Just wondering has anyone tried FSX in Windows 8 on a touchscreen monitor? I was in the MS store the other night and was impressed with W8 on a touchscreen monitor (minus a touchscreen one might as well stay with W7). Anyway I could see the potential of a touchscreen and a VC espesially on the larger monitors in the MS store. I would love in a simulator where I could adjust all the switches in the VC by interacting with them on the screen. That combined with Trackir would be great. Is FSX even capable of this??? Alas I'm still an FS9.75 simmer but will upgrade in the near future when I have time or my computer crashes. In the mean time W8 doesn't seem as bad as I once thought if the touchscreen feature works in FSX like I discribed above. If not there's no reason I can see moving to W8, it's truly a tablet OS mixed in with W7.

Wow, not a single response to this...

cuz people here hate Windows 8

 

in response to your touchscreen question, i am pretty sure Windows 7 had touchscreen support as well so it wouldn't be much different in that sense. you should be able to use it as an input device.

 

windows 8 does offer some below the hood performance enhancements. i've been using it for a few weeks and it works great. most of the complaints stem from the loss of the old start menu. when the new one is even better. i also noticed that my vsync issues in FSX have magically disappeared.

I use a touch screen for the fmc, but this is in windows 7.

cuz people here hate Windows 8

 

in response to your touchscreen question, i am pretty sure Windows 7 had touchscreen support as well so it wouldn't be much different in that sense. you should be able to use it as an input device.

 

windows 8 does offer some below the hood performance enhancements. i've been using it for a few weeks and it works great. most of the complaints stem from the loss of the old start menu. when the new one is even better. i also noticed that my vsync issues in FSX have magically disappeared.

 

W8 touchscreen implementation is reported to be more refined and polished than it was in W7. It seems the whole DLC concept that was pushed with FLIGHT has carried over into MS's whole business model turning allot of game manufactures away. Minecraft's creator hates the idea of being forced to run their app through MS 's store to be used on W8 and has flat out refused to go along with it. So it looks like the fiasco that fell on us was in essence a new business model MS planned to use with this so called mobile revolution spear headed through W8. They should have kept going with Flight if this was the case because if Flight is any marker this new business model is going to fail across the board leaving most on W7 who want a more open gaming market. W8 seems to have some good aspects but the push towards a closed platform is a killer. I still would love to see FSX in a W8 touchscreen environment. It's just I can't afford one of those supper large touch screen monitors at this time that makes the whole experience worth the cost of admission.