Hello Fellow Flight Simmers,I am coming to you with an urgent problem that I have developed this evening at home.I had been trying for days to find a Jetstar model plane and decided inthe end to just try and work out how to do a repaint with Jetstar textures however when I went to my SimObjects/Airplae folder, the default A321 airplane folder was not there.To get this back I researched on Google and found to just put the FSX Disk 1 in and click repair which I did and this took about 10 minutes and was all finished.Now, that is when all the trouble started. When I then went and clicked on my FSX Icon, I get the blue start up Microsoft Flight Sim screen but then after about 20 seconds I get a message in a little box which says "A Fatal error has occured" - Windows will try and find a solution and notify you and well nothing happens. I turned my machine off, re-booted and the same thing. I tried system restore from 2 days ago and nothing.I am tearing my hair out here guys and girls. Does anyone know of or had this probelm and know of a fix ?..I even try and put Accelaration disk in and try and repair it but it won`t even load up and always says not responding....:-(...I tried boothing in safe mode, running disk defrag and just nothing and I checked the A321 folder in SimObjects and it has returned but since doing this the game won`t load uo....:-(I am desperate here guys, I have a 4 year old who loves watching daddy fly his planes and out tuesday night flight night was cancelled and he wouldn`t speak with me.I really don`t want to go thru a total uninstall then re-install as I have FTX, REX Overdrive,GEX and UTX Canada,Alask and Europe and I have a plethora of add-on missions and planes and Iam buggered if I want to load all those on again.If anyone can help me with a fix and it works it will be rewarded, I make that promise.Cheers,Chris

Dear ChrisI am sorry to hear of your problems. Like many of us I have developed my Flight Sim considerably with upgrade packs, acceleration pack, missions and various scenery and aircraft add-ons mainly from Just Flight, Wilco and Aerosoft. About a year ago for reasons unknown the whole lot began regularly crashing with fatal and unrecoverable errors. I 'tinkered' with it in all sorts of ways but I was unable to fix the problem.In the end I bit the bullet and stripped the whole installation out and started again. I did it in a structured way - basic FSX - test - Patchs 1 and 2 - test - Acceleration Pack - test - Pro Flight controls - test - and so on. It took about three days including having to re-establish various product and access codes from the add-on suppliers. It has been reasobably stable ever since apart from VATSIM problems which are only essential if you choose to fly with virtual airlines.I suspect you may have to take a similar path. The whole installation becomes such a complex interactive jigsaw that faults and changes in one area can manaifest themselves in all sorts of unpredictable ways.Sorry to be a prophet of doom but I am speaking from presonal expereince with this one. Only consolation might be that re-installing basic FSX is not too onerous and at least you will be able to fly!Let us know what the outcome is meanwhile - I can only offer comiserations and good luck.Rgds - Roger

Couple of things you can try, Chris:This may be caused by a corrupt Logbook.bin file, so go to the Avsim library, do a search for " fsxlogrecovery11.zip ", download it, place the unpacked FSXLog.exe in your (you don't say what your OS is, so I'm quoting the Win7 path here) C:\[your username]\My Documents\Flight Simulator X Files\ folder. This is where your Logbook.bin file is, along with all your saved flights. When you run this .exe, just follow the instructions, and if the log is corrupt it will tell you, and then it will fix it for you.The second fix - and I have my doubts in this case - is to delete (or rename) your fsx.cfg file, and let FSX build a new one. This may work, but I'll be surprised if it does.

I had a very similiar thing happen to me last night while trying to add a VC to the Project Airbus A380. While in the midst of copying files from one aircraft to another and tweaking the cfg files for the aircraft, I would test the changes in MSFS. I would load the aircraft and then would receive a message about a left wing view missing, which I ignored, but then I would select Flight Planner and then BOOM, major fatal error crash. I eventually determined it had something to do with the way the A380 was loading, more specifically a DLL file that was copied over was causing a raucous. Perhaps this could be a similiar issue on your end as well. If you are dealing with DLL files that disseminate from an aircraft folder and have been copied from another, that may be causing the problem. Instead of reinstalling everything, perhaps if you were to copy out the new stuff you added or changed to somewhere safe, then delete the original aircraft and see if MSFS start up?Just a thought. Post your findings if and when you determine the problem.Jim

It won't help to tell you what you apparently did wrong but -if you run the REGULAR FSX repair option over the Acceleration install, you will generally have some problems. You needed to run the Acceleration repair first. You can TRY to uninstall/reinstall just Acceleration and cross your fingers.Also, before removing anything, try tye logbook recovery mentioned earlier, if that doesn't work, try6 uninstalling just Acceleration and reinstalling.If THAT doesn't work - a complete uninstall/reinstall may be necessaryGood luck,Vic

Hi Guys,Thank you so much for your responses and I should have said also that I have Windows Vista 6 Bit.This is a thorn for me right now and and I appreciate your responses......-)Cheers,Chris

Hi, I also once experienced the same thing, and the best solution for me was to completely remove FSX, then reinstall FSX, take a short Cessna flight, save it, and then install SP1. I repeated the steps for SP2. Saving your flights will help the logbooks build itself while it install itself. Dave.

Sometimes the repair option goes bananas when you have SP1 and SP2 installed, since FS changes with those installed, so it's often worth a shot to uninstall the SPs by using your control panel to do so, then doing a repair with the disk, then reinstalling the SPs. Tedious, but that can sometimes sort things out.Al

Thanks guys with all of your responses.I think it is looking at an uninstall of Acceleration which has SP1 & 2 as far as I am aware.Now, here is the million dollar question.I have FSX Gold edition and I understand that there is the normal flight simluator and the Acceperation pack. In my Add/Remove programs, all I have is Microsoft Flight Simulator X Acceleration...I would assume that by uninstalling this file, it will uninstall only the Acceleration part of flight sim x and not the Flight Sm X program itself, is this correct ?Sorry for sounding like a noob here guys but I am foreign to all of this stuff.If anyone can let me know, it will be appreciated and it would appear the last posting from Chock might be the way to go.Cheers,Chris

Thanks guys with all of your responses.I think it is looking at an uninstall of Acceleration which has SP1 & 2 as far as I am aware.Now, here is the million dollar question.I have FSX Gold edition and I understand that there is the normal flight simluator and the Acceperation pack. In my Add/Remove programs, all I have is Microsoft Flight Simulator X Acceleration...I would assume that by uninstalling this file, it will uninstall only the Acceleration part of flight sim x and not the Flight Sm X program itself, is this correct ?Sorry for sounding like a noob here guys but I am foreign to all of this stuff.If anyone can let me know, it will be appreciated and it would appear the last posting from Chock might be the way to go.Cheers,Chris

When you install Acceleration, that will replace FSX in the add/remove program section. When you uninstall Acceleration, the FSX install will appear but you have the Gold edition which installs everything so your edition may uninstall everything. You'll just have to uninstall Acceleration then recheck add/remove programs and see if anything is left. Once you uninstall everything, you'll still have remnants of FSX on your system as FSX does not cleanly uninstall. The FSX main folder will remain as you still have addons installed. I would recommend running a registry cleaner once everything is uninstalled before reinstalling FSX.It doesn't sound like your issue is with FSX causing your crashes but a system problem. Could be several issues but you need to check you event viewer and see what the message(s) was when FSX crashed. Look for the date/time when each crash occured. It will usually tell you what file/program that caused the crash. Sometimes it will reference you to a video card driver. The fact that you lost your A321 folder is strange and a repair should have brought that folder back. I still would try another repair and do it with UAC disabled on you system.Best regards,Jim

When you did a repair, did you just repair Acceleration? You need to start with the repair of FSX gold edition first (which should bring back you A321 folder, then do a repair of Acceleration which includes SP1.Best regards,Jim