Fed up with FSX

[petermcleland]

Personally I do not believe that you will be able to UNINSTALL FSX as it now is, because it is too damaged. You will basically have to REINSTALL FSX and then uninstall it the correct way. The only other way is a Format C:/ and I'm certain that you won't want to do that.

[DarrenL]

For when you have got it up & running. (lost that bit on the edits ) I often do complete backups of FSX when it is at a stage I am happy with as with most big games that have addons or community tweaks. I pack up (using RAR) the FSX folder, My Documents/Microsoft and userdata/microsoft/fsx folder. Then you can reinstall the original discs and copy in the backup allowing it to overwrite files already present, quicker than lots of reinstalls as any file present in the backup is the one you want so if the original install file is different (smaller like the fsx.cfg) you want to replace with the backup. And any file that is the same doesn't matter if it's overwritten or not. I've done this with quite a few games as well. You could use this method of moving an FSX install to a 2nd HDD or new HDD if you suffer a failure.

Although for this PC being completely new with new OS, Mobo, Gfx card I did start from scratch again. But I have done 2 backups since.

So, get it how you like it and do a backup. Then if it changes much back it up again. Discs are cheap, your time isn't




Ps. Forgot to mention other Program Files folders related to FSX. (Knew I forgot something) As some install to there, like Real Environment Extreme and Horizons VFR UK but I do go through everything to make sure I get everything on a backup. As long as you know what you use, go through the folders and make a list you shouldn't miss anything and as I say above at least you have a backup of everything that's working even if you just need one or two things from it later because a file is lost or corrupt or the whole lot.

[austerdriver]

The only other way I got FSX to work was format the C: drive. Don't really want to do that if I can avoid it.

[Garry Russell]

Hi Ad

There's no way you'd need to re format you C drive just to get rid of the remnants of FS.X

There is something else going on here..or perhaps not as the case may be.


What are your exact specs....are you Win 7??

[austerdriver]

Specs below:

Windows XP Home SP3
3.1ghz DualCore Phenom IIX2
2gb of RAM
80gb hard drive - XP installed on this
1tb hard drive partitioned for Fs2004 and FSX and 2 other things.
512mb PCIExpress ATI 3650 Graphics card

[Garry Russell]

HGiAD

I'm Win XP SP3 and I had no probs re installing by doing the clean and defrag.

I thought maybe you were on one of the later Windows versions with the need to change things as admin.

Needs one of our experts on this

Don't do anything else for now....you have FS.9 running fine.

Some of the folks that might know don't seem to be around just at the moment.

There is often a simple answer to all of this, but I appreciate that is a mountain unless you happen to known what it is

We'll get you sorted

[austerdriver]

I hope it is sorted sometime. At least FS2004 is working well like it always does.

[DarrenL]

Cheers Darren

What if you lock you FPS and let the spare memory go for quality.......would that sharpen it significantly???

Found the cause of the blurry text, Anti-aliasing mode. I had turned it up to super-sample AA, but that's blurs the text. Turning it down to adaptive multi-sample or just multi-sample makes it sharp again.

[Garry Russell]

RIght...anti aliasing is a blurring mode of sorts and as such can be taken too far.

Nice to have a result though

[austerdriver]

Bit of an update: I decided to format C: and reinstall everything. FSX works again.