troubleshooting select a flight PLEASE HELP!

djdeevw Guest
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Sat May 06, 2006 3:46 pm

ok i just purchased microsoft flight simulator 2004 and everytime I choose select a flight and scroll down to a selected flight for example...Modern: Cargo Pilot (Hard) and select Tokyo to Hong Kong my system crashes, without even trying to load the map. This happens to at least 85% of the "scenarios"...anyone else having this problem? if so is there a way to fix it...I downloaded the newest patch as well...

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RadarMan Chief Captain
Joined: Aug 25, 2003 Posts: 17934 Location: U.S.A
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Sat May 06, 2006 3:53 pm

If you can give us all the specs of your computer that would be a big help.

Radar

djdeevw Guest
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Sat May 06, 2006 4:23 pm

Pentium 4 3.0 ghz with 1 GB of ram with a nVidia 5800 video card

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Greekman72 Chief Captain
Joined: Jun 15, 2005 Posts: 5418 Location: Hellas
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Sat May 06, 2006 4:55 pm

Did you try to lower the Graphics settings from FS menu?Yous GFX is a quite old and by pushing it ,you could have an FS crash.

A re-installation of FS never was a bad solution though. 😉

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Sat May 06, 2006 5:37 pm

yeah reinstalled a couple of times now...turned down graphics as well and still crashed....doesn't even give me a message it just shuts down FS2004 and goes to my desktop...=(

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Greekman72 Chief Captain
Joined: Jun 15, 2005 Posts: 5418 Location: Hellas
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Sat May 06, 2006 5:44 pm

Have a look at this topic ➡

https://forum.flyawaysimulation.com/forum/topic/13893/fs2004-crashes/

Also if your are able to clean your CPU's heatsink and fan from dust it would help anyway yours systems performance.Overheating is an enemy... 😉

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Wing-man First Officer
Joined: Mar 30, 2006 Posts: 310
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Sat May 06, 2006 5:51 pm

Hi djdeevw 😉

Assuming that you haven't been sold a beta copy masquerading as the real thing (don't laugh, it happens), try updating your video card drivers to the latest version, as this fixes the problem about 90% of the time.

Found here....... http://www.nvidia.com/object/winxp_2k_84.21.html

Failing that, you may find your solution here............

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/303032

Good luck. 😉

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