All im saying with this post is that FSX is working with WIndows 8.

 

But... I think its really wierd that people who havent tried Windows 8 out yet keeps raging about it. Why do you even use Windows as an OS if you cant stand it? Thats a big sad face. Buy a mac, or you can get Linux Ubuntu for free.

 

Like it or not, new computers will be delivered with Windows 8 and not 7. When Windows 7 was realsed people was raging about it the same way, and it proved to be one of the most stable operatingsystems. If you only use the computer to play games you dont really have an opinion anyway. It doesnt matter if you use Windows 8 or 7 for games, both will do more than fine for your purpose. Besides from that. The overall computer knowledge is pretty limited just surfing the internet and playing games.

I've been playing with windows 8 on a laptop for a week now and am actually really impressed! The memory management has improved so that background apps don't require so much memory, many services have been switched to start on demand, and stop when unused, and as for the star menu- just download "classic start menu" and its back on the desktop. Are there things I'm not crazy about-sure. But for laptops it looks great (especially older ones), and the metro interface is easy to ignore if you wish. I'm really interested in seeing how fsx and other flight sims run on it so I can decide about my sim computer- but my laptops are changing as soon as it comes out. Oh, and its only $40 for an upgrade so that helps!

I do not really care about the WIN8 bashers any more.

It turned out, that most (if) even haven't tested the latest official version 9200.

 

But anyway ...

 

I do not know about the BSOD screen as I haven't had one the last two month I use WIN8 :lol:

 

But for the bashers it doesn't matter if MS had changed the screen or not, they try to grab anything to rage against WIN8.

 

There are so many themes where people are divided into two factions: Apple vs. WIN, FS9 vs. FSX, X-Plane vs MS Flight, and now WIN7 against WIN8.

 

Still stuck on WIN7 if you are satisfied, there is no reason to change. There are people out there happy with Vista or XP as we can read!

 

I'm satisfied in most parts and sure the little rest will be fixed in a while (as it is with every OS)

 

 

There are so many themes where people are divided into two factions: Apple vs. WIN, FS9 vs. FSX, X-Plane vs MS Flight, and now WIN7 against WIN8.

 

 

Thats different though - Mac vs Win and X-plane vs MS Flight. But whats up with the 24/7 Windows users raging about Windows? Why dont they change if it is so incredibly bad?

you don't know that for sure, Windows 8's underlying code is supposed to be a big improvement

how do you think it boots up so quickly if there's no improvement

 

thanks for the OP for reporting your initial findings. i hope other people will be more open minded

 

No, actually, I do know that because I understand how these things work, hence why I repair computers for a living.

 

Windows 8's code in no way alters your computers ability to process the calculations which the workload of FSX generates. FSX would need to be re-coded.

 

 

Seriously? A sad face on BSOD??? :LMAO: :LMAO: :LMAO:

 

Man, alone on this I hope that W8 crashes and burn, nothing else. Sad face... LOL :LMAO: :Just Kidding:

 

 

 

Why do we need a fast boot up? Future laptops are going to be coming with SSDs so fast boot is ensured on almost any system.

There is always place for improvement, but what MS apparently did from what linux said, is striped it down, gave it a simplistic look and called it faster. And a SAD FACE!!! Man, can't stop laughing about this. LOL.

It's unprofessional, that's all, considering there WILL be a Windows Server edition of this OS.

No, actually, I do know that because I understand how these things work, hence why I repair computers for a living.

 

Windows 8's code in no way alters your computers ability to process the calculations which the workload of FSX generates. FSX would need to be re-coded.

 

coding an operating system and doing tech support are mutually exclusive

we should all be thanking the OP for reporting his findings and not using this as an excuse to rage about Win8

coding an operating system and doing tech support are mutually exclusive

we should all be thanking the OP for reporting his findings and not using this as an excuse to rage about Win8

 

I don't "do tech support", I fix computers. That means I analyze problems until I understand the cause of the symptom(s) which then allows me to provide solutions.

 

If you don't want to believe me about Windows 8 that's fine, but you could at least analyze the OP's comments and realize that he has not ensured testing has occurred under identical conditions. It's a throw-away remark, an assumption with little to no evidence to back it up.

Sorry is I offended anyone. I have no intent to "rage" on anything. I just personally don't see any technical advantage to switch to W8. I am sure W8 is a fine operating system on it's own merits, especially as a tablet operating system.

I appreciate the O.P. giving us a report on it's use with FSX and I apologize if I stepped on his thread.

I do not really care about the WIN8 bashers any more.

It turned out, that most (if) even haven't tested the latest official version 9200.

 

Indeed. Didn't try, don't want to. Reading about it is enough.

Turn it the other side around: was W7 bashed the time it was coming it? Au contraire, it was welcomed with open hands because MS did most of things right.

So, I would say the opinions, no matter how founded, are mostly truth and have a good base.

 

There are always going to be those one the plus side and those on the minus side, but where the thing leans to is quite clear.

Yes keep an open mind. Someone else will report on fsx improvements hopefully.

 

To the other questioner- I tested xplane 10 when on Vista, exact same settings, then on Win 7. 20% fps improvement. Plus any improvements can help run other apps better.

All that people complained about in Windows 7 before it launched was how big the start button is, how big the task bar is, and how the task bar groups windows of the same program together. However, all these items are reversible in Windows 7. In fact, you can make Windows 7 look exactly like any pre-Windows XP OS. In Windows 8, however, you cannot reverse back to the old start menu, can you? Also, Microsoft has attempted to block all these programs that add the start menu back, and they are trying to block programs that make the computer start directly to the desktop.

I've had every version of Windows since Version 3.0 and I have always prided myself on running the next version of Windows once the first stable betas are available. I have an MSDN membership so my full expectation was prepare to wind down Windows 7. So, of course I jumped right into Windows 8 and boy was I sorry I did. For instance, loading up FSX seemed to take LONGER and I traced it back to the certain 3rd party aircraft. For instance starting directly into the PMDG NGX took forever and then I ran into problems in full screen mode and had to stay in Windowed mode. And then there was the Metro interface - oh the horror...let's not even go there.

 

After three weeks with RTM I bit the bullet, reformatted and spent a week re installing FSX and all my addons. With that said, maybe ATIs drivers aren't ready yet. Maybe Windows 8 isn't ready yet. Maybe the moon is not in the correct alignment. However, my opinion is that under Windows 8 is Windows 7. The Metro interface is useless for a non touch screen computer and causes you to go through MORE mouse clicks to do the same thing in Windows 7. I didn't see any improvement in anything and the interface is just painful. Plus at the end of the day I don't care if my computer boots in 10 seconds or 30 seconds. What is going to happen in the 20 seconds that couldn't wait for? It's not like there is a chance that I will need to launch a nuclear strike at Russia from my PC and that extra 20 seconds will mean the difference between life and death for billions of people. So, if I wait 30 seconds to access my Word Process or FSX, who cares?

 

I actually hated Windows 8 so much after three weeks that I actually started looking at Apple OSX! Then I realized I've got Windows 7, so what am I worried about. FSX screams on my current high end rig so its a matter of not fixing something that ain't broke. Maybe some day when Microsoft comes to its senses and allows users to dump the Metro interface and the drivers bake in a little bit I'll take a look at it again. For me, I don't care what else crashes as long as FSX is 100% stable and mine is. Right now there simply is no reason to move to Windows 8...except to say you're running Windows 8.

 

Unfortunately, I predict that Windows 8 and Microsoft BOB will get to know each other very well at the bottom of the trash heap of tortuously horrific operating systems. The good news is that Microsoft seems to be in a good-bad-good cycle. Windows 3.11=Good, Windows 95 = bad, Windows 98 = good, Windows ME=horrible, Windows XP=good, Windows Vista=bad, Windows 7 = GREAT, WIndows 8=bad, Windows 9=?.

If they only made FSX compatible with linux...

funny enough i have just installed Windows 8 RTM and FSX is working fine

i'm not sure if there are performance improvements but it does seem to be running smoothly. it is supposed to be more efficient on resources than Windows 7 (esp on older computers) so some minor performance gains should not be a surprise.

 

metro is definitely different and yeah microsoft didn't really do a good job combining / splitting the metro interface. but after an hour learning and googling, it's not bad once you have everything setup and you know the shortcut keys