Flight Simulator has detected a problem with a third party..

[charliealfatango]

This started happening a couple of days ago. It appears on startup and if I select YES then FSX crashes.  If I select no, it loads fsx and everything works fine. 

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[Travis]

CAT,

Hold on. You will have incoming email very shortly....

Best,

[charliealfatango]

Perfect!

It worked. I ran the fixer, it found one entry in ignorelibrary key. After removal, I clicked on FSX, and it gave me the same warning as before. I clicked YES to continue loading and FSX did not crash and the initial screen came up. I exited and then restarted FSX. No warning was displayed and FSX started normally. I checked a flight and could see FSCaptain under the Add On menu.

Thanks, I really appreciate it.

[Travis]

What the problem described comes from is a recent failed shutdown of FSX (which you may or may not have noticed anything) that left the FSCaptain.dll loaded into Windows.  Windows doesn't like that ("Maybe it's malware!" Windows may think), so Windows created an entry in a specific Windows Registry location that says FSCaptain.dll should not be loaded when you run FSX.

The program linked to below requires .Net 3.5, so if you can run SceneryScanner fine, this should run fine too.

It may need more 'permission', since it will be changing an entry in your Windows Registry.  So there may be a chance that it might not work the first time. If that occurs, try to run it "As Adminisrator."

If you download and extract this small EXE (it can be run from anywhere... your desktop or your FSCaptain\bin folder will be fine - eventually we will include it in the FSCaptain\bin folder), when you run it, it will open a tall black console window, print a few lines of description and wait for you to press Y to start checking, or press any other key to exit.





RegFixer will then look at a certain location in your Windows Registry and list everything in there that it finds.

RegFixer will print the names & values it finds on separate lines.   (I have 9 values for various things.   Peter has 5.  Dutch has 3.)  It's the registry key that you use to tell Windows "run this in XP3 Compatibility Mode" or "run this as Administrator" or "run this using non-standard visual setting".

RegFixer will look for a reference to "FSCAPTAIN.DLL" in each value and at the end of its work it will write if it finds a match or not.

RegFixer will write everything you see on screen to a text/log file which you can return to us.

So download this ZIP, unzip it and run the EXE.  It will display the text in my attached screenshot and ask you to press Y to continue or any other key to exit.

If RegFixer does find the data we're looking for then it ask you again to press Y to try and fix it.

• RegFixer could stop there... needing more permission. (Run as Administrator.)
• RegFixer could fail there, printing some text into the console window and perhaps to the log file. There could even be a pop-up window with a Windows Error. We would need a screenshot of any error to ensure we see what it is reporting.
• Or RegFixer could say that it worked fine and ask you to press a key to exit.

If RegFixer does say that it works, we recommend that you close all open files on your PC and reboot.  Then try to run FSX with FSCaptain.  A reboot should ensure that Windows starts fresh with the proper (clean) information.

Please send us any log files that RegFixer makes along with any screenshots of error messages.

3.81 KB - FSCaptain RegFixer
www.fscaptain.net/downloads/RegFixer.zip