Blimey. over a year since the last post.

My XP PC has died a final death and I simply can't get FU3 to run well on the Win 10 machine: stretched menus, occasional freezes, hideous magenta mess when switching from FU3 to another application and back.

Has anyone had better success? Does anyone use FU3 any more? I'm going cold turkey here.

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You could try compatibility mode. 

 

Thanks for replying Jude.

I've tried pretty well every combination in the compatibility tab. I'm tempted to build a new XP PC for my old games (and for the old OS...)

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Edited August 10, 20196 yr by Dave Morgan
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... or spend the weekend getting to grips with Hyper-V and remote desktops...

I have FU3 running on Windows 10 (pro) without most of the problems you mention, EXCEPT for the task switch problem. I just hit Esc and ‘y’; not that that is a great solution. 

I don’t have any compatibility modes set either.

-kl

Edited August 10, 20196 yr by KingLobo
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Additionally, i have a DDFIX patched version that solves the task switch problem (for the most part) BUT I cannot get anything to display in flight mode; just gray and black areas where I can tell something SHOULD be displayed. 

Maybe someone else will have better luck. 

-kl

If it's of any help, FU3 seems to run perfectly on Windows 7, you may be able to pick up a cheap Win 7 PC somewhere. If it's running Windows 7 it'll be powerful enough to run FU3... I mean, within reason I suppose...

I sum up below all that is needed to install and run the game on windows 10, with top max quality. Just to say that Air Traffic Control is very realistic. Unsurpassed?

 

If you download Flight Unlimited 3 from this link

 

https://www.old-games.com/ the game will work flawlessly with no bugs on windows 10.

 

Installation tricks: https://www.pcgamingwiki.com/wiki/Flight_Unlimited_III

 

Install on windows 10 applying “two layers”:

 

Install ddfix 1.5.13 https://www.ttlg.com/forums/showthread.php?t=143020 with the help of HxD Hex Editor, follow instructions. This improves DirectX working.

 

Install DDrawCompat experimental/test release (just put it on game folder) link: https://github.com/narzoul/DDrawCompat/releases This connects DirectX 6 with Windows 10 today DirectX.

 

In this link https://library.avsim.net/index.php?CatID=lgfu3&Sort=Author&ScanMode=1&Page=1 you have Ansgar Avermeyer AI Package, and a few more planes to install directly, as one Boing 747.

 

Christopher Low has uploaded Seattle 2006 and SanFran 2006 to my MediaFire account. You can download them using the links below.... Seattle 2006 http://www.mediafire...j59kocbuja241tn SanFran 2006 http://www.mediafire...mdoiqam8o6127y7

 

Manual is here: http://alfozavr.wdfiles.com/local--files/fu3-downloads/FU3_Manual.pdf

 

Play it in 1024 x 768, with 3D acceleration driver activated.

Finally, on Windows 10, instead of ddraw.dll from DDRAWCOMPAT, you can use DGVOODOO2. This allows you to use RESHADE to improve dramatically graphic quality. (My settings for RESHADE: prod80_03_FilmicTonemap | Pirate_Bloom | Pirate_Curve | Pirate_Vibrance | Vibrance_fx | LumaSharpen | and FXAA). I still need DDFIX (in my case) because with DGVOODOO2 alone, my joykeys.cfg file doesn't work. keyboard keys and joystick buttons remapped doesn't work. (DDFIX and DGVOODOO2 working together).

I add another tip: The free Flight Unlimited 3 download you find on internet has a serious bug for windows 10. Radio channels get stuck or blocked with an horrible noise on many voices. The solution I found : I downloaded Flight Unlimited 3 from Old-Games.com, apparently a "Sold Out" modified game version. This time the radio worked perfect with rogue or bass voices! I installed the Flight Unlimited 2 San Fran region when installing FU3. The internet download of FU2 in this case doesn't present any issues.

One more link, search "Looking Glass: Flight Unlimited III"

https://www.flightsim.com/vbfs/fslib.php?do=displaysearch

One more tip:

In FU3 there is no AntiAliasing (AA) "out of the box" that helps removing jagged lines. The turnaround is you can apply AA setting in DGVOODOO2. Sadly, this ends up in another issue: a white horizontal line appears in most plane cockpits. You can remove this white line downloading and using CockpitDesigner from the link before. There is a blue rectangle in the middle. Increase one pixel the biggest number on the Y axis of the aforementioned rectangle.

Warning to users:

RESHADE V4.8 doesn't work with FU3 om Windows 10. Stay with RESHADE v4.7

Edited October 25, 20205 yr by patrikmore