Go Flight Panels not working in Windows 7, can you help

[Mikeswann]

Hi all, I have an issue trying to get my GoFlight panals to work in Windows 7, I have run the program as administrator, i have given flights folder full command wrights. still the panels will not start. after doing the above the Goflight config will not save the FSX directory and simply reverts back to FS200. I have tried copying the GF file to the desktop and running it but still it will not work. Each time I get the following message:

"This application has failed to start because its side-by-side configuration is incorrect. Please see application event log or use command-line sxstrace.exe tool for more details".

I have tried both but do not know what i am really doing.

Please can you help, i dont want to have to go back to windows XP.


Thanks Mike

[hootsmangreen]

What goflight panels is it.. I have goflight mcp, efis, gf166a, gf45, and gear, trim. all work fine from Win 7. Goflight can be a bitch, try and do a regedit and search for anything to goflight and delete it and do a new install.

[Mikeswann]

hi, thanks for reply, I formatted the drive and reinstalled win 7 + fsx then goflight and got same message.
I have the following:
GF166AVRP x 2
GFP8
GF-MCP
GF LGT
RP-48
I have downloaded the latest goflight config manager direct from GOFlight website but still no joy.

These all ran very well in XP but ex restricts ram.

[hootsmangreen]

This is a long shot but I once had to save a config named DefaultFSX.gfc in the mydocuments\Goflight directory. If it not this then I'm out of ideas other than keep at it because they do work on win 7 64bit

[Mikeswann]

HI, thanks for all your help, the answer to getting the goflight panels is simply install FSX service pack two.

[MichaelRobinson]

Hi all, I have an issue trying to get my GoFlight panals to work in Windows 7, I have run the program as administrator, i have given flights folder ...

[gokhotit]

You must start FSX all the way, then go in and start the GFDevFSX utility manually (or use the FSUIPC run command). Thats how I get it to work.