If the issue continues to occur, go to Method 2.
Insert the Flight Simulator X disc into your DVD drive.įollow the instructions to reinstall Flight Simulator X. To repair Flight Simulator X installation, follow these steps: Step 2: Repair the Flight Simulator X installation
To download, install, and use the Software Licensing System Reset Toolĩ28080 Error 1722 when reinstalling Flight Simulator XĪfter you have used the System Reset tool, follow the steps in the "Step 2: Repair the Flight Simulator X installation" section.
Method 2: Repair the installation of Flight Simulator X Step 1: Download and install the Software Licensing System Reset Tool If you have both Service Packs installed but the issue continues to occur, proceed to the next Method. Note that if you have Flight Simulator Expansion Pack its already includes both Service pack 1 and 2. To download the latest Service Pack, visit the following web site:
If the issue continues to occur, make sure you have both Service Pack 1 and Service Pack 2 for Flight Simulator X. Start the game again and try to activate. On the Compatibility tab, click to check "Run this program in the compatibility mode for". Open the folder C:\program Files\Microsoft Games\Microsoft Flight Simulator X
Note that these step might only work on Windows 7. Method 1: Check the Compatibility mode option You may find it easier to follow the steps if you print this article first. To resolve this issue, use the following methods in the order in which they are presented. Note If Flight Simulator X is installed on an external hard disk, uninstall Flight Simulator X, and then install Flight Simulator X on the local hard disk on your computer. Some files for existing user profiles are corrupted. The Activation Licensing database is corrupted.įlight Simulator X is installed incorrectly. This problem may occur if one of the following conditions is true:įlight Simulator X is installed on the external hard disk. Otherwise, please contact product support for assistance. Reinstalling the application may resolve the problem. The problem may be due to an incomplete installation of the application. I'm giving this 76 and I don't care what anybody else thinks, especially not my colleagues who think flight simulators are stupid.Product Activation Error: An error occurred while attempting to activate the product. These races can be taken online if you want to crash into a mountain over the internet, taking yet another step towards FSX becoming a game rather than a cloud rendering tool.Īcceleration suffers from a few buggy hiccups accompanied by a rude return to the desktop, but that's rare - otherwise it's an expansion that's clearly been designed with passion. The Hornet's missions are modest recreations of carrier operations, taking off with catapults and landing with hooks and elastic bands (no guns, missiles or explosions though), and the P-51 Mustang opens the game up, along with the original 300S, for Red Bull air races. There are two different kinds of winch too, one for people and one for things - I bet you didn't even know that - and they're both here. Winching things is amazingly difficult, and harder still is setting things down again. I'm a nerd for this sort of crap, I admit, and I was surprised to find myself enjoying the EH101 helicopter more than any other aircraft in the game. They're each drastically different from one another, and are painstakingly realised both visually and - I'm going to guess here having never flown any type of aircraft - aerodynamically.
The P-51 Mustang is a little one what can do stunts and races, the F/A-18 Hornet is a fighter jet what can take off from boats, and the EH1O1 is a helicopter, which can winch crates from the ground and people from the sea.
Maybe humour is the wrong word there - but the light-heartedness of some of this flight sim's missions are a spark of warmth and charm in an otherwise cold, clinical genre.įlight Simulator X: Acceleration adds three new aircraft, along with a series of missions for these aircraft and previous aircraft alike. After that, it's the offbeat humour which somehow integrates itself into the serious-faced, pre-flight check-laden wondrousness of modern flight. If There's One thing I love about Flight Simulator X, it's probably all the planes.