FSX-SE Steam Edition Disappointment

[Nicoli 0]

Hey Guys!

Some may know my situation with my desktop FSX, which i had on my computer since 2007.

Well it was accidentally overwritten by installing FSX deluxe, now  i can't access FSX on my desktop.

Someone advised me to purchase steam addition which i did, went on my first flight last night in over two months, man did it feel good.

17 minutes into the flight from KLAX to PHNL the sim restarted, wow that was a great disappointment to say the lease.

Don't know what happened and I'm tired of researching solutions to these problems, looks like I'm being forced to get P3D.

Getting P3D might mean i won't be able to use any of my old FSX aircraft which i love, simviation aircraft has P3D in the description of the plane.

Does that mean those aircraft are P3D compatible?

Anyway I'm sad that steam has let me down, thanks for all your help finding a solution to my FSX problem.

[forkedtail 5]

My advise to you is to not invest more in sims that are even more demanding than FSX.  Your system dates back rather far (2007) and may not be up to the task.  I use FSX-SE on a modest three-year-old system and it runs beautifully.  As much as I would like to have P3d or MSFS,  I would not trust that my computer could handle either or those sims, so I am avoiding the expense and aggrevation of either of those upgrades.  I have being use FSX-SE for over four years without difficulty.  With add-ons, it runs and looks terrific and I like how Steam does away with the disks that standard old FSX uses. 

That said, there is quite a bit of adding-on that needs to be done to FSX.  You will have to get apps for weather, DX-10 Fixer, and others.  You should have Chase Plane.  The list goes on.

[John Hinson 22]

On 6/15/2021 at 6:55 PM, Nicoli said:

17 minutes into the flight from KLAX to PHNL the sim restarted, wow that was a great disappointment to say the lease.

I wouldn't base your decision on that alone. FSX in whatever form is a very sturdy product out-of-the box. It is impossible to say what caused that to happen, but it might not even have been FSX that caused it.

Forked Tail has made some good suggestions about add-ons, but my advice would be to get your FSX configuration settings as you like them and use the game for a while before adding things to make sure all is running well.

Most add-ons run well with FSX-SE but I also believe most issues people have with FSX are caused by add-ons.

John

[Reader 2,009]

On 6/15/2021 at 6:55 PM, Nicoli said:

17 minutes into the flight from KLAX to PHNL the sim restarted, wow that was a great disappointment to say the lease.

Was this perhaps just a simulated aircraft crash, something that can be disabled in the settings?

[Dazkent 113]

I use both FSX steam edition and boxed on two seperate PCS, the steam edition is very stable, did you see any sort of error message?

 

[TextRich 88]

So FSX:SE shut down by itself without any explanation?  Well it could have been just that one flight - it does happen even in the most powerful computer running it.  Consider saving your flight at every waypoint, or get FSUIPC version 4 and use its payware feature to auto-save your progress.  I am using P3D v.5 now but still love FSX:SE for the years of enjoyment it gave me.

[Reader 2,009]

18 minutes ago, TextRich said:

So FSX:SE shut down by itself without any explanation?

That does not seem to be what was written.

On 6/15/2021 at 6:55 PM, Nicoli said:

17 minutes into the flight from KLAX to PHNL the sim restarted,

 

[David Vega 348]

If FSX:SE was bad, everybody that has it would be disappointed.  As you can see, that's not the case.  If you don't figure out what's the problem before branching in another direction, it's likely you will bring the problem with you.  

[TextRich 88]

4 hours ago, Reader said:

That does not seem to be what was written.

 

I consider an automated restart to involve an automated shutdown of the application.  🙂

Edited June 18, 2021 by TextRich

[Reader 2,009]

FSX-SE cannot do that but it can and does reload the default flight when simulating an aircraft crash.

[blueshark747 1,843]

Steam Version is very stable and Dovetail added most of the cfg tweaks so it can be pretty much enjoyed out of the box.

Every crash I've had with FSXSE was from specific addons the base vanilla sim has never crashed on me

[Bigmack 25]

On 6/15/2021 at 10:55 AM, Nicoli said:

Hey Guys!

Some may know my situation with my desktop FSX, which i had on my computer since 2007.

Well it was accidentally overwritten by installing FSX deluxe, now  i can't access FSX on my desktop.

Someone advised me to purchase steam addition which i did, went on my first flight last night in over two months, man did it feel good.

17 minutes into the flight from KLAX to PHNL the sim restarted, wow that was a great disappointment to say the lease.

Don't know what happened and I'm tired of researching solutions to these problems, looks like I'm being forced to get P3D.

Getting P3D might mean i won't be able to use any of my old FSX aircraft which i love, simviation aircraft has P3D in the description of the plane.

Does that mean those aircraft are P3D compatible?

Anyway I'm sad that steam has let me down, thanks for all your help finding a solution to my FSX problem.

Normally when FSX crashes like you said could be a number of reasons from your hardware being overtaxed to scenery problem. Is the problem reproducible? Or is it random. What addons are you using? I've been running FSX Steam for some time and have not had it crash like that. It's very stable. P3D newer versions require a more powerful PC hardware. Try unchecking your addons a try the same flight again. Check PC temperatures.

Regards

[Reader 2,009]

On 6/15/2021 at 6:55 PM, Nicoli said:

17 minutes into the flight from KLAX to PHNL the sim restarted, wow that was a great disappointment to say the lease.

Although the author has not returned to answer any of the posts trying to help out, I can't help wondering if this is not FSX crashing at all, as that is not what is written in the OP. I suspect that the only way for FSX to "restart" is in the way that it simulates an aircraft crash. Otherwise, it does not restart after a crash to desktop, but needs to be restarted, something different.

Edited June 23, 2021 by Reader

[ThrottleUp 617]

Im on MSFS now but I wanted to jump in here and say that FSX:SE gave me years of fun and it is very stable. Any CTDs I had were related to some 3rd party plane or scenery. 

OP - I recommend you uninstall all versions of FSX that you have. Use a 3rd party uninstaller to clean out the registry entries. Then do a clean install of FSX:SE

Even better (If you have the time and have all data backed up): download the Win 10 Media Creation Tool onto a USB and do  factory fresh install of Windows. Will start you from a clean state and fix a host of issues. Its also very quick to do.