Real Flight sim problems

[Mack]

Hi All
I have just bought the Real Flight G2 sim and it will not load on my PC.
PC is big enough and am running windows XP. The message I get is
"C:windows|system32|autoexec.nt". The system file is not suitable for running MS-DOS and Microsoft windows applications. There are two choices I have then " close and ignore" they both do the same thing i.e. nothing. Please help. I want to play

[Stuart]

Hi Mack,

When I installed mine it was a straight pop disk in and auto run....

Checkout here, they may have an answer.

http://www.gpsoftware.com/realflight...ation%20Issues

or here

http://www.knifeedge.com/mainframe.htm

[Stuart]

Ohh...

You may have to stop all unecessary software, especially anti-virus before installing. If my memory serves me right the software will want to connect to GP to verify the serial etc....

[Mack]

Hi Stuart
Thanks for the info. I was not able to get it sorted out this weekend(about 12 hrs between Sat & Sun). I am going to try and contact Microsoft today or go around to PC World. I will let you know what happens. While searching yesterday I found a few people on different sites that have the same problem, so it can't be an isolated incident.

[Mack]

Hi All
It is now one week later after buying my sim and it has just started working. I can't believe how difficult it actually is. The problem I had was that my autoexec.nt file was missing. There was apparently a virus some time ago that would delete this file, for what purpose I do not know. If there is anyone that needs help with this, please feel free to ask, I have just finished a one week intesive course on it.
Wishing you all a very Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year.