Error Win 10, could not write FSX.CFG [FIXED]

[TheDanger]

Hello everyone,
first of my pc (laptop) specs are : 64bit win 10, i7-6700HQ at 2.6Ghz,16GB RAM,Nvidia Geforce gtx 1060. So when i try to run fsx an error popups and it says : Flight Simulator cannot run because it could not write FSX.CFG, i already tried to deactivate any antivirus/antimalware etc but didn't worked, also i tried to Verify integrity of game files but again nothin,What can i do now ???

[TheDanger]

No replies.hmmm...

[Rogen]

Still sounds like something is blocking....I needed to exempt my main FSX folder from AV, but not the config folders.

The fsx.cfg file is located in the user profile AppData location and as such I would expect a user running the application to be able to write to it without issue.

Have a look at the Microsoft sysinternals website, there you'll find a tool named Process Monitor which will log processes, registry and file accesses and various other items.

You can use the tool to find out what is accessing fsx.cfg and what is denying.

SysInternals website:
https://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/sysinternals/bb545021.aspx

Process Monitor:
https://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/sysinternals/processmonitor

Note that Process Monitor logs a lot of realtime data.

Cheers

[TheDanger]

Originally posted by Rogen:

Still sounds like something is blocking....I needed to exempt my main FSX folder from AV, but not the config folders.

The fsx.cfg file is located in the user profile AppData location and as such I would expect a user running the application to be able to write to it without issue.

Have a look at the Microsoft sysinternals website, there you'll find a tool named Process Monitor which will log processes, registry and file accesses and various other items.

You can use the tool to find out what is accessing fsx.cfg and what is denying.

SysInternals website:
https://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/sysinternals/bb545021.aspx

Process Monitor:
https://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/sysinternals/processmonitor

Note that Process Monitor logs a lot of realtime data.

Cheers

thank you for your answer unfortunately i got a refund, If someones has the same problem i gotta say that i did not even tried this so i don't know if it works !

[TheDanger]

Well i bought it again after some weeks, i had my windows user not in latin characters then i decided to try reinstall the windows and make a user with latin characters it worked ! ! !

[Rogen]

Happy to hear you've managed to resolve

[Лаза и тата]

I also have non latin letters as windows user name but I don't want to change that. I wan't my game to work in any case because I'm not writing my name any differently just because of some game.

[Лаза и тата]

The problem is just the folder where windows saves files... appdata or something. If we could change the location of that folder to C: and avoid users folder it would be cool.