ok thanks..

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I've had WinXP running FS2002 for over a month and it crashes on me all the time.  It probably has at least a 50% chance of locking up every hour of use. 

I've played countless hours on at least half a dozen other games on XP and only once or twice have any of them ever locked up.  FS is about 1000X less stable than any other windows program I have, game or productivity.

FS2002 is also probably the buggiest payware game I have ever played in my entire life, and I've been heavily playing console and PC games since the Atari 2600.

I am not exaggerating one bit here.  I can't believe I still play the game despite its bugginess... it's probably because I got up to Multi-Engine, Commercial, and Instrument airplane ratings in real life, and nearly became a CFI before just getting sick of flying, but this game lets me relive the fun parts of flying while skipping the annoying bullshit and enormous bills.

The main bugs I experience are the crashes and the way when loading a new game or lowering time acceleration from >4X to 4X or below the IAS suddenly gets set to TAS for a second, causing overspeeds and altitude gains (due to increased lift from higher speed).  Also, the game has an autopilot that sometimes sends my planes into annoying oscillations, ATC that tells land airplanes to land on seaplane water runways, or vectors you into mountains, plus tons of other crap... and THERE ARE NO PATCHES!!  I just can't understand why such a buggy piece of crap as this game doesn't have any patches when every other, far-less buggy game would have about six patches by now.

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I understand the conflict causing the slow down lies with Antivirus software equipped with live scanning (Norton AV is a good example). If you don't have that, you shouldn't encounter a slow down.

Either way, the windows claim that those other programs will be affected is bogus.

The update itself is pretty much useless to 99.9% of users - it only affects you if you're on a LAN and are concerned about another user on the same LAN compromising your files. Business orientated really.

John,I'm running NAV all the time and as far as the connection to other programs I think you,re right. I just didn,t see the point if there was no problem(for me at least) Cheers

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No, it was a clean install.  I've had this computer for about 17 months and have re-installed XP at least 4 times so far.  The last time was in February.

I have maybe a half dozen other games installed, and one of them have a problem with locking up.  I haven't tweaked my computer any weird way to maximize performance.  The way it usually happens is I do something that causes FS to search the hard drive.  And it keeps searching for about 15 seconds, until that Microsoft Default Error Reporting thing pops up.  I basically save the game every 15 minutes to avoid losing my flight, because there is virtually a 100% chance of it crashing after two hours of play.  No program or game I've ever used in my life crashes like this one.  I mean the game is fun, if it weren't for the crashes (retarded ATC is bad too, but that's easy to ignore).  Several times I've been about to return FS but I guess it's just barely fun enough that I keep playing it despite its problems.

Thanks for the help.  I haven't really kept track of which airplanes cause a crash, but it seems to happen with all sorts of airplanes.  I'll keep track of it in the future.  I don't have that program you recommended, but I'll check it out.