Thinking of upgrading to windows 10 from window's 8.

 

Anyone know how FS2004 will run in Window's 10? know of any trouble?

Good question! I've been wondering about the same thing

You can try duel-booting W8 and W10 to test it out. If you have issues you can just scrap the W10 install

You can try duel-booting W8 and W10 to test it out. If you have issues you can just scrap the W10 install

how does one duel boot???

Here is a guide, though there are many around;

 

http://www.howtogeek.com/197647/how-to-dual-boot-windows-10-with-windows-7-or-8/

 

You can install it on a second HDD, if you wanted. I have W8 and Linux Mint on separate HDD and can boot from either at startup

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Thinking of upgrading to windows 10 from window's 8.

 

Anyone know how FS2004 will run in Window's 10? know of any trouble?

 

There are two minor issues and those are that FS9 will not display the main menu when viewing FS9 in full screen mode (triggered with ALT+Enter) and if the simulation is running in full screen the alt and context menus will trigger a black screen.

 

Other than those and as previously stated the simulation will run okay in full screen mode and there hasn't been any performance hit or problem.

 

The quick and temporary fix to the problem is to launch FS2004 in windowed mode where the main menu for FS9 displays correctly, set the simulation parameters, hit the fly now button, and then when the simulation is loaded hit ALT+Enter and fly the simulation in full screen mode. If you have to do anything that involves the alt menu pause the simulation hit ALT+Enter again and do what you need to do in the alt menu. You'll have to use windowed mode if you are hitting the view map toggle button in the cockpit panel of the aircraft you are flying in order to get the frequencies for your airport and ILS approaches. This also is true if you are modifying your current IFR plan with a new destination via the AI traffic menu option which sends you to the Flight Plan menu in FS9.

 

Other than those issue there's nothing wrong with Windows 10 and FS9. I also think this might be a quirk introduced in build 10130 as FS9 main menu and context menus were displaying in full screen mode in the previous 10122 build which was released a week before 10130. I have personally tweeted the Windows 10 team at MS about the issue and also posted a thread in the Microsoft Answers Windows 10 Preview forums. I'd suggest sounding your voices there if you are also experiencing the same problems I have reported here.

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There are two minor issues and those are that FS9 will not display the main menu when viewing FS9 in full screen mode (triggered with ALT+Enter) and if the simulation is running in full screen the alt and context menus will trigger a black screen.

 

Other than those and as previously stated the simulation will run okay in full screen mode and there hasn't been any performance hit or problem.

 

The quick and temporary fix to the problem is to launch FS2004 in windowed mode where the main menu for FS9 displays correctly, set the simulation parameters, hit the fly now button, and then when the simulation is loaded hit ALT+Enter and fly the simulation in full screen mode. If you have to do anything that involves the alt menu pause the simulation hit ALT+Enter again and do what you need to do in the alt menu. You'll have to use windowed mode if you are hitting the view map toggle button in the cockpit panel of the aircraft you are flying in order to get the frequencies for your airport and ILS approaches. This also is true if you are modifying your current IFR plan with a new destination via the AI traffic menu option which sends you to the Flight Plan menu in FS9.

 

Other than those issue there's nothing wrong with Windows 10 and FS9. I also think this might be a quirk introduced in build 10130 as FS9 main menu and context menus were displaying in full screen mode in the previous 10122 build which was released a week before 10130. I have personally tweeted the Windows 10 team at MS about the issue and also posted a thread in the Microsoft Answers Windows 10 Preview forums. I'd suggest sounding your voices there if you are also experiencing the same problems I have reported here.

Thanks for the help. I also use several paywhere airports from Blueprint simulations would you happen to know if they will work?

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If you're having issues with full screen and windows mode, why not just use FSX-Borderless? I have to switch between programs, vPilot, ACARS etc and when I switch to another appplication from full screen it takes takes to get back in the sim. This way, it's windows but still full screen

So I'm running window's 8.1 right now. If i upgrade i shouldn't have a problem right? Right now everything is running fine.

Shouldn't, people who are running early previews are not. But let's wait for the early adopters to confirm