I just received through the door MD-11XInstalled the software and appeared to complete normallyRan fsx and selected a default aircraft (172)Then selected the md-11I got all the normal messages about dlls' and clicked on thoseI then saw that the cockpit didn't have any instruments at all. Im running the latest patches for both fsx and vista 64any help would be appreciated.John Maracle

John, blank instruments could be a validation problem or a problem with the C++ runtime libraries. Assuming your copy is legit and the validation worked okay, please try to run the installer again and do a repair when prompted for both the 32b and 64b Visual C++ runtime libraries. Hope this helps.

John, blank instruments could be a validation problem or a problem with the C++ runtime libraries. Assuming your copy is legit and the validation worked okay, please try to run the installer again and do a repair when prompted for both the 32b and 64b Visual C++ runtime libraries. Hope this helps.

Yes my copy is legit as the box has 2 manuals, 1 cd and 1 glossy with aircraft panel explainations it it and the cd box is double the depth of most cd boxes. :-)Ah you mention these libraries, are they on the cd, or does the installer install these automatically, as there is no mention of them anywhere or do I need to uninstall these from my system first.CheersJohn Maracle

Yes my copy is legit as the box has 2 manuals, 1 cd and 1 glossy with aircraft panel explainations it it and the cd box is double the depth of most cd boxes. :-)Ah you mention these libraries, are they on the cd, or does the installer install these automatically, as there is no mention of them anywhere or do I need to uninstall these from my system first.CheersJohn Maracle

Just an update, I removed both the 32 and 64 bit runtimes and when I did a repair through the aircraft installer, it only repaired the 64 bit library. Now the load master works but fsx doesn'tevent viewer says it's missing the 32 bit libriaries which I can't seem to find; ouchJohn Maracle

John, blank instruments could be a validation problem or a problem with the C++ runtime libraries. Assuming your copy is legit and the validation worked okay, please try to run the installer again and do a repair when prompted for both the 32b and 64b Visual C++ runtime libraries. Hope this helps.

I removed the 32 bit and 64 bit runtimes as suggested and yes it did fix the problem however your suggestion does cause an addition problem, by removing the 32 bit runtimes this causes FSX to become totally inoperative and requires a re-install to fix. The 64 bit version of the c++ is the file that you need to un-install, at least in my case. No problem all working now and holy cow batman what a nice Aircraft. :-)