Hi all in the forum

Just thought I would report my experience with win 8 and the 777 as I read in on PMDG site that there was no guarantee of it working successfully as it had not been tested with win 8. I can confirm that I have now made 3 successful flights from cold and dark to various destinations with a hand fly take off up to as close as I can get to top of climb, but if I get into trouble through poor piloting I will switch on the automatics to take over. I have now just completed an online flight via VATSIM successfully but there were no controllers on line for my flight so I have not yet proved the online communication system. I also have to use FSUIPC (without any joystick calibrated) , because as a safety to my poor navigation I like at the moment to have FS commander minimised in case I get lost and to "hook" it up to fsx it needs FSUIPC ( I think) and also as my VA is BA virtual, I also think their monitoring software requires FSUIPC. I have had no issues at all, and the descent profile using Active sky real weather has been excellent using VNAV, LNAV and Auto Throttle, until such time as I switch off LNAV, VNAV  and vector myself onto the ILS. I have not tried an autoland yet as I like to do the last 2000 ft or so by hand flying. The only very bottom of the importance pile of stuff that I cannot do is to open the manuals via the Operations centre. It opens up Adobe acrtobat in the background but does not open the file  and I cannot see the manuals, but if I navigate to the folder that the manuals are in after using task manager to close the opened adobe acrobat in the background then they open just fine so it is not an issue for me. I do get the joystick disconnect issue but had that with NGX as well, and the workaround of switching from windowed mode to full screen and back again brings it back to life. So as a summary I AM A HAPPY CHAPPIE.

Kind Regards

John Callleja

 

My FSX crashes every time Ioad it up with FSUIPC...

Hi

What happens if you delete FSUIPC both files that are in the modules folder in the root fsx folder. These are the FSUIPC.dll, and the configuration ini file which will re build itself on a fresh install. You wil lose the FSUIPC configuration, but sometimes it is that file that gets corrupted. Try it and report back.

Kind Regards

John Calleja

I use the T7 with windows 8 x 64bit. It works great without any probs. Have done about 40 hours on it now and used the auto cruise up to 32 x speed. I don't understand the negative comments about W8 and FSX on some sites. In my experience it actually runs better and is far more stable than when I ran FSX on Vista. I use REX and MCE at the same time. One prob I have is that my Saitek trim wheel and control boxes don't work with any PMDG products and never have. I am researching SPAD and FSUIPC to solve the issue. They work with every other add on though.

Same here, no problems whatsoever. I never have any crashes or freezes with NGX or 777. The only thing that crashes rarely here is ezdok. The rest is fine.

Just a quick update to report the first glitch with W8. Today, 160913 there is a new update for the operations centre and W8 states `This app can not run on this PC. Find another version from the publisher` I expect some of you may experience the same. Fortunately, everything runs great without the update.

I suspect that's just the W8 heuristics (like my Norton360 heuristics) registering a false positive on the file.  Try turning your Windows OS protections off and updating it (and make sure Operations Centre is not being wrapped by User Account security).

With Windows 8, make sure the Vista 32bit uiautomationcore file is

installed in the root folder of FSX.

This is highly advised.

I believe the manual has the link (Who reads manuals?)

So that's applicable to Win8 as well? It's not advised in the manual, can't be, because PMDG is not currently supporting Win8.

 

I know it's recommended under Win7 but doubt there's been much testing of it under Win8, unless you can point me to evidence otherwise.

Win 8, 64bit and FSX works fine on my end, nothing so far.
Had the controller disconnecting but I fixed with FSUIPC.

Just a quick update to report the first glitch with W8. Today, 160913 there is a new update for the operations centre and W8 states `This app can not run on this PC. Find another version from the publisher` I expect some of you may experience the same. Fortunately, everything runs great without the update.

A pity as I was thinking of trying Win 8. You are now in a position where you may not be able to reinstall because the Updater will try an install the latest version which does not work.

 

So that's applicable to Win8 as well? It's not advised in the manual, can't be, because PMDG is not currently supporting Win8.

 

I know it's recommended under Win7 but doubt there's been much testing of it under Win8, unless you can point me to evidence otherwise.

 

 

I've had 1st hand experience of this - moved back to Windows 7.

But if you want proof,check http://forum.avsim.net/topic/392353-fsx-ctds-in-win-8-64-bit/#entry2530020

Might as well toss my experiences in this Win 8 thread as well.

 

The PDMG 777 performs beautifully in Windows 8; zero crashes, zero OOM's. The only issue I was experiencing, was the freeze thing (it always recovered), but for me, that turned out to be a SimConnect issue that was solved by correcting my SimConnect configuration (I hadn't set it up properly on my new FSX rig when trying to link in my laptop). All other PDMG aircraft perform normally (NGX, MD11, 747, and J41) as do all of the other addons I've used (Coolsky's MD-80's required minor tweaking IIRC).

 

I've run into the FSX joystick drop issue, but that can be dealt with in a couple of ways. Win 8 performance has been better than Win 7 in my experience (based off my previous FSX rig). I DO use the UIautomationcore.dll file...the same version I used in Vista & Win 7.

A pity as I was thinking of trying Win 8. You are now in a position where you may not be able to reinstall because the Updater will try an install the latest version which does not work.

 Howard.. believe it or not the strange message has now disappeared from my PMDG ops centre and all is now well. It tells me I have the latest version which is 1.000.5376. All I can say is windows 8 runs great for me. I do not get any CTD`s or `blue screens of death`. The 777 works as it should.  I have been using W8 it since it first came out. I see like me, you are from `this side of the pond`. I bought my PC from Chillblast in Bournemouth who make and tune rigs especially for FSX. I have one of these and I am convinced this helps.

 

Regards..Rob