FS9 not starting????

buff · Post by **buff** » 13 Oct 2006, 18:39

Hi all,

Well, I went and bought FSX today (the Deluxe Version priced at Â£60.00),
when I got my first flight its fate was sealed, with the settings fairly low... I was getting between 7 and 8 FPS!!!! (FS9 runs between 35-50FPS Normally on my system!), so i promptly uninstalled it, and returned to where I bought it from and was given a full refund. I knew i'd be back to FS9. I had uninstalled FS9 before hand to free up some disk space. When I returned home I re-installed FS9, but was surprised when I went to run it... the splash-screen appears for about 5-10 seconds and then the screen goes black and it returns to the Desktop??????, no error report message either?????

Could anyone possibly Shed light on this????

Cheers!!

Post by **Garry Russell** » 13 Oct 2006, 19:43

Hi Buff

Sorry I have no idea about your fs9 problem except perhaps was FS.X fully ininstalled properly?

Garry

Tweek · Post by **Tweek** » 13 Oct 2006, 19:54

Although it's just been reinstalled, sometimes it can be a faulty config file. Delete fs9.cfg from the x:\Documents and Settings\xxxxx\Application Data\Microsoft\FS9 folder, and try starting it again.

If that doesn't work, I don't know what's wrong!

buff · Post by **buff** » 13 Oct 2006, 20:18

Cheers for the advice Tweek, unfortunately this did not work, another seemed to be created again when I restarted it??? and it did the same thing???

Steve M · Post by **Steve M** » 13 Oct 2006, 21:14

Just a suggestion but System Restore may be worth a try going back to before the install of FS X

Steve M

buff · Post by **buff** » 13 Oct 2006, 21:20

Steve,
How would I go about doing this?????..

(say for example to yesterday's settings??)

Cheers

Post by **Garry Russell** » 13 Oct 2006, 21:31

Hi Buff

Start/Settings/Control Panel/System/System restore

If turned on it will tell you the last saved restore point

Gary

buff · Post by **buff** » 13 Oct 2006, 21:52

I am an Idiot.......

I had the restore slider on the minimum, so the only restore point was earlier today..... after FSX was installed :crying:

Still No joy.

Kevin Farnell · Post by **Kevin Farnell** » 14 Oct 2006, 01:30

Buff, it's quite likely that FSX has left something behind in the registry.
Run a registry cleaner - I use CCleaner (freeware), found at

http://www.ccleaner.com/

Be sure to either uncheck 'Cookies', or go into 'Options', 'Cookies' and transfer any that contain passwords (eg CBFS) into the right hand panel, prior to running the 'Cleaner' or 'Issues' facility.

Hope this helps.

Regards.

Kevin

buff · Post by **buff** » 14 Oct 2006, 17:24

Its ok now,

I completely re-installed it and it works, all is well

Thanks for the help guy's!