InstallShield inoperable Win 7 FS9

[marwel]

Grateful for any assistance chaps(and chapesses)

I have successfuly installed FS2004 onto my new OS Win7 64bit. (previously used Win XP).

I find that I am unable to install my various add-ons (trying to load FScene currently), this is because Win7 64 version of InstallShield won't work. It appears that the Win7 64bit version will not accept the .exe script used on standard FS2004/FS9 add-ons. Is there a fix that I can use? If I can't find one, I'll have to store all my FS2004/FS9 material and just use FSX, or go back to using XP with all its RAM restrictions. Help please!!!!Confused:

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[HoratioWondersocks]

Grateful for any assistance chaps(and chapesses)

I have successfuly installed FS2004 onto my new OS Win7 64bit. (previously used Win XP).

I find that I am unable to install my various add-ons (trying to load FScene currently), this is because Win7 64 version of InstallShield won't work. It appears that the Win7 64bit version will not accept the .exe script used on standard FS2004/FS9 add-ons. Is there a fix that I can use? If I can't find one, I'll have to store all my FS2004/FS9 material and just use FSX, or go back to using XP with all its RAM restrictions. Help please!!!!Confused:

:(

 

Hello there

I had a similar experience with windows ten recently.

I had installed the sim ,but some of my add-ons ie Fuelloader ,joy to key amongst others would not work correctly .The solution in my case was quite simple ( hopefully it may be applicable to Windows 7)

I clicked on the exe file ,and under properties there were various options for OS compatibility, I simply selected to run each add-on in windows XP compatibility mode and they then functioned correctly.

 

Thanks Andrew

 

PS my apologies I have just realised it was installshield that wouldn't work.

Is it possible to run the installshield in windows XP compatibility mode?

[jgf]

All exe files should be set to XP compatibility and run as admin. Also do not install in any Program Files folder (extra system security there can interfere with software not specifically written for it).

 

Some older software while 32bit may use a 16 bit installer, that installer will be completely incompatible with 64bit systems. If no registry entries are required, install this on a 32bit system (XP or Vista work, Win7 may or may not) then copy the files to the new system. But if the registry is necessary you will need a newer version of the software.