Microsoft Flight has Found a home at Dovetail Games

[airboatr]

I wish them all the best and I'm excited the Game will be improved.
Also, they picked up MS FSX redistribution rights and will rerelease it as MSFSX Steam E dition.

http://time.com/2972718/heres-hoping-do ... simulator/

Don't pitch that PC yet ,Peter!

[petermcleland]

Well I'm hoping that someone will further develop FLIGHT with its very superior code rather than FSX...I would be very interested in that

If not then they say that X-plane runs on a Mac so I might just make a big change that way

I could also just move back to FS9 and McLeland Field which still runs great on my existing machine...BTW I have had several Windows Updates come in on my Windows XP since they supposedly stopped, including one yesterday...Malicious Software Remover for July.

[dodger]

Hi Peter,

That's interesting as i turned off the MS Updates for XP about two weeks before they stopped support just in case there may have been a problem from MS and it is still off,

I know XP is old now but most of my sims were made for XP so to my mind they should run ok, my neighbor recently bought FS2004 for the first time but could not get it to run on his W 7 machine for some reason, i could not help him to get it going either and his daughter is IT and she could not help so i don't know what was causing it,

He has dumped FS now but it put me off thinking about having W 7 myself but there must be a lot of simmers that do run Flight Sim on W 7 ok.

Cheers,

Roger.

[petermcleland]

Hi Roger...I think practically everyone here runs FS2004 on Windows 7, so I'm sure there would be not much of a problem. Some things might object to the 64 bit version?

[J0hn]

Nah - I've run it on both Win 7 64 and Vista 64 with no issues at all.

Must be something else. Hopefully wasn't installed to "Program Files" or "Program Files (x86) - that's enough to bugger any self-respecting program!

[airboatr]

My FS9 is installed into Program Files(x86) ... Win7

[J0hn]

Let me rephrase that - "that's enough to bugger any self-respecting program when UAC isn't turned off".

Better?

Now tell me you have UAC running and FS is ok!

Just looking for possible reasons it doesn't work.

I'm assuming the patch was applied, too?

[airboatr]

Actually this install I'm using.. Was a copy of the root folder of my previous install, some years old now..
I simply pasted it into the MS Games folder
I opened the fs9 root folder, after it finished copying , clicked on the exe. gave it the permissions and presto allakhazam...


......
All for purposes of testing and what not, I don't enjoy it, promise,

[Tako_Kichi]

Like others I also run both FSX and FS2004 on a Win 7 64-bit machine with no problems. However, both sims were installed using the 'Custom' option to a different physical drive than the one that contains the OS.