SP2 and FS9

[painandsuffrin]

I put sp2 on my computer today and Flight simulator will no longer start.  It just hangs once the initial FS9 screen comes up.  I have redownloaded Direct x and have the latest version of FSUIPC.  Anyone got any ideas??

[jordonj]

My suggestion is that you try to go back via system restore.  

Other than that, your only option is to back your FS9 file up (if you have installed any add-ons) and maybe re-install Windows)

Anyone else have this problem with SP2 and FS9?

[Politically Incorrect]

I haven't any problems at all with the two.
As a matter of fact I have been using SP2 and Direct X 9c for about three months and if anything my sim flies better now than before.
Sounds too me like a bad download, I have read other places of similar things happening. M$ admits too SP2 causing problems with certain programs (mainly there own) but I have yet to hear many about and directly related to FS9. And the ones I have read were solved with a reinstall of SP2.
SP2 is a huge file and if downloaded via dial-up is almost guaranteed something too go wrong

You could do a system restore (if running XP) but might be easier to reinstall FS9 to see if that fixes things. If FS9 is the only program giving you trouble then I would try the later.

I'm not one too back up M$ with anything (past posts prove that ) but my experiance with the new package has been 100% improvement in how my computer runs overall.

Also Congo has a post in the software section I belive that has a link to were you can download SP2 and save it to disc, this is how I installed it is from a disc, not M$ auto update, it is M$ auto updating that always (9 out 10) screws my computer up!

p.s. welcome to TheV!!

[Ivan]

Efilnikufesin...
Good to hear that it runs that well on your machine, while not being the final release version (clarification for that: the current (developer / administrator) release is the last build, but MS is planning to add some extra stuff to the official release)