On 9/15/2017 at 6:29 PM, Jim Young said:

That's a very inaccurate statement.  I just built a new system with Windows 10 and had to reinstall FSX boxed and all of my addons.  I had problems starting up FSX.  It would crash as soon as I tried to load to the setup screen.  I discovered that if I placed the old uiautomationcore.dll in the main folder, that fixed the problem.  So the issue and solution are discussed in the AVSIM FSX Configuration Guide with a link to the version.  I figured that, if DTG automatically installed a version into FSX-SE, then FSX needed it too for Windows 8 and 10 users and I was right.  Do not place the DTG version in the FSX boxed folder as it was specially made by DTG just for FSX-SE.

If it simply does not install, then the only suggestion would be to make sure UAC and your anti-virus program (if any) are turned off (Windows Defender included) (or the folder for FSX is excluded from scanning by your anti-virus program).  You must also right click and use Admin Privileges to install.  In any case, I and many other users are using the boxed version in Windows 10 without any problems.

Best regards,

Jim

Thanks for clarifying. It's good to know that you found a way to install the box version. I was not able to do it, but it doesn't matter since I'm now simming with p3d v4 and I'm sticking with one sim.

On 9/14/2017 at 4:13 PM, Jim Young said:

They will make you pay another price when Microsoft Windows and P3D is upgraded to the 128-bit architecture.

That's extremely unlikely to happen. A 64-bit app is more than enough memory wise. It can use up to 18 exabytes of VAS, with Windows 10 Pro only being able to use 2 TB of that. I don't think you'll see desktop computers with 2 TB of RAM anytime soon.

On 19/09/2017 at 7:23 AM, magnetite said:

That's extremely unlikely to happen. A 64-bit app is more than enough memory wise. It can use up to 18 exabytes of VAS, with Windows 10 Pro only being able to use 2 TB of that. I don't think you'll see desktop computers with 2 TB of RAM anytime soon.

Please excuse my relative ignorance of computer terminology Jeff but what is an exabyte? It is not a term I've heard before and I was wondering how does it relate in magnitude to the 4GB VAS limit we have experienced with 32-bit systems?

Bill

Bill, I googled on the term exabyte and found this:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Exabyte

Jean-Jacques

 

4 hours ago, Jayjay said:

Bill, I googled on the term exabyte and found this:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Exabyte

Jean-Jacques

 

Thanks Jean-Jacques.

Clearly it is an enormous number!!

Bill