FSX Install and SP Problems

Post by **1691** » Sat Feb 09, 2008 6:08 pm

Maybe I can get some help here as MS was not too helpful. Ive been spending the bulk of my time the last few days upgrading to Vista Ultimate after a mobo and HDD upgrade. After the uphill battle to get Vista in I finally got it operational. FSX was another uphill battle because apparently my DVD drive is too old for Vista, and so I had to download the DVDs to my desktop and copy the .CAB files it wasnt able to read to the HDD from my DVD. Anyhow, now I try and install SP1 and it keeps claiming the file is corrupt. FSX reinstall and redownloaded SP1 5 times, no help. Any ideas?

yoni63 · Post by **yoni63** » Sat Feb 09, 2008 6:15 pm

Allan, I wish I could help, man, I am soooo not going to Vista. I don't think I have heard much good come of it.

Mike Bridge · Post by **Mike Bridge** » Sat Feb 09, 2008 6:25 pm

There was a big problem with the one you are having from memory when it first came out.
A simple fix is to upgrade the Bios i think it is of you DVD drive!

Post by **1691** » Sat Feb 09, 2008 10:33 pm

I assume you mean to upgrade the firmware of my DVD drives? If so Ill have to go buy a new one. Both my old ones are too old, and the firmware updates are no longer supported.

Post by **1691** » Mon Feb 11, 2008 7:43 pm

OK, so heres the update. I finally broke down and called MS and they led me around in circles asking for serial numbers and what not. After all that hoopla, the MS Games specialist told me that MS recommends not installing SP2 and instead to purchase the FS Acceleration pack in order to have a successful install of SP1. Well after laughing and telling the gentleman that wasnt going to happen, I hung up and called my wife, explaining to her how I was going to merge this into my computer. As Im talking to her Im half unconsciously just clicking on the update .exe, kind of making a song out of the warning sound that plays when the "corrupt" message comes up, and all of the sudden, on the last click it worked. LOL...you cant write this stuff. Now I gotta get my airplanes installed...joy.[/img][/url]