FS9 Crashes! (Possible compatibility issues in Win7)

[OBIO]

When I select the Century of Flight, News, Flying Lessons or try to set up a Flight Plan....my sim crashes. This is true across my 3 heavily modified and heavily populated installs and a stock, fresh from the install discs install. This has happened ever since migrating to Win 7 Ultimate 64-bit. Any ideas on how to fix this....don't care about the News, Century of Flight, or Flying Lessons, but being able to set up a flight plan would be nice.

Oh, FS9 also crashes about 75% of the time when I am exiting the program. That too is a bit annoying.

A bit more info....my installs are on a second drive...a 1T drive, D drive, just for my sims and Photoshop file and tweaking stuff.

OBIO

[Astoroth]

Hey Tim, you might try this...


Right click on your FS9 shortcut and select properties . In the new window that opens, select the tab named compatibility . Under Run this program in compatibility mode , tick the box and in the drop-down box, select the version of Windows that the game operated correctly on (ex: If it worked on Windows XP SP3, select Windows XP SP3). Then at the bottom, tick the box that says Run as an administrator .

Dunno if it will fix it, but worth a try..

[OBIO]

Just applied those setting to the exe file in each install. Will test tomorrow. Got to finish cleaning my 30 gallon fish tank and get to bed.

OBIO

That seemed to fix it! Now sim doesn't crash on exit....and the flight log time thingie is working again. Haven't tried the flight planner yet, but I have high hopes that it too will be working.

[Tom Clayton]

Another good thread for the Tips section! :ernae:

[Dangerousdave26]

Humm...

Very strange but I would not say it is a compatibly problem between FS9 and W7. I have been running mine for over a year now and it works great with everything.

[OBIO]

Not a compatibility issue at all...just an issue of permissions. FS9 did not have the permission to write to the FS9.cfg and other various issues. Once I followed Astoroth's hints and set FS9 to run as Administrator, it now has the permission to make changes to files on the system...and can thus update the flight log files, the FS9.cfg, create the needed files for flight plans and such.

OBIO