I have been using windows 7 Home Professional and playing fs9

 

about two weeks ago it all worked perfectly, and now I cant open fs9 at all

 

the only updates have been normal Microsoft updates.

 

I have even installed a new copy of fs9 and still cant open it

 

Please can someone help me

 

thanks

ron

One of the updates disabled the mechanism that allows disk 4 to be used. read all about it here https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/kb/3086255 or just remove update 3086255.

 

DJ

Have you sorted the problem?

The only way to be absolutely sure of avoiding this problem now and in the future is to get the no CD crack.  It's free!

 

David

Unfortunately the no CD patch doesn't work either with this update installed.

The solution is  to delete the update(and avoid the reïnstall of it) or execute the workaround as published by Microsoft (see link by Ubersu above).

tompie

Well, the No CD crack certainly does work as many, many people will attest.

 

Dijvid

Unfortunately the no CD patch doesn't work either with this update installed.

 

Yes it does !

You should be able to uninstall the errant update and be back to normal.

PMJI, but thanks!

 

FS9 would not run on my old laptop that does even have a dedicated graphics card, nor even an i3 level cpu, it is an intel Pentium R 2020M at 2.4 Ghz. I thought it was too under powered to boot up FS9 because that is below the i3 level. And only 4GB ram.

 

Turns out it was just the KP3086255 update that was problem.

I just now deleted that and FS9 runs just fine!

 

So MS is shooting down there own applications :?)

 

Psst, hey MS, those people with Indian accents whom you hire from over on the subcontinent are willing to work cheap at many types of duties, not just man your phone tech support. A huge company like yours might hire a few to test your own MS products, such as FS, before releasing Windows updates!