DeGi76 Posted July 20, 2004 Report Share Posted July 20, 2004 Just bought Microsoft Flight Simulator 2004. After installing, I click on the program startup icon. The FS2004 splash screen comes up for about 2 seconds and then disappears without ever running the flight simulator. I've tried uninstalling and re-installing many times but still the same result. Any suggestions? -Thanks Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pete Dowson Posted July 20, 2004 Report Share Posted July 20, 2004 Just bought Microsoft Flight Simulator 2004. After installing, I click on the program startup icon. The FS2004 splash screen comes up for about 2 seconds and then disappears without ever running the flight simulator.I've tried uninstalling and re-installing many times but still the same result. Any suggestions? You might get better results posting this question on the FS2004 Forum. Personally I've not heard of behaviour like that, but I would guess that it's related to drivers -- video or sound. Regards, Pete Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jcboliveira Posted July 20, 2004 Report Share Posted July 20, 2004 Did you changed the My documents folder from it's original position? José Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DeGi76 Posted July 20, 2004 Author Report Share Posted July 20, 2004 Did you changed the My documents folder from it's original position?José Yes. My drive (60G) has 3 partitions. One for the operating system and programs, one for the paging file and one for My Documents. Could this somehow be the problem? Thanks, -DG Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pete Dowson Posted July 20, 2004 Report Share Posted July 20, 2004 Did you changed the My documents folder from it's original position? Hi José, On my test and development system my "My Documents" is on a different drive altogether, but FS2004 seems to manage okay -- the Flight Sim folder is there with its Flight and WX files. Best, Pete Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DeGi76 Posted July 21, 2004 Author Report Share Posted July 21, 2004 Did you changed the My documents folder from it's original position? Hi José, On my test and development system my "My Documents" is on a different drive altogether, but FS2004 seems to manage okay -- the Flight Sim folder is there with its Flight and WX files. Best, Pete Peculiar. I restored the "My Documents" folder to its default location, ran FS2004 and now it works fine. Thanks for the advice and help! -DG Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pete Dowson Posted July 21, 2004 Report Share Posted July 21, 2004 Peculiar. I restored the "My Documents" folder to its default location, ran FS2004 and now it works fine. Very peculiar! Did you move My documents before, or after, installing FS? I wonder if this is a Win98 or Me thing? I'm using WinXP so it may be different. Something to remember though! Thanks Jose! Regards, Pete Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DeGi76 Posted July 21, 2004 Author Report Share Posted July 21, 2004 Peculiar. I restored the "My Documents" folder to its default location, ran FS2004 and now it works fine. Very peculiar! Did you move My documents before, or after, installing FS? I wonder if this is a Win98 or Me thing? I'm using WinXP so it may be different. Something to remember though! Thanks Jose! Regards, Pete MY DOCUMENTS were on a different partition when I installed FS, hence it did not run. Once I restored them to the default location FS ran fine. I noticed FS created a folder in MY DOCUMENTS to store my personal settings/fights/etc. upon first run. It may be that FS is programmed to create this folder only in the default MY DOCUMENTS location. I'm running XP pro so I don't know if the same is so on other Microsoft OSs. Now that the FS user folder is created, I will try to move MY DOCUMENTS back to the partition that I had them originally and see how FS handles that. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
katypluta Posted July 31, 2004 Report Share Posted July 31, 2004 Check the FS2004 FAQ accessible from simflight.com main page, there are several tips about this particular problem... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jcboliveira Posted July 31, 2004 Report Share Posted July 31, 2004 Hi Pete Hope you are ok. It depends in the way you move the my documents. Some solutions don't update all the registry settings. José Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pete Dowson Posted July 31, 2004 Report Share Posted July 31, 2004 It depends in the way you move the my documents. Some solutions don't update all the registry settings. Ah, I see! I used the tools provided in WinXP, somewhere (don't remember where) to move it. That presumably why I din't have any problem. Thanks! Regards, Pete Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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