Running CFS3 in Windows 10: solved for now

Just to throw in me tuppence... Win7... using a variety of patched versions... win7 bitches: "no cd"...
but I just hit what(?) retry or something 3 times and cfs3 loads ok (ETO & MAW) ...a few (8 or 20)
pc win7 reboots later and lo and behold its no longer prompting me for the cd :dizzy:and is back to normal...

go figure :engel016:
 
Oh no!

OK just to update, I have run into problems, (serves me right) But it seems to be aircraft installs rather than windows. Also I have noticed a huge difference between air files for 1% aircraft and earlier planes. I am going to redo the whole install and only use the 1% AIRCRAFT . They fly better. I have downloaded the new bump map files but yet to install . they sound very good. I have high hopes for these. I play Warthunder online and I can say the aircraft models are the best. They look real. However it's missing some of the playability of CFS3 like more than one player in the same bomber. I'm not impressed with the mix of aircraft they have in a game too. Late or post war aircraft in a game with early war aircraft. Very unfair.
Tony
 
Yeah Tony the stock flight models are weird and geared for the arcade crowd IMHO.
Go 1% and you'll never regret it. :encouragement:
 
New clean install of Win10. Installed original CFS3 to C:\Microsoft Games\Combat Flight Simulator 3 (i.e. the default path minus the "Program Files"). Patched to 3.1a. Works perfectly with no special settings. After installing PTO to the same directory (C:\Microsoft Games\CFS3 PTO Solomon Islands), when I fire it up it looks good until I go to select another plane and then the attached where the screen is being painted onto all the planes! I've tried 'Run as administrator' and different compatibility options to no avail. Same thing with MAW. In fact, although I am not entirely sure, the problem was not present until I tried MAW. I have not tried ETO or Rising Sun yet until I get this ironed out. I've never installed into Win10 directly before. Anyone?
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I noticed there was an nvidia update, so I trashed PTO and MAW, updated, and reinstalled both and now they're working. I'm new to nVidia and I never had such a problem with ATI, but things seem good, so I'm not complaining! ETO next.
 
Haven't checked through all the posts here but have recently upgraded to win 10 on my C drive but have various versions of CFS3 on D and E drives. Initially I tried to fresh install from discs on to C with issues, so I copied a vanilla CFS3 version from D to C. Firstly the D CFS3 vanilla seems to work with no issues and it seems also the C copy version also. Haven't checked all by other 6 or so CFS3 versions yet, but will get to that and let y'all know.
 
QUOTE hairyspin

Much tweaking and experimentation later, here's the lowdown on CFS3 in Windows 10. My thanks again to Tim (hypercide) for his discovering this. :applause:


  1. Install CFS3 from your original CDs (or DVD if you're lucky). Make life easier by not installing to the default folder, use something like C:\CFS3 and avoid UAC problems later. Don't run the sim yet!
  2. Apply the 3.1 and 3.1a patches. Don't run the sim yet!
  3. Replace cfs3.exe with the unmentionable patch but don't run the sim yet!



Now set the patch program's compatibility as shown :–

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Yes, the program is being set to run in 640x480 display mode and reduced colour. Don't panic!

Now run CFS3 and once the sim starts (in ghastly 1998–style graphics) you can set the display resolution and colour depth to suit your system (in my case 1680x1050 and 32-bit colour.) CFS3 will run happily but to exit the program use Control-Shift-Q.

With this done you can now use cfs3config.exe (run in XP SP3 compatibility) to set your preferences: disable intro movie, switch off dual-pass render, switch on high resolution z-buffer, the usual suspects. But one thing you must not do is switch on anti-aliasing. If you do there's a crash to desktop every time.

If your experience differs, let us know!
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The only advice I took from here was the last re anti aliasing. Don't know why but all my D drive installs then worked (without changing compatibility beyond win XP SP3) Prior to that my vanilla C drive CFS3 was fine but all D drive installs crashed after initial screen.
 
I've just spent 30 hours upgrading my Win 7 machine to Win 10, and I'm not through everything yet. I have 16 different installs and when I did the upgrade it managed to keep them all in place but annoyingly delete all of the folders set up by MultiCFS3. (I wish I had thought ahead to save them all somewhere to avoid having to customize each one again) :dizzy:

They won't run in Win 10 as is, but I'm successfully running them all in Win 7 compatibility mode.

Because I had a copy of my recent configoverrides posted here a few days ago I was able to use those without needing to go through the whole low color, low rez start-up trick posted above.

I did discover that my G-Sync monitor was not wanting to play nice with Win 10 in that it would only work in a few of my installs. After much sleuthing around I discovered that it was only the versions that were using both AnKor's Shaders and SweetFX that were getting G-Sync to kick in properly. (nothing at all, or each one by itself is not enough for G-Sync to work) Since I can run it with null settings it's no big deal, other than needing to set each of them up with all the needed SweetFX files.
 
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Sooner or later we are going to need a definitive (as can be:mixed-smiley-010:) position WRT SweetFX and Ankor's stuff. At the moment I am confused!:dizzy:
 
Thanks Hairyspin

Updated to Win 10 om the last free day. FSX worked fine. No joy on CFS3.

Found Hairyspins dance routine of 17 April. Worked a treat. Took a few tries to replace the original cfs.exe with the no CD version, but then on startup it automatically adjusted to my 3 screen 3840 x 1024.

Thankyou to all the contributors to this "Revival Package" for CFS3. Next step is to figure the steps to get ETO up again.

Cheers,

JOHn
 
Thanks

I have tried everything but this sim isnt working on my Windows 10.

Thanks to everyone who gave advice and helped.

Im hanging up my wings for good I guess.

Good luck to everyone and God bless.
 
Works outside Program files in SP3 compatability. Now to solve mb problem and missing dlls which aren't missing!:banghead:
 
Came across this : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gV9hezCU9Dk

havent tried it yet.
 
confused

So I get cfs3 in 2 days. I have looked thru all ways in this thread to get the game to work; if I install to a different directory like cfs3 will the game work as is or do I have or will I have to do all the voodoo that others have posted. I play silent hunter 4 and did not have to jump thru all the hoops to make it work I just installed in a different directory. I have d/l the unmentionable fix and am prepared to use it if necessary. will let you know the outcome. Brian
 
Can't exit QC without ETO5 crashing, please help!

After upgrading to win10x64 from win7x64, flying in qc the game crashes when exiting qc, is there a simple fix for this? I have all the .exe files set to xp sp3.
My ETO install is from win7 and on a separate HDD from win10 upgrade. A CFS3 vanilla install from about 2 years ago works without problems. So is there a way around this or should I reinstall ETO5 and will that exit ok? see pic below and thanks for your help.

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Thank you guys for the great info... I have Win 10 and installed CFS3 after what must be 10 years ish and it wouldn't work but thanks to you guys I now have a working CFS3. Now just gotta make time to fly and get back to doing modelling.
 
Dave(Dangerous)Boynton said:
Thank you guys for the great info... I have Win 10 and installed CFS3 after what must be 10 years ish and it wouldn't work but thanks to you guys I now have a working CFS3. Now just gotta make time to fly and get back to doing modelling.
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Greetings Dave.

I am still around as well.

Spend more time on my RC planes than siming, but have recently installed 10 separate CFS3 installs into W10.

No issue`s.

Kev
 
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