X-Plane 9 - Disk 1 [Exact Copy Of Retail DVD]
Odina Conkright
Hey all, I have tried to install X-Plane 9 from the DVD's I got when I purchased it. I put in the first DVD, go to my Start/My Computer and click on the X-Plane DVD and run the installer and everything runs fine until about half way through the first DVD I get a similar and re-occurring error. The first time I wrote it down it said
I was able to copy the entire DVD to my linux box over the network (this right here tells me there's nothing wrong with the DVD drive). I then did a find and unzip on every compressed scenery file. Then copied all the uncompressed files back to my windows box into the appropriate directories. After I ran the XP installer repair option and it found no errors with the install.
If I was able to do it manually and then the XP installer verified there was no errors this tells me the DVD is not too old. If I was a betting man I'd guess they coded their own read() and/or uncompress utility into the XP installer and it's just not all that great.
- It is NOT clear to me why you'd get an error on one file - everyone is running the same .7z code, a LOT of people have run it, and the disks are all the same (in theory). That is, the probability of a systemic error in the .7z decompression or data is very low I think...if it were systemic, we'd see wider reports.
I have a problem also. I can load x-plane 9 but when I go to start it it says it has encountered an error and must shut down. Can anyone help? I don't know if this is the right place on the forum., i'm a little knew to it.
WinRAR's giving me a Read Error (the installer was giving me an i/o error - coincidence?) on "Instructions/AC3D Demo/AC3D6205.exe.zip", however it could extract the entire Weapons folder fine (albeit not in the right place )
Hmmm... the secondary error message apears to speak for itself. Try shutting down some other other stuff you have running in the system. Probably also worth restarting for good measure. Sometimes Windows doesn't clean up properly after apps that have exited. (In fairness, I've seen stuff like this in MacOS as well.)
I have a similar problem... whenever I try to install, it shows the attached error message. The file it snags up on is different every time, pushing "continue" just causes the install to progress a little bit, and then snag up again.
I am new to XPlane. I usually fly MSFS but I am in the process of checking XPlane out and possibly converting. I have the exact same problem as Goldsmack does. I've tried to install, reinstall and it still gives me the same error message(below).
Errors like this are almost always caused by a bad DVD. Try just copying the file from the DVD to your desktop or wherever and see if it can be read at all. The "Compressed file:" message gives you the path to the offending file on the DVD. The Windows optical disc drivers are apparently awful with their error reporting and the messages you get out are often not helpful.
I just bought x-plane 9 and the DVD won't even run. It even gets ejected when I try to explore the disk. I have windows vista 64bit, 6 gig ram, Intel Core 2 quad processor,Nvidia Gforce 9500GS, Direct X10, 750G hard drive. I put the disk in my 3 year laptop and it runs...It doesnt make sence! Any suggestions would be great
It's got to be a marginal DVD reader. If you can read the disc OK on your laptop then the disc must be OK (that's assuming you can touch stuff OK on the laptop where it's getting ejected from the other machine). The DVDs in the X-Plane kit are double layer, and are a bit fussier than your run of the mill DVD.
My copy of x-plane got screwed up, I deleted it and reloaded a replacement from the CD set. I did not get an option to load to the desk top. I have an x-plane icon on the desktop and the sim loads and runs fine from this. My problem is I cannot access the root folder (to add custom scenery, new aircraft etc). My computer is running Windows 10. How do I navigate to this "root" folder? Thanks in anticipation.
Where did you download X-Plane to? If you downloaded it to the default position, it probably went to the desktop. If so, when you open that X-Plane Icon, you should have your root folder open. X-Plane should not be installed in program files as it is not a program in the traditional sense - it is totally self-contained. If you installed it somewhere else, the only way you would have anything on the desktop is if you opened the root folder and installed a shortcut to the desktop. Something here doesn't make sense.
As someone said above, do a Windows search and find your X-Plane folder and remember where it is. Then go to it and open it. Should be easy to find and open unless you are looking for something that is not really the "root folder".
Well,. the nuclear option worked! I now have the root folder back and everything else seems to work just great. Many thanks to you all for your help, this forum is nearly as good as the Sim itself. Now, back into that Chipmunk cockpit for a few celebratory loops and rolls!
I have this same problem. The installer put the files from the DVD discs into my root directory. That isn't anywhere close to what the instructions tell me it should be. I have no idea how to add new planes as the instructions for that don't work. In over 25 years of working with PCs I've never seen such a f****d up piece of software. Yes, it works as long as the first disc is loaded in the DVD player, but that doesn't fit with the instructions. There is no X-Plane file anywhere but in the root directory and I have no idea how to download a new plane to it.
X-Plane installs one folder named X-Plane. That's it, everything is in that one folder. Every default file and folder for X-Plane is in that one folder. If you want to move it, D&D that one folder to anywhere on your drives. It is just that simple! If you installed from a disc, then yes, regrettably, the disc 1 has to remain in the drive as "proof of purchase". X-Plane installs nothing outside that main folder.
With a little help from support who gave me a clue that it was a problem with Windows 10, I followed the link in that first window that showed up and found the files at C:\users\myname\AppData\Local\Temp\Temp1_X-Plane.exe.zip\ I found the 8 files, one for each disc, and I clicked on the first one and found an Icon for X-Plane. Right clicked it and loaded onto my task bar. Now the program works the way it should. Click on the Icon and it opens without a disc in the DVD drive.
With a DVD install, X-Plane will normally check periodically for a disk in the DVD drive, (ranging from every few hours to a couple of days) so don't be supprised when it asks for a DVD or reverts to demo mode if it can't find one.
Update to my post above. The plane I downloaded would work for a while then disappear. Twice. support has told me the program isn't loaded in the right place, so I contacted Microsoft. The first tech acknowledged that there was a problem with where the DVD files had decompressed to. He couldn't solve the problem so he bumped the case up to a higher level. Will be talking to another tech on Tues. However, it looks pretty certain that people who are having these problems with X-Plane have corrupted versions of Windows 10. Contact Microsoft and get them to deal with it. I hope this works for me and you.
Per the quote above that by default, X-Plane will install to the Desktop: It did not in my case and may not be with others having problems with the program. It didn't decompress where it was supposed to and the upper-level Microsoft tech found X-Plane files spread from h### to breakfast on my C drive. He cleaned them all off by searching the drive and deleting them. It took him over ten minutes to find and delete all the files. Then I started the download process all over again and he watched it for over three hours to be sure it downloaded correctly. It did and loaded as it was supposed to have the first time. I didn't make any mistakes in downloading the first time and he had no explanation for why the files would have decompressed into the wrong places. Now, I do not have to have a disc in the DVD drive to run the program. It did download with a shortcut on my desktop and it is performing as the instructions say. But there is a poltergeist hidden in some of the DVDs being sent out and if they don't load exactly as they are supposed to and run as they are supposed to, I recommend deleting all the X-Plane files and doing a re-install.
Yeah I have always disagreed with their assertion that installing to the desktop somehow makes it easier to find. The "desktop" means it's off in some directory multiple levels away from c:\ as has been pointed out in this thread. It's far easier to find c:\x-plane or c:\x-plane11 than it is to find "C:\users\myname\AppData\Local\Temp\Temp1_X-Plane.exe.zip\" or whatever as mentioned earlier in the thread.
Now, I do not have to have a disc in the DVD drive to run the program. It did download with a shortcut on my desktop and it is performing as the instructions say. But there is a poltergeist hidden in some of the DVDs being sent out and if they don't load exactly as they are supposed to and run as they are supposed to, I recommend deleting all the X-Plane files and doing a re-install.
You can use the same Installer to install X-Plane from a DVD set of discs (no ley required this time).
If you install from the DVD, you will need disc one to remain in your drive, as XP DRM will then periodically check for a disk in the DVD drive.