FSX/Acceleration Activation on dual boot system

[tacomasailor]

Flight Simulator X (FSX) Deluxe with recently installed FSX Acceleration - installed on Dual Boot System (XP & Vista). E6600/4 GB PC6400 / evga 8800 GTS / several raid drives

A SINGLE COPY OF FSX is installed on ONE hard drive. FSX is started from the SAME physical copy of the .exe but runs different configuration files depending on the OS.
FSX had been activated on both the XP and Vista system on the same PHYSICAL HARDWARE prior to installing Acceleration .

This method has worked perfectly since I activated FSX last summer. Prior to installing Acceleration I had full FSX functionality when running FSX under either OS.

When I installed FSX Acceleration I did so after booting into VISTA/32. I then activated Acceleration with no problems on 1-20-08 and FSX Acceleration works very well. I am pleased with everything except the shimmers under DX/10 (evga 8800 GTS)

When I try to start FSX/Acceleration after booting into Windows/XP I receive a mesage "unexpected error during activtion Error Code 8-C0000006" and FSX tells me it is aTRial Version which now has limited functionality. FSX (under XP) does not then provide an option for Internet Activation or Telephone Activation - it just starts the TRIAL VERSION for me. I can't find a copy of the phone # to call for help!

The XP system has full Internet access (I am sending this to you from that XP system).

What do I need to do to activate FSX/Acceleation when run on the XP system?

Remember:
ONE Physical system ONE E6600 ONE BIOS - that meets the EULA requirements
ONE physical copy of FSX/Acceleration on ONE hard drive

I think I should be able to run that single copy of FSX/Acceleration under the control of either XP or VISTA - Am I misunderstanding something here?

[psovod]

Yeah, I think you should. I've also read posts where others say they are running FSX on two OS's. Maybe customer service can fix that problem. You'll need your product key. Their number is 1-800-537-8324, hope you don't mind being on hold...

[vgbaron]

won't work. The registry entries are different but they also check various dll files. So after installing under XP, you go to Vista to install and set up the registry, it sees that the dll's have been changed but the registry is wrong and errors out.

You will need two different installation folders, one for each OS.

Spent well over a month trying figure out the right combo - tech support was no help, they didn't have a clue.

So for now, I just fly inder XP.

Vic

[donbaril2]

Hi I'm running FSX with SP2 on dual boot XP and Vista. However I installed FSX on both operating systems. I had no problem activating, (hardware is the same just different operating systems).

The downfall is that any updates or add-ons need to be done on each operating system. Sometimes thats not a bad thing as you can check it out before installing on other system.

I find that I'm using XP most as FSX seems a lot smoother (I dont have DX10 video card).

Don

[tacomasailor]

MS/FSX Support told me to try the following:

1 Turn off security BUT the system has none at all installed

2 Change the registry BUT their recommended change was already in the field they suggested

3 Install FSX/Acceleration under the Administrator Account BUT that is the ONLY account on this machine

I can get FSX/Acceleration all the way through the installation validation and copy files phases. When it gets to the "caching files" phase after installing all the new planes, etc - it spends five minutes with the CPU at 50% busy and gets almost to the end of the phase ( the progress bar is green all the way to the right except for the last little bar) then a message comes up that "rollback of activity" is occurring and all the installation is remove.

There is no error message - just a message than installation terminated before the end and I should try again. I have tried three times now - always with the installation program run as an administrator

ANY IDEAS