I just read some comments that a few simmers have been using the release candidate with FSX without issue. Has anyone used FS9 with this new OS? I curious most of all to know how add-ons work in this new environment. Must not be that different than Vista although I've heard more than a few add-ons have had problems in the FS9/Vista environment. XP is the best option and still today a very viable OS (last one Bill Gates spear headed), I've just curious about this new Windows 7 platform.

Hi,When it became available for MS partners about 2 months ago I both installed FS9 on Win7-x64 and Win7-x86 Ultimate editions.After I had installed a substantial amount of add-ons (both sceneries and aircrafts) FS9 crashed upon start-up under Win7-X64.I didn't want to spend a lot of time in investigating so I installed the 32bit version of Win7.Everything runs fine but I have the impression (well, I'm pretty sure) that FS9 on my system runs better under WinXP-x86 SP3.I decided for now to stick with WinXP for FS9. Microsoft will support WinXP untill 2014.I'm 100% sure that others will experience different results with Win7. It really depends on your system.My System:i7-920 @ 2.9Ghz6GB Corsair RAM285GTX 2GB versionASUS P6T V2 moboetc..

No problems here, Win 7 RC 64 bit with fs9.1 runs great, using activesky 6.5, fsbuild, Wilco ERJ, PMDG 747, 737 and MD-11, GEpro, High Definition Environment, and Zinertek ultimate water.C2Duo E8500 @ 3.98 gb 800 ramGTX 280 1GBGigabyte MoBoWhat addons are causing problem?

Hi I haven't noticed anything strange yet with Win 7 RC 64 fs9 runs fine so far. the only thing is that you don't have a big selection of drivers to chose from, when in windows xp you have alot more choices. if you use nhancer it also works fine most of the programs and old ones, run ok.

Has anyone used FS9 with this new OS? Built a new machine several months ago and installed Win7 _64 as the OS, added FS9 in its own partition, and works great coming from an XP environment. My only glitch was Adding Scenery, the sub menus seemed different than under XP, but eventually I got them to work OK.My only other gripe is that I have 4 megs of ram, and done all the awareness stuff as described elsewhere, but I can watch (on Windows Task Manager) the memory available decreasing as I am flying mainly through clouds. Clear weather is no problem. Even if I change the weather to clear, sunny, during a flight, the memory is not released, and its use gradually approaches the 4 meg limit then shuts FS9 down.Anyway, i pre-ordered WIn7 when it was on sale and am eagerly awaiting the final release.Marty in Brantford

Hello,Why not go read and maybe post there .... ?http://forums1.avsim.net/index.php?showforum=348Regards.Gus.

I can run fs 2004 but when I try to upgrade to fs9 using traffic 2005 it does not work

I just read some comments that a few simmers have been using the release candidate with FSX without issue. Has anyone used FS9 with this new OS? I curious most of all to know how add-ons work in this new environment. Must not be that different than Vista although I've heard more than a few add-ons have had problems in the FS9/Vista environment. XP is the best option and still today a very viable OS (last one Bill Gates spear headed), I've just curious about this new Windows 7 platform.

I'm running Windows 7 Ultimate RTM and FS9 as well as all addons run without a hitch. I've been running Windows 7 with FS9 and all major addons since Windows 7 beta early this year and have not had so much as a hickup.I can also confirm that there are no issues whether it is a clean W7 install or upgrade from Vista to W7...both work with the same performance. Also FYI, I have yet to encounter a major FS addon that did not run in Vista or W7. Just make sure you run everything "as administrator" and you'll be fine.

I wonder how upgrading from XP to Windows 7 without a full reinstall of everything would work? I guess a better way to put it is already having everything setup in XP, plop the Windows 7 disk in and let the upgrade install Windows 7 over XP. Will things work from there?Most of us aren't interested in whipping our whole HD clean, installing Windows 7, and then manually installing each and every add-on from there. That's allot of work.Windows 7 looks promising but if I have to do what I just discribed to get everything to work I'll pass until the day comes FSX hits prime time on the average machine...

Many of you may not want to completely reinstall everything, but the best way to install any Windows is a fresh install. If you do not wish to install over an old OS, grab a new HD, do the install on that and run FS9/FSX off the old HD as is. You will run into fewer problems by going the fresh install route.

I wonder how upgrading from XP to Windows 7 without a full reinstall of everything would work? I guess a better way to put it is already having everything setup in XP, plop the Windows 7 disk in and let the upgrade install Windows 7 over XP. Will things work from there?Most of us aren't interested in whipping our whole HD clean, installing Windows 7, and then manually installing each and every add-on from there. That's allot of work.Windows 7 looks promising but if I have to do what I just discribed to get everything to work I'll pass until the day comes FSX hits prime time on the average machine...

HelloWindows 7 requires a full install, no upgrades this timeSome have managed an upgrade install from vista but it is not recommended.FSX has in fact hit "Prime Time" on the average machine a little while ago and is even better on W7Les could you define "average machine" for me .

I wonder how upgrading from XP to Windows 7 without a full reinstall of everything would work? I guess a better way to put it is already having everything setup in XP, plop the Windows 7 disk in and let the upgrade install Windows 7 over XP. Will things work from there?Most of us aren't interested in whipping our whole HD clean, installing Windows 7, and then manually installing each and every add-on from there. That's allot of work.Windows 7 looks promising but if I have to do what I just discribed to get everything to work I'll pass until the day comes FSX hits prime time on the average machine...

I just finished a one-day overview tech class on Windows 7 today. The instructor strongly recommended against doing an in-place upgrade. While it can be done, he said there's a good chance for issues to popup afterwards.

Les could you define "average machine" for me .

I don't even want to get into it... :( I guess you could say the average $700 PC at Best Buy able to run FSX with all add-ons (FS9 port overs included) smoothly with all sliders maxed...

Many of you may not want to completely reinstall everything, but the best way to install any Windows is a fresh install. If you do not wish to install over an old OS, grab a new HD, do the install on that and run FS9/FSX off the old HD as is. You will run into fewer problems by going the fresh install route.

You can't run FS any version with something like this. If the OS is totally new there's registry info that has to be accounted for especially if your using add-ons (a big 'especially' for Flight1 products). FS has to be properly installed as well as most add-ons. If you think about it doing it any other way would be impossible for various add-ons to be installed because the OS wouldn't officially know where FS was located. If you buy a new computer and configure your FS drive as a secondary drive the old FS install won't work, FS won't load up. Even if FS does load up (by an act of the higher power) many of your add-ons planes won't load their perspective gauges as well as many other unforeseen problems. With Flight1 products you have to go so far as to run the Flight1 wrapper for the gauges to register in the OS or nothing works. This got me when I upgraded to my current computer. I ran the installers and the gauges wouldn't work in the various aircraft. The planes would load up but no gauges. I was amazed to find I had to go back on Flight1's website and re-download all the wrappers, run them, let them place new installer files on my machine, and then click through the menu again to install the aircraft a second time. All that crap is a pain that's why it took me so long to upgrade my machine which I'm actually glade I did. I guess XP is fine for my needs for some time to come. When I decide to go to FSX I'll get a Windows 7 pre-installed box...

Because there are many possibilities when taking on a new OS like W7 and getting an existing FS9 with many addons to work on it, one possibility could be in line with the following example, lets say on a new machine:See to it that you have a total backup of the whole Win-XP FS9 folder including the two related files on C and any other FS9 utilities you may be using, on an external HD. Check to see if everything is correctly there.Install your version of Win-7 on your new machine in it's own partition ©, at the same time create the partition (D) which will contain FS9, and get everything working.Install FS9 from the four original CDs into the new FS9 partition (D) and check that it's working as it should.Delete (do not uninstall) the whole FS9 folder on D and the two related folders on C.Copy/paste the whole FS9 folder and the two related folders "on C" from the external HD to the exactly same positions from where you just deleted the original FS9 folders. Take care that you use exactly the same folder names which were created during the fresh FS9 install.Copy/paste all the utilities from the external HD to the same positions where they were on your old machine.This procedure has worked for me a number of times after e.g. hardware problems but I must admit that it was in a Win-XP32 to a Win-XP32 situation. There were only minimal problems and all could be solved quite easily.Theoretically this procedure should also work in a Win-XP32 (or Vista) to a Win-7nn situation but I havn't tried this yet.Any possible payware FS9 scenery/aircraft/gauges which now no longer work because of e.g. missing registry entries, will need to be installed/unlocked again using the original input data. The same for one or more of the utilities.Comments are welcome and I'm looking forward to them.Hans

Hans your approach is what I use with moving from one computer to another (upgrading). It seems to be a different animal with a totally new OS like Windows 7. We need to have this discussion because this is what we'll all be facing down the road since no new versions of FS will be released. We used to have these kinds of discussions when a new version of Flight Simulator came out every other year now that's all shifted to making our sim work with the various OS's that'll be released in the future. At some point we all are going to have to off load XP in favor of newer OS's and figure out how to make not only our sim but the add-ons around it work. In some cases where certain developers have closed up shop it'll be impossible to carry certain things over.