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
    2014-11-12T16:17:18+00:00

    Excellent. Glad you got it working. STILL a great sim

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  2. Anonymous
    2014-11-15T20:49:07+00:00

    if your FSX crashes when you click on FLY NOW, go to your SETTINGS, then click on CUSTOMIZE. then SLIDE TARGET FRAME RATE TO UNLIMITED, then pick the highest SCREEN RESOLUTION.  and make sure PREVIEW ACTIVE X has a check mark beside it.. it will then work.. if you are having issues with the screen flashing all kinds of crazy shapes, and you cant see where you are going, go to settings, then click on SCENERY LIBRARY, then simply click OK. Program will then update scenery..

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  3. Anonymous
    2014-12-08T06:09:32+00:00

    Ever since I installed 8.1 I cannot even get my disc to read on FSX. It will not boot the setup exe file on disc one, it works for dices 2 but that is useless. Very frustrated that I cannot use this sim any more!!

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  4. Anonymous
    2014-12-09T15:30:44+00:00

    the error code I get is 1628 - failed to install - any ideas anyone?

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  5. Anonymous
    2014-12-09T16:14:19+00:00

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