I am experiencing a major porblem with FSX.
FSX is not starting. I am getting the follwing error:

FSX.exe application
Faulty module path: FSX/Simpeop.dll


1-until 4 am., several times I utilized FSX REPAIR and Accelleration Repair. No start

2-I deleted Simprop.dll and paste new  Simprop.dll to FSX. No start

3- Deleted Flight Simulator flight plan  Log.Bin . NO start

Some other applications as advised in Geogle Search. NO Star

Now the nightmare question is: Do I have any option other then uninstalling FSX l.

a) What will happen my all add-ons?

b) What will happen to my CANDY awards from FSX flight log.

Will you please advise whai is MY OPTION? Besides sit and ..

Thanks
Sanal   

Bruce,
I deleted Logbook.Bin, FSX still is not starting.
Sanal

Hi Sanal.

I have a suggestion, but it requires quite a lot of HDD space. If you have enough HDD space to do so, give this a try:

Restart your computer and DO NOT try starting FSX after the restart (it might not allow you to the next step!). After the restart, rename you FSX folder. For me, I renamed F:\Flight Simulator X to F:\FSX Backup.
I strongly recommend that you delete the fsx.cfg file, but you don't have to if you don't want to.
Place the FSX DVD int the DVD Drive and select the Repair option when given the choice to Uninstall or Repair. The FSX DVD still thinks that FSX is installed in F:/Flight Simulator X and so it will do a complete reinstall of itself there. Reinstall SP1 and SP2/Acceleration.

I do not delete my Logbook.bin file. The one I am using now is from 2009 and has been through several clean installations of both Windows XP and Windows 7. I have had to repair it quite a few times (I can send you the program if you like), in which I might lose a few logged flights, but it's better than losing ALL of them.

Reinstalling your FSX add-ons is different and will depend on the add-on itself, some (like Captain Sim) can be "repaired", even though they are not where the installer believes them to be. Others will need to be uninstalled and reinstalled. An uninstall should not touch the aircraft in the original FSX location (which was renamed) so it doesn't know they are there. Windows might tell you of a missing uninstall log (or something like that) and so can't uninstall it, but it might ask if you want to remove it from Control panel Programs and Features (Add and Remove Programs in WinXP). I usually say yes, and then reinstall the add-on. It has worked for all I have done so far.

Once all that is done. Any modified aircraft.cfg and panel.cfg and pretty much any other changes you have made to your add-ons can be carried over from the renamed FSX folder into the new FSX folder.

I'm still in the process of bringing things back to my new FSX installation after I did all the above about a month ago.

Hope his helps

Mark

DAL191 wrote on Jul 30^th, 2011 at 3:43pm:

Hi Michael.

1. Not quite sure what you mean. I have installed many of my add-ons so far. I have not redone REX2 yet (being lazy with that one), but I did remove the textures before reinstalling/repairing FSX.

2. I don't clean the registry after renaming the FSX folder.

3. Although removing the add-on from the Programs and Features (Add/Remove Programs) without a proper uninstall can leave the product installation info in the registry, I have found that it fixes the registry once I install the product again. After I finish doing it all, I will get rid of the F:\FSX Backup and all its contents. I have been doing this type of fix for problems with FSX/FSXadd-ons this way for a long time, I have never noticed any problems with leftovers in the registry. I guess because I put everything back in the end, it won't really matter.

Doing it this last time, I have fixed a few annoying issues that I suddenly started having and FSX is running really well now.

Mark

You are better at doing backups than I am! I only do them when I think I need to. About once every few months.

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That's a bummer. I can't imagine any other app than a 'typical' flight sim installation being that valuable concerning the work that went into it by arranging all the stuff, entering all the installer values and so on.
For me, even Windows and my every day work stuff is way more easy to reinstall than FSX with all the addons I'm using.

Now I wonder why that happened, Sanal.

Sorry to hear that Sanal.

A good thing to come out of this is that you start with a nice clean install of FSX.
The bad thing is that you have to reapply any modifications you have done.

I'm still in the process of getting all of mine sorted out. So you aren't alone.

Mark

Markoz wrote on Jul 30^th, 2011 at 9:26am:



Mark, Thank you for your information.  I will keep in my mind, All these problems are learning process.
You had same experience also. It is not easy to put all addons and downloads,. I don't remember , what was it for.

THX again
Sanal