Fs9 under win10

[crimar]

Hi:

I managed to install fs9 on my new PC (Win10 64 bit & Dx12, i5 7400, nVidia GTX 1050 2GB, 8GB RAM), but not without some problems, all solved at this time. I think this can help.

The installation, in a dedicated folder, with the 4 CDRom gave a black screen at the end (at the time of starting fs9 to complete the installation). I then replaced the fs9.exe with the fs9.exe of the nocd_file, and I launched fs9 by clicking on this file. Everything went well and fs9 settled.

But when I wanted to restart a second time fs9, this one posted a message telling me that he needed Dx9c.

I then downloaded "directx_Jun2010_redist.exe" from the Microsoft site at this address:

www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=8109

and I proceeded to the installation on Win10. No worries because what is installed cohabit with no problem with Dx12. I then restarted fs9 successfully. I then deactivated the "Microsoft Flight Simulator" folder and replaced it with the one I was using with my old Vista PC, which I had saved to an external HDD.

I also replaced the folders and files in

users / xx / Document
and
users / xx / Appl Data / roaming / Microsoft / fs9

by those of my old Vista PC.

Then I modified the fs9.cfg to indicate the good paths, and also the new graphics card.

I also installed the latest nVidia driver for my card.

It was then necessary that I reinstall the driver 64bits of the joystick, and that I reassign the buttons and the axes in fs9. Otherwise he behaved strangely.
I have also turned OFF the setting in win10: "Contents of not active windows slide down when I pointing this". So I can use the wheel mouse for increasing/decreasing.

I also had to reinstall FSUIPC, and other third party software for camera, weather, navigation, otherwise they did not launch.

I then flew one hour in 1049G (from Lyon-Bron to Paris Orly, France) with, of course, CalClassic scenery.

First, a problem with the full screen that works more or less well under win10.
I improved things a little by setting win10 to "automatically hide the taskbar on the desktop".
When I need to access the menu, I return to a windowed view by Alt-Enter instead of Alt in full-screen mode, because this last method works randomly. Then I go back to full screen.

Then, fs9 blocked at the end of 30 or 40 minutes with the message: "FS9 out of memory".
I solved the problem little by little by changing the settings (for fs9 only) of the nVidia card (especially Vsynch (out) and the following parameters in the list at least).

Finally, I did the total flight without any problem in 1049G, with cloudy weather, anti alias x8, anisotropic x8 filtering, and full screen!

I hope this can help some of you!

All the best.

[Tom/CalClassic]

Hi,

Glad to hear you got it working, but it's getting harder and harder...

[zswobbie1]

FS2004 works very well within Windows 10. My original laptop had Windows 7, then I upgraded to Windows 8.1 the to Windows 10. All worked well... Then that laptop died & I had to start over again with a new laptop with Windows 10 already installed. On my original laptop, I had a 'normal' install of FS2004, a Golden Wings version, as well as a version dedicated to The Ford Tri-Motor planes & scenery, & I was dreading completely installing all that onto my new laptop. I also had, on my portable hard drive, a basic install of FS2004 that I used to copy & paste onto PC's used by our virtual club, for newbies.


So, I pulled the hard drive out of my old laptop, it had died from a hardware problem..after 6 years, the onboard graphics card was not seating so nicely onto the motherboard, & for 9 months, I was pulling of the back of the laptop & gently heating the motherboard with a hair dryer to start it up!

Anyhow, I put that hard drive into a portable case & copied those versions of FS2004 onto my new laptop into C:\ using Teracopy (fastest copy program around), as well as the FS2004 folder from 'My Documents, placing shortcuts to the various FS9.exe's onto the desktop.


On running, I did have FS2004 crashes, BUT, simply right clicking the exe & running in compatibility mode & as admin sorted that out.

I used Everything, a very fast desktop search engine, to find the various FS9 cfg's to add in [Old_Modules] to stop the dll error on startup.


Then I decided that the members of our virtual club needed a common install, so we fly on our network, we all have common scenery & planes, so I took the basic install & added what was needed, & copied that new install, I call it FS2004SE (Special Edition) & copied that onto my hard drive, then onto our member's PC's. This makes it so easy to do updates with new planes & scenery for everyone.


Tom, yes, a bit harder each time, trying to remember the sequence every time :-) But, thankfully, we are still getting new planes & scenery for our beloved FS2004!

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May 17, 2018 15:30:06 GMT -5 crimar said:

Then, fs9 blocked at the end of 30 or 40 minutes with the message: "FS9 out of memory".

Often this message occurs due to incompabilities with or between sceneries, objects or ai a/c. So insuficiant memory isn't involved.

[crimar]

May 18, 2018 2:04:59 GMT -5 zswobbie1 said:

On running, I did have FS2004 crashes, BUT, simply right clicking the exe & running in compatibility mode & as admin sorted that out.

on my PC, running fs9 with or without compatibility mode makes no difference

All the best.

[crimar]

May 18, 2018 3:16:55 GMT -5 @aviavirt said:

May 17, 2018 15:30:06 GMT -5 crimar said:

Then, fs9 blocked at the end of 30 or 40 minutes with the message: "FS9 out of memory".

Often this message occurs due to incompabilities with or between sceneries, objects or ai a/c. So insuficiant memory isn't involved.

I made always the same flight until solved (only in changing nVidia settings for fs9). So in my case it was not a problem of incompatibilities with scenries.

All the best.

[biggiraffe]

It's very encouraging to hear that FS2004 can be run nicely on Windows 10. It looks like I'll be moving over to a new computer next week, and I am noting these observations and suggestions.

Thanks to everyone,
Best regards,
Kurt

[crimar]

Hi:

I made a new flight of 3000 nm France / Africa, with very bad weather at the beginning (snow, wind) and stormy and hot on the arrival, saving the flight en route to take it back the next day, in accelerating many times to x16 to test: no problem on fs9!

I can say that fs9 works as well on my new PC with win10 as on my old PC with Vista.


All the best.

[zswobbie1]

Strangely, not all of my FS2004 installs had to be set to run in compatibility mode. Also, after this recent Windows 10 update, I had to do it again.

[crimar]

May 21, 2018 3:33:43 GMT -5 zswobbie1 said:

Strangely, not all of my FS2004 installs had to be set to run in compatibility mode. Also, after this recent Windows 10 update, I had to do it again.

I'm running win10 1803 (last update) and no need for me to set fs9 in compatibility mode. Perhaps something to do with the graphic card ?

All the best.

[crimar]

Hi:

flight Los Angeles to Paris (France,) with Lockheed 1649A, made without problem.

All the best.

[biggiraffe]

Good Evening,

Thanks to all the advice from here, I have FS2004 running reasonably well on Windows 10 now. I still have many add-ons to reinstall (such as Editvoicepack) but I do have all my AI, airport mods, AFCAD, and FSRealWX Lite working. (AFCAD still does that funny thing where it won't ready the "Add-on Scenery" file but still saves there just fine).

The part I'm not as happy with is having to use windowed mode. On this machine, the graphics card (Radeon 550) settings for FS work in windowed mode, but revert to normal as soon as I go full screen. I guess I'll get used to it...

Thanks!
Kurt

[discoazul2000]

Howdi, had no problems installing FS2004 into W10 a couple of years ago, however the big W10 update of this week caused my FS2004 to become very slow....the annoying little spinning blue circle appeared for everything specially to activate the top menu bar (ALT) and after it appeared it was on for just a second and then it disappeared so I had to click on it without seeing which option of the menu it was that I was clicking....got the speed problem fixed by going into settings (W10) and turning off FOCUS ASSIST (apparently a new feature added to W10).....it is probably a good idea to restart your computer after making this change.
I am still left with the side effect of the menu bar disappearing after a split second and having to click on it blind.....has anyone experienced that side effect as well and found any fixes ?
Cheers.

[biggiraffe]

Good Afternoon,

I have not noticed any changes to FS2004 this week, now that I am in Windows 10. But I have not liked having to run FS2004 windowed mode -- my graphics revert to "normal" if I go full screen. In windowed mode, I have the menu choices always showing across the top and the window labels across the bottom (so that if you leave your mouse on one, it expands to a preview that covers part of the instrument panel). All seems as it was last week.

Take care,
Kurt