I am 14 and have been trying to lauch flight gear. I use the 0.9.8 version and the wizard. I choose my plane and destination but when the sim lauches it gets aborted.WHAT CAN I DO TO GET IT RUNNING?

Hi poor FlightGear friend without name :-(my knowledge about FlightGear is very limited but as noone else answered until now I'll try to help you with one hint:As you did start the FlightGear launcher program I assume that you are on a Windows system - right? And as you were able to start it all other files should be installed correct, I hope.In this case it is often a problem with OpenGL. FlightGear does not use DirectX but OpenGlide 3D display system. All modern NVidia cards install a OpenGL driver after my knowledge, but you might have some other hardware.Please try this program which tests whether OpenGL works on your system or not (I downloaded it and tested it with 2 virus scanner, seems to be clean. It works on my system like a charm!):http://www.relativedata.com/mod.php?mod=fi...=view_cat&id=14Download the "worthless" OpenGL Demo program, unzip and run it.If you see the moving graphs and pictures and hear the music than OpenGL works on your system and THIS it NOT the problem. Otherwise (testprogram not working) you might know the problem - no OpenGL, no FlightGear.Might be there are some other readers with better ideas to help you.RegardsGeorg EDDW

Just another idea,did you set all pathes correctly in the FlightGear Launcher?Please check:FlightGear Launcher, page 1:Executable: (Your HD:)/(Your FlightGear install folder)/bin/Win32/fgfs.exeFG_ROOT: (Your HD:)/(Your FlightGear install folder)/dataFG_SCENERY: (Your HD:)/(Your FlightGear install folder)/data/SceneryRegardsGeorg EDDW

I downloaded worthless and I can see moving shapes an can hear the music

HERE IS THE INFORMATION ON THE FIRST PAGE OF THE LAUNCHER:Executable: C:Program FilesbinWin32fgfs.exeFG_ROOT: C:Program FilesFlightGeardataFG_SCENERY: C:Program FilesFlightGeardataScenery C:Program FilesFlightGearSceneryAirports Cache: C:Documents and Settings/ryan/Application Data/Flightgear.org/fgrun//airports.txtTHAT IS THE EXACT information

I checked the command prompt thing that comes up with flightgear.On my recent attempt to laumch the sim I got this error messageThis application has requested the Runtime to terminate it in an unusual way.PLEASE CONTACT THE APPLICATIONS'S SUPPORT TEAM FOR MORE INFORMATION.EUnknown exception in the main loop. Aborting...Possible Cause: No error

Try the following instruction for launching FlightGear:http://flightgear.org/Docs/InstallGuide/ge...tml#x9-310004.2

Hi (wo)man! :-)As I told you before, I am a pure Windows FlightGear uses as you are and so my knowledge is very limited.If the hint of Hardraade, who is a real prof, does not help you I can only offer to compare what is the difference between your PC/system and mine.Therefore three further remarks1. If it is NOT a typo then you have *backslashes ()* in the file pathes of the FlightGear launcher while I have Linux-like *slashes (/)* in the pathes (see my first post and how I wrote it, no typos).So the question is, did you fill it in *manually* or did you use the FG Launcher to fill it out (used the buttons behind the edit-fields)?It would be really strange :-/ if your FG launcher shows backslashes and mine slashes when using the button-fill-in method. 2. The FlightGear Launcher writes something like an init-file (preferences file) which you should find at (in WINDOWS like pathes:)C:Documents and SettingsryanApplicationDataFlightgear.orgfgrun.prefsIt would be interesting to see what is written into this file.3. Can you tell something about your hardware?Video-card memory, video-card (pci/agp/onboard), sound-cardAlthough I am not a specialist about this I am just looking at these data to find out why some Windows user really have problems with FlightGear (and I never with the precompiled Win binaries). Where is the difference?Sorry that I cannot really help, just my 2c.RegardsGeorg EDDW

Hardraade,I am not really good at computers and dont really understand the information on the link you gave me.Could you give the information to me in easier form?Thanks

>I am 14 and have been trying to lauch flight gear. I use the>0.9.8 version and the wizard. I choose my plane and>destination but when the sim lauches it gets aborted.>>WHAT CAN I DO TO GET IT RUNNING?Unfortunately, the information that you've provided thus far doesn't yet really help us to solve the problem, however please run FlightGear with the option --log-level=bulk and re-direct the output to a file that can post here.As I'm not a user of fgrun, I don't really know whether fgrun does already natively support logging options and redirection to a file, however just in case, you should probably run this from the console (a 'DOS BOX', that is):1) Open a DOS box2) change the current directory to your FlightGear executable's directory3) run 'set FG_ROOT="PATH_TO_YOUR_BASE_PACKAGE", i.e.: set FG_ROOT="C:Program FilesFlightGeardata"4) run the FlightGear executable by doing: fgfs --log-level=bulk > debug.txtThis should create a file named 'debug.txt' in your current directory, it will probably take much longer for FlightGear to start up, though.However, it is recommended that you let it finish, so that at least the location of your problem can be traced within the source code.Please post the corresponding file, or if it's too large, at least the last 1-2 kbytes here.Also, please note that this forum is only infrequently visited by FlightGear developers, so you may find more profound help and more responsive people by discussing your issues on the FlightGear user mailing list, please check www.flightgear.org for instructions how to subscribe to this list.PS: I've created a batch file for your convenience, based on the information that you've provided, I'm not using Win32 personally, so I cannot really test it, however if your information is correct and I didn't add any typos, you should be able to simply download the bat file, save it on your desktop and run (double click) it. If everything works as expected, you should end up seeing a new file named 'debug.txt'.http://forums.avsim.net/user_files/127407.txtSorry, just noticed the forum doesn't preserve the filename, you will have to rename it to debug.bat or anything with a .bat extension.