HiI have been getting this problem from when I first tried to run the Beta version, and now, with the released version it is still the same. Any help would be appreciated.I can install Flight no trouble at all. I can play around with the menus, and change options, no trouble at all.I am signed into Live, no trouble at all.When I press 'Play', the activity bar gets to about 95%, then I get this message - 'Flight Application Has Stopped Working'. I then obviously cannot continue.I have searched everywhere, but there is no mention of anyone else having this problem. I tried to contact the Beta team, but could not do that, for whatever reason.I also have Flight installed on my laptop, and it runs no problem.If anyone has seen this, or experienced it, and knows what is going on, I would appreciate some help in resolving this very annoying problemThank youPeter

peter, had (hopefully not more) the very same, flight even runs mediocre on my laptop but not the home rig. so this is what helped *so far*: http://forum.avsim.net/topic/364050-what-a-joke/page__view__findpost__p__2276686no idea it is corrupt downloads or the live installer messing up the installation, at least I was this morning for the first time able to start flight and sit in the stearman on a rwy. now I just hope it will fly :-)

HiThanks for your reply.I have been trying what you said - if what you said meant installing direct from the Flight web site. I tried that after doing an uninstall, but unfortunately it still did not work.Strangely, before I did that, I managed to get it started, and actually ran a couple of scenarios successfully. I then had to shut it down, and when I eventually tried it again - same thing, and I haven't been able to start it since.Very frustrating.I will keep trying new installs every few day, maybe Microsoft will manage to sort these problems out eventually. There does seem to be relatively few people having install problems though, so it may not be a priority.Thanks for trying to helpPeter

set the compatibility mode to vista ... for me it worked :)