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FS9 in Win 11

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papi75

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I happen to love FS9 and its endless range of models and ease of painting and scenery building.
Of my two identical computers, one I upgraded to Win 11 for safety reasons (updates).
On the other one FS9 and FSX run smoothly, while under Win11 FS9 usually crashes at startup FSX works okay.
So I am very reluctant do upgrade the other one as well.
Has anyone experiences to share?
 
Fs9 work perfectly on my Win10 and win11 computers. Just don’t install in « program files », use Win XP or even Win7 compatibility mode and in admin mode (don’t required but can help)
 
Thank you, folks! I'll try. @lucb: I'll try just copying the entire FS to C:\, then after removing the files of the FS root,
use: FS_Registry_Repair.exe.
- I'd rather try first on the Laptop. Just hope my Switzerland Pro sceneries and all those airfields I built myself will follow suit. Else there iwll be some work for bad weather!
 
My Windows 11 laptop died on me, a few weeks ago.. a hardware/psu issue & the thing, being a laptop, is not really that economical to repair, anyway..
Luckily my sims were running off a portable usb drive, so I lost nothing. I had also backed up to the 'cloud'.
A friend donated his old Windows 10 i7 Lenovo laptop with 6(??)GB ram, but it works!
I plugged in the portable drive, did the usual run in compatibility mode & as 'Administrator', and all worked. - a bit slow to load, as it needs more RAM.

Having said that, I have not checked any payware stuff yet, as some refered to the registry, but I'm quite happy that it works.
 
I've just tested FS2004 / FS9 in Windows 11 2H26.

It works still like a charme and i even feel like it is somehow more stable than with the 2H25 Version.

Tested here with Qualitywings Avro RJ-100 and FSDreamTeam Los Angeles Intl. V2. Two of the most complex addons i’ve installed in my Sim.

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I understand the frustration. I reluctantly started over years ago with FSX, thinking I would never be able to get my aircraft and scenery files up to par, as I had in FS9.... Now I worry about how long I will be able to keep my FSX running strong.
 
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