Thought I’d make my first newbie post useful to some future grounded pilot.
I spent many hours of the last week trying to figure out why Falcon 4.33 crashed when I pressed “Launch”.
I reloaded Falcon 4.33, the operating system (Windows 7), applied all the Windows patches, tried various versions of the Nvidia Geforce GTX 470 drivers, and tried the various suggestions posted here.
All to no avail.
My speaker icon in the task bar was displaying the white “X” in a red circle. But I didn’t think that was important at this point.
Today it occurred to me that, as stated in the System Requirements chart, an audio device was required.
Loading the Realtek driver didn’t help.
After more searching I found that, somehow, the onboard Realtek sound chip was turned off in the BIOS.
Happy New Year!