Hi all, I have an older system, see specs on my sig, however just want to know if I will gain or at least see the same performance with FS9 moving to Windows 7 64bit from XP 32bit. I would like to play some BF3 and I know XP wont run it. But my pride and joy is always my flight sim. So I rather ask and see what you guys thing. I cant increase the memory on my system since 2gigs is the max it can take. I have heard of some folks being able to get 4 gigs on it getting some workaround with volatage via the bios. But I dont think Im going to mess with that stuff. Just want my sim to perform better, or at least not worse than XP 32bit.

 

Thanks,

 

Bill

FS9 will run much, much better in a Windows 7 64 bit environment. FS9 is a 32 bit application but a 64 bit system will manage memory much better for FS9. I ran FS9 on a Vista system once and doubled my fps but decided to move on to FSX and don't use FS9 anymore.

 

Best regards,

Jim

FS9 will run much, much better in a Windows 7 64 bit environment. FS9 is a 32 bit application but a 64 bit system will manage memory much better for FS9. I ran FS9 on a Vista system once and doubled my fps but decided to move on to FSX and don't use FS9 anymore.

 

Best regards,

Jim

 

Thanks Jim , even with only 2gigs of DDR2 memory it should run better than XP?

Thanks Jim , even with only 2gigs of DDR2 memory it should run better than XP?

 

I think you will see more than a modest increase in performance with a Win7 64 bit system. Any 64 bit system will manage the memory better than a 32 bit system. Since it has been some time since I have had an XP 32 bit system though, I can't say positively. There have been major technology increases since XP though.

 

Best regards,

Jim

Thanks Jim

I'm using Win 7 I switched over now I have all kinds of problems I have reinstalled FS9 about six times

and everytime my PC east default scenery,everything from NY to S.C. N.H DEL. and several others

when I put it in there are 74 states or prov and when I reboot there are 63 It also east ac.But FSX acts

normally. HELP I'm running out of options!!!!!

Hi there

 

I changed my FS9 from windows XP to 64 bit Windows 7 about 18 months ago. i had no major problems. I simply copied my FS9 to an external hard drive and then copied back to my new Windows7 computer. I did have to run a registry fix program such as Registry Mechanic as many of the registry entries will wrong. Also make sure you run everything as administrator until it is bedded in.

 

Adding new scenery to FS9 is also different but I found the new way quite easily and there are forum topics here which cover this.

 

Cheers

Dermot

So how is the update to Win7? I just did it today. FS9 is having some problems. Flashing screen when it loads & then when you hit the ALT key.

 

Pat Callaghan

FS9 is having some problems. Flashing screen when it loads & then when you hit the ALT key.

 

You might want to try the free FS9 registry fix from Flight One - http://www.flight1.com/view.asp?page=library.

 

Best regards,

Jim