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Help! FS9 is not starting


Joseph29

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Tonight I am trying to run FS9 and instead of starting I am getting a message saying "Please login with administrator privileges and try again"

 

Now I was just using FS last night and I didn't change anything from last night. So why isn't my FS9 starting??

 

(I am using Windows 7)

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Perfect. Look for it and remove it. Some crazy updates do crazy things sometimes. I haven't updated in months since I had something similar. Good or bad, right or wrong, that's what I've done.

Ditto - same here. I have Windows 7 and don't see any benefit from Microsoft updates. The last one I tried the computer would not work properly - login to a black screen. Thanks Microsoft!

Graeme Butler

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A wanring on this ....  I didn't find out about this issue until I had tried multiple other "fixes" on my system, such a virus scans .etc.  Every time I subsequently tried to run FS, apparently Windows ate away portions of the FS installation.  scenery.cfg, teraain.cfg, and worst of all my entire Modules folder. 

 

I now am doing a total reinstall of FS9, and of course there are payware issues that I'm sure will be a big problem.  What the H*** was MS thinking?  At least warn people of what an update does before resleasing it.

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"Eating away the sim? That sounds permanent. Eating away from the disc, or eating what's already installed?"

 

No I didn't lose any files from the disk, only from the FS9 installation on the hard drive.  But I lost enough to have to do a complete reinstall and rebuild  :mad:

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"Eating away the sim? That sounds permanent. Eating away from the disc, or eating what's already installed?"

 

No I didn't lose any files from the disk, only from the FS9 installation on the hard drive. But I lost enough to have to do a complete reinstall and rebuild :mad:

How did you notice your sim was losing things?

 

I restored to before the update happened. The sim starts slowly. If I exit the sim and try to go back in, I get the same error message. I restored again (somehow to the same point), and it did the same thing (started slowly). (I haven't exited yet, but I suspect I'll just get the same results). I'll update once I'm done simming.

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How did you notice your sim was losing things?

 

I restored to before the update happened. The sim starts slowly. If I exit the sim and try to go back in, I get the same error message. I restored again (somehow to the same point), and it did the same thing (started slowly). (I haven't exited yet, but I suspect I'll just get the same results). I'll update once I'm done simming.

I can't edit the post for some reason. I do confirm I cannot use the similator again if I exit; I have to restore again to be able to use the sim.

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I too have experienced horrible results with FS9 x Win7 updates. If my memory serves me correctly, sometime in late 2014 (Nov I believe), a very large group of updates installed and virtually rendered our motion sim (FS9 based) useless. Searching the web led me to fellow simmers who warned and advised of the updates - basically what you guys are doing now. Once uninstalled, (and I mean there were over 30), everything worked again.

 

Auto update was exploded after that. LOL

 

Mitch

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