year 2020. can we run Flight?

[Maulet ||*||]

I am having a hard time, wll I cannot run it, because installtion halts on xlive.dll or something

[DarkSnipe]

[FIX AT THE BOTTOM]

This was the exact same problem I was having while trying to install on a brand new computer (as in 8 days old). After running it for the first time, it will fail with a popup with the following:

[Flight.exe - System Error]
"The code execution cannot proceed because xlive.dll was not found. Reinstalling the program may fix this problem."

Here is the old store URL: http:// store . steampowered . com /app/203850/ (remove the spaces)

MS appears to have abandoned this product everywhere so getting this fixed officially is likely a no-go. It doesn't show up here, Microsoft Store, nor in Xbox Games for PC. It's literally fallen off of the face of the Earth. Anyone with an old working copy is lucky. Save your Steam folder when upgrading.

After running snoop/snort/tcpdump/WireShark you might get something like this:

GET /download/7/4/0/740357D6-EFA8-43C1-A7DF-A8EEDD104638/wllogin_64.msi HTTP/1.1
Accept: */*
Accept-Encoding: gzip, deflate
User-Agent: Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 7.0; Windows NT 6.2; WOW64; Trident/7.0; .NET4.0C; .NET4.0E; .NET CLR 2.0.50727; .NET CLR 3.0.30729; .NET CLR 3.5.30729)
Connection: Keep-Alive
Host: download.microsoft.com

This is attempting to download the following file which returns a 404 Not Found:
https://download.microsoft.com/download/7/4/0/740357D6-EFA8-43C1-A7DF-A8EEDD104638/wllogin_64.msi

I was able to obtain a wllogin_64.msi from the Wayback Machine but that didn't work directly. I even obtained gfwlivesetup.exe (Games for Windows) and that fails at obtaining wllogin_64.msi same as above which launched Flight from Steam.

HERE IS THE FIX:
You should have a .com you have access and permission to do these things on. Alternatively, you can run an httpd server locally on your desktop and do that. Just update your hosts accordingly.

1. Create the directory structure of "download/7/4/0/740357D6-EFA8-43C1-A7DF-A8EEDD104638" (find the link that your WireShark output collects)
   
2. Edit your Windows C:\Windows\System32\drivers\etc\hosts to point to your domain instead of download.microsoft.com
   

   your.site.ipaddress      download.microsoft.com yourdomain.com
   

   
   A local instance would look like:
   

   192.168.10.5        download.microsoft.com mymachine.name
   

3. Run the script launcher again.
   
4. DELETE or COMMENT OUT the line IMMEDIATELY AFTER! Failure to do so will result in breaking a lot of your other updates.
   
5. Enjoy

[Maulet ||*||]

I have been able to play it with the Flight Toolkit (it's in the Suport section.


WONDERBRAAAAAAAAA!!!!

[Maulet ||*||]

But none of my add-ons (Alaska and 2 free planes) work. Although the menu background is the Alaska.... So it is just the stock missions or free flight. Not that much to celebrate...

[Dr.StrangeSpock]

very complex and not doable fix.

[DarkSnipe]

I just reinstalled this when I lost my drive. The only files I needed to add to the C:\Program Files (x86)\Steam\steamapps\common\Microsoft Flight directory from a backup I had were libmysql.dll and xlive.dll

[yari]

Originally posted by DarkSnipe:

I just reinstalled this when I lost my drive. The only files I needed to add to the C:\Program Files (x86)\Steam\steamapps\common\Microsoft Flight directory from a backup I had were libmysql.dll and xlive.dll

Did you have to install Live? I'm a bit confused if that's still required.
And did you get all the DLC planes you had before?