Help please! All of a sudden FS9 won't start. The splashscreen loads for two seconds then everything disappears. No idea what caused this. I just tried installing Cloud9 EHAM but I restored the scenery.cfg to the way it was before and it still won't start. Please help.Misha

Help please. I have deleted the fs9.cfg to force a rebuild. No joy. I tried everything on the microsoft FS9 support page for this problem. Doesn't work. Please, I am at my wits end here.

Anybody....?

The only thing I can think of is to reinstall DirectX9c. This often fixes the hung-at-the-splash-screen problem. I know your problem isn't exactly the same but reinstalling DirectX can't hurt anything and it might help.Doug

OK. Will try that when I get home. Though dxdiag didn't find any problems.

If using XP try system restore. Pick a point that you know FS9 was working.

Running Windows 2000.

Had the same thing happen to me recently. In my case, I'd just updated video card drivers to a "leaked" set of betas. After I reinstalled the old drivers, the problem was gone. Hope your problem is as simple...

I haven't updated my video drivers in a while. The only change to my system from earlier, when it ran normally was the installation of Cloud 9's EHAM. It irritates me whn install.exe files just change cfgs without telling you. I haven't had a chance to try any of the fixes above yet due to an insane work schedule. Hopefully tonight.

What AFCAD's do you have in the addon sceneryscenery folder? Temporarily take all of them out and put them in another folder and see if that works. Cloud 9 installs an afcad file in it's own scenery folder and it may have caused a conflict especially if you have another EHAM or NL AFCAD in the addon scenery folder.Where you running any other EHAM ot NL scenery prior to the Cloud9 install? I have just installed the scenery myself and was running NL2000 and despite a dectivation there were a lot of NL AFCAD's left in the directory.CheersTimhttp://members.chello.nl/t.westnutt/realair.gif

Tim, I tried that too. I deleted the old EHAM AFCAD I had for the default scenery, I reinstalled Direct X. I even reinstalled FS9 (backed up my aircraft, scenery, addon scenery, gauges, sounds, effects, modules and texture folders and overwrote). No joy. Still can't start FS. HELP!!!

It works again! Clean install, update, moved backup back, new scenery.cfg No idea what caused the problem originally....

I'm glad you managed to get it working again. FS is pretty fickle sometimes!CheersTimhttp://members.chello.nl/t.westnutt/realair.gif

Found the culprit. Cloud9 Amsterdam installation installs a dll file that is needed for their activation and for some advanced aspects of the scenery called bglman.dll. When it is present, FS9 won't start. I have posted about this in their forum Does anyone here know the solution to the problem?

>Found the culprit. Cloud9 Amsterdam installation installs a>dll file that is needed for their activation and for some>advanced aspects of the scenery called bglman.dll. When it is>present, FS9 won't start. I have posted about this in their>forum Does anyone here know the solution to the problem?Misha,No idea but I would be interested to know. I have the scenery myself but experienced what you see. I had noticed that when I run Active Sky (AS) for the weather and shut FS down and leave AS running then start FS again and try to load an Amsterdam situation the sim would lock up at about 75% when loading the situation. As soon as I closed down AS and then restart it, it's fine. took me a while to figure that one out! Cheershttp://members.chello.nl/t.westnutt/realair.gif