Need some help. Out of nowhere now if I select any location other than the default Seattle, My flight sim will shut down at about 57% loading terrain. I've been flying for years and no problem. Now, all of a sudden, I can't go anywhere to fly....Any thoughts?? Trash the fs9.cfg and let it rebuild???Thanks for any helpBlind Lemon

You might also check your scenery.cfg in your main FS9 folder and make sure it is not corrupted (i.e., sceneries are in numerical sequence (Areas/Layers). Scenery.cfg gets corrupted sometimes when moving sceneries up and down in the scenery library. If not corrupted, try removing any recent scenery addon until the problem is fixed. Hope this helps.Jim

BL,Don't be too hasty to delete the FS9.CFG. You'll lose all your preferences. The problem possibly lies elsewhere. I had this happen to me once but resolved it by moving to another airport. My original airport then loaded okay. Just a one-off glitch I guess.Firstly, open your FS9.CFG and look in the STARTUP section. Enter the following line if it's not present and save and close it...SHOW_OPENING_SCREEN=1Now load FS9. Can you see the main menu? If so select any airport in the world and see if that will load. If it won't and just stops loading then exit FS and try defragging your hard drive. Then reboot the PC and try loading FS9 again.We'll take it from there.Cheers,

I presume this crash is instant without a microsoft error message? If so, one possibility is that you've added some textures into scenery/world/texture and replaced the default microsoft ones.I had this problem with certain addon packages and all were traced back to a time when I replaced a file called 132b2su1.bmp with another one.Try flying somewhere completely different (e.g. Africa). See if the crash happens there. If not, it's likely to be a texture problem. If it still happens, the problem is likely to be elsewhere.Anthony Dyer