FSX decides not to load

[ZKIWI]

After a great flight from Hamilton to Wellington last night, i closed down FSX and went to bed with a smile on my face. Today after work that smile disappeared when i went load FSX and all i get is the splash screen that comes up while it is loading and then nothing more. No error message, no menu, nothing. Just the splash screen showing and no disk activity.

I have played around and deleted the FSX.CFG file ( after backing it up ) and still the same although it does ask if i want to run a few addons. I tried deleting the entire FSX folder in the user/appdata/microsoft folder ( again after backing up ) but still the same problem.

Before i go and uninstall delete and reinstall everything, does anyone have any bright ideas? ( No FS9 is not a bright idea.)

[Ian Warren]

What other addons have you installed and have you deleted the old flight logs from your document and settings .

[ardypilot]

Not sure if this works in FSX, but that's happened to me many a time in 9 - all I did to fix it was rename the FS9.CFG to FS9.bad and let the sim build a new one upon clicking the application icon.

Try restoring your folders and trying this with the FSX.cfg before going for the big re-install. Good luck

[ZKIWI]

QUOTE (Ian Warren @ Jan 5 2009, 08:33 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>

What other addons have you installed and have you deleted the old flight logs from your document and settings .

Nothing at all since my last successful access. I have tried starting with no addons at all enabled but no joy. Have tried repairing from the installation media but no joy. I am starting to think maybe remove and reinstall. I guess at least it will tidy things up.

QUOTE (Trolly @ Jan 5 2009, 10:16 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>

Not sure if this works in FSX, but that's happened to me many a time in 9 - all I did to fix it was rename the FS9.CFG to FS9.bad and let the sim build a new one upon clicking the application icon.

Try restoring your folders and trying this with the FSX.cfg before going for the big re-install. Good luck

Cheers, but have tried that old gem already.

I had gone through the trouble of making a backup of my Flt Sim folders once i had every thing loaded just right, and restored those but still no luck. I am starting to think perhaps a registry setting gone mad.

[ZKIWI]

QUOTE (Ian Warren @ Jan 5 2009, 08:33 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>

What other addons have you installed and have you deleted the old flight logs from your document and settings .

Ian you are a God. I deleted all the old plans and flight logs from the doc and settings folder and it loaded bloody quickly. I might put the files back one at a time and see which one it was that stopped FSX from loading. My guess is the logbook.

[Ian Warren]

QUOTE (ZKIWI @ Jan 6 2009, 05:58 AM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>

I might put the files back one at a time and see which one it was that stopped FSX from loading. My guess is the logbook.

Wizard! load that last flight in your logbook , the flight from the previous night before the crash .