to install, I think I did that but once I tried to load up fs2002, it came up with the MS warning window saying there was an error with 'main.dll'. I tried everything I could think of, removed the new aircraft and module, and even reinstalled FS2002, but it still won't work.

Any ideas? I am thinking of putting it all on a new machine, but it would take months to reinstall and transfer everything I did before, not a nice thought. I would really appreciate any advice at all.

Thanks,
Jamie

[WebbPA]

It won't work after you reinstalled?

Did you copy all of your addons from a backup?  If so, you probably just re-created the problem.

Main.dll is an MS file in the /modules folder.  If something overwrote if you could have restored it from CD.  My main.dll is dated 09/19/2001 and is 241k.  What do you have in there now?

[ja222]

Thanks for your reply,

I checked my main.dll and it seems to be the right one... having looked at the files included with the freeware chinook, I think I added in two files into the modules folder, Traffic.DLL and TrafficInfo.DLL, but these were for FS2004 not FS2002. I (stupidly) probably overwrote them without creating a backup, then when FS2002 didn't load, deleted them from the modules folder incase they weren't supposed to be there. If I get the two original files from the FS2002 CDs, will they still work, or do these files change with time as you add in other bits (like custom AI traffic)?

Thanks,

Jamie

[Hagar]

Jamie. Assuming you have enough space on your HD try a duplicate install of FS2002. Rename the FS2002 main directory folder to any other name, for example: FS2002-old. Then insert CD-1 & install FS2002 in the usual way. The new install should run fine. Once it's up & running you can transfer all your addons from the original renamed install to the new one. Do this carefully & check everything as you go. When it's all transferred you can safely delete the original renamed directory. This is usually much quicker & easier than messing around troubleshooting obscure problems.

[ja222]

Thanks for your help guys, I have managed to get it working now. In the end I just replaced the two .dll files and this seems to have worked, now I just have to get all my ai stuff working again... this could take some time! That's a good idea though for the future Hagar, I'll do that if I have any further problems.

All my custom AFCAD files seem to have gone, do you think there is any way I can get them back or will I have to rewrite them?

Thanks again,

Jamie