FSX

[Andy [YaYa]]

Me said...

you said...

Carried out memtest86 very simple. Ran for hours started last night,
got up this morning and it said No problems detected. It said so on
the screen and told me to exit and reboot.

OK here is the story from the beginning.
Problem.
Initial loading of the game into the computer. Stops as shown on the
loading bar, minutes will go by and then it says system time out. I
put the disc back in and start loading all over again. Never stops at
the same spot, sometimes makes it to the second disc.

Observations.
1) System loaded fine with Win XP, first problem encountered when
trying to load after changing to Vista 32bit

2) The only thing left from the previous computer is the LG DVD/CD/ROM
burner. Had two DVD/CD burners, on previous computer noticed that the
problem was considerably better when using the Pioneer DVD/CD/ Burner
than the LG.(The LG was a faster model than the Pioneer)

I am going to try turning off the Norton Anti Virus and try the
reload.

Defrag once per week.

Note: Considering purchasing a SATA burner today and removing the LG,
I have not had very much sucess with the LG products. My current HD is
SATA.

me say...

SATA/PATA for CD-ROMs should make no difference, could be you have a bad
CD-ROM drive, or bad CDs, don't know.

Vista Defrags automatically (nightly) if you don't muck with the default
settings.

Only thing I took away from this post is you aren't loading the game,
you are installing the game. There's a difference. I thought you were
trying to load the game after installing it, but honestly doesn't make
much difference, sounds like your CD-ROM game or the drive is bad or
having compatibility problems or something. No idea other than to try
another drive.

 

[Andy [YaYa]]

Pioneer DVR-215D main thing is SATA instaed of IDE. They tell me it is
also faster and less wiring inside to interupt airflow.
What is FS Global 2008?

Really, your CD-ROM drive is so fast it overheats? really? Damn, smokin.

besides the obivous external wiring advantage of the smaller SATA cable, I
doubt the internal wiring on the drive is any different. Another nice thing
about SATA is you don't have to worry about keeping the optical drive off
the HD chain. Still bandwidth on SATA is faster than any HDD can support,
optical drives shouldn't be any different speed wise on PATA vs. SATA.

Grats on getting everything going.

 

[numgrol]

hi there i bought vista home premium with SP1 a few days ago and everything
is running fine ...accept one problem i cannot ge into or even activate FSX
i tried re-installing it and everything ....anyone know how i can fix this?