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DVA7498
Senior Captain, B737-800
OLP
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Joined on July 05 2009
Quatercentenary Club
Online Quadruple Century Club

"ETOPS " Engines Turn Or Passengers Swim""
Loganville, GA USA

421 legs, 1,597.8 hours
401 legs, 1,552.0 hours online
416 legs, 1,583.7 hours ACARS
39 legs, 123.8 hours event

Posted onPost created on April 14 2010 10:38 ET by Gerhardt Poku

Last night As I was about to do a flight on FS9 I got this error message during load up about some missing texture. So with time on my hands I did a full reinstall hoping everything will be back to normal. However when I try to load up FS9 , it looks like it is loading it up to the menu then suddenly it flickers and closes by itself. I did two reinstalls and it is still not loading up. Any ideas

Gerhardt Poku

Senior Captain, B737-800

DVA7636
Senior Captain, L-1011-100
OLP

Joined on August 11 2009
50 State Club
Events Double Century Club
Burbank 250 Club
Quincentenary Club
Online Quintuple Century Club
Globetrotter
Black Pearl Club
DVA Ten-Year Anniversary

"Uses "Sparkly Eyes" Technique on ATC"
Channelview, TX USA

588 legs, 1,196.5 hours
572 legs, 1,164.8 hours online
586 legs, 1,192.9 hours ACARS
287 legs, 572.1 hours event

Posted onPost created on April 14 2010 11:01 ET by Tracy Norris

Gerhardt, system specs?

Tracy Norris

Senior Captain, L-1011-100

Posted onPost created on April 14 2010 11:11 ET by Gerhardt Poku

Processor*
Intel® Core™2 Duo Processor T6500
Operating System*
Genuine Windows Vista® Home Premium (SP1, 32-bit)
Graphics Engine*
Intel® Graphics Media Accelerator 4500MHD
Memory and StorageMemory*
3GB DDR2 800MHz memory
Hard Drive*
320GB HDD (5400rpm)
Optical Drive*
DVD-SuperMulti (+/-R double layer) with Labelflash™ drive
Audio and VideoDisplay Size*
17.3" widescreen
Display Type*
HD+ TruBrite® LED Backlit display
Display Resolution*
Supports 720p content, 1600x900
Audio
Built-in microphone, Headphone jack (stereo), Microphone jack (mono), Standard stereo speakers

I have 4Gb with Windows 7 installed

Gerhardt Poku

Senior Captain, B737-800

Posted onPost created on April 14 2010 20:27 ET by Gerhardt Poku

Do you think my Fs9 Disc are corrupt or something.

Gerhardt Poku

Senior Captain, B737-800

DVA8422
First Officer, B737-800

Joined on October 10 2005
DVA Ten-Year Anniversary

SeaTac, WA USA

49 legs, 81.1 hours
5 legs, 7.5 hours online
49 legs, 81.1 hours ACARS

Posted onPost created on April 14 2010 20:39 ET by Cole Byre

You may need to buy an actual video card. However it seems like you're using a laptop? Not sure what the install process would be for a mobile chip.

Also, what was your uninstallation procedure for FS9?

Posted onPost created on April 14 2010 20:43 ET by Gerhardt Poku

I have been flying most of my flights on my laptop. And with 15-30 FPS it actually works good but I find it weird that right before I uninstall it was working perfectly. I uninstall from the control panel and on the second try from the FS9 folder in my programs

Gerhardt Poku

Senior Captain, B737-800

DVA8327
First Officer, DC-6

Joined on February 17 2010

Western United States

26 legs, 40.6 hours
25 legs, 39.6 hours online
24 legs, 36.5 hours ACARS
6 legs, 15.1 hours event

Posted onPost created on April 14 2010 22:58 ET by Bill Mattson

Had the same problem with my computer here. It's acheap little Compaq laptop we got from the local MegaLo Mart. One time I hit some glitch that made FS9 do what yours did. Finally, I did the uninstall fromt he control panel and aotherone from "My Computer" and then reloaded everything including a few add-ons I had. Then I did a hard boot and patiently waited for EVERYTHING to load. Then I started FS9 and it worked. When in doubt, reboot.

Bill Mattson
DVA 8327

Bill Mattson

First Officer, DC-6

Posted onPost created on April 14 2010 23:02 ET by Gerhardt Poku

Thanks. Man The $700 I spent on this should have gone to continue building my desktop

Gerhardt Poku

Senior Captain, B737-800

Posted onPost created on April 15 2010 00:44 ET by Gerhardt Poku

I am pulling my hair out. I have done system restores, a whole day of reinstalls but FS9 still closes on me.

Gerhardt Poku

Senior Captain, B737-800

DVA4410
Captain, A320

Joined on May 05 2007
Double Century Club
50 State Club

"I don't belong on the ground"
Hollywood, FL USA

224 legs, 588.8 hours
73 legs, 225.9 hours online
206 legs, 537.3 hours ACARS
2 legs, 2.6 hours event

Posted onPost created on April 15 2010 11:07 ET by Devin Davis

Same Problem here with FS9 I tried everything and its been 3 months since it stopped working. I have a desktop though with a real video card.

Devin Davis (DVA4410)

Posted onPost created on April 15 2010 12:32 ET by Gerhardt Poku

I am going to do a full system boot tonight and I am crossing my fingers it will work.

Gerhardt Poku

Senior Captain, B737-800

DVA894
Captain, B757-200

Joined on September 27 2002

Round Lake, IL USA

24 legs, 55.6 hours
8 legs, 22.1 hours online
4 legs, 10.5 hours ACARS

Posted onPost created on April 15 2010 16:20 ET by Bill Bouxsein

Try downloading and running Ccleaner (www.ccleaner.com) you may have some corrupted registry entries. If you still have the same problem, run check disk on your windows install and see if it finds any errors.

Bill Bouxsein (DVA894)

Posted onPost created on April 16 2010 11:09 ET by Gerhardt Poku

Well

Gerhardt Poku

Senior Captain, B737-800

DVA7338
Captain, B747-400
E-MAIL

Joined on May 17 2009

"Thou shalt maintain thy airspeed."
Faridabad, Haryana India

60 legs, 151.3 hours
49 legs, 135.1 hours online
58 legs, 145.2 hours ACARS

Posted onPost created on April 17 2010 11:23 ET by Gurmeet Arora

Guys, he was doing flights before on the same computer before this problem developed. So why are we suggesting to change the system.
OK, I get it. It will help him achieve a better and smooth flight, but the problem here and the symptoms are slightly different.

Gerhardt, if you happen do a further reinstall, make sure you delete the following folders and delete references of FS9 and FS2004 from the registry.
- FS9 Installation folder. The uninstaller will do this for you, but if leaves something behind, manually delete it.
- C:\Documents and Settings\<<username>>\Application Data\Microsoft\FS9
- Any add-on scenery files (Important, may not be inside FS9 folder directly)
- C:\Documents and Settings\<<username>>\My Documents\Flight Simulator Files (Backup this if you want)
- All registry references.

Reinstall and you should be good to go. I am assuming in all this that you have a perfectly working system and your graphics card hardware is OK and is with the latest recommended drivers.

To me it looks like that you installed and uninstalled (or manually deleted) a add-on and during the process, it deleted some shared files and FS now complains that it cannot find them. But only you can tell exactly what happened after which the problem appeared.

If all else fails, do a reformat (last option).

Posted onPost created on April 18 2010 11:52 ET by Gerhardt Poku

I reformatted my hard drive. Reinstalled Windows 7 and it worked fine. But I had to reinstall FS due to some installing SP1 after addons. Now its back to the samething it was doing before. This is making me very frusturated. All this started happening after I installed Active Sky can that be a problem.

Gerhardt Poku

Senior Captain, B737-800

Posted onPost created on April 18 2010 12:52 ET by Gurmeet Arora

If it is Active Sky Evolution .. it has a option of installing 'graphic snapshots'. Basically it will override your textures files with it's own. But whatever it does, it will give you a working system, whether you choose to install the snapshots or not. It does not partially overwrite nor delete any texture files midway, without informing.

There are many people here who are using Active Sky with FS9, so probability is less. But yes, it is a suspect, unless proven otherwise.
In Windows 7, there are many places where you have to 'Run as Administrator'. I am sure you would be using it, wherever needed.

Not too sure as to what is exactly wrong here. If I could get some log files or snapshots etc., that would have helped.

Posted onPost created on April 18 2010 13:52 ET by Gerhardt Poku

I am reformatting once again. This time I will install Flight Sim , restart,Install SP1 restart then install my remaining add on. Apparently this only happens during reinstalls.

Gerhardt Poku

Senior Captain, B737-800

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