FS 2002 stall at main screen

[Guest]

Help...for some unknown reason I can no longer load FS 2002. It seems to stall at the main screen. When I press Ctrl Alt Del it indicates the program is not responding. Any suggestions how can get the program to boot up????????? Many thanks in advance.Richard

[Guest RonB49]

If this hapened to me (and it hasn't), the first thing that I would do is delete or rename the configuration file (FS2002.cfg) and try again. That seems to fix lots of odd problems. R-

[Guest]

Thanks Ron I will give it a try. I have never experienced a problem like this. It seem to occur after I was changing the panel file for 172sp aircraft.

[Guest]

How long do you wait? FS can take 5+ minutes to load on my machine, sometimes sitting for over a minute seemingly without progress.If you look at the threats display in the taskmanager you will see activity however, it's just loading things into memory and taking a long time to do it.

[Guest Barney1]

Changing a panel file......hhmmmmm.....you could be onto something :)Put the original back in and see if that cures things. If you have this panel as part of the initial start-up of the sim, and for whatever reason it is faulty, the sim won't load correctly.For this reason, I always insist on having the original default cessna, panel, sound, Meig's Field, etc. as the start up. No matter what things I may have added that could goof things up, at least the program usually starts and allows me access to make any changes that may be needed.

[Guest]

Unless you change the scenery for Meigs of course :-lolIn that case using another default airfield would be a good choice...

[Guest]

Thanks Barney for your response. I was able to correct the problem by renaming my fs2002.cfg file. I think what happened was that I messed up one of the default aircraft and the program did not like it. I will take your advice to heart.............happy flying.Richard