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  • Please see the most recent updates in the "Where did the .com name go?" thread. Posts number 16 and 17.

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Worrying Situation

IanHenry

IanHenry

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Having just been looking for Nath's re-paint site, and finding it unavailable, I followed a link to his Facebook site and found the following message from Nath:
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"Nathan has been experiencing some problems with FSX. Having had to uninstall and re install both the game and theAcceleration Pack yesterday he has been unable to register them online or over the phone. He has rung Microsoft support in the <st1:country-region w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">UK</st1:place></st1:country-region> only to be told that FSX is an obsolete product and there is no support for it. Needlessly to say he ended the call abruptly.

Does anyone have any suggestions to fix this? It maybe that if this cannot be solved and sadly this journey may have to end after 4 years......"<o:p></o:p><o:p></o:p>
Does this mean that you will no longer be able to register FSX after a fresh install? That's a worrying prospect, we might all have to switch too Prepar3D sooner than we thought!.<o:p></o:p>
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Regards,<o:p></o:p>
Ian.
 
Oh that's a bunch of bull crap! :angryfir:

If that's the case, then someone would be rightly justified in making a code crack in my opinion. We bought this product, and whether they want us to buy their new stupid titles or not they need to allow us to use what we purchased from them. (I've even bought two versions of FSX, as well as two copies of Acceleration because I had lost one box -- found it later). So they have made ample money off of us on FSX and this would be a bunch of horsecrap if they did this.
 
FSX is still being sold, and I'm pretty sure that MS still recieves their share of the sale. Hanging buyers out to dry is unsat. I think if that's the way they want to be...ie taking money on the sales and then hanging the support phone up...I think it's high time someone came up with an FSX 'crack'.

In making this statement, I just want it to be clear I do not support piracy. But after spending alot of money on FSX, I don't believe MS has the right to give all of our FSX purchases an artificial shelf life.


EDIT: I must have been writing my tirade while AirAttack was posting his, lol.
 
Personally, I see no wrong doing in utilizing a crack for a bought and purchased game. I do however find what is being said a bit odd. I had to reactivate my copy just a week or so ago via phone.
 
With this last virus, I ended up having to do a fresh install of FSX and Accel. Activation was flawless via the internet. About a day into the fresh install I started having trouble with it locking up and so I uninstalled and started over a second time, including having to register a second time in two days. Again. . .no problem via the internet.:salute:
 
I had this several weeks back, FSX would not validate online. I called MS, the op strated there is no longer tel support for this product, although he did check my serial no and announced I had a valid product but he could do no more. I hung up. 20 mins later I tried again with online validation and it worked. Clearly there was some shananigans going on after I closed the call and he must have flicked a switch or something.
I seem to recall that every few months MS will clear out their database of held registrations for FSX and as a result will permit new reistrations.
 
I had the same thing happen to me. I couldn't use the serial numbers that came with fsx
because as they say, had been used to many times. Tried the phone call and couldn't get
any satisfaction nor a new serial number.
So you buy a piece of software at a computer store. It isn't yours. Microsoft still owns it
even though you paid for it.
I found Fsx Gold on the shelf at a local staples store. So I have bout it twice now and I bet
you a doughnut it still isn't mine.
 
I just reinstalled FSX (it was a vanilla instal, so no problems) in one of my computers just for the heck of it (mainly after reading this) and used the online activation, went flawlessly..then installed acceleration...same results, no problems on my end, and i´m in South America!
Best regards

Prowler
 
Tell him to get Prepar3D! Installs nicely, they have a forum for help, only $9.95 USD per month for a developer.


I am so #)T#)($^T$ with FSX. The last install last month took one full week trying to get the SP1 and SP2 updates to work.
 
When Natural Point get's TrackIR working in P3D, I'll certainly start converting to P3D. Until then, no-can-do.:gameoff:
 
FSX Gold is currently on sale at Amazon.co.uk for £16.99. Acceleration is included and no need for SP1 or SP2. I installed both on 6th April wih no problems with online activation.
 
I reinstalled FSX a little while ago and had an activation problem. Turns out it was a registry issue that could be fixed with an MS tool. Can't remember the name off hand tho.
 
pilottj said:
I reinstalled FSX a little while ago and had an activation problem. Turns out it was a registry issue that could be fixed with an MS tool. Can't remember the name off hand tho.
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Generally that's the whole problem with FSX or Acceleration not wanting to install or activate.
Even in cases where the drive was formatted, the registry information is still there telling the install/activation process that it's already there.
If there's a problem with either, clean the registry, reboot and try again. Ccleaner is a free program that does the trick rather well.
 
pilottj said:
I reinstalled FSX a little while ago and had an activation problem. Turns out it was a registry issue that could be fixed with an MS tool. Can't remember the name off hand tho.
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The name is Windows Intaller Clean Up downloadable from the MS site. It has worked many times for me.

As P3D is the FSX engine I won't be updating just to make airfield scenery.
 
This may be a dumb question, but does the registry analyzer in Ccleaner do the same thing as the Windows Installer Cleanup tool?
 
Bone said:
This may be a dumb question, but does the registry analyzer in Ccleaner do the same thing as the Windows Installer Cleanup tool?
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In my experience the MS tool goes in deeper and removes everthing associated with the original install. CCleaner didn't and FSX wouldn't even re-install let alone re-activate. WARNING! Heed the warning on the tin use with caution.
 
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