FS2004 Shuts Down HELP

[beroun]

Hi,

 

for reason unknown, I cannot run FS2004. Have it on my W10 PC two years, no problems at all until today.

Start OK, go to Create flight, fly now... and the FS disappears, not even minimized, just gone.

This happened after my PC mysteriously shut down while running FS.

 

Same after the reboot! The FS seems to be starting OK, goes to opening screen, select flight and 'fly now' click shuts it down?

 

I am contemplating to do a total reinstall. But have posted this in case anyone has any clue on what might have happened.

Also have it up to 60GB now with add-on sceneries and aircraft. Perhaps a limitation on capacity?

 

 

Many thanks for any advise

Peter

[tiger1962]

Hi Peter, your FS9.cfg file may have become corrupted in the crash - have you tried renaming it (to OLDFS9.cfg for example) and rebooting FS2004? If this works, you can copy the key bindings and other settings from your old FS9.cfg to your new one. My FS2004 is over 180Gb, and I haven't found a limit to capacity - yet!

[Luke]

Try deleting the WXSTATIONLIST.BIN file - same directory as FS9.CFG - before you rename the config.

 

Cheers!

 

Luke

[beroun]

WOW! Gents MANY!!!!! Thanks

 

Tim. I actually had older fs9.cfg's saved on hard drive, so have replaced the corrupted one in Roaming with the latest one I had saved and BINGO, FS started OK. Obviously with the saved flight I had saved when I did the back-up. This way I did not have to copy the key bindings and other settings.

 

Luke. Did above before I saw your post and FS started OK without deleting the WXSTATIONLIST.BIN file. But have deleted two other files from the folder where the fs9.cfg sits, which mysteriously showed there : navlog0.htm and navlog5.htm.

 

Many Thanks again gents, all is well now

Have good rest of the weekend.

Peter