julkau Posted November 29, 2016 Share Posted November 29, 2016 I am a new user of this website and need some guidance. I wanted to update the above to Win 10 but before I consider same will my program run safely on this update? Thanks so much for anyone who can help. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
zswobbie1 Posted November 29, 2016 Share Posted November 29, 2016 Yes, FSX & FS2004 run perfectly in Windows 10. Run the sims as 'Admin'. Robin Cape Town, South Africa Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jwenting Posted November 29, 2016 Share Posted November 29, 2016 You might have to turn off UAC and/or do some trickery to get the FSX installation directory to be read/write for some addons and addon installers, if you've installed FSX in the default location, but that's the same in Windows 7 AFAIK. Other than that, it works just fine, apart from crashiness with old (FS2004 and older) gauges and modules, but again that's probably similar to what you'd get in Windows 7. [sIGPIC][/sIGPIC] Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tgon Posted November 29, 2016 Share Posted November 29, 2016 I've FSX SE on Windows 10 64bit Home without any conflict or performance issues. Best, Phil https://www.facebook.com/groups/UKdirect/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
keefpee Posted November 29, 2016 Share Posted November 29, 2016 IIRC (because its a long time since I updated from W8.1 to W10) I used the option to retain my existing files so FS9 & FSX stayed loaded, but I did experience the black screen syndrome cured by exiting full screen mode. Good luck Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
longbreak754 Posted November 29, 2016 Share Posted November 29, 2016 Hi, Welcome to the forums. As the others have said FSX will happily run under W10. Whilst there are some issues that maybe encountered, they have become well known and the fixes are easy. I suggest that you do a search of the forums here (using FSX + Win10 as a search string) - this should bring up a number of threads that will give info on the known issues and their fixes. The only real FSX/FS2004 related problem that I have encountered (following upgrading both of my rigs and helping a number of friends with their upgrades), is that some older DVD/CD based addon products will not install. From experience, this seems to affect products produced prior to late 2009/early 2010. This is related to the fact that MS removed a utility called SECDRV (an anti-piracy tool) from W10 due to security concerns and with any disc that used this tool the OS will not allow the installer to run. Regards Brian Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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