March 2, 201214 yr I got the game to install but when I try and start it I get a black box on the screen then two crashes. One is about Microsoft Flight not being able to start and then the other is about Dr. Waton Postmortem Debugger. I cannot start this game at all. I am on XP and I downloaded the installer from the microsoft website. I need help to start this program. I also have an older version of Internet Explorer on the computer I am trying to install to. I might try updating to Internet Explorer 8 and see if that helps. Edited March 2, 201214 yr by cav500
March 2, 201214 yr Author Seems like a great place to come for help. :Peace: I guess I can contact microsoft and see what they say.
March 3, 201214 yr Author Looks like I am having this conversation with myself. I take it that no one else has had this problem. Maybe it's an XP issue only. I am getting a crash error code 0xc0000005 when I try to start MS Flight. I can't play this game and even miscrosoft won't email me back. Oh well...
March 3, 201214 yr Could be any number of reasons from installation errors, bad uninstall, a conflict, registry corruption... Error 0xC0000005 means the program has attempted to access memory that it shouldn't. We are all connected..... To each other, biologically...... To the Earth, chemically...... To the rest of the Universe atomically. Devons rig Intel Core i5 13600K @ 5.1GHz / G.SKILL Trident Z5 RGB Series Ram 64GB / GIGABYTE GeForce RTX 4070 Ti GAMING OC 12G Graphics Card / Sound Blaster Z / Meta Quest 2 VR Headset / Klipsch® Promedia 2.1 Computer Speakers / ASUS ROG SWIFT PG279Q ‑ 27" IPS LED Monitor ‑ QHD / 1x Samsung SSD 850 EVO 500GB / 2x Samsung SSD 860 EVO 1TB / 1x Samsung - 970 EVO Plus 2TB NVMe / 1x Samsung 980 NVMe 1TB / 2 other regular hd's with up to 10 terabyte capacity / Windows 11 Pro 64-bit / Gigabyte Z790 Aorus Elite AX Motherboard LGA 1700 DDR5
March 3, 201214 yr Author I got it working! This makes absolutely NO sense to me at all but this is all I did to fix the problem:plugged the joystick into the USB port before double clicking the MS Flight icon to playDoes that make any sense at all? I tried it over and over again.Without the joystick plugged in: error (crash) upon startup every timeWITH the joystick plugged in: it works!How weird.... Edited March 3, 201214 yr by cav500
March 3, 201214 yr That is weird. We are all connected..... To each other, biologically...... To the Earth, chemically...... To the rest of the Universe atomically. Devons rig Intel Core i5 13600K @ 5.1GHz / G.SKILL Trident Z5 RGB Series Ram 64GB / GIGABYTE GeForce RTX 4070 Ti GAMING OC 12G Graphics Card / Sound Blaster Z / Meta Quest 2 VR Headset / Klipsch® Promedia 2.1 Computer Speakers / ASUS ROG SWIFT PG279Q ‑ 27" IPS LED Monitor ‑ QHD / 1x Samsung SSD 850 EVO 500GB / 2x Samsung SSD 860 EVO 1TB / 1x Samsung - 970 EVO Plus 2TB NVMe / 1x Samsung 980 NVMe 1TB / 2 other regular hd's with up to 10 terabyte capacity / Windows 11 Pro 64-bit / Gigabyte Z790 Aorus Elite AX Motherboard LGA 1700 DDR5
March 3, 201214 yr Moderator Not really weird at all. When you installed Flight presumably it detected the joystick and configured itself accordingly. Sometime between the Flight install and first launch, Windows lost track of the USB port in which the joystick was plugged.When attempting to start, Flight attempted to connect to the memory address to which the USB port had been mapped and found it vacant! Instant memory access error.USB ports are probably the worst interface ever invented and are notoriously flakey, especially the ones that aren't wired directly to the motherboard. I frequently use compressed air to blow the dust of the connections also.BTW, welcome to AVSIM. Please keep in mind that this place ain't "Instant Messaging" and that we all live in widely separated parts of the world... :Peace: Fr. Bill AOPA Member: 07141481 AARP Member: 3209010556 Avsim Board of Directors | Avsim Forums Moderator
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