Hallo everybody!

I have just installed PMDG MD11. It's a very beatyful airplane. BUT! I have a new computer Windows7, intel core 3,4GHz, 16GB memory and videocard Nividia GTX660, and then I have load fs9 and want to set in the meny PMDG, panel or anything else nothing is comming up and the screen is black. It's worked in my old computer with windows XP, but not in this one.

Can anyone help me with this ploblem. I would be very glad, and if there is someone who can answered in Swedish i would be more than glad!

Thanks

Bosse

Windows 7 is very protective of the program and program (86) folder.

 

Open windows explorer and create the following folders:

 

On your C drive: Creata a folder called "Microsoft Games"

Inside that folder create another folder called "Flight Simulator 2004"

 

When done it should look like the following:

 

C:/Microsoft Games/Flight Simulator 2004

 

When installing FS9, make sure the install path points to these two folders and everything works fine.

 

Then install PMDG MD-11, it will automatically detect the FS9 path.

 

Also, when installing any games or other programs, it is best to make sure it does not install in the default "program" and/or "program (86)" folders.

Windows 7 protects these files and may not accept some programs.

 

I hope this helps you.

The real problem is UAC, and people not running installers as Administrator (right-click).

 

If UAC is ON, any failed write attempts ("Users" is READ ONLY by default on the Program Files folders!) are re-directed to the virtual store under the current user. The problem is that different user levels causes UAC to fail to find files if it is looking in the "real" location, and fails to find what it is looking for (UAC is dumb and doesn't check the virtual store, just in case!).

 

UAC is a half-&@($* attempt at what Unix systems do, but MS porked it, and the result is what you see. If MS were a bit more careful with the design, it would have worked great.

 

Disabled UAC (CAREFULLY!). Note that disabling UAC on a system that used it quite a bit can break things. If that happens, just re-enable UAC, or if you know what you are doing, go into the VirtualStore folder and move everything to the real location. You can do this any time, and will mean you don't have to re-install anything. Once you've moved everything, disable UAC and reboot, then clear out the VirtualStore to free up disk space.

 

Best regards,

Robin.