Arctic Cat ZRT

I have had their train simulator(now Train Simulator 2015) for a number of years and have seen the company go through a unfortunate change. The company started as awesome small business once they became independent from Kuju and EA, they were keen on accuracy/value. Over the past few years, their DLC has become more bug ridden(often not fixed) and offering less for ever dollar as times goes on. They have also reduced their communication with the community which is something I admired in the earlier days of railsimulator(company name before the recent change to DoveTail). I hope for the better as they begin to dive into the world of flight sim. As a "simulator" based company they will definitely value flight simulation as a genre and continue to develop it. If they do in fact create their own product I imagine it will be the same model as Microsoft Flight(reminds me of their current business model for TS2015). Granted they do have a good relationship with 3rd party developers for TS2015, so maybe that will be the silver-lining. Sorry if I seem cynical but my this is my opinion after my personal experiences. ^_^

It is definitely comforting to hear that people are having success with Windows 8.1, thank you! Here is my next question, what is the proper procedure for installing FSX onto Windows 8.1(In terms of UAC, location, compatability mode, administator, etc)? I will only have one hard-drive on the computer for now if that helps at all.

Again, thanks for the input from everyone. I will keep the windows 7 idea as a backup plan if I have major issues with Windows 8.1, the PC comes with 8.1 installed already so I want to try and keep things stock if I can especially since there will be a warranty on it. Right now FSX is the only game that I currently play that doesn't have Windows 8 support. I have continued searching the internet and for the most part it seems that people have had success with some of the planes I run. Keep up the advice!

I did see that in my various searches tonight, I personally do not use that utility so I don't need to worry about it.Thanks for the reply though VeryBumpy!

Hello Avsim, After over 2 years of longing for a new gaming system I have finally found the right system and now have the funds to afford it. The only issue is that I have to get it with Windows 8.1. For that last few hours I have been looking through this forum and over the internet looking at 8.1 and FSX compatibility. It seems that FSX works on 8.1 if you install it correctly and possibly apply one small file in the FSX directory. My next question is there are any add-ons that seem to have particular issue with Windows 8. I mainly have planes from: Carenardo Alabeo Captain Sim (seems to work well on 8.1 from what others have said) Iris Simulations CLS Virtavia Aerosoft Other addon's REX (seems to work well on 8.1 from what others have said) UTX GEX Accusim (seems to work well on 8.1 from what others have said) Does anyone have issues with addons from these companies? Any other tips for 8.1 users? Thank you for the responses! -Adam Burnley