As usual, I spent 7 hours reinstalling FLY2 because it continues to be the most unstable sim on the market. Nonetheless, this time for some reason, I can't install the 757. The installation of the 777 goes flawlessly. Then, I try to reistall the 757 & the program crashes upon entry. I am running the latest version of FLY 2 (.230), & upon installation, I check off that I have the 777 installed. The only way I can run FLY2 again is if I re-reinstall the 777. Fly crashes with the following error message: (taken from my gfto.txt file)Msg: Runtime execption code c0000005 (EXCEPTION_ACCESS_VIOLATION) at address 00527134File: WINRUN.CPP line 152Time: Mon Sep 16 02:15:17 2002errno = 2 (No such file or directory)----------------------------------------------------------------Sometimes, when I try to install the 757, the icons appear in the aircraft menu - but whenever I select one on my 757s, I get THIS error message before a crash:Msg: Invalid Guage Identifier (pVB1)File: cockmngr.cpp line 1505Time: Mon Sep 16 02:17:39 2002errno = 2 (No such file or directory)It is 2:20 in the morning & I am so disgusted with this sim it is beyond words.I already tried deleting all the .hst files a million times & that doesn't help. I can't for the life of me figure this one out, & I doubt many of you will be able to either. I NEVER had trouble reinstalling. The purpose for my reinstall was a series of alpha-numeric strings that would appear across the cockpit of all my planes. After 5 hours of work, I was able to trace the culprit to a file called "nycatc" (which plays .wav files in the background through Flyscripts.)I would be incredibly grateful if ANYONE could help me on this ridiculously long night (& now early morning). I want my 757 back!Thanks all,Chris Catalano

Very sorry to hear of your problems. I have never seen this one before and the only advice I can offer is common sense stuff, but maybe it will be of some use in sorting this out. Hopefully, someone form PMDG will come along and offer more specific advice.-Something probably went wrong during your installation. As annoying as it is, you best bet is to reinstal Fly!II yet again. When you uninstal, make sure you delete everything, including the directory itself. Next instal only the base program, the patches, and the 757. Install no other add-ons, planes, or utilities, not even the 777. Then check and see if it works before adding anything else.- If any of your patches or your back-up of the 757 were stored on CD ROM, make sure you copy the zip files to your HD before running the installation executables.Andrew

Thanks - tried all of the above. No Luck. I'm in trouble!CC

Chris-usually the Fly!2 errors reported are cryptic and of little help. In this case, however, you're in luck: The error means that you have overwritten the PMDGFMC.dll residing in modulesPC with an older version. I would say you need to re-install the 757 so that the correct DLL is placed inside your modulesPC.Hope this helps!

Thanks for the help. I think I am about to leave for good. I can't take it any more. I have spent three days on this. I copied the old directory you mentioned (modulesPC.) from my previous installation where the plane still boots to the new one - no luck - I STILL can't get the program to not crash upon entry with these messages:Msg: Runtime execption code c0000005 (EXCEPTION_ACCESS_VIOLATION) at address 006F6BE2File: WINRUN.CPP line 165Time: Mon Sep 16 13:26:26 2002errno = 2 (No such file or directory)----------------------------------------------------------------Msg: Runtime execption code c0000005 (EXCEPTION_ACCESS_VIOLATION) at address 006F6BE2File: WINRUN.CPP line 165Time: Mon Sep 16 13:28:01 2002errno = 2 (No such file or directory)----------------------------------------------------------------I sure never wanted to leave this sim but I am at my ending with this. PMDG made the best plane I EVER flew - or could ever hope to fly. Sadly, I pretty much give up. I'd rather go out & fly inferior microsoft stuff than not fly at all. It will NEVER be the same w/o the PMDG 757.Any ideas I would sure welcome, but I doubt I will have any luck at this point.Here is the name of the files I am extracting:PMDG_SID_STAR_FP.zipPMDG757_214.zipPMDG757_CO.zipPMDG757_DELTA.zipPMDG757_UA.zipPMDG777L1V211.zipPMDG777P1V211.zipPMDG777P3V211.zipThanks,Chris

You've got to go back to basic, Chris. That you should have been flying fly2 and pmdg aircrafts successfully for a while should tell you that at some point you must have introduced new files which either corrupted or overwrote other files. FLY2 pathches are not friendly, and, when you add pmdg aircraft, you must be very careful about the sequence with which you add pathes and pmdg aircraft, especially the 757. Read pmdgs instruction on the forum and then, very patiently, go back to the basics, that is, make fly2 with no add ons work properly. These days I have two drives and keep FLY2 on both drives. When I add a new file, if something goes worng I quickly go to the second drive and bring back FLY2 to where it was. It has saved me from countless reinstalls.tony

>These days I have two drives and keep FLY2 on both drives. When I add a new file, if something goes worng I quickly go to the second drive and bring back FLY2 to where it was. It has saved me from countless reinstalls.Thanks Tony - actually, ultimately this was the ONLY way I could figure out hoe to get it to work again - I copied the entire FLY2 from my C drive to my other hard drive. I know I'll never erase the C drive one because it saved my Fly life this time (& maybe again in the near future).Thanks againChris

Chris,I'm having the exact same problem as you have. I too have done many permutations of reinstall to no avail.Basically, we need to get our hands on the patch that brings us up to build v230. Unfortunately, the Fly! II website has patches that bring us up to build v210. According to the anchored post by PMDG, we install this mysterious v230 patch and do the right sequence, and all will be well.If anyone knows how to get this patch, by all means, tell us. I got Fly! II specifically for PMDG's 757 module and I need to get it running.Any help would be appreciated by both of us.Regards,Tom Thomas