Windows 10

[Kahu]

I have just installed the free upgrade to windows 10 from 7 and and was very pleasantly surprised on how smooth and trouble free this operating system is. No problem with FSX so far, about to install my FSX addons.

The one thing I have noticed so far is my computer now runs 20-30 degrees cooler and everything looks crisper and loads very fast.

Just remember to update your video drivers.

I run an old I7 core laptop with nvidia GT540m and its never run so well.

Well done Microsoft, might try and get back into FSX a bit more.

[Splitpin]

Finding the same Kahu ... works great for me.

[Ian Warren]

Doing little FS at the mo so I'll wait till I die and sell painting at millions of $ then go out and buy and whooping great PC with Windows 21

[toprob]

The other day my system mentioned that it was getting low on space on the SSD, and I should clear off the previous os backup, so I did... and I've regretted it since. A few real deal-breakers for me, mainly some broken things in GMAX, but also some missing features which I use a lot, such as the ability to 'preview' a folder of jpgs using right-click, or preview all the results of an image search in Windows Explorer.

However, on the touch-screen tablet win 10 is brilliant.

I have today sworn at GMAX a number of times, so if I had kept the ability to revert to 8, I would have by now.

[markll]

The other day my system mentioned that it was getting low on space on the SSD, and I should clear off the previous os backup, so I did... and I've regretted it since. A few real deal-breakers for me, mainly some broken things in GMAX, but also some missing features which I use a lot, such as the ability to 'preview' a folder of jpgs using right-click, or preview all the results of an image search in Windows Explorer.

However, on the touch-screen tablet win 10 is brilliant.

I have today sworn at GMAX a number of times, so if I had kept the ability to revert to 8, I would have by now.

Hmmm...to be fair though, GMAX is a very old piece of software, is it not? You can't really expect a version of windows that was released 10 years after that software was cancelled, to maintain full backwards compatibility with that software, can you?

[toprob]

Yes, which is why I specifically tested it for a couple of weeks on the tablet, as I rely on GMAX completely. Actually, GMAX works fine, it's just the material list with the FSX gamepack which locks it up, so I'm learning to live without the material list -- plus, these days I could use the FS2004 gamepack, and include the finishing touches using ModelConverterX, which is what I do anyway for native P3D support anyway. (There's no GMAX gamepack for P3D.)

But overall, Windows 10 does appear 'unfinished' on my system.

[Splitpin]

" GMAX is a very old piece of software, is it not? " ..... yes it is .
From my screen shot only based position , I'm finding Win10 great . All the addons work , FS9 is like silk (screens later) .... no problem here at all.

[CoochB]

If I install Windows 10 will I have to do a full install of FSX and all the addons?

I have had 2 computer meltdowns in the last couple of years and sick of spending more time trying to get FSX back to what it was than actually flying on it

main reason I am not really into upgrading

[dbcunnz]

The only way to get away without doing a FSX install again is to do the windows 10 upgrade on your existing win 7 or win 8 not the full clean win 10 install

[Agent X20]

Once you've done the Win 10 install *make sure* you (re)install the Jun '10 DirectX DX9 stuff. It comes with FSX-SE under the redist folder I think.

Without this my new FSX SE install on Win 10 was chronically unstable.

[Ian Warren]

Hmm ten windows ... please add extra cleaner.

[Malkymoo]

Our PMDG 737 P3D would crash on multiplayer using WIN 10 compared to WIN 8.1

[Ian Warren]

Our PMDG 737 P3D would crash on multiplayer using WIN 10 compared to WIN 8.1