Strange FS2004 Behavior.

[racartron]

This particular version, including the FS config file, has been up and running for several months without any incidents at all. This include many unexpected power failures whilst flying or tweaking. Never had an issue -- until this afternoon.

After a normal shutdown to pursue R/L issues for awhile, I restarted FS as normal and was very surprised to fine ALL of the keyboard and joystick links missing from the system. This was confirmed when I checked the assignment page. I have never seen this type of failure going back to the fs98 era.

Anyway, I quickly jumped over to the config file location and noticed the current file was about 30% smaller than by backup from march of this year. Obviously I needed to replace it, but then I noticed another file called FS2004.cfg.txt sitting in the folder at about the same size as my backup. It was dated early this morning. When I opened it, the contents appeared normal. So I renamed it and then restarted fs2004, and voila, a normal start up including several mods I had made subsequent to the earlier backup.

Is this a normal feature with FS2008? Is so, it saved me a bunch of time sifting through the many changes that I had made over the past few months. :greenbo:

 

[Motormouse]

Is this a normal feature with FS2008? Is so, it saved me a bunch of time sifting through the many changes that I had made over the past few months. :greenbo:

Not a "normal" feature; FS does save a 'new' cfg each shutdown; with the last flight details overwritten from previous... my guess would be a windows 'file protection' feature blocked this over-write and windows did what it does and created a new file name for original .cfg when the 'write' command allocated the fs9.cfg to new file on
FS shutdown.

ttfn

Pete

 

[racartron]

That's what I thought, but I never saw such a file when on XP. Now that I'm on Windows 7 64bit all kind of "odd" things happen from time to time.

 

[Blackbird686]

Now that I'm on Windows 7 64bit all kind of "odd" things happen from time to time.

Make that 2 of us on Win-7/64. While FS seems to be stable for the most part, sometimes I run into drag chutes that won't open, and a "clicking" sound in the cockpit. (No... it's not an overspeed alarm). Just with a couple jets in my liveries, not all tho.

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[stansdds]

Windows Vista and 7 have security features which will often interfere with things like MS FlightSim. Make sure FlightSim is not installed to the C:/Program Files, which is the default directory, as this is a heavily protected space under Vista and W7. It is best to install games to another directory.

 

[racartron]

Never fear about that. I was late into the Windows7/64 era so was able to take full advantage of the learning curve on best practices established by all y'all pioneering chaps

 

[Blackbird686]

Windows Vista and 7 have security features which will often interfere with things like MS FlightSim. Make sure FlightSim is not installed to the C:/Program Files, which is the default directory, as this is a heavily protected space under Vista and W7. It is best to install games to another directory.

That's pretty much a given, so it's "C:\FS Games\Flight Simulator 9" on my Win7 rig. FS usually behaves itself there. I normally don't like installers and stay away from them as much as possible. But when it's from a legitimate payware outfit and I get to the destination window, the install program always finds FS9 in it's proper spot. I never have to change the destination assignment.

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