Flight Sim X will not work on Windows 8.1

I would suggest try to reinstall it<trunked for tidiness>

What really annoys me as well is that there hasn't been any response from MS for several months - they've just totally washed their hands of the problem and that is utterly disgusting.</trunked for tidiness>

FireB1rd,

I will have to agree with you there. The least they could do is respond with a "Oh, we really di**ed that up with 8.1, we apologize".

Although for me, my research and work DID make the game run better for me than it ever had. It had always crashed after using the menu too many times.  Not now.

Hope everyone can get it resolved.

I would suggest try to reinstall it because I have windows 8.1 and I'm not having any issues after I fixed the compatibility. Then I also have all intel in my computer. Intel HD 4000 graphics Intel processor 3.6ghz. Also Intel chipset. So I am thinking it may be something to do with the graphics. All I can really suggest now is delete it then restart your computer then reinstall it then change the compatibility again and see if that helps. If not check ur error messages and see if it's giving a error message and what code it's giving you. 

thanks for you suggestion - I've been through all of that before and nothing has worked. I've now bought another PC with Windows XP and have installed it on there where it works fine. My main PC exceeds in every respect the specifications MS list and, as I repeatedly reiterate, it worked fine under Windows 8 so it is clearly a change that MS made during the upgrade to 8.1 and they should not expect users to spend many hours trying to sort out a problem that they should have identified during their own testing BEFORE forcing an automatic upgrade on us. Having caused the problem, they SHOULD be able to reviewed the changes THEY made and SHOULD be able to make further changes to resolve the problem. 

What really annoys me as well is that there hasn't been any response from MS for several months - they've just totally washed their hands of the problem and that is utterly disgusting.

I would suggest try to reinstall it because I have windows 8.1 and I'm not having any issues after I fixed the compatibility. Then I also have all intel in my computer. Intel HD 4000 graphics Intel processor 3.6ghz. Also Intel chipset. So I am thinking it may be something to do with the graphics. All I can really suggest now is delete it then restart your computer then reinstall it then change the compatibility again and see if that helps. If not check ur error messages and see if it's giving a error message and what code it's giving you.

Sorry my bad I messed up. You have to open the game then while it is open go to task manager and then the process tab in task manager then right click on microsoft flight simulator x then properties. Then go to compatibility and change the windows operating system. Should say run the program under compatibility mode for windows 8 and make sure the box is checked. Then hit apply and the okay and the restart microsoft flight simulator x. 

I did all of that - still crashed. But thanks for your help.

I tried.

Don't work.

I also tried it - didn't work for me either - but thanks for the suggestion. 

The BIG issue is why are we having to mess around like this. It worked without tweaks in Win 8 and MS screwed it up with Win 8.1