First, I'm a long time user of FS, but fairly new to FSX. I am getting a "Fatal Error" about 80% of time after installing the FSX Acceleration Pack.
I installed FSX Gold Edition about 2 weeks ago and had no problems with FSUIPC (which I installed because I was using Air Hauler. Everything has been working fine. However, a couple of days ago, I installed the Acceleration Pack and when I ran Air Hauler, it told me I needed to update to the latest version of FSUIPC. I believe I already had the latest version (downloaded just a couple of weeks ago), but I downloaded and installed (as administrator) the latest FSUIPC yesterday.
After the screen loads following the pressing of "Fly Now", I can look really quick before it crashes on the menu under Addons and I can see that FSUIPC is not there. Within a few seconds, it crashes. There are a few times, however, when FSUIPC does show under Addons and FS doesn't crash.
I've tried loading different aircraft, different weather, different airports and I can't seem to find any common denominator as to why FSUIPC doesn't show up most of the time after "Fly Now".
If I act quick before it crashes, I can sometimes re-load an aircraft (sometimes the same one, sometimes a different one) from the FS menu and then suddently FSUIPC appears under Addons. It doesn't always work and I sometimes have to persist through 3 or 4 crashes before I can finally fly. It's a workaround, but a frustrating one.
If you have any ideas for me, please keep in mind that I am not very technically savvy with computers, so simple is good.
I am running Windows 8, 64 bit, FSX Gold Edition with Acceleration Pack now installed.
Thanks for any help you can offer.
Bryan