Error 1324. The path ? contains an invalid character (FSX)

If it's already asked for a path to install, try manually inputting the
path. Installers usually build default paths using something like %PROGRAM
FILES%/Flight Sim X ... etc. If the %PROG FILES% tag is bad in the registry,
or the installer is having a bad code day it can throw that error. 90% of
the time the error is caused by bad registry data. The other 10% is from bad
installers, usually from bad torrent downloads.

If the manual input on the install path works, check that your registry
value is a REG_EXPAND_SZ type variable instead of a REG_SZ variable. Can't
tell you off the top of my head where the key is tho.


"Antony L" <AntonyL@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:9BC180C3-7DB9-4D77-A7D2-F47EA7A84C4C@microsoft.com...

> I'm not able to install flight simulator X as it keeps coming up with the
> error code:
>
> "Error 1324. The path ? contains an invalid character"
>
> This is straight after the options screen and when the installer bar gets
> to
> computing space requirements. Fresh install of Vista 32Bit.
>
> If I click ok on the message it comes up with:
>
> Error: - 1603 Fatal error during installation
>
> Consult Windows installer Help (Msi.chm) or MSDN for more information
>
> Any ideas?