FSX crashing in Windows 8.1

My Asus G55vw has recently been replaced and the replacement has Windows 8.1 on it. On the original unit I had Windows 7 and FSX worked great. Now with Windows 8.1 it constantly crashes. Is there a fix for this? Below is from the event log.....

Thanks in advance..

Log Name: Application

Source: Application Error

Date: 25/11/2014 2:16:05 PM

Event ID: 1000

Task Category: (100)

Level: Error

Keywords: Classic

User: N/A

Computer: Kevin-PC

Description:

Faulting application name: fsx.exe, version: 10.0.61637.0, time stamp: 0x46fadb14

Faulting module name: uiautomationcore.dll, version: 7.2.9600.16421, time stamp: 0x524fcc0b

Exception code: 0xc0000005

Fault offset: 0x0000210f

Faulting process id: 0x2018

Faulting application start time: 0x01d008fbdbec7104

Faulting application path: C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Games\Microsoft Flight Simulator X\fsx.exe

Faulting module path: C:\WINDOWS\SYSTEM32\uiautomationcore.dll

Report Id: a5bbd86a-74f0-11e4-be8f-84a6c8e03a70

Faulting package full name:

Faulting package-relative application ID:

Event Xml:

1000

2

100

0x80000000000000

10363

Application

Kevin-PC

fsx.exe

10.0.61637.0

46fadb14

uiautomationcore.dll

7.2.9600.16421

524fcc0b

c0000005

0000210f

2018

01d008fbdbec7104

C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Games\Microsoft Flight Simulator X\fsx.exe

C:\WINDOWS\SYSTEM32\uiautomationcore.dll

a5bbd86a-74f0-11e4-be8f-84a6c8e03a70

As far as I can see, you have the wrong version of the file uiautomationcore.dll on your system. Search the threads here, and you'll find links for the correct version. Get that, and drop it in your main FSX folder, and nowhere else. That should take care of it.

Jorgen

That seemed to do it. I have been running it now for an hour and it has not crashed. Prior to this it would run no longer than 1-2 minutes.

Thank you

Glad to hear it worked.

I saw your FSX is installed to the default location at C:\Program Files (x86) - if it is at all possible, you might consider uninstalling and then reinstalling to for instance C:\FSX, or if possible to a separate hard drive, to get around possible problems with add-ons and User Account Control - but that will be a LOT of work! If you're OK with the way it works now, then by all means leave it alone.

Jorgen

Will do, I have another hard drive on the computer that thus far, has nothing on it.

Thanks again