FS 2004 won't run

[Guest]

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A few years ago, my son saved up his money to buy Flight
Simulator - we could never get it to run.

The other day, I bought FS2004, figuring we'd give it
another go. Same result.

Running a P3 @ 800MHz with 512mB RAM (origainall 256 Mb @
133 Hz), Windows 98, 40 + 80 Mb Hard drive with lots of
free space, NVidia geFORCE Graphics card with 32 Mb memory
& Turtle Beach Santa Cruz DSP Sound Card.

Tried turning off audio acceleration on the Santa Cruz
Card to no avail.

Getting Blue Screen of Death:
"Fatal Exception Error 0D has occurred at 0028.C00015D9 in
VXD VMM(01) + 000005D9"

Any help would be appreciated.

My son is ready to drop kick me.

 

[ME]

Archived from groups: microsoft.public.games.zone.simulation (More info?)

i hate to be the bearer of bad news.

your system will not run fs2004 with any kind of quality for video graphics
or frame rate.

may i suggest that you exchange fs2004 for fs2002 and at best with a 32mg
video card, you may be able to use low end graphics.

but if you were to get a 128 meg video card, your computer would run fs2002
just fine.
you could probably pick one up for lees than a $100.
also if you have an AGP slot in your P3, get a vid card that uses AGP.
if not PCI will work, but AGP is faster. then get the latest drivers for the
card from manufacture.

what flight sim did you purchase a few years ago?

that still may be the one for you to use.

goodluck !


"Disappointed" <anonymous@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:32ae01c48f06$26eb3120$a301280a@phx.gbl...
> A few years ago, my son saved up his money to buy Flight
> Simulator - we could never get it to run.
>
> The other day, I bought FS2004, figuring we'd give it
> another go. Same result.
>
> Running a P3 @ 800MHz with 512mB RAM (origainall 256 Mb @
> 133 Hz), Windows 98, 40 + 80 Mb Hard drive with lots of
> free space, NVidia geFORCE Graphics card with 32 Mb memory
> & Turtle Beach Santa Cruz DSP Sound Card.
>
> Tried turning off audio acceleration on the Santa Cruz
> Card to no avail.
>
> Getting Blue Screen of Death:
> "Fatal Exception Error 0D has occurred at 0028.C00015D9 in
> VXD VMM(01) + 000005D9"
>
> Any help would be appreciated.
>
> My son is ready to drop kick me.
>
>
>
>

 

[Guest]

Archived from groups: microsoft.public.games.zone.simulation (More info?)

You do not own the fastest computer opf course, but I very much doubt that
the BSOD is caused simply by the specs of your computer.

I checked Google and saw suggestions that memory or disk might be bad.
Eg:
http://groups.google.com/groups?hl=nl&lr=&ie=UTF-8&c2coff=1&threadm=01beb9bc%2423aa34e0%24196959d1%40bubba.tso.on.ca&rnum=2&prev=/groups%3Fq%3D%2522Fatal%2520Exception%2520Error%25200D%2520has%2520occurred%2522%2520VXD%2520VMM(01)%26hl%3Dnl%26lr%3D%26ie%3DUTF-8%26c2coff%3D1%26sa%3DN%26tab%3Dwg

(its a bit of a long link, I know, otherwise simply check the
groups.google.com with relevant words of your error message)

Good luck

Gerard