Mac6737

I went the 800 route and have to give a shout-out to "Chitrantshi" who spent 45 minutes on my screen and fixed it (I hope and pray). First, she was able to get me to a prompt that asked for my product key. (I had of course entered this successfully when I reinstalled in the first place.) But the program then said that key was "invalid." Long story short: the key it wanted was not the FSX key -- it was the "Acceleration" product key. Who knew? You have to give Mickeysoft credit for persisting. Let's see how long the sim works this time around. BTW: I copied all my Alabeo planes into the re-installation. They are all there. But some are missing walls in VC, and NONE of them starts with CTRL+E. They blow dirty smoke and then shut down. Tomorrow, I'll work on that.

OMG. I just replaced my PC with a custom-build at my local Microcenter. Of course, I had to do a complete reinstall of FSX (Deluxe), SP1 and Acceleration. I experienced no issues with the install, and added some planes and my Orbx purchases. Booted it up and everything was swell -- except for an error message at the outset, which soon disappeared as the program completed scenery files. (I took this to relate to the imported Orbx material). But about 20 minutes into a flight, the sim stopped and a message thanked me for "trying FlightSim," and instructed me to "activate." The terse instructions on the screen disappeared before I could catch them, and the PC then crashed; had to reboot. What the heck is this all about? I searched this forum, and find some threads going back 5 - 10 years about problems installing Acceleration, but that seems not to be my problem. I can't quite believe that my entire system and libraries built up for over a decade is now useless. Please help! Mac6737