I am planning to make a FAQ page on the combination of Windows 7 X 64 bit and Flight simulator X. You will find this FAQ’s in the category FAQ FS-x
After installation of FS-X a direct-x problem arises on start-up of Flight simulator. The program states direct-x 9 is missing in the system. Read more…
Wich settings should I use for my display in FSX Read more…
I am a flight simmer; not a really fanatical one but average. For sometime now I work with FlightsimulatorX (FSX) on Vista Home Premium. The PC I use is a Dell XPS 720 with 1 graphics card, NVIDIA GeForce 8800GTX (768 MB). The system has 4 GB of internal memory (DDR2 dual-channel 4 x 1024 MB). So much for this enumeration. For current concepts not a really spectacular machine
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The first thing to do is the installation of Windows 7. To do this I had to determine a good strategy. My initial plan was to buy a s.s.d. and install Windows 7 on that disk. This would possibly be the easiest strategy and it woul speed up Windows. That speed gain is mostly the loading of files. The read speed of s.s.d. is many times greater than that of the current mechanical HD’s. I still keep this option open for the future. Read more…
Choosing a re-installation is one thing, doing it the right way is something else. After all, what would happen to the Boot Manager that was installed when you installed Windows 7 the first time. I am afraid that if you do nothing and simply remove the partition from Vista you’ll probably create a second entry for Windows 7 in the bootloader screen after startup. And that is not the intention. Therefore I tried to find a method to edit that boot manager. Read more…
In the previous post, I have already made clear, that FS-X de luxe edition’s compatibility with Windows 7 according to the Microsoft compatibility list is pending for the time being. But I believe that there are not such big differences between these versions that they would respond different in Windows 7 . So I decided to install my de luxe edition anyway; step by step. First I downloaded the two service packs for FS-X from http://www.fsinsider.com/downloads/Pages/default.aspx Read more…
To begin with, I must say, that Windows 7 performs significantly better with FSX than Vista. I have extensively increased the settings for the display and the scenery; partly by settings in the nVidia Control Panel, partly by settings in FSX itself. Read more…