camtah Posted December 3, 2014 Share Posted December 3, 2014 Help.... I currently had FSX running on my Win7 64 with little to no issues. Due to the latest MS Updates, it turned out that I had an invalid copy of Win7 that I got from a person that is no longer with us that was installed on my SSD. This and will be a dedicated FSX computer that was just built earlier this year (ASUS Z87-Pro, EVGA GTX770 (4g), *Gb Ram, Samsung SSD for OS, dedicated 2GB HDD for FSX incidentals). I am running the latest Nvidia Graphic drivers for my GTX770 which they claim is compatible with 11.2 and beyond. With that being said, I decided that since I had to purchase a valid license, it was actually cheaper thru my discounts to get Win 8.1 64 Pro. So I bought it, did a fresh install on the drive ( updates, drivers, etc) and went about installing FSX from the DVD. The installation was put into the a directory I created on C:\FSX, just like it was previously. The installation went smooth or at least I though it did When I clicked on the FSX icon, I got an ERROR box stating: " Flight Simulator cannot run because the version of Microsoft DirectX installed on your computer is incompatible. Please re-install DirectX 9.0....blah blah" I can't get in to the program. I tried a re-install (actually a repair). Didn't even get to the point where I would enter my Product ID. So I am asking anyone if they have any suggestions Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
il88pp Posted December 3, 2014 Share Posted December 3, 2014 There is an installer for dx9.0 on one of the fsx dvd's. I think it is on the first of your fsx deluxe dvd's. [sIGPIC][/sIGPIC] Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jorgen.s.andersen Posted December 3, 2014 Share Posted December 3, 2014 If all else fails, get the DirectX Redistributables from Microsoft - free download. Remember, FSX does NOT use DirectX11, it uses DirectX9, and has a PREVIEW for DirectX10. Jorgen Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
camtah Posted December 3, 2014 Author Share Posted December 3, 2014 FIXED: I tried the 9.0 installer and got a little farther. During the install it stated that it needed to download additional SW. That being "Net 3.5" or something like that. I did that and got to the splash screen but got another error box. I decided at that point to uninstall everything, remove the directory and re-install. That seemed to work and I was able to add/activate the Acceleration pack as well. I haven't done any configurations yet or tried it out yet. That is for another day Thanks all for the replies and ideas... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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