Compatibility Microsoft Flight Simulator 2004 vs. Windows 7

Anonymous
2010-01-02T14:00:35+00:00

I installed MS Flight Simulator in Windows 7. The installation went smoothly. 

And I could start MS Flight Simulator up till the Homepage appeared.

BUT: when opening "videoparts" (i.e. the instruction at the start, parts of MS FS with moving pictures) the programme closed and a message said:

**"A problem has occurred. The programme doesnt work well anymore. The programme will be closed."**I tried to find if anything was wrong with the compatibility. But everyhting seems fine.

I hope someone can help me with my favourite game-programme.

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Anonymous
2010-01-10T01:14:55+00:00

All I can think of now is to update your video drivers.

If it still doesn't work, then unfortunately it's something wrong with your computer because it states here that FS2004 is fully compatible with Windows 7 (both 32-bit and 64-bit):

http://www.microsoft.com/windows/compatibility/windows-7/en-us/Details.aspx?type=Software&p=Microsoft%20Flight%20Simulator%202004%3a%20A%20Century%20of%20Flight&v=Microsoft&uid=&pf=0&pi=0&s=flight%20simulator%202004&os=32-bit

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  1. Anonymous
    2010-07-22T08:24:27+00:00

    Yes, we have the same problem and now have all these discs and nothing works. Thanks for highlighting this as we thought it was something we were doing wrong.I bought a new laptop, Windows 7 with enough graphics to play this and now I will need to buy a XP desk top computer and add on more graphics  for my son to play his simulator on.

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  2. Anonymous
    2010-08-31T19:29:21+00:00

    And me too! I had exactly the same problem. I have two laptops tht are both under 3 months old, one with Vista Premium and another with windows 7, both acer high spec. On one (Win7) playing instructional videos crashes the game and in the other (Windows vista) it won't install past 77-78 % like another post above this one said. Can someoone at Microsoft tell s a way to fix this because I really want to learn to fly! Otherwise it will be a complete waste of money and make me wary of buyng Microsoft software in future when they say something is compatible when it actually isn't. My PC doesn't need defragmenting, it's new and with minimal use, there's nothing to defrag! Please please someone suggest a solution to this...

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  3. Anonymous
    2010-09-30T15:26:15+00:00

    Similar problem to that of Kees Piano at the head of this list, despite reading that FS2004 works fine under Windows 7; my system is also new - or al least completely reinstalled in the past few days - so I don't see that there's a problem that defragmenting should solve. I also appear to have had a problem loading a scenery directory [Tokyo] from the disk, but I clicked 'OK' to continue - in any case, that shouldn't prevent the game from playing (should it?). The game subsequently stopped just after the start of viewing the introductory flight. Has anyone managed to get to the bottom of this issue yet, please?

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  4. Anonymous
    2011-01-06T15:34:19+00:00

    windows keeps telling me that my copy of fs2004 is the wrong build and cannot load certain air craft.  but when i try to continue it closes down. no answer from microsoft that sells the game as games for windows.

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