I haven't had this problem before. But now it is really annoying and frustrating. After reinstalling to clean up the whole fs9 folder and get rid of the technical issues of not being able to open the flight lessons or learning center etc I decided to reinstall and start again.Now I am faced with another problem that simple won't go away! I have reinstalled 3 times now and FS9 keep crashing to desktop after the scenery database has been updated or whatever. I just simply won't get to the main blue menu or the home interface. There is nothing wrong, I have completely cleared the whole FS9 folder and all its saves and it still won't let me play.I have had fs9 for about 2 years and haven't had this continuous problem before, what can it be and how can I fix it?

Hi,I reinstalled FS9 this afternoon and as soon as the splashscreen showed up it crashed. After a while I went in to the game folder and ran FS9.exe and it worked,and once the screen came up it told me there was that FSSound.dll and did I want to disable it etc. I think it was that stopping it and so I pass on this scrap in the hope it might help you.Andy.

Thanks for your reply. But even if I use the fs9.exe i get the same problem and I also dont get any message about FSSOUND.DLL. Any other ideas?

hi,I'm afraid I don't, but I think you will find that something you have just installed is conflicting with something.Another thing to try isSTArt-All programs-Microsoft games-FS9-Troubleshooting-reset Defaultsorsafe mode-but I don't know what that isReset defaults may help; you go back to the basic game setup.Good Luck,Andy.

Hmm reseting defaults doesnt work and safe mode also brings the same problem.

You don't say HOW you reinstalled FS9 but if it was simply through deleting the folder and then resinatlling from the CD's you forgot to remove all the mentions in the Application DataMicrosoftFS9 folder under your own user name in the main Documents and Settings folder. you can also open scenery .cfg and check that all the entries are correct, in sequence, and that you have no old entries form scenery that was installed, but isn't any longer.Allcott

Move on. It's time to upgrade and format the hard drive and sell fs9. Install Vista RC1 and some other games until FSX is out.

I have tried deleting everything including that fs9 folder in the application data folder (but it isn't there anyway after uninstall). I have also tried searching for fs terms such as fs9 or fs2004 and deleting all the corresponding files but that would not make any difference, What the #### can possibly be causing this?And no I am not prepared to move on right now, FSX isn't even out yet and I don't want to format and upgrade so early. I miss playing FS2004 and I want to start again from scratch, right now it seems impossible. Can someone help?

Found this somewhere else, can't hurt to tryIf you have internet explorer 7 or mediaplayer 11 installed, rename (or delete) the oleacc.dll in the main fs folder to oleacc.old

Did you copy any old files over after the install or is this a clean, untouched install? Did you install the 9.1 patch?Did you defrag between uninstall and re-install? Run error-checking on the drive?Jim

Hi,Something more serious than a re-install looks needed if you couldn't access the Learning Centre etc..<<>>Maybe your discs are corrupted??Andy.

One thought, if you did re-install FS9.1 might be your version of FSUIPC; 9.1 requires FSUIPC > 3.41 as I recall. ( Current version FSUIPC 3.70).Ed GreenKCLThttp://www.panelshop.com/Banners/DEV.jpg

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Well format the hard drive anyway and then reinstall XP and fs9. It is worth doing sometimes to have a clean system with the latest drivers installed.