I have not been able to load up X-Plane for the past 6 months because I've been busy with family, starting a new side business, and starting a new job. I ran the updater yesterday and pulled down the latest beta which includes the 64-bit build. The sim took FOREVER to load. When it finally loaded, it did not work right. None of my controls worked (despite being able to set and test all of the axis in the hardware & equpment screen, and the camera is forever stuck outside and BEHIND my plane. I can't move the camera and none of the camera modes seem to work. I can't get the 3D cockpit view on ANY plane. Basically the sim simply doesn't work. I tried shutting the sim down and it basically locked up my computer after a long time and I had to force the power off... twice. What happened? Has anyone else experienced this? What am I supposed to do? I spent 2 hours trying to get this sim to run (it worked fine earlier in the year) and now I can't do squat. I know it's the sim and not my computer because my other games are still working great (like Diablo III and World Of Tanks).

Hello,

 

from the release notes

 

About Betas

 

From time to time, the newest X-Plane patch is made available early to anyone who wants it as a public beta. First, a few warnings:

• Public betas are not finished builds. They have bugs! They may not work right. They may crash. Working on your airplane with a public beta may destroy your airplane.
  
• Do not opt into the beta program if you want to enjoy X-Plane. Do not use the public beta and then complain that the sim crashes, is unstable, is slow, or looks ugly. Do not use the public beta unless you need to test the beta.
  
• If you don't know what a beta is or don't know how the beta program works, your best bet is to wait, ignore the beta, and keep using your current version. Everyone gets the new patch once it is finalized and out of beta.
  

Skystream,

 

Since your pretty much dead in the water now, you might try to first delete your preferences (not the folder just the file).

If X-Plane crashes, an easy way to reset x-Plane is to delete the preferences folder. It will reset x-plane to its default settings.

 

To delete the preferences in X-Plane:

• Open the X-Plane 9 or 10 installation directory
  
• Go to the Output folder / the Preferences folder.
  
• Delete all the files inside the /Preferences folder
  
• Restart X-Plane
  

Further reading:

http://developer.x-p...ad-preferences/

 

 

You will have to reset all your settings when xpx comes up but at least it might start.

 

Then go into your x-plane file and find x-plane 32bit.exe and see if it will run that. I think the latest beta starts up the 64 bit by

default.

 

Chuck

Thanks for the info. I did try the 32 bit executable last night. After having a black screen for 30 minutes, I finally got an error message in the xplane UI saying it failed to unzip some file. Will try deleting preferences folder next.

 

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Thanks for the info. I did try the 32 bit executable last night. After having a black screen for 30 minutes, I finally got an error message in the xplane UI saying it failed to unzip some file. Will try deleting preferences folder next.

 

 

Probably the update didn't go well and some files are corrupted then. Try to uncheck the beta box and update again.

Probably the update didn't go well and some files are corrupted then. Try to uncheck the beta box and update again.

 

Or could it be that he simply has to download a new installer first. Several versions ago they changed the installers and if he really had such an old version...

So I would first download the new installer from http://www.x-plane.com/downloads/x-plane_10_installer-updater/ and let it do its work.