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Help! FSX not working on Windows 10

Dumonceau said:
Then, like most of us, you will just have to be patient until M$ irons out the bugs.

Johan
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I'm sure I'll take the plunge eventually, but will patiently wait for everyone else to install and report any problems. Of course, everyone else is probably thinking the same thing. :adoration:
 
Jafo said:
When a game actually comes out designed for DX12 there might be half a reason to go for Win 10.

If you are into 'older' games there is exactly ZERO reason to 'upgrade' [their word, not mine] to 10.

To date, 7 has been the pinnacle of MS's efforts OS-wise as usage % and adoption rates demonstrate, compared to any other.

8 and 8.1 are a joke [although the heads that rolled probably won't agree].

At best, 10 is what 8 SHOULD HAVE BEEN, just as 7 is what Vista SHOULD HAVE BEEN.

....and Win Me should NEVER have been RTM...;)
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I agree. With this difference, if a game stops evolving, I'll eventually ditch it. Which is exactly what I did with FSX.

Johan
 
This has me worried. I applied for W 10 - for free - after a tip off about the offer on this forum. Now it says it will install after 29 July when I am notified. Not sure if I will be given the option or not, and even if I am, I am concerned one of my family or me might accidentally make the wrong click and poof! gone will be my working FSX. Suggestions?
 
expat said:
This has me worried. I applied for W 10 - for free - after a tip off about the offer on this forum. Now it says it will install after 29 July when I am notified. Not sure if I will be given the option or not, and even if I am, I am concerned one of my family or me might accidentally make the wrong click and poof! gone will be my working FSX. Suggestions?
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Uninstall some updates currently on your machine....

Probably these ones...depends whether it's 7 or 8...

KB2952664
KB2990214
KB3021917
KB3035583

THIS LINK PROVIDES MORE INFORMATION FOR WINDOWS 8 http://www.ghacks.net/2015/04/17/how-to-remove-windows-10-upgrade-updates-in-windows-7-and-8/
 
patful said:
Hmm...not sure I like the sound of this. I've signed up for Windows 10, but read that on the Home version, it will update everything automatically without my input. I always screen all updates before allowing them, don't want them changing any hardware drivers without my permission. So you were getting the same frame rates/performance with Windows 10 before? I have Windows 7, am curious if I'll regret updating.
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You can cancel your Win 10 reservation by right clicking on the small Icon for the Win 10 upgrade bottom right of your taskbar and select check status a popup will appear and you can select to cancel the reservation. This will stop the automatic update until your sure this issue can be resolved. Hope this helps you!:biggrin-new:
 
It appears that the DX12 in the latest build of Windows 10 is not backwards compatible with either DX9 or 10. Which is strange, because on my Windows 7 machine, there is only DirectX11 and I can run FSX and FS9 on it without any problem whatsoever.

My conclusion would be that the DirectX 12 in this build is only backwards compatible with DX11, given that the Op can run Prepar3D v2.5 on it without any problem.

I doubt very much though that Microsoft will shoot themselves in the foot by not addressing this after recently having sold the FSX franchise to Dovetail.

Has someone over here ever done the test with FSX/DX10 and Windows 10?

Johan
 
DirectX packages aren´t backward compatible by itself. If you want to use DX9 you have to download and install dx9 runtime. The same for each dx distro. if you have a win7 that runs dx9, it must be installed sometime by some game,update,etc. Does anybody here installed the dx9 package already to test?

https://www.microsoft.com/pt-br/download/details.aspx?id=34429

I will only test windows10 after it´s official release, so can´t comment further now :encouragement:
 
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Dumonceau said:
Thanks Flaviossa! maybe this could be the solution for the OP!

Johan
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No, I found the real solution. I selected "Use DirectX 10 Preview" in the Settings page. Now FSX_SE is working, finally.

I hope the moderator can add [SOLVED] to the title of this thread.
 
jschall said:
No, I found the real solution. I selected "Use DirectX 10 Preview" in the Settings page. Now FSX_SE is working, finally.

I hope the moderator can add [SOLVED] to the title of this thread.
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Prefer not to close this thread, thank you. I don't use DirectX 10 Preview and I'm running FSXA. I'd like to know how FSXA works (or not) with Win10 as it will help me determine if and when I should go to Win10. Thanks.
 
In fact it´s not the real solution because you´re running in dx10 now. Not dx9 as like 80% of FSX users do. If someone with the same error as op, please, try executing the dx9 runtime and see if the problem is gone?

An addendun to my previous post, please run this too as it´s a complement to the dx9.0c to the latest standards (By the time it was released):
https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=8109
 
jschall said:
No, I found the real solution. I selected "Use DirectX 10 Preview" in the Settings page. Now FSX_SE is working, finally.

I hope the moderator can add [SOLVED] to the title of this thread.
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With all due respect, that is not a solution, but rather a workaround. Warhorse is right!

Please keep this thread open for people using older flightsims!

Johan
 
M$ did something similar to this during the Win8 preview phase.
They changed the display drivers so that FSX (and FS9, briefly) wouldn't work, and we had to wait until the final launch version became available.

When the final launch happened the display drivers were suddenly backwards-compatible and FSX (and FS9) worked again.
The only problem then was that installing Win8 rewrote the registry - so we had to install FSX (and FS9) from scratch - losing a lot of add-ons.
Do you all have every single installer for all your add-ons?

I remember ranting about it in this forum (and the M$ forum) at the time.

Nobody can tell me if installing Win10 will do that again - and I'm definitely NOT installing Win10 unless it can be demonstrated that it leaves P3D, FSX (and FS9) workable after installing.
I have spent far too much to risk it.

Dave
 
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I was able to install DirectX 9 using @flaviossa's link, and the DXTester program shows it is installed. DXDiag still shows DirectX 12, though.

I unchecked the "Preview DirectX 10" option, and tried to run FSX_SE. It was still a black screen, untill I switched to Windowed display. Lo! and behold, the display works in windowed mode. I switched back to full screen mode, and it kept working.

So, finally, DirectX 9 can be installed on Windows 10, but NOT from the Web installer.

Thanks to everyone who contributed to this solution!
 
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Thanks for your report jschall. It helps when win10 is released and people will step on this situation.
 
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