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Post by warbaby on Jan 11, 2023 1:52:23 GMT -5
We recently bought a new home, and so my flight sim sat in a box for about 4 months while I had time to get to it. I considered hanging it up for good until I started surfing the flight sim sites again. CalClassic recent additions had something to do with it too.
I recently got it back out again, and decided I need a new machine. I haven't had a new PC in over 10 years, so it's well over due. However I'm concerned about going from a win 7 op system to win 10, not sure what to expect.
I've saved my 3 versions of fs9, copy and paste, to an external hard drive. I'm hoping to just copy and paste to the win 10 folder, and voila.
Is my thinking too optimistic in my success? The idea of having to individually install my Sims is a task I'm not quite certain I'm willing to undertake. It's taken years to get them the way they are. I have no idea what tweaks I've made over the years.
Alas, I just bought a Playstation and a new TV, Lara Croft on the big screen might be enough to pull me away.
Allen
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Post by Dan on Jan 11, 2023 3:56:06 GMT -5
Hi Allen,
Last October I made approximately that same thing: bought the new PC with the Win 10 installed on it. Instead of the Win XP on my old machine. Which, by the way, was 13(!) years old. Of course, with thousands of sceneries and so on, installed into the sim during more than decade. So I was simply transfer the whole FS2004 into the new, just installed sim, without any major problems. Carefully following the Tom's instruction (which is somewhere here, on the Forum) on how to migrate to the new PC, of course. And everything works fine, except of the payware aircraft and payware sceneries, which was took to reinstall from the scratch.
The only issue is that some of the too old gauges - e.g. from FS98 or FS2002 era in some aircraft - doesn't work with Win 10. This problem even may be cause of the sim crash during its loading.
Regards,
Dan
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Post by mdeval on Jan 11, 2023 6:53:25 GMT -5
One thing I found when installing into Windows 10, The Realistic Start Gauge used on the CalClassic planes is inop. In fact it will cause FS9 to crash. Worked great in Win 7. Disappointing to say the least as that was a very enjoyable aspect of propliner operation. Never did find a solution for it. Had to // out the entry in the cfg. for each plane.
Mike
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Post by Tom/CalClassic on Jan 11, 2023 12:57:22 GMT -5
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Post by aharon on Jan 11, 2023 13:51:22 GMT -5
The only issue is that some of the too old gauges - e.g. from FS98 or FS2002 era in some aircraft - doesn't work with Win 10.
That is true.
FS2004 gauges work well in Windows 7 for FSX use but but but FS2004 gauges do not work in Windows 10 for FSX use. Apparently, Windows 10 does not like anything about FS2004!! At least, Windows 10 accepts FS2004 aircraft add ons for FSX use.
Regards,
Aharon
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Post by warbaby on Jan 12, 2023 19:48:24 GMT -5
Thanks all for your response. The engine start gauge, that's going to hurt, that goes a long way to reinvent this Era. The rest I get it. Off to look for PCs this weekend.
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Post by Tom/CalClassic on Jan 12, 2023 19:55:52 GMT -5
The use of that gauge seems to be computer dependent, so you can always try it first.
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Post by Defender on Jan 13, 2023 5:33:22 GMT -5
Allen, I've been using FS2004 with W10 for years without problems. It works with everything including developer tools except for Exclusion Builder in my experience.
Mike, I'm a great fan of the 3-4-2-1 realistic start gauges as well and I'd say they works fine with my W10 at least 95% of the time, the other 5% perhaps needing me to reload the aircraft and then it's OK. As Tom says, it's a system thing, not just W10 or the aircraft type and it's a pity we can't narrow down the cause/s.
I use all three gauges, engine control, engine autostart and aircraft reload although I vaguely recall Tom saying that that last gauge is the culprit in some cases. Not sure why or what you do instead. Tom?
Bill
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Post by Tom/CalClassic on Jan 13, 2023 10:27:54 GMT -5
Hi Bill,
I don’t think the reload gauge is the actual problem, I think it’s the reloading of the plane itself that causes the crash with the auto start gauge activated. It usually crashes for people when they reload the plane manually as well.
I think the reason is the same reason I need the reload gauge in the first place. When you first load a plane, often the auto start gauge doesn’t seem to “activate”. It take a reload of the plane to do that. I could have made people do that manually, but found I could do it in a gauge instead. So for people’s computers that crash using the auto start gauge, it doesn’t crash when the plane first loads (because the gauge isn’t active) but does crash on the reload when it does activate.
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Post by Pixel Pilot on Jan 13, 2023 10:37:49 GMT -5
I just tried the starting Tom's DC-6B on my Win 11 machine which I've had since last April. I can attest that the aircraft reload and the engine autostart both work correctly.
Ed
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Post by Defender on Jan 13, 2023 12:00:28 GMT -5
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Post by aharon on Jan 13, 2023 13:35:11 GMT -5
. Off to look for PCs this weekend. Happy shopping!!
Regards,
Aharon
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