Dear Reader

 

I read some posts about the problem of Windows 7 64 bit and FSX.

 

2 years ago I bought MD-11X Version 1.20 and installed it (to the folder X86). FSX crashed as I choose the MD-11 in the menu. Now I deinstalled it and reinstalled it to "C:\FSX\Microsoft Flight Simulator X". FSX worked, so I tried to install the MD-11: The setup does not have any idea where FSX is located in my PC. Has anyone an idea how to solve the problem?

 

My Computer:

HP model: p6225ch

Prozessor 2.50 GHz

4 GB Ram

NVIDIA Geforce GT 230

win 7 64 bit

 

Thank you for your gread help

 

Alexander Dressler

what happens when you try to manually tell where fsx is installed when you try ti install the md-11

How is it possible to tell this manually?

 

Thanks for your help

 

Alexander Dressler

Havnt you got an option at the beginning of the install to browse where you have fsx installed?

I was looking for something like that. When I come to the first page of the programme (at the setup) there is the button "install to FSX", but when I click a message like "couldn't find fsx" appears and no installation can be made.

 

Alexander Dressler

Ok have you installed any other pmdg aircraft at all? If you have and havnt had any problems installing them. Than disregard the next step

 

The most likely the cause of it is that you moved fsx from the program location to its own root drive in your case. which probably left some registy files in the (86) folder and the md-11 installer cant reconize which location is fsx. One way is to use ccleaner to get rid of any left over registy files.

Currently I don't have installed any other aircraft in FSX, no PMDG too. I had installed the IFLY 737 until this week. Perhaps it's something with the dx.mll or how they are written. I read in other posts about addons that change them.

 

Alexander Dressler

Pete is correct in regards to moving FSX to another folder or drive and not editing the registry to show where the new FSX resides. The is a program to edit the registry automatically to where FSX resides, but I can't think of the name atm. I currently have FSX on it's own HD outside of the windows drive (windows is C: and FSX is D:). I don't have any part of FSX on drive C. My scenery is located on a 3rd HD as well. My FSX folders are the default ones with only the drive letters being changed, as I run FSX on W7 x64 Ultimate with no problems. I had a few small glitches when I first installed it, but that was concerning the Uiautomation.dll issue. If you don't have CCleaner installed download it, it's free and comes highly recommended http://www.piriform.com/ccleaner . Once installed, start CCleaner, select registry from the left colum, and click Scan for issues button at bottom. Once this scans then you click fix selected issues. You can save a copy to your documents folder before you clean it as a back up in case something goes wrong (hardly ever does), then click ok. Let it do this until there are no more errors in the registry, then restart your computer. Then You may need to repair your FSX registry file with the DVD. Once this is done you should have no problems installing MD-11 program.

Hi Alexander!

 

Here is what you need: http://forum.avsim.net/topic/221118-fsx-registry-problem/

Just read the manual and run it. It will fix your problem.

 

BR

Dear all

 

Now I fully installed FSX and the MD-11. I wouldn't have thought about having it installed it problemless, but this time it went well! Now I found the button of the installation programm on FSX where I can tell the setup where FSX should be on my PC. After having installed the Service Packs of the MD-11 DVD, I was able to install it. On the Administrator account I can fly problemless the MD, but on my personal account I receive the message "couldn't load language resource dll" when I click on the FSX icon - How can I solve this problem. I know that it's possible via the "run as admin-button" but I have the permission to the whole FSX file. I realized that FSX can be found on the admin account under "Spiele" on my account it's under "games" these two words have the same meaning, but it looks like I am having another language on my PC. See my other topic on the MD-11 forum.

 

Thanks for all ideas

 

Alex

Run the free registry repair tool from Flight1, this will help the installer find your FSX root.