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Delta Virtual Airlines Water Cooler | PC Support | ugghhh....more FSX problems

DVA10723
Captain, B737-800
OLP

Joined on May 10 2012
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Myrtle Beach, SC

1,547 legs, 4,986.4 hours
19 legs, 27.1 hours online
1,525 legs, 4,930.9 hours ACARS
2 legs, 4.6 hours event

Posted onPost created on September 19 2012 10:00 ET by Josh Martin

I swear, I'm so friggin' sick of fsx and the problems I've had. I have never seen such an unstable & unpredictable program with so many flaws and problems as this one has. Microsoft should be embarrassed to have their name on the product. On my laptop, I had no problems running the program, except for the fact that I had to lower the graphic slider settings and what-not the majority of the way down on each.

Ever since I bought my new desktop that I had built, I've had nothing but problems. I've gotten several blue screens (only when running fsx), and when I got one last week and rebooted, FSX would load, but then on the main fsx screen, I could not choose anything. Whenever I clicked on anything in fsx, it locked up, crashed, and then I'd have to close out fsx totally. My friend that built the computer for me was a computer engineering major and is a computer guru. From what I've explained to him so far, he said the blue-screen could possibly have messed up files for fsx, but he said he doubted it.

I had a really hard time registering fsx with the serial key when I installed it on to the new computer. It would not connect and I could not use the program. My friend was in town (he lives about 2.5 hours away), and he was able to coincidentally get it installed. It was all working fine until the blue-screen issue....and again, now will not allow me to do anything other than load the program to the main screen.

I spent almost $1700 on this computer, and get more and more depressed daily that I'm not logging hours currently. I'm at the point where I'm ready to just purchase xplane. whether it's better or not I don't know, but I bet it runs solid.

If you have any advice, please help... :-/

Josh Martin

Captain, B737-800

DVA4180
Senior Captain, MD-88
OLP

Joined on March 08 2007
Online Century Club
Long Beach Century Club
50 State Club
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"Have A&P - Will work for peanuts!"
Van Buren Charter Township, MI

351 legs, 783.1 hours
193 legs, 388.4 hours online
340 legs, 759.3 hours ACARS
20 legs, 41.0 hours event

Posted onPost created on September 19 2012 11:27 ET by Joseph Schwab

Did you install all of the service packs? When I install a fresh FSX, I have those problems until I finally get all of the updates and service pack and such... Oh, and I hate X-Plane.. someone used to FSX whom switches to X-Plane will find it difficult to do so.

Joseph Schwab (DVA4180)

Posted onPost created on September 19 2012 11:42 ET by Josh Martin

Joseph, thanks for the response. Yes, both service packs are installed. I actually have the "acceleration" expansion pack which was included with the FSX I bought. That pack has both of the packs built-in.

Josh Martin

Captain, B737-800

Posted onPost created on September 19 2012 11:48 ET by Joseph Schwab

Ahh.. I had to actually uninstall the acceleration because it would not play fair with my new Ailenware computer... I had to go to plane jane FSX, and after I did all the SP's, I was golden... I have never been able to get Acceleration to work on my new rig.

Joseph Schwab (DVA4180)

Posted onPost created on September 19 2012 11:49 ET by Josh Martin

I don't know what to do...beyond frustrated

Josh Martin

Captain, B737-800

DVA853
Senior Captain, B747-400
OLP
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Rincon, GA

2,177 legs, 6,334.1 hours
2,157 legs, 6,292.8 hours online
2,145 legs, 6,201.0 hours ACARS
2 legs, 10.0 hours event
376 legs dispatched, 185.3 hours

Posted onPost created on September 19 2012 11:50 ET by Chris Hannigan

So just installing a clean copy and trying to load the 172 in Seattle just bombs out?

Chris Hannigan

Senior Captain, B747-400

Posted onPost created on September 19 2012 12:12 ET by Josh Martin

last time I tried to reinstall the program, I could not get FSX registered for the longest time. it would try to connect for 2-3 minutes after I entered the serial key, then timeout...and therefore, could not use the program

Josh Martin

Captain, B737-800

AFV405
Senior Captain, A330-200
OLP

Joined on November 12 2010
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"Volo, ergo sum."
Palermo, Sicilia Italy

568 legs, 1,385.8 hours
200 legs, 405.4 hours online
546 legs, 1,324.5 hours ACARS
20 legs, 64.1 hours event
117 legs dispatched, 66.7 hours

Posted onPost created on September 19 2012 12:42 ET by Salvo Montalbano

Try phone activation

DVA9716
First Officer, A330-300

Joined on April 26 2011
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"Take Offs are optional - Landing are mandatory!"
Killeen, TX USA

154 legs, 324.0 hours
102 legs, 218.1 hours online
153 legs, 321.7 hours ACARS
4 legs, 8.9 hours event

Posted onPost created on September 19 2012 12:53 ET by Kenneth Dickerson

Josh,

I understand your frustration but let me see if this will help.
First go to this site and install just like it says : http://www.simforums.com/forums/setting-up-fsx-and-how-to-tune-it_topic29041.html

The other thing is to put: UIAUTOMATIONCORE.DLL into your FSX folder. Do not remove this file from you W7 folders. The FSX when it starts will first look in the FSX folder before going to a WIN7 folder. There is a version of this DLL file that I can't link to you at this moment because of the firewall where i am at.

Then Tweak Bejotes tweeking tool to gt your FSX.CFG file in order.

Once you have it setup then if you have the money go to Simmarket and purchase this program or where you can find it: FSPS - FSX BOOSTER V4
I just did a complete reload OS and FSX and it works like a champ.

I can do a 10 hour flight and not worry about a CTD or blue screen episode.

I hope this helps!

Kenneth Dickerson

First Officer, A330-300

Posted onPost created on September 19 2012 12:56 ET by Josh Martin

Kenneth, thank you. So this involves a complete uninstall/reinstall? I'm so afraid that I won't be able to get it registered after reinstalling :-/

As for the phone registration idea, what # do you call for that? I had looked everywhere and couldn't find it...

Josh Martin

Captain, B737-800

Posted onPost created on September 19 2012 13:06 ET by Kenneth Dickerson

If you are talking about registering FSX when you install it the program it will ask you do want to install online. If you click "no" it gives you the option to register it off-line and gives you the phones number. 1-888-822-7631

Kenneth Dickerson

First Officer, A330-300

DVA10641
Assistant Chief Pilot, B757-200
OLP

Joined on March 29 2012
50 State Club
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Million Mile Club
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Events Quintuple Century Club

Rosemount, MN USA

1,987 legs, 4,456.2 hours
1,865 legs, 3,929.2 hours online
1,967 legs, 4,422.4 hours ACARS
638 legs, 1,290.5 hours event
18 legs dispatched, 157.2 hours

Posted onPost created on September 19 2012 16:48 ET by Jason Boche

Josh Martin wrote:

I swear, I'm so friggin' sick of fsx and the problems I've had. I have never seen such an unstable & unpredictable program with so many flaws and problems as this one has. Microsoft should be embarrassed to have their name on the product.

I don't have the significant issues you have but I more or less understand your thoughts. Although I've dabbled with Flight Simulator since the early 90's, I never used it hard core like I started doing this year. It is crashy. I has a lot of add ons some of which are complex to install, configure, and manage. It runs like a pig. It has the look and feel of a final product held together with twine and bailing wire. However, enough cannot be said for the ecosystem that has been built around this product which appears to stand the test of time. There is so much available, it does seem worth it. When it's stable enough on your PC.

Jason Boche

Assistant Chief Pilot, B757-200

DVA1530
Captain, B757-200
OLP

Joined on February 17 2004

Midwestern United States

49 legs, 142.8 hours
25 legs, 87.2 hours online
22 legs, 49.7 hours ACARS
1 legs, 1.3 hours event

Posted onPost created on September 20 2012 00:40 ET by Shane Freese

Interesting, I just don't have any of these problems running FSX. I did have the UIAUTOMATIONCORE.DLL problem but that was corrected when I put the older file in my fsx directory. Adding that file is a must. Here is the link

http://download3.apollo3.com/download/download.php?id=20

How many others use the FSPS - FSX BOOSTER V4 program? If I'm getting 30fps constant with everything turned up and never crash should I bother buying this?

Shane Freese

Captain, B757-200

Posted onPost created on September 20 2012 11:30 ET by Kenneth Dickerson

Shane are you running FSX on a Windows 7 64 bit OS?

Kenneth Dickerson

First Officer, A330-300

DVA1530
Captain, B757-200
OLP

Joined on February 17 2004

Midwestern United States

49 legs, 142.8 hours
25 legs, 87.2 hours online
22 legs, 49.7 hours ACARS
1 legs, 1.3 hours event

Posted onPost created on September 20 2012 12:23 ET by Shane Freese

Of course.

i5-2500K, 16GB RAM, GTX460v2.

Win7 Ultimate 64bit.

Shane Freese

Captain, B757-200

Posted onPost created on September 20 2012 12:29 ET by Jason Boche

Shane Freese wrote:

How many others use the FSPS - FSX BOOSTER V4 program? If I'm getting 30fps constant with everything turned up and never crash should I bother buying this?

I am currently not using FSPS - FSX BOOSTER V4 but this has now sparked my interest. My rig is good enough for most airports I visit but performance at KJFK is pretty bad. It would be nice to get rid of more of the choppiness.

Jason Boche

Assistant Chief Pilot, B757-200

DVA10822
Captain, A330-300
OLP

Joined on June 16 2012
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50 State Club
Double Century Club
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"....request vectors to parking!"
Sorrento, FL

296 legs, 726.8 hours
148 legs, 399.6 hours online
270 legs, 654.3 hours ACARS

Posted onPost created on September 21 2012 09:01 ET by Greg Duffy

Go back to FS9.....I have no problems, settings on max....running 24 fps. course I am running Windows XP

Greg Duffy

Captain, A330-300

Posted onPost created on September 21 2012 09:07 ET by Josh Martin

Greg Duffy wrote:

Go back to FS9.....I have no problems, settings on max....running 24 fps. course I am running Windows XP

was thinking about this. fs9 is FS2004 right? I have that version somewhere.....in a 10x20' storage unit....lol

I may just buy it on amazon.com if I can't figure out the problem. who else on here runs 2004, and how well does it work online with things like ACARS and vatsim? what are add-ons like for it? Do our fleet add-ons run well on it?

Josh Martin

Captain, B737-800

Posted onPost created on September 21 2012 21:02 ET by Greg Duffy

Josh Martin wrote:

Greg Duffy wrote:

Go back to FS9.....I have no problems, settings on max....running 24 fps. course I am running Windows XP

was thinking about this. fs9 is FS2004 right? I have that version somewhere.....in a 10x20' storage unit....lol

I may just buy it on amazon.com if I can't figure out the problem. who else on here runs 2004, and how well does it work online with things like ACARS and vatsim? what are add-ons like for it? Do our fleet add-ons run well on it?

I have no problems at all....I use all the fleet add-ons, acars, squawkbox, REX along with MANY scenery add-ons freeware and payware. I was going to get FSX but after reading all the issues people have been having I decided not to do it and stick with FS9. Old saying "if it ain't broke don't fix it"! Btw yes FS9 is 2004.

Greg Duffy

Captain, A330-300

DVA5857
Captain, B767-300

Joined on April 23 2008
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Northeastern United States

515 legs, 1,054.0 hours
502 legs, 1,022.2 hours online
513 legs, 1,050.8 hours ACARS
15 legs, 33.0 hours event

Posted onPost created on September 21 2012 22:05 ET by Chuck Angle

I feel your pain it is so frustrating to get things running correctly at times. I have had nothing but problems with the Acceleration pack on two different computers, I don't use it. Also as with just about every program not just FSX, when you use the uninstall option from the program or from add/delete in my computer it does not completely uninstall all the components of the program. It always leaves the FSX.CFG settings in the user/app section. When you reinstall you are stuck with the old config settings which may be the problem, it doesn't rewrite them. After running add/ delete I manually delete the config file.

Chuck Angle

Captain, B767-300

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