cj75s Posted March 17, 2022 Share Posted March 17, 2022 Hi I have just developed this problem where FSX crashes about 3 quarters of the way into launching. I have it loaded on my second hard drive which is dedicated to it. After it crashes I find I cannot see the hard drive in explorer. No reference to it in Discs at all. I am running win10 64 bit. have 12gb graphics, AMD quad core processor and 12GB of ram. the hard drive D: has 1.3TB of free space. It worked fine yesterday by the way. Today I downloaded 2 aircraft and loaded them in. This is when the Launch failed so I deleted both aircraft one first and tried to launch fsx but it crashed. I had to resort to a complete shut down of the pc and restart to get the D: drive to show up. I then deleted the second aircraft I had installed and attempted a launch and the same thing happened. Not until a complete pc restart did I again get my D: drive to show up. I have run malwarebytes - nothing found. I have checked the drive for errors - nothing found. Windows tells me my pc is in perfect health with no viruses etc after I did a deep scan for 5 hrs. Can anyone shed light on this peculiar behavior Thanks in advance cj75s Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ranger75 Posted March 17, 2022 Share Posted March 17, 2022 Regarding the crash on launch (but not the mysterious disappearing hard drive), go to the location of your ‘fsx.cfg’ file (something like ‘User/AppData/Roaming/Microsoft/FSX’). Remove ‘fsx.cfg’ and ‘wxstationlist.BIN’ via cut and paste to a temporary storage folder. FSX will build new ones on the next start. Sometimes the FSX program gets confused on closing and adds files ‘Previous flight.FSSAVE’, ‘Previous flight.FLT’, ‘Previous flight.WX’ and possibly ‘navlog0.HTM’ to the folder. Remove those files via cut and paste, and store them temporarily as well. Start FSX. WS Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mrzippy Posted March 17, 2022 Share Posted March 17, 2022 Screwed up logbook.bin file? Still thinking about a new flightsim only computer! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cj75s Posted March 17, 2022 Author Share Posted March 17, 2022 ok thanks Ranger75 will do that. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cj75s Posted March 17, 2022 Author Share Posted March 17, 2022 Screwed up logbook.bin file? Where can I find that file mrzippy. Thankyou Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mrzippy Posted March 17, 2022 Share Posted March 17, 2022 Where can I find that file mrzippy. Thankyou Should be in your My Documents folder in a folder called Flight Simulator X. The file is called logbbok.bin You can either delete it or cut it and paste to a safe spot to be repaired. Restart FSX and a new file will be rebuilt. Look in the Library here for a logbook repair tool to fix your old file, if that is what you prefer. Still thinking about a new flightsim only computer! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cj75s Posted March 17, 2022 Author Share Posted March 17, 2022 ok thankyou will do it tomorrow as I am GB and its time to hit the hay. cheers Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cj75s Posted March 18, 2022 Author Share Posted March 18, 2022 to all, I signed in as admin and now can access FSX. Strange but so far only as admin. Can anyone explain this? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cj75s Posted March 18, 2022 Author Share Posted March 18, 2022 did this but it didnt work but see below as I signed in as admin and fsx works. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Skywatcher12 Posted March 18, 2022 Share Posted March 18, 2022 did this but it didnt work but see below as I signed in as admin and fsx works. Did you install it in the default location? That would likely be why. Mark Daniels Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cj75s Posted March 18, 2022 Author Share Posted March 18, 2022 well its installed on drive D: not my C: drive where windows is installed. D: is dedicated to fsx. I have done everything thats been suggested but on attempting to launch fsx 2 minutes ago it just crashed to desktop and said it couldnt read from the drive. Now when I looked in explorer the drive D: is missing. However when I signed out and in again D: was there. No other programs launched does this. The other thing is that when logged in as administrator FSX works ok. Its the same FSX thats on D:. Has this something to do with my login. I'll maybe try and make a new login and see if the problem crops up under that one once I've remembered how to share everything with the new login that is... old age... Thanks for all your help guys. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
il88pp Posted March 18, 2022 Share Posted March 18, 2022 file: 'logbook.bin' is in your 'Documents' folder. Each user has his own 'Documents' folder. And his own logbook.bin file. [sIGPIC][/sIGPIC] Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cj75s Posted March 18, 2022 Author Share Posted March 18, 2022 (edited) right, so I thought maybe its my task bar icon launcher thats to blame. Why I don't know but it was a long shot. so I deleted my task bar launcher and launched the game from D: microsoft etc.. IT worked. fsx managed to open after a while that is and further questions later I was in. SSo I shut it down and then went to D:/Microsoft etc .. . . and right clicked the file fsx.exe and pinned it to the task bar and then launched fsx from there and hey preesto it worked, but a few of my aircraft are missing espescialy the default DC3 etc and a lot of my newly loaded paint jobs for default aircraft. this is strange, never got to producing a new log-in. anyone got any ideas as to what has happened? Its really strange, maybe cause it wa on my D: drive my PC has been saved, I dont know? Edited March 18, 2022 by cj75s adding extrta Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Skywatcher12 Posted March 19, 2022 Share Posted March 19, 2022 Won't matter what drive you install it on. If you are missing anything, check the main game folders and see if the files are actually there. Mark Daniels Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cj75s Posted March 20, 2022 Author Share Posted March 20, 2022 Yep I found it and deleted it. it still crashed until I ran the launch from within flightsimulatorX program files using FSX.exe instead of the task bar icon. rg Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cj75s Posted March 20, 2022 Author Share Posted March 20, 2022 Yes everything was there. As I said it started ok when I logged in as the Administrator but on my normal log in it crashed. However as I have now created a new launch copy of fsx.exe it seems to work ok. Thanks for all your ideas people. Its really good there is a forum like this. cj Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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