iansynott

Hi everyone, I just restarted up my old PC this evening for a chance to re-live the FS9 days I unwittingly ended last year as I got hold of a Mac. The setup I had was immense, with countless AI, tons of scenery, night-time textures and little mods here and there to make it the coolest, most unique program I ever owned. It was working perfectly as I left it last year, but starting it up this evening has caused a huge disappointment. Every time it starts up, there's a message that says 'Initialization failure [insert aircraft name]', it goes to a black screen as if it's passing onto the initial menu, and then a failure message comes up with the dreaded 'MSFS 2004 has stopped working' message. I first thought it was just the Cessna 172 causing this as the initialization failure message showed the Cessna's name, but as I tried opening up other flights (for example a default Vega one), the message just showed up too for those aircraft aswell. I've tried deleting FS9.cfg as some websites have said it acts as a fix, but it still shows up with the same error. Would anyone be able to help me please? I really want to get back into the wondrous FS9 again :( I don't have access to the first install disks.