Dadtom65 Posted February 10, 2017 Share Posted February 10, 2017 Hi. Just had a rubbish week where first Steam whent wrong then had permissions trouble and then Win 10 failed and no backups. So Windows up and running thanks to my son but still had problems with Steam and FSX-SE. So tried my boxed FSX and it worked. The last time it wouldn't install, thought discs nackerd that's why I whent to FSX-SE. Right to the question or questions. When I installed Acceleration it failed to activate and now when starting FSX a box pops up about it. Every thing seems to be working, so is it possible not to bother about it as I've seen you have to go into the Win 10 reg to sort it. Plus when looking on the internet I saw some thing about Sp1 and SP 2 , do I need to install those before I install anything else. Didn't know there was any. At the momment only installed Delux edition FSX and Acceleration, plus Orbx Global and Orbx vector. Derek. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Triplane Posted February 10, 2017 Share Posted February 10, 2017 If you don't install Acceleration you need to install both SP1 and SP2. If you install Acceleration you don't need either as both are included.....Doug Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nick Cooper Posted February 10, 2017 Share Posted February 10, 2017 Here is the most likely fix. Quote 1) with regedit, located this entry:HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CURRENTCONTROLSET\CONTROL\CLASS\{4D36E967-E325-11CE-BFC1-08002BE10318} 2) edit your UpperFilters key. For FSX and their validating system, they expect it only reads "PartMgr". In your case, there is great chance it shows something more. In my case, it was reading:ShockprfPartMgr 3) change the registry to read only "PartMgr" 4) start FSX, you should now be prompted with the activation dialog, proceed and let FSX start. Here is an image to help you. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dadtom65 Posted February 10, 2017 Author Share Posted February 10, 2017 Thank you both. Yes I have installed Acceleration so no problem with the patches but do I really need to activate Acceleration as all seems to be working, seem to have the extras that had. Derek. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bassman Posted February 11, 2017 Share Posted February 11, 2017 Have not heard/read the term "nackered" for years. How refreshing!!!! Says it all!!! Shows our shared heritage as the term is used in OZ a lot as well. Hope you get it all sorted mate. Silver lining is that when a complete fresh install is done everything works so well. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dadtom65 Posted February 11, 2017 Author Share Posted February 11, 2017 Thanks Bassman glad you liked it. Yep all going well, touch wood apart from that Acceleration problem, well not a problem really as it all seems to be working apart from just one thing which I have never used anyway, it doesn't seem to have multiplayer installed which I think is part of the Acceleration package. If I should sort out Acceleration I need to find out what Nick meant in line 5 as don't understand that part. Derek. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nick Cooper Posted February 11, 2017 Share Posted February 11, 2017 Hello Derek, I have no idea myself, that was a copy and paste. I have deleted the lines because they don't need to be done anyway. In a nutshell, if you make sure that the PartMgr entry is written exactly like that, the activation should go ahead. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dadtom65 Posted February 11, 2017 Author Share Posted February 11, 2017 No worries Nick I found the post about it and all done ok. If ur still around just realised I've put FSX on my G drive in Program files x86. Is that ok. Remember that it's not to be put in on the C drive. I had better wait be for I install any thing else. Derek Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nick Cooper Posted February 11, 2017 Share Posted February 11, 2017 That should be fine Derek. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dadtom65 Posted February 11, 2017 Author Share Posted February 11, 2017 Thanks Nick topic closed. Derek. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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