Microsoft Flight Crashes on startup

[RamonB 449]

Ok, Charlie, I'll pass it along.

[OKCharlie 0]

Thanks Kabronicus

[RamonB 449]

My pleasure Charlie, No answer yet, so now we wait..................

[somebody1108 0]

AMD Radeon HD9600

Catalyst Version 12.3

 

Hi everyone - I had this problem and registered to post my fix:

 

In my case, it was the latest update to AMD's GPU drivers. Turning off fullscreen did nothing, turning off vsync made it work for a while, but the game still crashed randomly.

 

Myself and a friend both have AMD Radeon GPUs (different models, a year or so apart). I have Catalyst 11.12, and it works out-of-the-box on my system. My friend is running a similar Radeon card (different cpu,board,etc) with fully updated 12.3 drivers, and his copy of Flight crashed as described. He downgraded and now everything's peachy.

 

Use Catalyst Control Centre > Information > Software to find out what version you have.

 

So therefore:

- Uninstall Catalyst 12.3 from Add/Remove Programs or Programs and Features.

- Download an earlier version (11.12 works here, and its from 2012/12/13, so not that old)

- Install earlier version

 

Earlier versions are linked on AMD's site at the bottom of each driver download page, or right here:

Win 7 64bit: http://support.amd.c...iw_vista64.aspx

Win 7 32bit: http://support.amd.c...iw_vista32.aspx

Win XP: http://support.amd.c...deonaiw_xp.aspx

 

If the older drivers break compatability with newer games or cards, you can always update them again. I checked the driver changelogs and nothing too catastrophic has changed (they just added nasty speckles to Skyrim it seems).

 

Good luck till someone from AMD or Microsoft fixes it!