FSX refuses to start

[Markoz]

My FSX won't start.

I installed it, activated it, and ran it and all was going fine on low/medium low settings with tweaks. Then. Last Thursday, I bought another 512Mb RAM, and was blown away by how well FSX plays on high setting with no tweaks. On Friday my new RAM died, so I took it back and had it replaced and all was sweet and I was sustaining 20fps (default setting) everywhere I went.

On Sunday I added a new 160Gb SATA II drive to replace my 80Gb IDE (FSX was on my 300Gb HDD temporarily) and since then FSX (still on 300Gb drive) no longer runs (Not Responding comes up in Task Manager).

FSX was working fine prior to the replacement drive. I have uninstalled and reinstalled FSX about 4 times, including on the new HDD, (not activated as I only have one activation left, which I loathe having to do. EVER!!) and still I get Not Responding in the Task Manager.

Can anyone help me as to why this is happening?

My system specs

Core 2 Duo E6600
Gigabyte GA-965P-S3 motherboard
1 Gig of DDR2 5300 RAM
512 Meg nVidia Geforce 7600 GS
300 Gig SATA HDD
160 Gig SATA II HDD
DVD-RW
19" LCD
Windows XP Pro SP2
nVidia drivers 93.71

[Mees]

Have you tried to run it from the fsx.exe in the Root folder?


If not, I'd reinstall it, anthough i've heard Windows has a problem with 2nd HDD's beiiger than 135GB...

[Markoz]

Have you tried to run it from the fsx.exe in the Root folder?

Yes... Still the same problem

If not, I'd reinstall it, anthough i've heard Windows has a problem with 2nd HDD's beiiger than 135GB...

As I stated before. I have tried reinstalling it 4 times since the problem occured. Windows XP seems to not have any real problems with the drive. My flight sim design programs (FSDS3 and gmax) work fine on the 160Gig drive.  

[Hagar]

Just a thought. Did you delete files outside the FSX root directory (like fsx.cfg) after uninstalling FSX & before installing it to the new location?

[Markoz]

Yes I did.

I even removed the references refering to its installed location in regedit that appeared not to have been removed after uninstalling. It was as clean an install as I could get without reformatting and reinstalling Windows XP as well.

[jch]

from my experiences its pot luck on getting the game to work to install, ive installed it several times and every other it didnt work. so just uninstall, re install is all i can say

[NicksFXHouse]

It appears it may be a defective DVD set. There were reports of some defects and the Aces team also mentioned something about a technical problem with a run of disks released in Europe.

You may want to return it for a replacement.

The readme states that any/all anti-virus products must be disabled before installing. I assume you did that?

[garymbuska]

You could have really opened up a huge can of worms by altering your registery. You have to be very carefull with registery entries they might not do what you  think they do and changing them can create caos!

You might want to try the following:
1) unistall FSX make sure all of the folders are deleted including the FSX CFG file
2) Use system restore to go back before you first installed FSX the first time this should put you back before you changed your hard drive.
3) after you make sure your new hard drivw is ok and running reinstall FSX on the new hard drive.
 If this fails I would suggest you contact M$ on the issue.

[Gypsy_Baron]

My FSX won't start.
-SNIP-

Try renaming the logbook.BIN and then try a restart.

A corrupted logbook.BIN will cause FSX to hang on the splash screen!

  Paul

[Markoz]

Try renaming the logbook.BIN and then try a restart.

A corrupted logbook.BIN will cause FSX to hang on the splash screen!

  Paul

Thanks Paul...that has solved the problem.  

I thought I got rid of all my saved files and stuff. I had backed it up but not deleted it!      ::)

Thanks to all you others for you help too, it's very much appreciated.

Mark

[Camel_Moe]

Glad someone else knows about the logbook.bin thing. I was about to post the same thing, and now I don't have to explain where to find it.  ;D
Personnally, I've made a desktop shortcut to my log book and I back it up every time I finnish flying, due mainly to the fact that it always seems to become corrupt on my system, causing FSX hangs and headaches galore.