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Installation of FS-X de luxe edition

November 3rd, 2009 admin Leave a comment Go to comments

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

The installation itself is, of course, quite straightforward. I did not ran into trouble with that; also the activation gave no problems. The latter is interesting because  my FS-X is also installed on the Vista partition. Probably, however; I have not tried. Anyway, it is not difficult to FS-X to install multiple times.
After this base installation I flew around  several time in FS-X. I had the feeling it was responding more flexible compared to my Vista installation. I am still expirimenting  to find out the optimal settings for  the display for example.
Only once the program hung; I will not mention the message in the application log, because it is not very significant. I was trying out some settings with an additional monitor when the application suddenly stopped. Windows 7 kept on working fine after this crash.

The service packs

After this I decided to install both the service packs as well. And as I hoped and was expecting a little too without any problems. Note the installation instructions you can find here. You hav to install SP1 before SP2. This is in contrast to what is normal with service packs, namely the next SP always has all the changes / improvements of the previous one. Usually installing the latest SP is enough; NOT in this case though.
After this upgrade I flew around for a while and did some experiments with multiple monitors. A simple howto for the latter can be found at http://www.fsinsider.com/product/learning/documents/Using Multiple monitors.pdf.  And flying with this configuration feels very good. I also copied some flights from my Vista installation to this W7  installation. FS-X saved flights on Windows Vista and Windows 7 can be found in  “documents” > “Flight Simulator X files”. Per flight  3 files (. WS, FSSAVE and .flt) are stored. You will also find a .PLN file for the flights with a flight-plan attached to them , for example, VFR … … PLN or IFR … … PLN. The directory also contains a logbook.bin file. This file keeps track of your flights. Among other things it contains the pilots logbook. You can copy that file if you want to keep the flights of the previous installation (of course you will; your a pilot ;)   ).
All in all,  my experiences with Windows 7 64 bit are cautiously positive in regard to the combination with Flight Simulator X
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