The Win7 OS Forum

HelloUpgraded to W7. Installed FSX and FS9 on "c" drive. So far so good. Tried to install Acceleration to FSX and nothing happens. No auto-install, nothing! Removed FS9 and tried again. Nothing! All drives are OK and the DVD drive new and installs everything else (MS Word, etc). UAC off.Any thoughts?Regards,Ed

I loaded FSX and it activated fine. After loading Acceleration, the Activation routine would fail giving me the 1-80004005 error code. FSX would kick me out after 30 minutes. I Googled the problem and came up with the solution that has you remove any keys in the registery except "PartMgr". Activation then worked fine. After completing this, I reinstalled the keys in the registry that I deleted. Upon rebooting, Windows will go into a loop and will never boot. I have to restore using a partition image I created before hand. I've tried this several different ways and the results seem to be consistant. I cannot register Acceleration. Has anyone heard of a different …

hello everybodyi'm a hardcore flight-simmer since fs2 and i want to move to fsx now. therefore i'm planning to buy a new notebook very soon. why a notebook for a hardcore simmer you may ask. the reason is that i live in a small country in africa since two years. i'm planning a trip to my homecountry (switzerland) in may where i can buy computers for about half the price as here in africa. i can't take a full size desktop computer with me to my african country without paying 100% duty for it at the airport. therefore it's a notebook.my questions are concerning the hardware, more specifically the processor. as you can imagine i have a lot of add-ons that i use. my favourite…

HelloI bought PFE Deluxe this week after looking for a more realistic ATC experience. Big bummer: I can't get it to work :(My PC is running Windows 7 (32bits). Flight Simulator 2004 runs as normal user and I didn't check any compatibility options. It's installed together with Real Environment 2004, Ground Environment Pro, Ultimate Terrain, Zinertek WaterFX and Wilco Airbus Volume I.I also use FSUIPC 3.98a (latest version, registered)First I started Flight Simulator 2004 and created a low altitude IFR flightplan from LFQQ (Lesquin) to EBLG (Li

I've switched to Win7 x64 now and am in the phase of re-installing everything. Yesterday I came across something where I'd need an explanation from an expert:I seem to have a problem with the calibration of my 3-axis Saitek throttle quadrant (my MD-11 loads with engines 1 and 2 spooling higher than no. 3, thus forcing the plane into a right turn on the runway). So, I went into the calibration for the device in FSX.What I see there is a rather "generic" depiction of the devices' axis. Two axis (the ones used for engine 1 and 2 in my MD-11) steer a cross in the calibration dialog, the 3rd axis is "identified" as an axis there and a bar is displayed for it. What a coincidenc…

In XP, when you navigated to a folder and or file on your HD, the complete path to that folder or file was displayed in the address bar of the navigation screen.The complete path was easy to copy and paste into a file or even into a post in a forum. This was very useful when advising someone where a particular file might be found on an FS setup.In Win 7 you do get a "address bar" when navigating, but the path is dis-jointed and connected by arrows. This "path" cannot be copied.However, if you Right click, just to the Right of the displayed path, you will get a drop down menu which does allow the path to be copied (as text) to the clipboard and then pasted into whatever …

Hi all.. I hope that you can help me to figure out what might be the best course for me at this time. I have a 5 year old custom built (but locally built) gaming PC running XP. I have both FS9 and FSX on it, with PMDG and Level D equipment installed. I often fly with Active Sky loaded, an ACARS for my Flight Sim virtual, and several other support things running in background... Yesterday, while flying PMDG's 744 in FSX, the frustrations got to me in terms of restaring the system, just to get it going. And I am wondering ... is now the time?I am considering spending about $1500 or so on one of the gaming PC's available from several sites, and would appreciate some tho…

Hey all together.At first... sry for my english :) i am from germany and i doesnt speak the language so much. But i hope it will be enough for this.Well here i discribe my problem. I have a Windows 7 x64 OS with FSX SP2 some Addons (Airports / Scenerys) and my good old Microsoft Force Feedback 2. I pluged it in a USB Port and Win7 start a driver search and installed a HID - Gamedriver and the Joystick moves in the middle zero position. Now, if i start FSX, during the start, the joystick lost the force and i can move it in all directions. But the joystick never moves back to the middle zero position. If i close FSX.... the joystick and the force feedback are working fineWh…

Win 7 is supposed to hold .net 3.5, but where would I look to confirm that? Search option in win 7 is a no go.

I try to gather all info concerning fsx with W7.I know that many people out there are not enthousiast with W7/FSX.I must reinstall XP/32. Wouldn't this be a good time to upgrade to W7/64 ?My PC is equipped with ASUS PQ Turbo and CPU Intel 8500 OC at 3.8 GhzWhat advice can you give me before I install FSX with W7 (libraries to use, what to disable, sequence for installation) so that my chances of avoiding problems are the greatest.

Since I went to WIN 7 I have noticed a depreciation in the performance of my Imagine Software addons ie KCLT, TJSJ and others. Writing to the developer they stated that the addons were developed under Vista and suggested downloading new drivers for the video card. As the card is a brand new Radeon HD 5770 I did not think that was the issue. Any one else have these same issues?Richard Churchill

Same PC I used for FS9 with XP. Frame rates often exceeded 40FPS. all the way up past 60FPS. NOW, with Win 7, I can't get the frame rate above 30 in the same places I flew when using XP. I've got a 6800 Nvidia card, Athlon 64 3200+ CPU. FS9 worked great in XP. The video driver I'm using is the file named 191.07.... from the Nvidia site. I tried using Nhancer and Rivatuner (separately) to overclock the GPU, but they didn't help.

Got a spare 8GB USB stick, I was going to try the boost feature on Win7 64-bit. Worth my time or no?

HelloI have win7 home premium and I can't disable automatic driver instalation.When I uninstall the old driver and reboot, windows automatically installsits own driver. How did you guys do it.ThanksJose de Campos

well folks im not for sure where to go from here, im frustrated on the performance of fsx and w7.my system is a e8500, 4 gig, 280 hd, vid gtx285.i did not like the frame rate in xp pr0 64 so i went out and got w7 64 ult.i like it but it does like fsx.i loaded the deluxe cd 1 of fsx, went through the loading process and then it ask for disk two , went thorugh that process and started the sim for the first time before i installed the first sp1 before i restart computer.when i started the sim, i opened it up and started the default plane.it opened up at a frame rate of 42 fps and then it froze up , nothing happened i would hit a key and it would react 15 seconds later or so…

My pc has 64 bit win7 home edition installed on an i7 920 based system.When I first boot the pc the (CH Products) joystick and pedals work fine. If I don't use the pc for 30 minutes the pc goes into 'sleep' mode. When it recovers from sleep the joystick and pedals do not work. If I pull the USB plugs for the two devices and then plug them back in again they come back to life. Does anyone know how I can prevent this happening please? It's not a huge problem but I usually only remember to reconnect the plugs after starting FS and I then need to close FS and reopen it again before FS will see them and use them.Thanks,Paul15 miles north of EGKK

Win 7 HP 64 bit here, and it won

well know that i finally get fsx to half way work , as soon as i start the sim and go to a airport the sim freezes up.i thought maybe i needed updated drivers for my gtx 285, downloaded them and now of all things i get and error saying video card is not the right hardward and i need a card with shader.how can that be.i also put the fsx files in it own folder not in program files and i was able to get fsx to finally work a little.now i have a vid problem.help.............Robert

Hi,I have aWin7 64 bit OS. Can I install and run a WinXP 64 bit OS, side by side, on the same HD ?Thanks,Jack

Hello,I have a Loitech G51 5.1 speaker system on my PC which is great except for 1 small problem. Every time I switch the computer off at the wall socket the speakers 'forget' the bass volume settings then when I switch the PC back on they revert back to the default settings which has far too much bass. This means I have to manually adjust the bass setting on the speakers every time I switch my PC on.With Windows XP this wasn't a problem because there was an adjustment for the bass/treble settings in the Windows sound mixer so I just turned the bass volume down in Windows and left the speakers on their default setting. However, I've been unable to find these bass/trebl…

As I am waiting "patiently" on my newly purchased computer, I want to start preparing myself on to best take care of my new system, when it arrives.Now I have used a lot of anti virus programs in the past, but now I have no clue what is best. You see I now learn that threats to your operating system comes from websites in form of spywar, adware and so on.So please help me out here, because it is a jungle, and I simply want to know which one to choose.I need a program that is good, but not intrussive on my everyday PC operations.Thank you all.Boaz Fraizer

Hello I have discovered this - very disappointing in my opinion - issue: AC2004 hangs FS9.1 - no cd crack used. Screen blacks out and then FS9.1 crashes. I have 'activated' AC2004 by contacting the developer. maybe is a driver/display problem but I'm not sure.If any body either has a similar problem either his/her AC2004 work as advertised under win7 I would appreciateto leave a note. F1 view dll has no problem by the way.....TIA SamWin7 32bit - fs9.1 - ATI 5750 Cat 10.2

Hi, Am I missing something on install with win 7 all I get are lock ups and freezes. Been having a real time of it with win 7 on a I7 EE with 8gb ram. Still using my old gtx 7900 for now. Can anyone help ,been off the form for some time. So I'm sure I'm missing something.Thanks Tony

hello folks i have tried w7 and th2go and it looks great , but the only problem is that my th2go is analog and there are no drivers from matrox that will solve the fsx problem.with xp pro 64 bit they had software for wide screen viewing in the game with out the stretched look.w7 runs fsx preetry darn good but i will have to go back to xp pro 64 until i russell up three hundred for a digital th2go.unless someone can direct me to somewhere that might have drivers for a analog thh2go to work with w764.has any one gotten it to work with w7Thanks......Robert

My apologies if this has been posted before, just want to share http://www.computingunleashed.com/2009/06/...e-guide-to.html before I crash (into bed that is).If you have Win 7 do less should mean more resources for all the fun stuff!RegardsBjorn