No one can figure out how to...

Get Microsoft flight simulator X working on a brand-new:

Dell XPS 720 RED, Vista Premium, Core2 Extreme QX6700 F-OC' Quad Core, 4GB Corsair Dominator F-OC' 1066MHz, Dual 768MB Nvidia GeForce 8800GTX, 500GB Seagate 7200 SATA, Creative Sound Blaster X-FI Extreme, 2 Samsung 21"ers and a 24" Wide.

It ran fine on the old Pentium 4, Pentium D, and
Quad core Q6600, Dual NVIDIA 8600 GTS 'All running Windows XP", but won't run at all on a Vista.
(Very poor jerky picture)
(fatal errors)
(your computer has run out of available memory)
(blue screen of death)

I installed KB#933590 (for Vista and multiple monitors) "at least the software will start now".

This Microsoft product will still not run on this Microsoft operating system at all, even at the "lowest resolution" and all "minimal" graphical settings, one monitor and full SLI.

Even on the old Pentium 4 it ran fine on ultrahigh settings.

Installed and reinstalled many times, started with a brand-new computer fresh with no other software, installed service pack one, no third-party software, other programs work fine on the new computer:
(Flight Sim 2004, BIOShock, World in Conflict, Myst URU online).
also installed KB 936710, KB 940105, KB 932246, KB 935280.

After waiting a week for Microsoft technicians to call back, all they did was fiddle with some AA settings, quality sliders, and tried taking jets off from different airport gates. Then they gave up!
(What a shameful waste of time that was)

It's been four weeks now and we have posted on over a half a dozen Web forms:

avsim.com
flightsim.com
simradar.com
nvidia forums.com
Dell forums.com
McAfee forums.com
computer forum.com,
Enlisted the help from the computer technicians at: Micro$oft, Dell, Circuit City, CompUSA, the Geek Squad, and no one could help at all.

We have also gone to the effort of getting another copy of windows XP and spent the last three days setting it up to dual boot with Windows system on this machine.

MS FS X demo version installs and works fine, but now when we try to install the full version and the installation fails with the error:

Error 1335, the cabinet file 'D2 Feet~ 1.cab required for this installation is corrupt and cannot be used. This could indicate a network error, an error reading from the cd ROM, or a problem with this package.

Yes, the CD is clean.
Yes, the software installed properly the last nine times on four different computers.
Yes, all of the temporary files have been deleted.
Yes, all antivirus software has been disabled.
Yes all firewalls have been turned off.

Isn't there anyone out there that knows enough about computers that could help?

I would suggest to you that the problem is unique to your machine because it works fine on my machine.

Vista ultimate 64
Q6600 Quad
4 gig ram
ATI 1950 pro
x-fi elite pro

No problems with install
No jerky video with full resolution... Everything works just as it does in XP

i would change the memory.
choppy pics, blue screens tell me that.
have you tried diff cpu??
no easy monetary task for sure.
but, i betcha

I would say it's a problem with the drivers... have you tried avoiding the Dell drivers and gone directly to the maker of the hardware for drivers?... as in, you have an nVidea card... have you downloaded official nVidea drivers?... or the Dell drivers?

Of course it could be your hardware configuration as well... BUT if WinXP runs the game on the same PC, then it just comes down to drivers... in that case, you may have to wait until Vista drivers catch up to the level of "goodness" of XP drivers... sorry.

You need to write done the blue screen error code, because it will tell you rather or not it's a ram problem, graphics card problem etc...

What is your power supply? You failed to mention that.

A sincere thank you for all help, this has turned out to be quite frustrating!

Yes, we have used the drivers from the Micro$oft update site, the Dell support website, and NVIDIA's own website.

The drivers that are currently installed are:

driver version: 7.15.11.6375

with the driver release date of: 10/4/2007

Here is an example of some of the blue screen of death messages and other error codes:
dwm.exe - application er
the instruction at0x73a6f286 referenced memory at 0x73a6f286. The requested data was not placed into memory because of an I/O error status of 0xc000000e.
Click on okay to terminate the program

Explorer.exe/applicati
the instruction at0x76a70a5a reference to memory and0x76a70a5a. The required data was not placed into memory because of an I/O error status of 0xc000000e.
Click on okay to terminate the program.

Explorer.exe -- applicat
the instruction at0x73685402 referenced memory at 0x73685402. The required data was not placed into memory because of an I/O error status of 0x000000e.
Click on okay to terminate the program.

Screensaver:ss branded.scr -application er--------------
the instruction at0x73aa7552 referenced memory at 0x73aa7552. The required data was not placed into memory because of an I/O error status of 0xc000000e

Microsoft Visual C++ runtime lib-------------------
runtime error!
Program; see:/windows/system 32/nvcplui.exe

Microsoft Win----------------------
NVIDIA control panel application, 1.4.6.09 has stopped working.
Windows can check online for a solution to the problem.
Check online for a solution and close the program.

Flight simulator X still won't work even with all settings turned down to "minimal" and its resolution is set at 1024 x 768 x 16bit
Er----------------- Your computer has run out of available memory. Please restart flight simulator and select different graphics, scenery, and traffic settings. (Worked fine with Pentium 4, Pentium D and Core2 Q6600, but they were all running XP)

Install the new drivers for Sound Blaster X-fi sound card.
Original version 6.0.1.1281 April 27 07.
New driver designed for vista operating system version 2.15.0002, October 9, 2007.
Error: Setup wasn't able to detect a supported product on your system, please ensure that your product is properly installed before running the setup program. Setup will exit.

Blue Screen of De-------------TFS.system problem has been detected and windows shut down to prevent damage to your computer kernel data in page error stop 0x703DD80AE70 date stamp 4549ACEB

Blue Screen of D------------- kernel data in page error: Stop 0x000007a (0x0403968), 0x00000E 0x71545860,0x8072 Dooo Storport.sys address 8072D000.

Blue Screen of D------------- Vol Snap.sys address 86ZC9DD Base at 80615000 date Stamp 4549b1bb
Driver_IRQL_Not_Less_Or_Equal

Out of memory

Lock up! Hard re start..
running WM Player & slide show

A fatal error has occurred. The program needs to close.

Etc.

Thank you all for sharing any ideas you might have.

OH, and The Dell XPS 720 RED, Has a 1,000 Watt power supply, and yes, the cards are seated properly and all cables are securely connected.

Plus,

all other programs work fine on the new computer. (flight simulator 2004, World in Conflict, BioShock, Crysis, (all at maximum resolution and quality). I also get incredible results running Dragon voice recognition system 9, Boinc, Bryce5, Photoshop, other 3-D computer graphics software, music and video authoring software).

Check your page file settings.

Being one that likes to takes guesses on unknown issues; I would guess that with 4Gb RAM you have set the page file to a setting that is too low.

Let Windows manage it and see if your issue is resolved.

Additionally, try adding the program to the exception list for protected memory (if Vista has this (running XP here)).

HTH
Bryan