I bought a boxed version of FSX Deluxe years ago. Since I don`t have a DVD drive on my new PC, can I save money of buying one and download the FSX trial and enter my FSX activation key or would it be not valid?

Thanks.

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You really do not want to use the "Trial" version.  FSX-Steam Edititon will be available again for very little money.

I recently (2 weeks ago) re-installed my boxed FSX/Accel and it activated over the internet just fine. Charlie's point is very valid for several reasons, not the least of which is FSX-SE works better overall with Windows 8 and Windows 10. It has the added advantage of being part of Steam so you can have it installed on multiple computers if you wish.