744 PAX version hanging on start

[heightsmite 5]

This started after installing 2 other retail A/C add-ons. When I select one of the 744 PAX models, the nav data base screen comes up and loads, then when I select OK to start that flight, the loading scenery objects screen comes up and hangs at zero percent. Cont-alt-delete brings up the task manager, then looking at performance I see that CPU usage is around 74-86% and PF is at 946mb (out of a total of 1 gb. Physical memory shows 159600 available out of 1047548. I have to kill the FS9 process to get out.Oddly, the freighter loads and works normally.Just before the two new AC were added, I also did a system rollback; Kaspersky (trial) didn't install cleanly and I went back to the day before that installation (about 2 weeks ago). I didn't install anything else in that interim. I did notice that after the rollback, I had duplicate copies of some files scattered, apparently randomly, throughout the drive; those files were appended with numbers in parenthesis (xxxxxx.xxx (2), etc.) When I try to load the 744 PAX, I almost get the impression FS9 is trying to load two 744's at the same time and the resource load is too great. I can't, however, find any dupes in that regard.Everything else works fine on FS9.Thanks for any help.Dave Skuback

[Guest Sean Reeder]

I am having a very similar problem as you are. My fs hangs whenever I load up the 737 or 747. What would be the cause of this. I have reinstalled the aircraft multiple times yet it still hangs.

[Guest Kudosaur]

I had the same problem until I completely uninstalled FSUIPC(text file, key, etc) and then reinstalled it. After that everything worked for me. Also, not sure if it's true, but I heard multiple times if you have the 737NG and 747-400(F) series, you need to install the 737NGs first, then the 747-400 aircraft. Not even sure if that would be related to your problem or not, but I'd try reinstalling FSUIPC first since it would be the easiest.Ken Hopsin

[Guest adl320]

EXACT same problem on my end. Other aircraft load fine. I've only tried the PAX 744. Similar issue as you - I recall doing a WIN XP Rollback recently to try to correct an issue I was having with iTunes. When the rollback didn't correct my problem however, I went back to the state prior to the rollback. I hope someone can shed some light on this.Regards,

[Guest adl320]

O.k. I found the issue that fixed this problem for me. If you guys don't have FS2CREW you may want to stop reading here - perhaps I just got lucky on this!I went into my FS9 directory and sorted the files by date. I noticed that my Scenery.cfg file was updated along with an FS2Crew .INI file for the PMDG747. Well, the Scenery.cfg file was updated after I installed the latest FS RealTime program. I also recently updated all my FS2Crew software versions.I remember the install of the update specifying that I go to the FS2Crew Control center and save my config. I went back there and noticed that my configuration was set to USE FS2Crew. Not something I normally do. I changed it back to my original PMDG panel by selecting the button and presto - things started working again.Aaron