Hi all,Is there some secret about d/ling the beta that I have to know? I tried downloading yesterday and the file was "corrupt or invalid" It kind of ticked me off. Is there something I should be doing to get this file correctly?Thanks,Jeff

HiIll bet you only d/l the wrong thing. The full file is 8.12 gb you have to use the fp download mgr and the active x control.it takes a long timeSun

I'm trying again now, I'll report back in 4 hours or so.Jeff

Make sure your unpacking the downloaded zip archive with winzip and not the built-in XP zipfile tool. Others have reported issues extracting the files in XP but it worked for them using winzip.Phil

I tried to unzip mine with windows and got the same result. Use the FP download manager to unzip it, then it will work.

the latest version of winzip will upzip it

Thanks all, I'll try some of those suggestions instead of deleting this time, about 3 hours to go.Jeff

Let me know what works for you in the end. I've been trying for four days (not straight through of course). I've been using winzip 10.My ordeal is on a different thread (currently) just a few threads down from this one.http://forums.avsim.net/dcboard.php?az=sho...443&page=#18446