Hi,I have a question....I've been flying the MD11 in FS9 since it's realease.I've just changed my PC and now using window 7 (64Bit).All the time I've flown this bird I've never had a problem until now. Everything works like a dream until I try and enter a flight plan, either by a saved flight or creating a new one.As soon as I put the co route or the origin/ dest. FS freezes but doesn't crash.:( Just out of curiosity I started to enter a new route from LSZH - LFPG and as usual it's frozen without being accepted.:( I've left it now for over 7 hours and still it's not accepted the inputs. Everything freezes (get the hand pointer when it's processing the inputs). The only thing I can do is to shut FS down using the task manager...Any ideas?Hope someone can help 'cos I want to fly my fav. bird!!!:( Adrian

Here's my guess (and sorry for the self-quote, but I don't feel like typing this every time):

Thought so.You need to grant yourself admin rights to the Flight Sim X folder located on your hard drive.To do this, navigate to the Microsoft Games folder on your drive and:Right click on the Flight Simulator X folder:Select PropertiesSelect the Security tab at the topClick on the Users account in the Group boxIn the Permissions box, check the box Full ControlClick OKThe grants you (a User - Tron reference? :( ) and the programs you use in that folder admin rights to the folder. Essentially, what is happening is the computer is writing the changes (your key assignments) to a 'ghost' (Compatibility Files) folder, which the PMDG Options panel ignores the next time you run it. Using admin rights writes those changes to the actual file, not a file in a 'ghost' folder. As a quick note, if you have problems with any other program (especially when it comes to settings not saving, etc), you should grant admin rights to the program's location first before trying other things. UAC has its place in Windows, but it ends up being a bear if you don't know how to keep it in check.

Thanks for the reply and advice.I did as you suggested and gave permission for all users to have full access to the drive I have FS installed on.:( However, the problem still remains with one exception. If I enter a route already in the saved plans ie EGKKLFPG001 it give a message of unable to load route.If I attempt a manual flight plan it is still freezing.:( I've done the obvious of shutting down and restarting but no good so uninstalled and reinstalled MD11 but still the problem persists.What I don't really understand is that the 737 works fine... no problems at all...Any other ideas/ suggestions?:( By the way I'm using FS2004......

Edited February 6, 201115 yr by captaincupcake

I don't think 737 routes worked in anything other than the 737, as they're .rte files, whereas the MD11 routes are .rte2. Was the route originally created from the MD-11, or from the 737/third party program? Simroutes also uses the .rte format, if you downloaded it from there.