April 18, 201412 yr HI all! I am about to do a bootcamp to my 2013 iMac and they will only allow me to put windows 8.1 on it and was wondering if i would be able to put my FS9 on it. I heard many people in forums saying this will not be possible but i really hope this isnt the case as i love this sim and have £100s of addons for it! Please let me know!!!!!!! Cheers
April 18, 201412 yr Commercial Member FSX, FS9, XPlane 10, and FlightGear all work on one of my test machines running Windows 8.1 Professional. TFDi Design
April 18, 201412 yr I had FS9 running on 8 and then upgraded to 8.1. Big mistake. I started getting CTD's frequently. I knew there was no future in it so I actually did a refresh and got the system to roll back to 8. I reloaded everything and it works great again. While I'm pretty confident this was an isolated situation, I can't honestly recommend 8.1 due to my experience. Windows 8 and 8.1 were a bad idea in general. You can't appreciate how bad until you have lived with them for awhile. No wonder PC sales are in the tank.
April 18, 201412 yr I know the iFly 737 does not work on win 8. Not sure about 8.1 though. Just a heads up. Don't blame for my name, my parents were hippies and met in Woodstock
April 19, 201412 yr Installed FS2004 on a new computer with Windows 8.1 and it works just fine. The only oddity noted was with Reality XP FLT and FLN gauges. They function well, but cause very short freeze-ups from time to time.
April 30, 201412 yr I've just installed FS9 on a Win 8.1 Pro 64 bit system just to see what happens. Everything seems to work perfectly except when I choose an aircraft, the small preview window is just black. Other than that, it works fine.
May 13, 201412 yr Anyone else running FS9 on Windows 8.1? I am thinking of migrating back and was curious if it is going to work without any problems? Intel i-9 13900KF @ 6.0 Ghz, MSI RTX 4090 Suprim Liquid X 24GB, MSI MAG CORELIQUID C360, MSI Z790 A-PRO WIFI, MSI MPG A1000G 1000W, G.SKILL 48Gb@76000 MHz DDR5, MSI SPATIUM M480 PCIe 4.0 NVMe M.2 2TB, Windows 11 Pro Ghost Spectre x64 “We sleep safe in our beds because rough men stand ready in the day and night to visit violence on those who would do us harm”.
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