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DVA3244
Captain, A330-300

Joined on June 12 2006
Century Club
Everett Century Club

Kalamazoo, MI USA

163 legs, 390.7 hours
7 legs, 17.6 hours online
134 legs, 288.2 hours ACARS
1 legs, 3.8 hours event

Posted onPost created on December 21 2018 12:33 ET by Eugene Miller

I haven't used Flight Simulator 2004 for quite some time. When I tried to start it recently, it would not start. I fixed that by replacing the FS9.cfg. It starts up now, but when I start a flight, the screen flickers back and forth between screen resolutions and then crashed to desktop. Any ideas on how to fix this?

Eugene Miller

Captain, A330-300

DVA11021
Captain, B757-200
OLP

Joined on September 13 2012
B757 100 Club
Everett 250 Club
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Online Triple Century Club
DVA Five-Year Anniversary

Milford, NH

375 legs, 620.5 hours
365 legs, 604.5 hours online
374 legs, 618.9 hours ACARS
21 legs, 51.4 hours event

Posted onPost created on December 21 2018 12:53 ET by Sean Zarella

What version of windows are you using?

there was a KB update that killed FS9 there is a way to remove it. KB3086255

Sean Zarella (DVA11021)

DVA13420
Assistant Chief Pilot, B737-800

Joined on February 25 2018
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Springfield, MO

1,093 legs, 1,902.6 hours
1,092 legs, 1,900.5 hours ACARS

Posted onPost created on December 21 2018 12:54 ET by Adam Magiera

Have you made any major changes to your system since it last worked correctly? Upgraded Windows, new hardware drivers etc? Because FS2004 is over 15 years old at this point, any of those sort of changes can be a crap-shoot as far as compatibility. With the flickering and switching between screen resolutions it almost sounds graphics driver related.

Adam Magiera

Assistant Chief Pilot, B737-800

Posted onPost created on December 21 2018 13:37 ET by Eugene Miller

Windows updated to Windows 10 during the period Flight Sim 2004 wasn't in use. And I haven't plugged in peripherals like the yoke, throttles, and rudder peddles yet. Otherwise, no system changes.

Eugene Miller

Captain, A330-300

DVA2887
Senior Captain, A320
OLP, 737-ATP, VFRADV

Joined on January 30 2006
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Online Eight Century

Charlotte, NC

1,287 legs, 1,796.9 hours
841 legs, 1,048.5 hours online
1,269 legs, 1,774.9 hours ACARS
31 legs, 49.6 hours event
3 legs dispatched, 2.5 hours

Posted onPost created on December 21 2018 14:52 ET by Andrew Vane

if you still can't get it to start up, rename your f2004.cfg file. FS2004 will create a new default one and it should start up. Then you can copy in any stuff from the old one as needed.

Andrew Vane (DVA2887)

Posted onPost created on December 22 2018 11:55 ET by Eugene Miller

Sean Zarella wrote:

What version of windows are you using?

there was a KB update that killed FS9 there is a way to remove it. KB3086255

I'm not understanding how to find and remove this KB3086255...but thanks for the help.

Eugene Miller

Captain, A330-300

Posted onPost created on December 23 2018 07:41 ET by Sean Zarella

that update was specifically for win 7 that broke fs9, you would navigate to windows update and search for the update in the querry box and remove. Windows 10 caused a lot of problems with fs9 Some people i know have it running, Im still on win 7 64bit myself running fs9

As andrew states have you renamed your config?

Sean Zarella (DVA11021)

Posted onPost created on December 23 2018 21:28 ET by Adam Magiera

The upgrade to Win 10 could have been problematic for FS9, especially if it was not a full Win 10 install after a drive 'nuke-n-pave'. When I tried to do the Win 10 update from Win 7 on one of my computers using the option to preserve my existing programs, it caused more problems than it was worth with a lot of my games so I decided to wipe it and start from scratch.

Adam Magiera

Assistant Chief Pilot, B737-800

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