As we all know by now FSX will ship several months prior to Vista launches in Feb 2007. However there are a lot of people beta testing Vista Ultimate ( currently Beta 2). I wonder if, once FSX is released either in Oct. or Nov we can install it in the drive we have Vista Beta( of course with DX10 ). Probably that could be a good question to ask and discuss with the Microsoft/ Aces studios speakers at the convention next sept. This, until the official release of Vista. Thanks Carlos....... :-beerchug

Carlos you

I agree with you. However would be a topic to discuss with the FSX speakers in Washington next Sept., just in case. Carlos ..

> My understanding is FSX will be a dedicated XP title until the official release of Vista. > Once that's done an official patch will be released for the sim to run in Vista.No I think you getting confused. Because Vista will support backwards compatibility and DX9 you can install FSX on Vista and run it using DX9. When the patch is ready that will unlock DX10 cards to run FSX in DX10.

>> My understanding is FSX will be a dedicated XP title until>the official release of Vista. >> Once that's done an official patch will be released for the>sim to run in Vista.>>No I think you getting confused. Because Vista will support>backwards compatibility and DX9 you can install FSX on Vista>and run it using DX9. When the patch is ready that will unlock>DX10 cards to run FSX in DX10.You are absolutely, 100% correct... It would be insane if Vista didn't support "backwards compatibility" with non-Vista specific software! ;)Of course, they do have to draw the line somewhere, so 16 bit applications will not be supported... ;)

FS9 is running on my vista beta 2, though I have some ATI driver issues for my 9600XT. Have no doubt that FSX will run as well. There is no DirectX10 (at least that I can find) in vista beta 2 (x86 build 5384). you can d/l the DirectX sdk. I haven't tried it in vista, just Win XP so far.In vista there is a "win XP sp2" compatability mode, but so far I haven't found it needed, or functional (stuff that isn't working won't work in compatability mode either).scott s..

>FS9 is running on my vista beta 2, though I have some ATI>driver issues for my 9600XT. Have no doubt that FSX will run>as well. There is no DirectX10 (at least that I can find) in>vista beta 2 (x86 build 5384). you can d/l the DirectX sdk. >I haven't tried it in vista, just Win XP so far.>>In vista there is a "win XP sp2" compatability mode, but so>far I haven't found it needed, or functional (stuff that isn't>working won't work in compatability mode either).>>scott s.>.>Who says there is no DX10 in Vista Beta 2 ? System Information------------------Time of this report: 7/17/2006, 20:15:35 Machine name: DECAFR4 Operating System: Windows Vista

OK -- I see now you are correct. How much of the api it implements? I was able to run some of the Dx10 samples with the reference renderer, but some things didn't run. Maybe an issue with my 9600Xt / Cat drivers though.scott s..