Ok so I bit the bullet, paid a little more money then I would have liked, and purchased the IRIS pro F-14, I really love the F-14. Anyway, I purchased it straight from IRIS, downloaded iris_pro_f14_fsx. It comes in a little install program. Now the problem: I can't get the thing to install on my computer. I run Windows Vista Home 32 bit, I've tried to install it as a non administrator, I've right clicked it and attempted to run it as the administrator and nothing seems to be working. I don't get an error message or anything. If I double click the install program a "DOS" looking window pops up for a half of a second and then nothing. Any help from you all would be greatly appreciated as I can't look to see if anyone else has had the same problem on the IRIS forums because I have to be a registered member of the forums in order to see the Tech problem threads, and the IRIS site administrator hasn't approved my request to become a forum member yet. I bought it on Thursday night, and sent my application to be a forum member Thrusday night, but still no news. Things must be hectic in Australia at the moment. Anyone know what I could be doing wrong? Thanks in advance.T.J.- in before the "Get Windows XP" comments... :(

A longshot here TJ,but maybe try turning off your firewall or turn down your security settings as the program may have to connect to the internet to verrify purchase.

I looked at their forums and only one person seems to have the same issue as you.He is using XP and he was told to re-download the installer using a different browser and without any download managers.He never reported back if this solved his problem.Michael

A longshot here TJ,but maybe try turning off your firewall or turn down your security settings as the program may have to connect to the internet to verrify purchase.

A DOS box might indicate that your download failed (or is incomplete).If there is any error message printed on this box, it would disappear too quicklyto be legible.Have you ever tried running this installer from a real DOS box (command prompt)?In this case any printed error message will not disappear.

TJ,This was posted by David from Iris at Sim Outhouse :

.... downloading via the storefront adds 1 byte to the end file size which corrupts the file.The downside is that this is NOT limited to the F-16 soundpack, this is across the entire catalog which points to something effecting store downloads.I'm currently looking into this and double checking file sizes against that of our backups to make sure nothing malicious has happened.More info as I get it.

Could well be that the problem is not on your side

Thanks so much for the replies friends. I tried downloading via a different browser with no luck, so I must have fallen victim to the 1 byte file size corruption. Looks like I'm going to have to wait for the nice people at IRIS to come back from thier weekend off before I can fly the F-14. Just my luck. :(

Thanks so much for the replies friends. I tried downloading via a different browser with no luck, so I must have fallen victim to the 1 byte file size corruption. Looks like I'm going to have to wait for the nice people at IRIS to come back from thier weekend off before I can fly the F-14. Just my luck. :(

There is a free utility called "FrHED" (free hex editor) that allows you to modify, trim and otherwise alter binary files.Just cut the last byte and you're good to go.