Flight Sim X will not work on Windows 8.1

Anonymous
2013-10-18T16:23:57+00:00

I have the official release of 8.1 now, downloaded last night and FSX still does not work.

I can get through the menus but when I click to fly now, it drops me back to the desktop and gives me a fatal error.

I have tried:

 1. A system restore back to windows 8, followed by the 8.1 upgrade.

 2. Fresh install of FSX with no add-ons

 3. Tried 'run as admin' and all different compatibility modes.

It still does not work...FS2004 works great. FSX did work in Windows 8.0 fine.

This needs to be fixed, otherwise Microsoft will have killed FSX.

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  1. Anonymous
    2013-11-05T06:57:01+00:00

    why does combat flight simulator 3 works fine on windows 8.1 pro x64 but flight simulator x

    keep crashing when i play some airplanes like cessna c172sp and it does not show up in

    program compatibility troublshooter while all other programs and cfs3 show up and in apps

    fsx does not show up under microsoft games like cfs3. it could be video software problem i have

    radeon hd 7850 card but when i removed the software and used windows driver from windows update

    it works better but still some problems.

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  2. Anonymous
    2013-11-04T21:54:20+00:00

    Good luck

    Pay for your games brother:)

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  3. Anonymous
    2013-11-04T21:38:07+00:00

    have you tried windows 7 and do you still have the same problem?

    i installed new install of fsx on new laptop, worked ok untill i added my own downloaded

    planes from simviation.... then error saying fatal exeption etc....

    upgraded sp1 then sp2 fsx but no better.

    also added vfr scenery and didnt work either..

    any suggestions!!!!!  dll files appear to be corrupted too.

    many thanks

    Rob.

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  4. Anonymous
    2013-10-21T18:12:36+00:00

    Samsung has yet to release any 8.1 drivers or given me any timeline as of today (Oct 21, 2013) for when they will release them. I think the video card driver is the culprit.

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  5. Anonymous
    2013-10-21T18:11:30+00:00

    I think it's definitely a video card driver issue. A lot of my other programs were acting similar. Hopefully Samsung will release some dedicated Windows 8.1 drivers for my computer. Until then, I just did a factory system restore back to Windows 8.0.

    Hopefully this works itself out, I did really like 8.1.

    Check with your computer manufacturer and see if they're offering any drivers. That'll be my plan. Getting sick of reinstalls.

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