phoenix version 1.03

[Raptormadsteve]

phoenix version 1.03

Hi rob good enough for me matey cant wait to get it. once again a very merry christmas to all.
Steve

[ChrisB]

To put it simple..

Phoenix is better than XTR in every way i can think of,i was a very strong supporter of XTR and loved it having used it for over 2 years..

I think of all the other sims out there,XTR is the best of the rest,,

But Phoenix beats XTR hands down,i sold my XTR for £80 so Phoenix actually made me money

[Grale]

Haha.. me too, sold XTR 2 days ago £85 put it on buy it now, went within the hour!

Ok i could have made more,but i wanted a quick sale and i'm £1.39 up after posting XTR

Should arrive thursday if royal mail don't fcuk up

[moyesboy]

I thought the helis hung in the air a bit too well. now the tick tocks are a bit more difficult. and the speed builds up more relaistically.

Like the new scenery. Finally a sky that I would want to fly my heli under!
That lovely cumulus was doing my head in.
(Maybe only BobJ understands my pain!).

[Toby Heli]

Well I read this thread and then updated my Sim and now nothing works at all, annoyingly I expect the response will be uninstal and re-instal which means setting the whole thing up again, downloading the copters again and then trying to do the update again with the chance of it all going wrong again.

Plus I havent found a telphone number for the help desk which means an email to them and wait for them to tell me to do the above I expect Aaaarrrgghh!

Also, I have downloaded the updates before plus the Trexes but this update didnt work in the same way?

[kevinh]

cant you do a system restore on it for yesterday before you applied the patch might help

[Toby Heli]

Could do if I knew how...I could just make things worse though...I have emailed the support to ask for a telephone contact...expect it will be Jan 2 now though!

[jamiem]

when i updated my copy on the laptop, for some reason it also made a copy of the phoenixrc.exe on the desktop which i mistakenly ran instead of using the usual shortcut. this threw up all manor of errors, and once i managed to click my way through the error messages, i deleted said file and ran as normal from the shotcut and it was fine. maybe double check this hasnt happened to you?

[David Drew]

Just wait!!!

Raptormadsteve

It'll be at your house before you will, so cancel new year & outlaws & get home.

David

[moyesboy]

Probably yuo have done the same error as me.
when you run the update file it does not put everything by default in the normal directory where it should be (c:\programfiles\phoenixrc I think).
Very naughty of the Phoenix boys that!!!
Probably it put some stuff in the registry but the exe file somewhere else (like desktop) and now the program is broken.
Before you resort to a reinstall, try running the install file again and when a window comes up with a box with directories in it, browse to where your phoenix program files are (usually the one mentioned above).
Hopefully that will fix it, you will need to say yes when it says overwrite exisitjg files.

Also do not install the new flying field before the update. It is not compatable with the old version.

hope that works for you.
...I ended up reinstalling after I thought I'd updated (but hadn't) and installed the new flying field (resulting in serious error message).

All good now though. Pays to read the upgrade instructions on the download page!

[kevinh]

Could do if I knew how...I could just make things worse though...I have emailed the support to ask for a telephone contact...expect it will be Jan 2 now though!

what version of windows are you using?

if using windows go here :-http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/u...w_03may19.mspx

dont know if other operating software has this option im a windows user, so i cant comment on macs and such like,
the system restore feature can be reversed if it doesnt work and you wont loose any work or emails.
its got me out of trouble on many occasion.

[Toby Heli]

I did browse through and put it in the correct directory but it didnt update anything so I then went to system (on the sim) and went in to the updater (as I did when I downloaded the Trexes which worked) but this didnt work either.

After 4 or 5 attemepts I ended up with the additional Icon.

I have heard back from support and they said I need to re-install all of it and yes I will lose the setup and the other helis! - I asked for a telephone number so they could talk me through it but didnt get one.

I am pretty sure I followed the instructions to the letter but it just didnt work...I expect I have done something wrong though.

Will try the sytem restore (thanks for the help) and then failing that try the re-intall and just be mega careful as I will have to update again!

Thanks for the help....If I am not on here for a while its cos I have really got something wrong!

[Ade_Law]

the best way to do it is to back up your varients folder in the phoenix directory in program files.

then uninstall phoenix
delete the phoenix dir in program files

install 1.02
update to 1.03
copy varients folder back into the phoenix dir.
add the 2 trex's
and your done

Ade

[Toby Heli]

the best way to do it is to back up your varients folder in the phoenix directory in program files.

then uninstall phoenix
delete the phoenix dir in program files

install 1.02
update to 1.03
copy varients folder back into the phoenix dir.
add the 2 trex's
and your done

Ade

Too Late, I asked about that in my email to Support but they didnt give me that answer.
Thanks anyway!

[Ade_Law]

the important question is... did it work :-)

Ade