FSX won't finish loading

[marangog 6]

My faithful FSX is suddenly misbehaving. It loads to the main menu, but when I choose a flight it loads terrain data up to 69%, announces "loading autogenerated scenery" and then crashes. Before that, I had just uninstalled some old programs/addons. I used an UNdelete application to see if anything had been deleted from my FSX folder or Appdata, but didn't find anything. I tried a system restore without luck. I have retried FSX with a very basic configuration, with the same results. Does anyone know what FSX is looking for at loadpoint 69?  My actual world/scenery & texture files are intact; could it be a misplaced .dll perhaps?

[HighBypass 2,339]

Not much of an idea, but do you have FSX Steam Edition? If so, then have you tried verifying the integrity of the game files via Steam?

FWIW I sometimes get a long pause in FSX:SE at 69%, depending upon what scenery I have enabled (add-ons) but no crashes..

[overspeed3 410]

This always worked for me:  Change the name of, or backup the fsx.cfg file.  Then DELETE the current one.

Startup FSX - see if that fixed it.  A new fsx.cfg will be generated.  But you must add back any tweeks to the config file (cut and paste from original)  Don't include any very recent tweeks...

 

[marangog 6]

Thanks, HighBypass, but it's not Steam. 

I tried your helpful suggestion, Overspeed3, but it didn't work for me.

[marangog 6]

Back in the air again! I tried changing my Display-scenery settings to minimal and bingo! The cause is still a bit of a mystery though - I have been using Gb-sized photolayers with autogen for years at high settings. True, it would occasionally freeze, but Options-unpause always fixed it. Maybe my RAM is getting tired. (I do have MSFS on brand new hardware, but FSX is will be "Old Yeller" for some time to come.)

[marangog 6]

Post script: minimal display settings turned out to be too basic to enjoy. I upped them a couple of notches but it kept crashing at medium high (still not very good) and in fact blue-screened me just after switching resolution. So I'm going to have to reinstall.....