Flight Sim that works with windows 8.1

Can anyone recommend a flight sim that work with windows 8.1.

 

I have Microsoft Flight FX installed and it randomly crashes on windows 8.1

 

I think Microsoft no longer support it and also say its not compatible with 8.1 on there website.

 

Is there a good stable alternative? or can Microsoft Flight FX be fixed to work ?

 

thanks in advance

Fs2004 default, installed in the default location has never crashed for me. Ever.

I have both FS9 & FSX working OK with W8.1 64 bit. I have suffered random BSOD's but that was due to having a life -ex SSD, so maybe you have a hardware problem - could be a PSU, or an overtemp on the CPU or GPU?.

Keith

Its not the hardware i have

I7-4760k

16gb ram

500w bronze modular psu

Gigabit motherboard

1tb hdd

Xfx radeon r7 250 1gb gddr5

 

Game randomly minimising to taskbar, no error message.

Then black screen

Hi Little paws

 

may i suggest you try right clicking the icon and run as administrator.

i had a few problem with fs9 and fsx if run normal so now run all flight sims as admin.

it works.

Regardless of the Platform (FSX, P3D, FS9, Flight, X-Plane), there might be some tweaks that have to be made to both the Sim and the OS, in order to minimize CTD's and other crashes.

 

The Forums are replete with both User issues, and the fixes associated with them.

Its not the hardware i have

I7-4760k

16gb ram

500w bronze modular psu

Gigabit motherboard

1tb hdd

Xfx radeon r7 250 1gb gddr5

 

Game randomly minimising to taskbar, no error message.

Then black screen

 

I suggest Prepar3d v1.4. It should work pretty well for your system.

I have both FSX (I assume that's what you mean by "FX") and FS2004 installed on a Windows 8.1 machine, with no problems.

 

There's a replacement file sometimes needed called UIAutomationCore.dll that will fix crashes caused when you interact with the menus. Google uiautomationcore.dll fix for more details.

 

Some additional tricks and advice...

 

When installing games (FS or otherwise) is I typically install my games somewhere other than the default C:\Program Files (x86)\ directory, simply because in their efforts to cut down on the effects of malware, Microsoft locks down access to that directory and it's content, and that can sometimes cause issues. I manually created a C:\Games\ directory and install items there.

 

When installing applications (FS or otherwise), right click on the setup.exe and select Run As Administrator. I've seen issues where if you didn't do this, all the right files weren't installed, causing issues later.

 

Some also setup their FS so that they actual programs are run using an Administrator account. Again, gives the program permission to access / update files in locations it might not normally have permission to do so.

 

Can you describe if the random crashes are after doing a certain event (accessing menus, loading different aircraft, etc.)?

 

Jim Kohan (kohanjj)

Go back to Windows 7-64 bit.

If you follow the well documented installation procedures, there's no need to backdate your computer to Win 7-64 or XP or Windows 98 for that matter. We're deploying Win 8.1 (with Classic Shell for a usable desktop) in departments at the university where I work. It runs everything we can throw at it, and it's fast. If you installed FSX in C:\Programs (X86), it's never going to work right.

Can anyone recommend a flight sim that work with windows 8.1.

 

I have Microsoft Flight FX installed and it randomly crashes on windows 8.1

 

I think Microsoft no longer support it and also say its not compatible with 8.1 on there website.

 

Is there a good stable alternative? or can Microsoft Flight FX be fixed to work ?

 

thanks in advance

 

May I suggest the you try trouble shooting the problem yourself using the Events Log Viewer.

I didn't like Windows 8 when I got a new computer with it preinstalled, but am beginning to like it more all the time.

For one thing I think it's faster the the older versions, the upgreaded usually are. You know I'm just an old dog trying to learn new tricks.....:D

 

I recently had the problem with FS2004 and found that the culprit was the weather.DLL (of all things)???

 

Try thiis.....

 

Go to…….

Control Panel

Administrative Tools

View Events Log

Window Log

Application

then scroll down until you find the error and the time it occured.

 

I found the failure was listed as C:\...\...\Flight Simulator 9\Modules\weather.DLL failure

 

I then searched Windows Support pages and I found an article about DLL failures suggesting checking that the the path had Fire Wall permissions.

 

Sure enough...........

I found that my C:\...\...\Flight Simulator 9 path was not listed on the fire wall's incoming permissions (Inbound rules) list, which I added and haven't had the problem since. My FSX path, and another installation FS9 path location, were there, but not the FS9 path I've been using. I don't have any of my simulators in the Programs Files(x86) folder.

 

What I believe happened is that when the (default weather) tried to update (every 15 minutes) the system decided wasn't going to allow....it one more time.? Who knows just my theory, but after adding the path I've flown two + nine hour contest flights without failure. (knock on wood):)

I've thought that perhaps the Jeppeson site may have been trying tod irect the updates to my other FS9 path that I wsn't using at the time, but was listed in the permissions, as well. Oh well it works now.

 

Good luck, I hope this helps,

 

Fred