Ijust bought the FS One a couple days ago. My machine must not be quite enough to fire it up. It crashes after you click the fly button and at the point it says Initializing Realtime objects. My system is Windows XP/ Pentium 1.4/ 512mb Ram/ Ati 9200 128mb Graphics Card(with latest drivers)/ Sound Blaster Audiogy 24bit Sound. Just don't have quite enough gusto in my ole puter I guess. I have ran G3 and G2 without any problems though. I did have to turn down the settings a tad on the G3 though. Looks like I may have to add these four disk to my pile of AOL Frisbee Disk!LOL Just kidding. The sim calls for at least a 1.8 processor, and they must mean it!

Some things I tried to no avail:
In Windows XP I switched from Best Appearance to Best Performance
Lowered all the video settings in the Sim to Low, and took checks off other options
Installed latest ATI drivers
Even tweaked my processor clock rate up a bit, but turned back down as this can create other problems
Ran DxDiag, and everything looked and tested good
Shut down my services, and also startup programs in msconfig
pulled my hair, and said a few bad words
listed the Sim in the MarketPlace at a loss