Microsoft Flight Simulator X and Windows 10

I have the DX10 preview unchecked and anti-aliasing checked with tri-linear selected.

If I run FSX in Windowed mode, it works OK. It's only when I try to run FSX in full-screen mode (From the menu bar, select View and then Full-screen) that I hit the problems - when the "mini windows" that are supposed to appear when starting up (with a timer bar shown) or other options selected such as Flights - Navigation Log, or World - Map, and many others, will not display - when these options are selected, the main FSX view turns black (which is fine) but the relevant mini-window doesn't display. It is a display issue because the option is present in the background and responds to any key presses (if you happen to know them). This isn't practical in use and on my PC (a laptop), it's definitely preferable to run FSX in full-screen mode and this works just fine in Windows 8.1.

Phil Tosney

I had the same problem, with most of the menus (with the Alt key) not working and a black screen while a flight loads, with my FSX and Win 10 but have found that it was caused by some of the settings in FSX. What I did was: started FSX, clicked on FSX's settings, then clicked on CUSTOMIZE and made sure that DX 10 Preview was NOT* selected and set Anti Aliasing to ON (Checked). Then select Tri-linear. I then shut FSX down, restarted FSX and everything was back to normal and it is now running very much better than it did before! Hope this helps!

*I had previously tried turning Direct X10 Preview on and although it helped with the black screen problem, it caused some third party add on aircraft and scenery textures to go missing from the display! Turned DX Preview off and selected anti aliasing and that fixed everything!

I had the same problem, with most of the menus (with the Alt key) not working and a black screen while a flight loads, with my FSX and Win 10 but have found that it was caused by some of the settings in FSX. What I did was: started FSX, clicked on FSX's settings, then clicked on CUSTOMIZE and made sure that DX 10 Preview was NOT* selected and set Anti Aliasing to ON (Checked). Then select Tri-linear. I then shut FSX down, restarted FSX and everything was back to normal and it is now running very much better than it did before! Hope this helps!       

*I had previously tried turning Direct X10 Preview on and although it helped with the black screen problem, it caused some third party add on aircraft and scenery textures to go missing from the display! Turned DX Preview off and selected anti aliasing and that fixed everything!

It's works! Thanks for your tip!

When I installed Windows 10, FSX (Steam Edition) would run properly, but only in Windowed mode. When I try to run the program full screen (which is best for my laptop), it works until you try something which requires another window to appear (such as view the flight plan or view the map). When you do this, the screen goes black and nothing appears - though you can get back to the flight screen using Esc.

I suspect this is something to do with the Desktop Windows Manager in Windows 10. In Windows 8.1 the application works fine and seems to allow MSX to take control of the windows, but in Windows 10 MSX can't do this.

Because of this problem and a few other issues with (non-critical) apps on my Lenovo G500 laptop, I decided to go back to Windows 8.1, which is working fine.

I think Windows 10 looks good in most areas, but until I'm satisfied that MSX and my laptop will work properly with Windows 10, I'm going to stick with Windows 8.1.

Phil Tosney

I have that game on my desktop and it seems to be running fine