Jon Patch

Wednesday, October 25th, 2006

Microsoft Flight Simulator X support link

Filed under: FSX, Flight Simulation, Flightsim — jonpatch @ 9:51 am

Mike Gilbert points out this link to support issues for Microsoft FSX.  Includes FAQ, troubleshooting tips and how-to articles.

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  1. MS FX crashes to BSOD and then reports problems. It suggests that there was an incomplete installation and posts Error 1603 and 1722 when tring to uninstall/reinstall/repair from DVD etc. This problem is widely reported, what’s happening to resolve it?
    cheers, Ron H

    Comment by Ron Harris — Tuesday, November 14th, 2006 @ 3:58 pm

  2. Ron,

    Check this link for this issue:

    http://support.microsoft.com/kb/928080/

    Jon

    Comment by jonpatch — Tuesday, November 14th, 2006 @ 4:11 pm

  3. I purchased & received FSX on Oct 20, 2006. Installed the program & have experienced continual deactivation since that date. I have been working with Microsoft Technical Support every since the first deactivation only to finally today getting the following response.

    Hi Ed,

    This is XXXXXX from Microsoft Online Technical Support.

    Thank you for writing back and for the update on the issue. I understand that you removed the AMD Dual core optimizer software from the computer and the game deactivated three times till then. I therefore find that the issue still persists and we have not been successful in resolving the issue.

    Edward, I would recommend you to return the game and obtain a refund of the product. Please note that our product refund number is (888)-673-8624. There is currently no resolution to the issue you are experiencing with the game. If there is a fix for this issue in the future, I would definitely contact you through e-mail and you could purchase the game again with the refunded amount and I am sure you will be able to enjoy the game to the fullest.

    I am looking forward to your response and thanks for using Microsoft Online Assisted Support.

    Thank you for your understanding and patience!

    Best regards,

    XXXXXX

    Microsoft Games Technical Support

    To provide additional feedback or to explore more support options, please visit the Microsoft Help and Support Website at:
    http://support.microsoft.com/games

    I would appreciate any response that you may offer.

    EM

    Comment by Ed McComb — Sunday, December 10th, 2006 @ 11:26 am

  4. Wow, Ed, that’s the first I’ve heard of that. Let me see what I can find out.

    Comment by jonpatch — Monday, December 11th, 2006 @ 12:05 pm

  5. Hi Ed,

    I looked into this a bit to my limited ability. I suggest you escalate this with MS support, whatever it takes to do that. Don’t take no for an answer.

    Comment by jonpatch — Tuesday, December 12th, 2006 @ 3:22 pm

  6. Hi. I have just bought the flight simulator x and i tried to activate using the phone because i do not have internet at home. So the automated machine when comes to give the last information id group (H) digits is saying Thank You instead of giving the actual numbers. I have tried twice but no luck. I am in Namibia (windhoek) and i am calling in South Africa. what should i do now? please help…

    Comment by Dexter — Thursday, December 14th, 2006 @ 2:42 am

  7. Have you tried pressing “0″ or “1″ to get an operator?

    Jon

    Comment by jonpatch — Thursday, December 14th, 2006 @ 7:39 am

  8. I was just wondering why I have problems with the graphic settings It works great at default but when I change the weather and the plane graphics and even the ground graphics after loading the simulator it will say 100% complet but will just flash and not go into the game.
    I have 256mb video card
    AMD 64 Athlon
    500 Gb hard drive space
    3200+ Processor
    1.99 Ghz 1.00 GB Ram
    What am I doing wrong..
    Thank’s

    Comment by Badgerock — Tuesday, December 26th, 2006 @ 3:29 pm

  9. Wowza, that sounds ugly. Suggest contacting Microsoft customer support.

    Comment by jonpatch — Tuesday, December 26th, 2006 @ 3:34 pm

  10. when i tired to install FSX for the first time it all looked good until near the end of finishing on the second disk when it showed a similar- error 1603 this was apparently ‘fatal’ and i also incurred an error 1935, ive searched all over the net for a similar problem and cure for it, no luck, could you suggest anything?

    Comment by RichyNo1 — Tuesday, December 26th, 2006 @ 5:27 pm

  11. Yup, I’ve heard of folks with that problem, and I don’t know if there is a resolution. Have you tried it multiple times? I’ve heard of instances where a second try worked. And here’s another anecdotal suggestion that may or may not work: start the installation, then cancel it before it gets to the error, then try again. If that doesn’t work, your best bet is to contact Microsoft Support directly.

    Comment by jonpatch — Tuesday, December 26th, 2006 @ 5:44 pm

  12. I have recently aquired a copy of Flt Sim X deluxe and after getting it to load and trying to register it online (no phone registration available?) it throws up an error saying that it may need re-loading or contact MS customer support.
    It then goes into the demo version.
    I’ve tried re-loading, no good.
    Checked online and that suggested the registry settings. They were correct. I disabled my anti-virus and firewall and tried again. No good. Customer services are at a loss and having seen this thread, i see why! Anybody else experienced this and did you solve it?

    Comment by chrissims — Wednesday, December 27th, 2006 @ 11:22 am

  13. Jon
    Actually a question since MS cannot resolve the issue for me. Is there a conflict with the X version and the FS 2004 version both loaded on my computer. I had tweaked FS2004 and the graphics and add-ons were beautiful. I still fly 2004. I purchased X deluxe and the X vesrion:
    sturrers, has low frame rate, hangs up, reboots etc. I have performed clean boots, and all the other suggestions MS had.
    Do I have to uninstall FS2004 to get X to run properly? Is there a conflict with the graphics?
    I have always used a “End it All” program to disable all the background junk when I fly and it has always worked-until the X version.
    Help
    Thanks
    Ray Johnson
    rjstack43@houston.rr.com

    Comment by Ray Johnson — Friday, December 29th, 2006 @ 7:56 am

  14. Ray, some folks say there is no conflict or interaction, but others report the same experience as you. Personally I’ve had no problem. So I can’t add much. Have you dropped by the forums at http://www.avsim.com ?

    Comment by jonpatch — Friday, December 29th, 2006 @ 6:59 pm

  15. Ray, here’s some more questions and suggestions:
    - how much hard drive space do you have left? how much RAM do you have? What type and speed of CPU? What graphics card do you have? How much RAM does it have?
    - if you know how to use regedit, check to see that the registry has the correct path to both executables

    Comment by jonpatch — Saturday, December 30th, 2006 @ 9:19 am

  16. hello, i was wondering if you could help me ive installed the disk but when i go to run it it say’s that the graphics driver is not up to date. however as far as i can tell it is up to date.
    the out of date driver is a VIA/S3G unichrome pro IGP.
    the current driver is 6.14.0010.0241.
    thank you for any help

    Comment by ben — Wednesday, January 3rd, 2007 @ 10:31 am

  17. I’m not familiar with that card, you may have to Google the net for some hints, or post over at http://www.avsim.com.

    Comment by jonpatch — Wednesday, January 3rd, 2007 @ 10:50 am

  18. thanks

    Comment by ben — Wednesday, January 3rd, 2007 @ 11:12 am

  19. I bought FS X Deluxe and it will not install. Rather than go through all of the bull crap, I will get my money back. Microsoft should be ashamed of themselves. I have a brand new T60 Lenovo with all of the bells and whistles. It simply will not install. I was stupid enough to buy Gate’s book about business at the speed of thought. Back to the real cockpit. . .

    Comment by James — Saturday, January 13th, 2007 @ 5:37 pm

  20. Microsoft Flight Simulator X Deluxe DVD1 REPACK

    It seems our packager messed up the original DVD1 image. So here\’s the real deal.

    Comment by svrmarty — Sunday, January 14th, 2007 @ 12:33 pm

  21. I recently purchased and installed FSX on an AMD X2 based system (raid card and SLI graphics). I’ve had repeated deactivation problems and have explored the issue with the MS support people. After numerous attempts at clean booting the system using msconfig, I was left without resolution to the problem. They suggest returning the software for a refund.

    The support tech suggests it’s a problem with the hardware hash used to generate the license. The tech thought it would help by dissabling everything but the Microsoft services. This didn’t resolve the issue.

    Any thoughts?

    thanks

    Comment by Ian — Wednesday, January 17th, 2007 @ 10:31 am

  22. Ian,

    Word has it that there is a problem with Silicon Image RAID controllers, that is apparently fixed by a BIOS and driver update for the RAID controller. Without the update apparently the raid controller tells windows inconsistent information about hard drives which leads activation to think that the hardware keeps changing.

    Let us know if that works.

    Comment by jonpatch — Wednesday, January 17th, 2007 @ 6:03 pm

  23. Thanks,

    I’ll try updating the raid drivers and see if this little problem goes away!

    Regards,

    Ian

    Comment by Ian — Thursday, January 18th, 2007 @ 10:34 am

  24. HI Guys… I recently purchased FSX and installed it no with problem. My system is meeting all of the requirements to run the game, but the graphics are……not good. If i look at the aircraft from an outside view it looks wrecked, or like parts are missing. The runway disappears, reappears as does the ground, mountains, oceans, etc…..Have I just got a setting wrong or something opr is there a deeper problem??? Please Help! -Jason

    Comment by Jason — Sunday, January 21st, 2007 @ 7:14 pm

  25. I have tried to find a joystick like the one shown on the inside cover of the quick reference manual, but no luck. I bought a longitec 3d joystick. I can get it to fly the 172 but none of the buttons work like the ilistration. Can you help me? Dave.

    Comment by David Lahey — Wednesday, January 24th, 2007 @ 12:20 pm

  26. I tried to install Flight Simulator X but it always comes up with Error 1603 relating to a file which needs to be replaced may be held in use. Then Error 1607 unable to install InstallShield Scripting Runtime. I already have FS 2004 installed but I am reluctant to uninstall this until I am OK with FSX, Can you advise?

    Comment by MCooper — Saturday, January 27th, 2007 @ 5:44 am

  27. @Jason: yup, that’s sounds like a bigger problem than FSX: may be thevideo card.

    @David: I think that’s an obsolete product in that illustration! In any case, to reassign your buttons, from the startup screen, choose “SETTINGS”, then on the Settings screen on the right-hand-side, choose “Controls”, then at the top of the screen choose the “BUTTONS/KEYS” tab. Make sure the correct controller is shown in the “Controller type:” field. Scroll down the assignment list to find the function you want then click “New Assignment” and follow instructions.

    @MCooper: Make sure you have .NET framework 2.0 runtime installed. (search MS downloads). Also the installation may be aborting because there are remnants left in the registry from previous failed installs. Use a registry cleanup program to fix this. Suggest posting on AVSIM.com if you have more problems.

    Comment by jonpatch — Saturday, January 27th, 2007 @ 1:43 pm

  28. I have just installed Vista followed by Flt sim X. My computer was built by myself and hosts a dual core intel 3G processor, 2 G Ram and SATA C Drive with a Raido configuration as the scratch drives. I have had no real problems with FltSIM X, It registered OK over the internet, but when I down loaded the “updates” yes I said updates It said I couldnt install them because FLT simx SDK was not installed. Have you any ideas?

    Comment by Paul — Friday, February 2nd, 2007 @ 5:57 pm

  29. Did you try installing the SDK? Do you have the deluxe edition?

    Comment by jonpatch — Friday, February 2nd, 2007 @ 6:56 pm

  30. I tried to install Flight Sim X but as soon as the DVD drive tries to read the disc my PC lock up and the disc won’t eject.My PC is a Dell Dimension B110 and meets the requirements of the software.

    Comment by Dave — Saturday, February 3rd, 2007 @ 5:13 pm

  31. hi there, i am experiencing similar problems to the guy in comment 8, fsx loads up great, but when it kicks in the screen flashes and no grpahics appear, we can narrow this down tho rather alot.
    First of all, this is my setup:

    Ati Radeon x1650 512mb
    Abit Nv8 Motherboard Socket 756
    2 Gig Corsair DDR 400mhz ram
    64bit Athlon 3400+ Processor
    M-Audio Firewire 410 Sound
    2x HP 19″ widescreen running duel

    Now. I recently purchased Windows vista, bearing in mind all this setup worked fine in xp.
    So i installed the 32 bit windows vista first because i wasnt sure about drivers and what not. Fsx worked lovely, so i install the 64bit windows vista and the problems started, the problem lies with the driver software for the Ati card, i am stumped as i cant seem to get an answer from Ati, (must be to busy harhar !)

    Any further help would be greatly appreciated as i have a 747 sitting in Honolulu that needs to be flown to Sydney !

    Many Thanks
    Tom

    Comment by Tom Edwards — Sunday, February 4th, 2007 @ 4:06 am

  32. I am experiencing exactly the same problem as Chrissims - bought Flt Sim X deluxe, which loaded and ran fine but will not activate. When you try and activate it comes back with a screen saying
    “A technical problem occurred while accessing the online activation server. Licence Authorisation was unsuccessful.”

    It then offers three options:

    1. Try again to activate on the Internet
    2. Activate by telephone now
    3. Activate later

    When you try and activate again you go around in a circle. When you take option 2 (no telephone numbers are supplied BTW) it exits the program with a error message in a box entitled “Product Activation Error”. The message in the box is:

    “An error occurred while attempting to activate the product. The problem may be due to an incomplete installation of the application. Reinstalling the application may resolve the problem. Otherwise, please contact product support for assistance.”

    Don’t know what to do. Re-installed as suggested, but same thing.

    For what it’s worth, FS2004 was installed already. PC spec is P3.2/2GB RAM, Raptor 10K HDD for WinXP SP2 and programs, 1TB on Silicon Raid plus 2TB of additional storage which is not used at all by any of the FS software so shouldn’t be a factor. Anyone have any ideas?

    I can get money back I’m sure (bought it on Amazon) who are usually good at returns, but would much rather have a working copy!

    Comment by Adrian — Sunday, February 4th, 2007 @ 6:30 am

  33. Flt sim x ran for 4 months the deactivated with error 1722,1603 .What happened????? 1 gig of ddr6400 ram Asus premium 3.2 g.processor

    Comment by stan ziel — Friday, February 9th, 2007 @ 4:13 pm

  34. Did you guys visit the MS support site and look at the suggestions on this issue? http://support.microsoft.com/ph/11941

    Jon

    Comment by jonpatch — Saturday, February 10th, 2007 @ 11:43 am

  35. yeh ive tried it all, however reading over the page again i found this >

    Hardware-specific graphics issues
    ATI
    To download ATI video cards, visit the following ATI Technologies Inc Web site:
    http://www.ati.com (http://www.ati.com)
    When you use the ATI Radeon X1800 CrossFire Edition video card, the screen may flicker or appear black.

    This is exactly my problem, nothing i can do short of wait for better drivers, or buy a new graphics card, which i just did about a month ago :S, im considering having a separate hard drive with WIN XP and FSX installed so i can fly, thanks anyway

    Tom

    Comment by Tom Edwards — Sunday, February 11th, 2007 @ 1:24 am

  36. *UPDATE*

    ive reinstalled everything and the same problem occured, so, i stated flight sim X with minimal graphics settings and the flickering appeared again. So i pressed ctrl alt and enter to take it to desktop mode and the flickering dissapered, i maximised the window and the graphics stayed, i can even open another window onto my second monitor !
    HURRAH !

    the problem lies with the poor graphics card drivers for windows vista, these graphics cards will be affected by the same problem :

    ALL ATI RADEON CARDS !!!!!

    Comment by Tom Edwards — Sunday, February 11th, 2007 @ 3:29 am

  37. my flight sim x keeps coming up with this message and it wont let me play on the game.

    ” An error occured while attepmting to activate this product. The problem may be due to a incomplete installation of the application. reinstalling the application may resolve the problem. otherwise contact support.

    i reinstalled flight sim x but the same thing keeps happening

    write back please
    josh

    Comment by josh — Monday, February 12th, 2007 @ 8:28 am

  38. Josh, have you contacted support? Have you looked at the solutions at the Microsoft Support Link?

    And keep in mind that there is an upcoming patch for FSX (availability date not released) that might address this.

    Beyond this, I don’t have any other suggestions…. good luck!

    Comment by jonpatch — Monday, February 12th, 2007 @ 8:36 am

  39. thanks. nothing on the support link matches my despcription that i put in.
    thanks again
    josh

    Comment by josh — Monday, February 12th, 2007 @ 8:40 am

  40. I had the same problem as Dave (comment # 30)

    Searching internet revealed others had same problem but no solution. After much frustration, I found a task running under the task manger window - DLACTRLW.EXE.This file is the Sonic Drive Letter Access component (DLA).It is installed by Sonic CD and DVD burning software applications such as RecordNow. I disabled this on startup, re-booted and can now install OK!

    Hope this helps out

    Kevin

    Comment by Kevin — Sunday, February 18th, 2007 @ 8:39 am

  41. hey ive just purchased fsx…
    im trying to install the game but whenever i insert the disc(1 of course) it doesnt do anything….
    no autoplays or whatsoever….

    ive tried goind inside the cd…
    and found out that there is no “setup.exe” to open….

    well theres the SDK but no setups….
    the add/remove cant also locate the “setup.exe”….

    is that ryt…?
    need help…

    Comment by dane — Sunday, February 18th, 2007 @ 9:26 pm

  42. i downloaded fsx run the game once worked some what ok went online to play got into the game room seen more screen jumping then playing time now cannot get the game to do anything at all and by the way where i purcased my fsx once you open the game its yours there is no returnes

    Comment by dion — Tuesday, February 20th, 2007 @ 4:45 pm

  43. I have flight six X and it ran great on my XP system. I upgraded to Vista figuring it would work even better. I reinstalled it on Vista and the graphics are horrble, the screen blinks and it is unplayable. I then updated my whole system and now have a 5.9 vista rating on my graphic card 5.1 CPU and 5.6 memory… this is about as high as you can get and still the game will not play on Vista! I though it was made with Vista in mind? Anybody get this game to work on Vista?

    Comment by tommymsw — Monday, February 26th, 2007 @ 5:33 pm

  44. I have the exact problem as nr 41. SO far what I did was deactivate DLA (auto recording on the DVD drive) and I uninstalled all burner programs and DVD player programs, except Nero. It seems to “see” the disk now, but still can’t get it to do anything. tried add program, no success, tried start>run>E:\autorun, no success.
    I’m starting to think something about microsoft: NO SUCCESS!
    I should have known better than to buy an MS program for a PC, even after 6 months after release!
    I might stick to my apple that hasn’t crashed a single program since I got it 3 years ago! (well, actually, it did start to hang up once, but recovered by itself by quitting the program. You know what the program was? MICROSOFT MESSENGER!!!!! So that was the last MS program ever entering my Mac…)

    For anyone that wonders why bill is so rich, and why MS is so rich, well, here you have it. Let people buy products that are not even finished (seems popular these days as they are not the only ones to do that) and charge people for teh smallest fart they make…

    Comment by kryn — Sunday, March 4th, 2007 @ 5:06 am

  45. Heres one for you.I had FSX installed and running well until one night while flying in alaska I brought up the map to see where I was,I got a message when trying to zoom in saying “unable to find dlgalert.bmp” and the machine hung.so I turned off waited a bit and restarted ,and when i tried to start FSX it just brought up the first start up screen and i got the sane message. so I tried to uninstall the software thru control panel ect and it would not let me. As I had the software on a slave drive i decided to formatt it and then reload the game…guess what it would get about 3/4 of the way thru install shield and then I get a new message “error 1628 ” could not complete installation . any Ideas.

    Comment by john.M — Wednesday, March 7th, 2007 @ 9:24 pm

  46. Hi John, that error 1628 does seem to be a bugaboo for many people. I’m hopeful the upcoming SP1 patch will address this issue.

    I presume you’ve already contacted MS support …

    Comment by jonpatch — Wednesday, March 7th, 2007 @ 9:43 pm

  47. Hi John i wonder if you have encounted my problem before, i cant seem to find it anywhere..
    game installs fine. When i goto play it the splash screen comes up with a hour glass and thats it, nothing else happens, it hasnt frozen because i can use things in the background, the game just hangs. (in task manager fsx.exe is using 99 percent of cpu and 94mb of ram)
    this is an ongoing problem, i had this the first time i installed it, i then formatted and started again and it then worked.. I had to reformat again because of another problem, installed the game and went to play to find this problem again!! I have a AMD 3800+ (single core) gigabyte am2 motherboard, asus nvidia 7600gt, 1gb corsair ddr2 800 ram, sata 500gb hard drive.. all with the latest drivers.
    I would ask MS supprot but it looks like they want payment for it!?
    Thanks for any help on the matter

    Comment by Jason — Wednesday, March 14th, 2007 @ 2:37 pm

  48. Hi Jason,

    Dunno about the problem, but I do know that you can get free support for the program. Hunt around the support page a bit more …

    Comment by jonpatch — Wednesday, March 14th, 2007 @ 2:52 pm

  49. where can I download additional aircraft for FlightSimX, looking for older military jets that I used to work on when I was in the Navy A-4,A-6,A-7 etc

    Comment by Darren — Friday, March 16th, 2007 @ 5:02 pm

  50. Hi Darren,

    Try:
    http://www.avsim.com
    http://www.hovercontrol.com
    http://www.flightsim.com

    You’ll need to sign up, but it’s free.

    Comment by jonpatch — Saturday, March 17th, 2007 @ 11:24 am

  51. Microsoft flight simulsator deluxe edition A Technical problem occured while acessing the online activation server.
    The Activation server could not be reached

    Comment by YAZAN — Saturday, March 31st, 2007 @ 1:21 am

  52. Hi, i installed fsx one one computer but have recently purchased a laptop, is there any way to delete the activation for my pc and transfer it to my laptop?
    Thanks :)

    Comment by Richard — Tuesday, April 10th, 2007 @ 8:28 am

  53. Hi Richard, you’d have to contact Microsoft or check the support website to find out how to do that. I would think there would be a way.

    Comment by jonpatch — Tuesday, April 10th, 2007 @ 9:34 am

  54. I Made the mistake of buying Flight SICKULATOR DELUXE also. I have had nothing but trouble.I can’t even install the game.

    Error messages etc. Gates has got his $64.00. I hope he chokes on it. There are no returns.

    May I suggest X-Plane to all my brothers out there….?

    Comment by Pat — Tuesday, April 10th, 2007 @ 1:54 pm

  55. HI. Any news on a fix for the 1722 error? I tried the Microsoft SLDL util but get a HERROR…

    Comment by nick — Saturday, April 14th, 2007 @ 12:15 am

  56. Nick, I know nothing beyond what’s on the support site, but SP1 is supposed to address some of the activation issues.

    Comment by jonpatch — Saturday, April 14th, 2007 @ 7:16 am

  57. Thank you! Any idea when SP1 will be available? Regards

    Comment by nick — Saturday, April 14th, 2007 @ 9:42 am

  58. As our friends at MS would say: it’ll be ready when it’s ready. ;) So I don’t have a better idea than that, except to say (as pointed out by Phil) that the end of April is pretty unlikely.

    Comment by jonpatch — Saturday, April 14th, 2007 @ 10:13 am

  59. man! I’ve ‘cheated’ the install (booting when error pops up) so obly have 30 min of flying adventures. Better than nothing I suppose…

    Comment by nick — Saturday, April 14th, 2007 @ 10:18 am

  60. That sucks, Nick. Have you called MS support?

    Comment by jonpatch — Saturday, April 14th, 2007 @ 10:26 am

  61. Nope. I spent hours on forums and tried all of the advise / suggestions but to no avail. Based on your entry further up re the refund, I think that is what MS will most likely tell me as I have tried many lots of things here…

    Comment by nick — Saturday, April 14th, 2007 @ 10:46 am

  62. Hi, i’m considering buying a dell e1705 laptop, intel 2duo 2.2 ghz, vista premium, 2gb memory, 120gb hard drive, nvidia 256 7900gs video card. should i be able to run fs2004 on that, or just opt for the new fsx? thanks.

    Comment by Ryan — Tuesday, April 17th, 2007 @ 12:15 am

  63. FS2004 will run great on that. The results with FSX are very subjective, as it depends on the settings that you want to use, you might be very happy with that machine or not. I do recommend a video card with at least 512Mb of RAM, but 256Mb will be adequate for a certain level of performance.

    Comment by jonpatch — Tuesday, April 17th, 2007 @ 6:44 am

  64. Having just brought FSX i have spent the last 7 hours trying to install it and have now had enough after trying eveything i could relating to error 1722 and 1603. carn’t wait to tomorrow to take the game back and get my hard earn money back to buy a none microsoft game. will have to stick with 2004 version for now.

    Comment by Darren — Wednesday, May 2nd, 2007 @ 12:20 pm

  65. Hi!! I have problems with VIA/S3G UniChrome Pro IGP .0 because my Fligth Simulator can´t run !!! Have you know some patch to solve this problem thanks !!

    Comment by Claudio — Tuesday, May 8th, 2007 @ 3:33 pm

  66. Nope, I don’t know of a patch, Claudio. That’s a pretty old card, I believe.

    Comment by jonpatch — Tuesday, May 8th, 2007 @ 3:39 pm

  67. what are the best computers specs i need to get the most out of fsx without breaking the bank, it seems this sim is far beyond what is currently availible as far as computer performance for the avarage person

    Comment by john mccarthy — Wednesday, May 16th, 2007 @ 9:37 am

  68. I was using FSX deluxe on an old HP, using a GEforce 5200 video card with 100GB hard drive and 1GB Ram, settings were low, but I could run it fine, sucked because i like graphics and wanted to see all the neat stuff at airports. I was using window XP professional as the OS. Anyway I decided to upgrade to a HP 6600,AMD Duel 64×2 4800 ,ATI Radeon 1300X 512mb video card, with Vista premium 32 bit. Big mistake. Game will work fine until someone in multiplayer requests a chat or wants to add me to there friends list, or in free flight, I use tool bar on top of screen maybe to pick another plane, the screen will go black, and come back saying fatal error, vista is trying to resolve this issue please wait..microsoft FSX is restarting, and im like whats going on, if the box says windows vista OS as a system it will work on then why cant it?

    Comment by Bill Hale — Sunday, May 20th, 2007 @ 3:18 pm

  69. Could someone answer this question. I have a Mac G5. Daul Proc/ With gigs of memory, running OSX (Tiger 10.4.9). If I purchase Virtual PC W/ XP Pro will it run Flight Simulator X? Would like to know before I invest the time and money…

    …Thanks in Advance!
    Mike D.

    Comment by mike — Tuesday, May 22nd, 2007 @ 12:56 pm

  70. Same as Bill at 68. FSX runs fine until I try to change something via the tool bar, crashes and restarts- I also have ATI Radeon 1300 512mb video card, with Vista premium 32 bit.

    Comment by Pat Hynes — Thursday, May 31st, 2007 @ 10:49 am

  71. i install flight sim x and it comes up with an error message saying the MSXML4 SP2 component is not installed. please reinstall flight sim to restore and repair this missing component.

    I have reinstalled the game and it comes up wit the same error message.

    I wondered if you could help
    Thanks in advance

    Josh

    Comment by josh — Friday, June 1st, 2007 @ 3:31 am

  72. @John: recommended minimum 256Mb vidoe card, preferably 512Mb; 1.5Gb RAM, dual core CPU
    @Mike D: I’d ask this question on AVSIM.com. Click on forums, and find your way to MS Hardware forum
    @Pat: contact MS support
    @Josh: http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=3144b72b-b4f2-46da-b4b6-c5d7485f2b42&displaylang=en

    Comment by jonpatch — Friday, June 1st, 2007 @ 7:29 am

  73. Through the free support forums on ms support, I’m not paying £40 for them to fix the game that they sold me, I have found that to stop fsx crashing btwn screens ALT+Enter works a treat. Not sure if its radeon or vista but by switching to a window rather than full screen appears to be a temp, fix. Try this Bill

    happy flying, cheers Jon

    Comment by Pat Hynes — Friday, June 1st, 2007 @ 12:24 pm

  74. I have a system I built myself which I consider to be pretty darn good. It has an Asus a8n sli deluxe mb with a fx-60 cpu and 2gig of Corsair ram with a 250 gig sata drive and an 8800GTx video card. I figured I would be set for graphics and power for some time. I was right on every piece of software I own until I purchased FSX. It worked ok without the patch, but definately needed help. I have installed the patch, and noticed a decent upgrade in graphics. My only problem is that the darn thing crashes all the time. It crashes on the runway before a flight, or in the middle of a flight. Basiclly it crashes whenever and wherever I am in a flight. I have changed the setting to lower the graphics. and a few other things. Why should this be on a computer that is made to be graphiclly superior to many. I have had no issues with any other programming. No problems at all. Can someone tell me that Microsoft is working on this as I am sure there are a lot of people in the same boat as me. I have flown on this software since its first rendition and this is the first time I have been this dissappointed.

    Comment by Dave — Monday, June 4th, 2007 @ 5:51 am

  75. Hi,

    I purchased microsoft flight sim x a few months ago but it seems no matter how many different ways i try to install it when it comes time to read the second disc it just won’t recognize it. I have returned FSX for a new copy and also atemnted an install on a second computer. The other computer was able to install FSX but being that it was rather old it was not capable of running it when the install was finished. This computer contains the following:
    3.2ghz intel processor (64 bit)
    2gig of ram
    asus motherboard
    geforce 6600 video card
    Running Windows XP fully updated
    benq dvd dd dw1620
    all with the latest drivers.

    I was able to download and run the demo as well as move the copy from the older computer to the new computer but that runs into registry issues. Microsoft Tech support has given me absolutly no help in this matter and its been 5 days and I’m still waiting for a reply from them.

    Thanks
    Alex

    Comment by Alex — Sunday, June 10th, 2007 @ 6:14 am

  76. I apologize for forgetting specifics. The issue is after installing the first disc when switching to the second disc it is never found. I followed the tech response of uninstalling all Nero software and also restarted with minimal processes running. I also found that if I were to simply put the second disc in and open it things were fine, however if i attempted to install the game placed the second disc into the drive tried to accept the second disc, after it would come back not found if i tried to open the disc manually it would crash the computer.

    Thanks again
    Alex

    Comment by Alex — Tuesday, June 12th, 2007 @ 3:14 pm

  77. Sounds like you might have a windows installer issue or your ASPI drivers need to be updated or installed. The ASPI driver allows CDDA32 and DAT2WAV the ability to talk to the CDROM/DAT drives. Updating this driver has really solved alot of CDROM problems that i’ve had. Make sure your windows installer is up to date also, sounds like a procedure call to the next disk is being lost somewhere.

    I’ve seen a quite a few people complaining about FSX but I just got it a week ago and love it. I’m running a Intel Pentium D Core 2 Duo (3.4gig) with 2 gigs of PC6400 DDR2 and video is a VisionTek X1950 XGE AGP. I do have the problem with video flicker but I have to check to see if the SP is installed or not and still need to do some tweaking but as for now, I love it.

    Comment by SpudNuts — Tuesday, June 19th, 2007 @ 1:10 pm

  78. Thanks I believe that was my problem. I have installed FSX now and am having a great time.

    Comment by Alex — Friday, June 22nd, 2007 @ 8:34 am

  79. i have bought fsx i have installed it and tryedd to play everything comes perfectly fne once i am in and aeroplane i move my mouse to pull the trigger up and down but once i move my mouse it freezes than after like 2 min its says u need to get the update of the ATI graphics driver plz can u tell me where to install it

    Comment by john — Sunday, June 24th, 2007 @ 12:46 am

  80. John,

    Download your driver from:
    http://ati.amd.com/support/driver.html

    If you need further assistance, post in this forum: http://forums.avsim.net/dcboard.php?az=show_topics&forum=151

    Comment by jonpatch — Sunday, June 24th, 2007 @ 8:35 am

  81. I just bought FSX last week and it loaded with no problems. It appears to be working normally for the exception of one airplane (MD-83) model not avail for selection. I checked the MD-83 directory and all the files seem to be there. I even copied the MD-83 model from my FS2004 game into the airplanes directory with no success. Have you heard of this before.

    Kevin

    Comment by Kevin Morello — Saturday, June 30th, 2007 @ 2:48 am

  82. Kevin, I’ve never noticed that before, but indeed it’s a no-show, likely because it’s intended for AI only. I see there is no panel folder, which is necessary for FSX to recognize a user-flyable aircraft. Plunk a 737 panel in there and it’ll appear. You’ll also have to provide a sound folder, but I don’t know how well it will fly.
    I’m sure this must have been discussed on simflight.com or avsim.com, so you might want to drop by there.

    Comment by jonpatch — Saturday, June 30th, 2007 @ 7:19 pm

  83. Ive been having some trouble with this microsoft flight simulator.First after I installed it, it said i was missing the msxml 4 sp2, I tried downloading it but dont understand how to install it. I also just re did my windows xp so everything was cleared off my computer, then I downloaded and installed all the required windows updates, restarted my computer. When i went back on, i clicked on the simulator and it started to play. , Then I downloaded the patch fine. Went to the graphic setting ajjusted accordingly, everything was goin smooth. I pick my plane and airport, and right as I take off my whole computer Restarts. I dont know how to fix this problem, my graphic card is the ati 1300 512 mb and i have windows xp.

    Comment by John — Monday, July 2nd, 2007 @ 9:06 pm

  84. John, I suggest you drop by http://forums.avsim.net/dcboard.php?az=show_topics&forum=151 for ideas and assistance.

    Have you contacted Microsoft first?

    Comment by jonpatch — Tuesday, July 3rd, 2007 @ 8:04 am

  85. Thanks for the advice, no I have not contacted microsoft yet, and the link did not solve my problem yet. Now before I had to re install windows xp, I had to do this because My computer would not start windows, it has not been working properly. Im thinking thier must be a download that I can do or something to help fix this problem, only thing is I dont know which one.

    Comment by John — Tuesday, July 3rd, 2007 @ 11:52 am

  86. Also forgot to add, to my suprise, I re installed microsoft flight simulator 2004, and it also restarted on me, now before I was forced to re install xp, I had no problems with it.

    Comment by John — Tuesday, July 3rd, 2007 @ 12:01 pm

  87. John, I recently purchased a dell xps computer with an intel quad core 2.66 Ghz 4 gigs of ram and two ati 1900 graphics cards. I tried to play fsx with crossfire enabled but I get a checkerboard at the top of the screen. with crossfire disabled it runs ok but I wanted the benefit of running two graphics cards. could you advise.

    Thank you
    Dennis

    Comment by Dennis Parker — Tuesday, July 10th, 2007 @ 9:27 am

  88. Hi Dennis,

    I’m not sure that you get much benefit in FSX with dual cards at this time, so if you’re doing fine with one, that may be ok.

    Do post in http://forums.avsim.net/dcboard.php?az=show_topics&forum=151

    for more advice.

    Comment by jonpatch — Tuesday, July 10th, 2007 @ 10:27 am

  89. Hi have fsx deluxe installed on vista activated ok now get erro id25 null any ideas?
    Thanks

    Comment by Dennis — Friday, August 3rd, 2007 @ 10:45 am

  90. I’m not familiar with this, Dennis. Did you call Microsoft and search their site?

    Comment by jonpatch — Friday, August 3rd, 2007 @ 4:15 pm

  91. this is messed up, i’m running a quad 2.4ghz with 2gb ram and a nvidia 8800gts 640mb and i was playing flight simx and it crashed due to running out of video memory LOL

    Comment by Eric — Friday, August 3rd, 2007 @ 5:38 pm

  92. hi Dennis,

    I installed fsx and it ran fine for a long time…. Then i downloaded sp1 for x and my settings started changing and going higher

    Comment by Griffin — Monday, August 13th, 2007 @ 8:22 pm

  93. Hi,

    Every time I try to install MS Flight Simulator X, the process halts because of some missing Scenery/World/Texture 135aa34234iui … (you get the picture) file. My question is - how do I supply the system with a file that it is supposed to provide itself?

    Thanks,
    Les

    Comment by Les — Wednesday, August 15th, 2007 @ 9:16 pm

  94. Been running FSX fine until today, i upgraded to Windows Vista a couple of days ago, and reinstalled FSX with all my addons, and it worked until today. Now upon booting I get a message saying something about it failedto activate successfully, and im getting the same errors as all the people above.ie, it suggests there was an incomplete installation and posts Error 1603 and 1722 when trying to uninstall/reinstall/repair from DVD etc

    I had the SP1 installed too, plus al my addons. I seriously hope this doesnt mean it isnt going to work in Windows Vista for me, as i had spent loads on addons and even more upgrading my system for Vista + the cost of Vista itself. And after less than a week, i cannot play for more than 30 minutes. I doubt i can get a refund on my FSX as ive had it since release. Is the only way to run it to go back to XP? I thought FSX was designed to be run on Vista.

    One other thought, it seems not all of us are having problems running FSX, so is there a common link between those of us that are?

    could it be Duel Core Processors, or the specific motherboards or graphics cards? any ideas anyone?

    Hope someone can get me up and flying again very soon
    Regards
    Blodhemn

    Comment by Blodhemn — Sunday, August 26th, 2007 @ 4:48 am

  95. mine flight simulator x does not want to function with this plate via/s3g unichrome pro IGP.0 oq I makes please. helps me

    Comment by michel — Friday, September 21st, 2007 @ 8:10 pm

  96. I’m not familiar with that card, you may have to Google the net for some hints, or post over at http://www.avsim.com.

    Comment by jonpatch — Saturday, September 22nd, 2007 @ 10:33 am

  97. Hi, i have just purchased the flight sim x deluxe and when i put the dics1 into my dvd drive nothing happens…
    no auto run or anything, my drive doesnt seem to recognise it in my computer and the add remove programs doesnt work either help!

    Comment by Lee — Wednesday, October 31st, 2007 @ 9:07 am

  98. Lee, does your drive recognize other DVDs? In Windows Explorer, what do you see beside the drive letter? If nothing, you may want to take the disk back to the store you purchased it from ….

    Comment by jonpatch — Thursday, November 1st, 2007 @ 9:46 am

  99. Hi,
    I kept getting problems on my fsx. Someone suggested uninstalling it, i did this and now it won’t install. the dvd drive can see the disc but when i right click on the icon and select “auto run / install” nothing happens.

    Comment by matt — Sunday, November 18th, 2007 @ 9:24 am

  100. Hey Matt, you may have to call MS customer support on this one.

    Comment by jonpatch — Sunday, November 18th, 2007 @ 9:34 am

  101. Hi,
    I have been running fsx deluxe since it was released without trouble. In January I upgraded my PC to x64 dual processor but still ran it on XP and fsx was working great. In August I upgraded to Vista x64 - fsx installed OK and opens fast - but when I select a flight it is slow running up the scenery and when the flight starts - the minitor blikns in slow blinks, black periods are long/pic periods short 2sec/0.2sec - I have reinstalled many times tried all I could think of nothing doing. All this time fs2004 is running great. I uninstalled that too if that could be the cause but that didn’t help. What could I do?
    Thanks very much in beforehand.
    Gisli

    Comment by Gisli — Saturday, November 24th, 2007 @ 4:58 pm

  102. Yup, Gisli I’ve heard of such issues. Browse by the forums at http://www.AVSIM.com, you’ll probably find some ideas there.

    Comment by jonpatch — Saturday, November 24th, 2007 @ 6:51 pm

  103. I have been unable to install fsx deluxe.As soon as I put disk one into the DVD the computer hangs. Must power off. My OS is XP Pro. I also use the a Local Area Network at work. I have tried logging on as Admin/this computer. Help

    Comment by Paul — Saturday, November 24th, 2007 @ 6:57 pm

  104. Paul, have you contacted Microsoft Support?

    Comment by jonpatch — Sunday, November 25th, 2007 @ 9:12 am

  105. Hi
    I followed your adevise on my problems with Vista x64 and dual monitors and found the solution here= http://abwain.spaces.live.com/blog/cns!CF422639C7B1AD98!216.entry
    Thanks very much!

    Gisli

    Comment by Gisli — Monday, November 26th, 2007 @ 2:47 am

  106. This post concerns the fix for invisible airplanes from within MS Flight Sim X.

    I would sometimes see landing gear and a pilot, but no airplane structure. And, this would only happen to “certain,” but not all, airplanes. How weird. Turns out the problem is a driver related issue. Although I just bought my graphics card as a Xmas present, the CD it came packed with contained old, outdated drivers. The answer was to go to my graphics card website, and download and install their latest driver package. Problem solved!

    Comment by Wayne — Wednesday, November 28th, 2007 @ 3:49 pm

  107. Ok My FSX Regular Edition will not activate. If you ask me, I will never buy another game that makes me activate it. In Fact, I will never watch another commercial or listen to another review of a Game that makes me activate it. I’m so utterly dissapointed in the thought behind activating something I buy and not having it work. Im throwing my dam game out the window and hope it crack on the pavement below. Dear Game Producers you really know how to piss off a Gamer.

    Comment by Ross — Thursday, November 29th, 2007 @ 2:59 pm

  108. Hi, I have problem with my fsx de luxe. The game works perfectly, but after 10 or 15 minutes game stop responding. It is happening every thime. (Couldn’t write memory 0×7c809783 click ok to thrminate program). It drive me crazy!!!

    In have Nvidia 8500Gt Super (latest drivers)
    Processor: Intel Dual Core E 6550E 2.33GHz
    Mother board: ASUS P5S MX SE
    System Widows XP Home

    Comment by Lukas — Saturday, December 8th, 2007 @ 2:48 am

  109. Lukas, have you posted this problem on http://www.avsim.com or contacted Microsoft Customer Support?

    Comment by jonpatch — Saturday, December 8th, 2007 @ 9:25 am

  110. No, I haven’t contact them yet, I’ll try that and see. Thanks Jon.

    Comment by Lukas — Saturday, December 8th, 2007 @ 2:58 pm

  111. Let us know what you find out, Lukas.

    Comment by jonpatch — Saturday, December 8th, 2007 @ 4:27 pm

  112. Hi, i bought Flight Simulator X awhile ago, but, it worked very well, for awhile, but my computer wasent very good, so i ditched it, and went on with life.

    3.06 GHZ dual core processor
    512 RAM
    2X 74GB Hard drives
    Nvdia 7300 GT

    Later on, i discovered a new os called Windows XP black, which is like xp professional service pack 4 or something, im not sure. but anyways it ran extremily fast, and ran some of my other games at amazing rates, even when the quality was amped up, EX: NFS Most Wanted, And NFS, Carbon.

    Anyways, i Ramble
    I installed flight simulator x without a hitch, the installation worked great!
    it was on my windows hard drive too.

    ok than
    i started out by going to free flight, it started up, i had the preformance amped, just like everything, yeah, it was a long loading time, but i was like whatever.
    so, it gets into the game.
    i am on the runway of halifax international airport on my way to JFK new york.
    i just start going, everything is fine, and responding
    i just get fast enough to rotate, and my front wheels are off the ground, and my computer crashes
    im stunned

    it reboots to bios (when you first start the computer) and, it starts up

    someone said to disable automatic shutoff when a problem happens, i do.
    I do it again, a blue screen flashes up just as i am about to rotate.
    it sais something about visual drivers, i have the latest drivers from nvdia. it makes no sence?

    Do you have any idea how to fix this?
    i tried to include every single possible detail in my problem.
    tks, if you find a way, or you could email me a solution at Jake_jones63@hotmail.com

    Comment by Jake_jones63@hotmail.com — Friday, December 14th, 2007 @ 8:43 pm

  113. How do I download FSX back on my computer after I had everything removed, after a vires? Herb at hb1367@att.net

    Comment by Herb J. Bruseth — Saturday, December 22nd, 2007 @ 8:11 am

  114. Herb, I don’t understand your question: is it not a matter of reinstalling from your original installation disks?

    Comment by jonpatch — Saturday, December 22nd, 2007 @ 8:34 am

  115. Jake, try going back to an earlier version of nvidia drivers.

    Comment by jonpatch — Saturday, December 22nd, 2007 @ 11:33 am

  116. hi jake I just wanted to know if you made your computer if you did find out if your motherboard is a ATI board

    Comment by dylan — Sunday, December 30th, 2007 @ 3:48 pm

  117. Hi, i installed FSX some time ago, it all was very well(perfermance, loading time, graphics etc. was great). Later on (about 2 days later as far as i remember) it just stopped working! The blue window saying Microsoft Flight Simulator X appears and it’s not responding…
    I didn’t change anything (well, i installed narbacular drop game, but uninstalled it after that… mmm… error (but there’s no error) happend to fsx).
    After uninstalling narbacular drop fsx still didn’t work, so i went to ms support, there was smth about restarting the computer by using a clean startup procedure. I did it - same thing again fsx’s not responding.
    I tried to (not sure how it’s called in english) repair system - it wasn’t much help also.

    I have:
    2.61 GHZ dual core AMD processor (5200+)
    some kind of ASUS motherboard
    2 GB RAM
    250GB hard drive (16GB free)
    Nvdia 8600 GT (512 MB) (169.21 version drivers if it matters)

    Could you please help?

    Comment by Boris — Wednesday, January 2nd, 2008 @ 10:50 am

  118. Hi Boris, try uninstalling and reinstalling FSX. And then give MS customer support a call. Let us know what you find out.

    Comment by jonpatch — Wednesday, January 2nd, 2008 @ 11:26 am

  119. Thanks for unswering, but reinstalling didn’t work (i’ve done it right after writing firs post). A phonecall might be a good idea (if there’s local support line or smth like that (international one is not suitable for my parents will probably… not be very happy))
    If it won’t help, i’ll write again tomorrow.

    Comment by Boris — Wednesday, January 2nd, 2008 @ 5:00 pm

  120. Nothing new at support line.
    It all was about what i’ve already done - also they said i coud try creating new account (it also was on their web site) - it didn’t work.
    Finally they said i might want to uninstall/install windows and install game again - that’s what i probably going to do if i find no other way to bring fsx back to life.

    Comment by Boris — Thursday, January 3rd, 2008 @ 1:18 am

  121. Hm… Problem solved, thanks for trying to help.
    I just uninstalled gmax and sdk, also removed gmax’s registration data from system registry(again not sure how it’s called in english) and everything works… For some reason…
    Cheers

    Comment by Boris — Thursday, January 3rd, 2008 @ 2:33 am

  122. Glad you got it fixed up, Boris. That’s a weird one. Can you reinstall the SDK now?

    Comment by jonpatch — Thursday, January 3rd, 2008 @ 2:52 pm

  123. Hi I just bought FSX installed and loaded, however everytime I try to take off my computer crashes. Also any time I esc a mission it crashes. I loaded a new driver I tried an old driver downloaded a service Pack 2 for FSX nothing worked.

    I have a Radeon X800 Card

    any help out there?

    Comment by Dave — Thursday, January 3rd, 2008 @ 7:06 pm

  124. Yes, reinstalled it without any problems, thanks. That’s realy strange though, but everything works fine.

    Comment by Boris — Friday, January 4th, 2008 @ 5:11 am

  125. Dave, try posting in the forums at http://www.avsim.com …

    Indeed, Boris, that is weird!

    Comment by jonpatch — Friday, January 4th, 2008 @ 8:03 am

  126. I BOUGHT FLIGHT SIMULATOR X AND TRIED INSTALLING THE FIRST DISC INSTALLS OK, SAYS TO INSERT DISC2 IT THEN FLASHES A SMALL BLACK SCREEN CALLED DVDCHECK.EXE SCREEN(NOT SURE IF THIS HAS ANY MEANING), THEN IT SAYS TO INSERT THE DISC2 AGAIN,ONLY OPTIONS IS TO RETRY OR CANCEL OVER AND OVER IT DOES THIS…MY PUTER WAS MADE FOR HEAVY GAMING
    IS THERE SOMETHING I NEED TO CONFIGURE TO GET IT TO RECOGNIZE THE DISC? I HAVE INSTALLED THE GAME ON OTHER PUTERS INSTALLS ALL JUST FINE…THANX FOR ANY HELP
    LAURA K

    AMD 64 Athlon
    3800 Processor
    2.41 Ghz
    2 GIG RAM

    Comment by LAURA — Sunday, January 6th, 2008 @ 6:49 pm

  127. I just got dells top o da line GAMING pc, and was i excited. I had purchased Flight Sim X Gold Delux edition and could not wait to take to the skys………

    Then the nightmare began……..

    Every time i try to install, i get an error that a cab file is corrupt and the install cannot complete. Here is what i did to TRY and fix the problem….

    Return game 3 times, purchased 3 time at different store.

    Replaced optical drive

    Spent 3 days with Dell online chat tech support

    Dell tech connected to system and could not fix the error

    Spent a day with Microsoft Games tech support, issue was not resolved, they said call dell.

    Image retored my computer to factory settings

    Fully updated all drivers and necessary programs, and again after the restores

    Did a PC restore

    Did a system restore

    NOW WHAT???

    Comment by VERY ANGRY — Tuesday, January 8th, 2008 @ 4:10 pm

  128. beginer to mfsxdel had useful nav aids on screen but losted them all. how can i get them back. thanks.

    Comment by edmund schenk — Thursday, January 24th, 2008 @ 11:22 pm

  129. I’ve insta;;ed Flight Simulator X OK, but when I click on the free flight option - Windows crashes. Can anyone help?

    Comment by Chris — Sunday, January 27th, 2008 @ 7:15 pm

  130. Sorry, that shold have been installed OK

    Comment by Chris — Sunday, January 27th, 2008 @ 7:18 pm

  131. i have a problem i have fx and when i put in d 2 it kills my whole system 100%cpu usage i haev to turn off the computer is there any way to fix this problem i have 2g ram and graphics will run it but i just want to install it any one have any ideas help me please

    Comment by sally lewis — Monday, January 28th, 2008 @ 4:19 pm

  132. Hi, I’ve installed and run fsx but after a while i try to run it but it says ‘An error ecurred while attempting to activate the product. This may be due to an incomplete installation of the application . Reinstalling the application may resolve the problem. Otherwise please contact support for assistance.’ So I click OK and it starts up then my multiplayer link dissapears. So I’ved only been playing free flight then I think it thinks im running the demo and comes up with, ‘Thank you for playing Microsoft Flight Simulator X. The trial tim has now expired. Please Activate Microsoft Flight Simulator X to continue playing.’ So my pc tries to activate fsx but when it does it comes up with ‘problem 1′ again, I’m realy frusterated. Can anyone help?
    Thanks

    Comment by Lawso — Thursday, January 31st, 2008 @ 9:28 pm

  133. Oh, and also my graphic card isnt the best, so my graphics arent to good.
    Thanks

    Comment by Lawso — Thursday, January 31st, 2008 @ 9:30 pm

  134. i cant get disc 2 to load when i put it in it freezes up the system and down she goes d1 loads in ok d2 loads in ok on other computers how can i get it to work on mine help me please still cant work out why mine wont do it as i up graded it the other day to 2 g and the graphics i have isnt the best but it will run it please you are my only hope of help

    Comment by sally lewis — Friday, February 1st, 2008 @ 11:15 am

  135. Sally,
    Your Pc might not have enough power or something to run disc2?, Im not the best with Computers…

    Comment by Lawso — Friday, February 1st, 2008 @ 3:06 pm

  136. Edmund(or whateva ya name is),
    Try pressing ‘Shift’ + ‘123…’ and your panels/nav aids will come back.

    Comment by Lawso — Friday, February 1st, 2008 @ 6:24 pm

  137. I’ve tryed to answer peoples Q’s, will anyone help me?

    Comment by Lawso — Friday, February 1st, 2008 @ 6:26 pm

  138. Again I’m asking anyone…
    Hi, I’ve installed and run fsx but after a while i try to run it but it says ‘An error ecurred while attempting to activate the product. This may be due to an incomplete installation of the application . Reinstalling the application may resolve the problem. Otherwise please contact support for assistance.’ So I click OK and it starts up then my multiplayer link dissapears. So I’ved only been playing free flight then I think it thinks im running the demo and comes up with, ‘Thank you for playing Microsoft Flight Simulator X. The trial tim has now expired. Please Activate Microsoft Flight Simulator X to continue playing.’ So my pc tries to activate fsx but when it does it comes up with ‘problem 1′ again, I’m realy frusterated. Can anyone help?
    Thanks

    Comment by Lawso — Friday, February 1st, 2008 @ 9:27 pm

  139. Lawso, if you have activation issues, call the Microsoft customer support line and they will activate it over the phone.

    For faster response on issues, you may want to post problems on the forums at http://www.avsim.com. Help in these threads is available only sporadically.

    Good luck!

    Comment by jonpatch — Saturday, February 2nd, 2008 @ 10:15 am

  140. I’ve tried that but they’re about as much help as my uncles pair of underware, so I tried over phone but forgot that I lended the box and everything to someone so does anyone know what I can do?

    Comment by Lawso — Sunday, February 3rd, 2008 @ 12:32 am

  141. Sorry I thought you ment online chat or email…etc. Can You tell me more about what your talking about?

    Thanks

    Comment by Lawso — Friday, February 8th, 2008 @ 7:10 pm

  142. /\
    /__\
    / \ for apple,
    Please help its really annoying that I payed $100 for 30 minutes limit on the sim…, and no multiplayer…

    Thanks…

    Comment by Lawso — Friday, February 8th, 2008 @ 7:13 pm

  143. The AVSIM forums are a method of public discussion on issues related to flight simulation.

    Go to http://forums.avsim.net/.

    First, see if someone else has had the same problem: you can use the Search function (click on “Search” in the box that also has “Login” in it), then click on “Use advanced search form”. Enter some keywords, then click the “And” button, and further down, “Search now!”. Try a few different keyword combinations.

    Then you can make your own post if you haven’t solved the issue. Go back to http://forums.avsim.net/ and click on “Please register” and provide the information requested. Then click on http://forums.avsim.net/dcboard.php?az=show_topics&forum=197 to go to the hardware forum. The click “Post” and proceed from there to describe your issue.

    For non-hardware issues, like multiplayer, go to http://forums.avsim.net/dcboard.php?az=show_topics&forum=121 (the FSX forum) and post there.

    Please be clear in describing your issue: describe your system, when the problem occurs, etc. Be civil, polite and respectful or your post may be deleted.

    Good luck!

    Comment by jonpatch — Monday, February 11th, 2008 @ 8:09 am

  144. Sorry you were to late I was just about to reinstall fsx but now when I try to it comes up with: 1st: 1628:Failed to complete installation. Then: 2nd time I try to: 1607:Unable to install InsatallShield Runtime. I’ve tried all that support stuff but its all about their first install unlike to me its my 2nd time. I’ll try avism and see what they say…
    Thanks

    Comment by Lawso — Tuesday, February 12th, 2008 @ 9:28 pm

  145. Hi,
    Sorry I forgot to tell you that a guy who fixes my PC’s installed fsx, so that probaly sums it all up for you.
    Thanks

    Comment by Lawso — Tuesday, February 12th, 2008 @ 9:32 pm

  146. Hi all,
    probally going to see the guy tomorrow…

    Comment by Lawso — Thursday, February 14th, 2008 @ 11:18 pm

  147. cant today but maybe on monday

    Comment by Lawso — Friday, February 15th, 2008 @ 5:13 pm

  148. woooooopedooooo Somehow me and my dad tried and tried to download it and now its running like a dream…

    Comment by Lawso — Friday, February 22nd, 2008 @ 10:30 pm

  149. Great, Lawso, thanks for checking back in ….

    Comment by jonpatch — Saturday, February 23rd, 2008 @ 9:30 am

  150. I’ve been thru all the forums, called support,lot of babble, but no one seems to answer the simple question—how the hell do I activate this sim I paid for????? From activate online window, It says it can’t connect, click phone activate, and no phone window appears, just annoying error to reinstall, which I did 3 times. I got phone activation # from txt file, recorded services needs product ID—No phone activation window, no product ID to give—I tried running w/ process sys ini disabled, win ini disabled,load start items disabled, and all non micro services disable,firewall down, virus protection off—-still, nothing. Can’t run free flight, click menu and about for procuct ID—not there till activated. Support, like always, is clueless. Every thing works fine till 30 minute limit and my system is way over par. I have the activation key right in front of me—-who the hell can I give it to, to activate–sounds like a reasonable request—-but no one seems to have an answer, as I said earlier—–just babble !!!!!

    Comment by Van — Wednesday, March 5th, 2008 @ 7:05 pm

  151. Have you run the software licensing system reset tool?
    http://support.microsoft.com/kb/928080/en-us?spid=11941

    See http://forums.simradar.com/FSX_Error_1722_Solution_from_MS_P375021.html for some instructions…

    Comment by jonpatch — Wednesday, March 5th, 2008 @ 9:10 pm

  152. No, I didn’t—-I’ll give it a go, and get back to ya—thanks

    Comment by Van — Wednesday, March 5th, 2008 @ 9:19 pm

  153. by the by—-babble remark wasn’t directed at you

    Comment by Van — Wednesday, March 5th, 2008 @ 9:21 pm

  154. Well, I ran tool, and did another install (4), and online activation window still won’t connect, and phone activation window is nowhere to be found, leaving me with no product ID to phone activate, and right back where I was—running 30 min flights, and staring at a product key that I can’t do anything with. How can I get product ID w/out phone activation window—there’s gotta be a way. Or who could I call w/product key, or what other way to online activate besides flight sim online activation wizard ?????

    Comment by Van — Wednesday, March 5th, 2008 @ 11:09 pm

  155. Mmmmm–An activation issue that is very widely spread, that can surely be narrowed down to the activation wizard, yet, no one has any ideas—not even a lucky guess—I find that odd !! This is a Microsoft Flight Sim Link, isn’t it ?? This issue shows up in hundreds of forums daily, and no one can tackle it——-Seems activation should be an important step in the procedure ! But, I must be wrong !

    Comment by Van — Friday, March 7th, 2008 @ 11:45 pm

  156. Hi Van,

    Most folks solve their activation issues, but some I guess remain unsolved. I don’t know what to say about that, it’s a Microsoft issue.

    I don’t know what you mean by “This is a Microsoft Flight Sim Link”. This site is purely simmers helping other simmers, nothing official.

    Comment by jonpatch — Saturday, March 8th, 2008 @ 9:22 am

  157. Hi

    Have any of you guys encounter this problem. I have installed the game with no trouble and run it for a couple of times and played its mission. After a few days my game start to crash alot and eventually I was faced with the problem where the program not responding all together whenever I execute the thing. I tried uninstalling it and installing it again and it worked til the problem occured again. And now it just doesn’t work no matter what I do. It says that the fsx file is corrupted. Any help?

    Comment by Sam — Friday, March 14th, 2008 @ 6:11 pm

  158. Hi,

    I recently bought a new Fujitsu laptop with windows vista (32-bit) and installed flight sim X deluxe, and then the new fsx acceleration. The game ran like a dream and everything was perfect for about 3 weeks until suddenly fsx froze in-flight. I closed it via task manager, and tried to boot up fsx again, only to find that it hung up during the startup. It’s been doing so for about a week now, and I’ve tried everything I know possible to fix it but can’t. Any ideas??

    Thanks, Tristan

    Comment by Tristan Bergen — Saturday, March 15th, 2008 @ 1:36 pm

  159. when i go on 2 multiplayer it logs me out saying that i logged on at another computer. any ways 2 stop this????

    Comment by sam — Friday, March 21st, 2008 @ 8:35 am

  160. when i log on in multiplayer on fsx it says i logged on at another computer and logs me out. any reason y??

    Comment by sam — Friday, March 21st, 2008 @ 8:36 am

  161. is there a way to make flight simulater x deluxe go faster on loading????

    Comment by christianwarrior911111119999 — Monday, March 24th, 2008 @ 3:02 pm

  162. Patch to SP2…

    Jon

    Comment by jonpatch — Monday, March 24th, 2008 @ 3:59 pm

  163. Hello
    i just build a client a a new box and he went out and got fsx deluxe like i told him to. every time he put in disk one he bsod with no real error. and i go in explore the dvd and there is noting to see it seems to be blank. i am kind of at a loss i think it may be the dvd rom drive but it works with every thing else just not the fxs disk it is funny when i go to explore the disk windows makes it look like it want to burn to it . but also he has exchange it once befre at the same store is it possiable that is could be a bad shipment. the cpu is not over heating it does not even have a chance to run.

    Comment by Jacob — Monday, April 7th, 2008 @ 1:05 pm

  164. Hi Guys

    Trying to install Microsoft Flight Sim X but when i insert the dvd (disc 1)into the drive nothing happens.
    But it works for MS X disc 2.
    Just system crashes and cannot install the game.
    The DVD drive works with other dvds and cd’s and the game installs on my other computer system.
    Very wired situation some help would be much appreciated thanks.

    Liam

    Comment by Liam — Thursday, April 10th, 2008 @ 3:01 am

  165. Recently I downloaded a(I forget what it wacalled) from Microsoft.Download took over an hour, if that helps identify it. Since then from the 2D cockpit, with the instrument panel totally removed, I am unable to get the unobstructed views to the sides and behind that were previously available before the download. Please send a remedy for this.
    Thank you

    Comment by Ross Jesswein — Wednesday, May 21st, 2008 @ 11:01 am

  166. when i try to setup fsx delux at the very end of installation it says registering product information for 10 mins and the a window pops up saying the installation was inturrupted. what should i do???!?!?!?!

    Comment by sean — Monday, May 26th, 2008 @ 5:48 pm

  167. I have a problem with instal FSX when i try install disc 1 say 1628 failed to complete instalation what i must to do??

    Comment by Alan — Saturday, June 7th, 2008 @ 4:28 am

  168. Hello. I’d like to report a workaround for nVidia users that are experiencing incompatibility problems with FSX+SP2 or FSX Accel and the current Forceware (175.16) drivers:

    Just disable Multiple Displays on the nVidia Control Panel. Select “Only use one display (Single)”, then you’ll be able to run FSX again.

    Rob

    Comment by resumil — Saturday, June 14th, 2008 @ 1:18 pm

  169. when I installed fsx everything went fine when I tried to install on a different system the disk locks up the whole system cant even eject the disk till i power it down what is the deal why cant the dvd drive read the disk its not damaged in any way still brand new but wont play at all starts to spin but then it just stops and cant do any thing till i restart the system cause it is completely locked up anybody got any suggestions? thanx

    Comment by DonniDarko — Monday, June 16th, 2008 @ 12:29 am

  170. i got a problem since i put acceleration, every time i want to save or changing view in cockpit, the game crash, what can i do?

    Comment by kecy — Friday, June 27th, 2008 @ 5:57 pm

  171. Good Day - I’m having the game freeze thing, then “Program not responding” I have all the latest drivers (175.19) and have all the right hardware according to the FSX spec’s … I have done everything possible checked for heat,power,memory and hardware - no problems … Even Nvidia said “We don’t know if its a driver or OS(Vista)problem” Many have the same malfunction … and with the price of high end video cards today well you-know. What do you think. Bob

    Comment by Robert Vertalics Sr. — Tuesday, July 1st, 2008 @ 4:45 pm

  172. OK, So, I’m a beggining developer using gmax, and I downloaded it from the internet. I design a Kick-Arse model of the DR-1 Fokker (RED BARON) and I can’t export. I realize that I needed to download GMAX from the SDK folder in FSX and I have FSX deluxe edition, and there is no SDK folder. PLEASE HELP!!!

    Comment by Kevin — Tuesday, July 22nd, 2008 @ 4:13 am

  173. Kevin, drop by the forums at fsdeveloper.com for gmax support.

    Comment by jonpatch — Tuesday, July 22nd, 2008 @ 7:31 am

  174. I have but they dont provide any insight on my situation

    Comment by Kevin — Tuesday, July 22nd, 2008 @ 8:22 am

  175. ya, so I’m missing the FSX_GmaxGamePack
    File from my comp, how do I get/Download?
    also, anyone know where I can ger 3ds max or something like it cuz 3ds is 908 MB Download, and It freezes after a while. I need to convert .gmax to .x For an airplane Import into fsx

    Comment by Kevin — Tuesday, July 22nd, 2008 @ 5:15 pm

  176. I have just purchased MS FSX Deluxe Edition but havent yet installed it. Before I install it, I would like to know whether my PC specs are ok for the game. They are as follows:

    AMD Athlon 64 processor 3500+
    2.21 GHz
    1.00 GB of RAM
    NVIDIA GeForce 6600 graphics card
    Windows Vista SP2

    Please could you write back as soon as possible
    Thankyou

    Comment by Charlie G — Monday, July 28th, 2008 @ 3:32 am

  177. That’s quite a low-end system to run FSX, however many users can still be happy if they reduce settings. You would have to reduce them considerably to get a flyable experience.

    Comment by jonpatch — Monday, July 28th, 2008 @ 7:55 am

  178. I have been trying to run FSX under Vista 64bit with 2 monitors with no success. Worked fine on XP. Ive seen on some forum, cant remember which it was now (unfortunately) that it will not work under Vista 64bit. Now, im looking at buying the Matrox Triple Head digital edition, to try and get round this. Can anyone tell me whether this will work or whether im still not going to get it working?.

    Thanks in advance
    Blodhemn

    Comment by Blodhemn — Saturday, August 2nd, 2008 @ 10:33 am

  179. P.S I should mention the reason for the Triple head, is because I know want to run 3 widescreen monitors. for a huge cockpit. :)

    Comment by Blodhemn — Saturday, August 2nd, 2008 @ 10:34 am

  180. Hi My trouble is that I can install disk one OK but when I put in disk 2, nothing happens, it just does nothing……. I have done everything, I am using Windows XP sp 2., and everything else that is required is there, it seems other folks are getting this same problem
    What now, do I keep running FS 2004??? that works fine

    Cheers Geoffrey

    Comment by Geoffrey Kennell — Thursday, August 28th, 2008 @ 10:43 pm

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