I reformatted my system, Installed Win-7, every possible updates, FSX+expansion, then I installed the NGX.
After a few pupups (dealing about several dll's, which I confirmed) I am still waiting for the well know activation popup. It won't appear. My fsx freezes.

I even tried to install the good old MD-11, same sort of thing happens: some popups appears amd then fsx freezes.

The only thing I've changed in comparison with previous installs is that I'm using a different drive (D:\fsx instead of C:\fsx)

 

I've submitted a support ticket. Got feedback to check for common solutions, such as SP1+2, administrative rights, to make sure I did not delete services etc. None of this was applicable, saddly.

 

I just even installed the SDK, and run the simconnect.msi (as an act of desperate).

 

Help would be much appreciated

 

Goof van den Biggelaar 

my rig:
i7 3770k - GTX680 - Win 7 Ultimate

 

Goof-

 

Keep us posted over at support.  We see very few instances of this- and we do like to know if it gets resolved.  Most often it is something that has you and us saying, "ooooh... yeah that makes sense."

Robert,

 

you do use FLEXnet, don't you? Suppose it's HDD volume number locked? I'd go and make sure it pulls the correct Vol ID, if possible to force it to rescan anew. I suppose there is some debug/debug logging option in it? Other than that, maybe remote debugging the fsx process and/or specific PMDG dll could help.

Robert,

 

I have been in contact with support and after a couple of days I have solved the issue.

It is not clear what the problem is (drivers, updates ???) so I cannot post 'the solution'.

 

What I did after trying again and again for several days: Instal win-7, NO updates, NO drivers, NOT changing the location of 'My Documents' (don't know why this was all of a sudden a problem), instal FSX and PMDG-planes, and then run all the updates.

 

Greetings,

 

Goof van den Biggelaar

Robert,

 

I have been in contact with support and after a couple of days I have solved the issue.

It is not clear what the problem is (drivers, updates ???) so I cannot post 'the solution'.

 

What I did after trying again and again for several days: Instal win-7, NO updates, NO drivers, NOT changing the location of 'My Documents' (don't know why this was all of a sudden a problem), instal FSX and PMDG-planes, and then run all the updates.

 

Greetings,

 

Goof van den Biggelaar

 

I have a non-standard My Documents location on my own machine with no issues... Did the location you'd changed it to have any strange characters or anything like that in the name maybe?