mike H 456 Posted March 24, 2014 Report Share Posted March 24, 2014 Went to start up FSX today via my desktop icon as usual. The FSX home page came up ok, but did nothing else after about 10 mins. I rebooted my PC this time I started FSX via my programs page still no joy. Then this message came up, " Flight Simulator cannot run because it could not write FSX cfg. " Any ideas why this happened and where do l go from here. Guys. Cheers Mike Link to post Share on other sites
MyPC8MyBrain 273 Posted March 24, 2014 Report Share Posted March 24, 2014 maybe corrupted disk, did you defrag lately Link to post Share on other sites
mike H 456 Posted March 24, 2014 Author Report Share Posted March 24, 2014 Yes Chris did a defrag and disk clean today and tried to load FSX again still no luck. Link to post Share on other sites
allardjd 1,853 Posted March 24, 2014 Report Share Posted March 24, 2014 Check the access rights for the folder where FSX.cfg is located. Also, be sure you're running as administrator. John Link to post Share on other sites
mike H 456 Posted March 24, 2014 Author Report Share Posted March 24, 2014 Thanks John for the info,will check it out . Thanks Mike Link to post Share on other sites
MyPC8MyBrain 273 Posted March 24, 2014 Report Share Posted March 24, 2014 can you verify you can manually open the file? and maybe make an edit and see if you can save it? this will help diagnosing where this is initiating from. OS issue or FSX issue Link to post Share on other sites
mike H 456 Posted March 26, 2014 Author Report Share Posted March 26, 2014 John can't find how to open the FSX cfg file, but I am sure I was running as Administrator before as FSX has been running OK.as from day one. I have now added a second user name to try as Administrator on my PC. I then started FSX up. The FSX homepage came up, then the Licence which I accepted and nothing else happened just stuck on FSX homepage. Chris is the file you mention the FSX cfg. file ? Cheers Mike Link to post Share on other sites
brett 2,283 Posted March 26, 2014 Report Share Posted March 26, 2014 Don't know for sure but would deleting the fsx.CFG and the fsx.CFG.txt file from the AppData folder help so after a reboot FSX will write a new one? The files can be found in your C:\Users\YourName\AppData\Roaming\Microsoft\FSX folder. On second thought, don't delete those CFG files, just move them out of the AppData folder to a temporary location in case they are needed for something. Link to post Share on other sites
MyPC8MyBrain 273 Posted March 26, 2014 Report Share Posted March 26, 2014 Yes Mike, i was reffering to FSX.cfg (i just saw this; in the future if you need a quick responce id sugest PM) you can use notepad to view and edit FSX.cfg content better yet follow Brett's advise right above my post simply move fsx.cfg away from your user appdata folder and let FSX rebuild a clean one for you the next time you turn it on Link to post Share on other sites
mike H 456 Posted March 28, 2014 Author Report Share Posted March 28, 2014 Thanks guys for all your help will have ago after this w/e.as I have my two grandchildren staying over at the moment. Cheers Mike Link to post Share on other sites
brett 2,283 Posted March 28, 2014 Report Share Posted March 28, 2014 Let us know how you make out. Have fun with the GrandTykes. Link to post Share on other sites
Mithras 0 Posted March 31, 2014 Report Share Posted March 31, 2014 Any luck with this? Link to post Share on other sites
brett 2,283 Posted April 1, 2014 Report Share Posted April 1, 2014 I think Mike has grandkids hanging on his arms and he can't reach his yoke yet. Link to post Share on other sites
mike H 456 Posted June 13, 2014 Author Report Share Posted June 13, 2014 Hi Guys sorry it's been so long for me to reply to this post, this is due to the following. I tried to fix the problem,but with no joy.So I had to bite the bullet and call in a PC fixer. After spending upto 3 hours with him pressing lots of keys,loading disks and opening loads of files etc we decided he would take my PC back to his workshop to run more tests.Two weeks went by he then brought back my PC with bad news. Both of my internal hard drives have bad faults on them along with something wrong with the motherboard. The good news he only charge me £30 As I have had this PC for 8 years now maybe it's time to replace the old girl. Not looking forward to re-installing my addons. Cheers Mike Link to post Share on other sites
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