Windows 11 help

[Shephard]

I'm currently running FSX-SE with loads of add-ons,aircraft and airports on Widows 10 with no problems.
If I upgrade to Windows 11 I was wondering if I can expect any problems, or would I be better off uninstalling everything, upgrading to Windows 11 and then reinstalling everything again, something I don't really want to do, but if needs must.
Any help or advice would be greatly appreciated.

Phil

[JJ FSX]

If you do an "upgrade" to Win11 on your current Win10 installation you will probably be alright IF everything goes alright with the upgrade. It might deprecate DX9 during the upgrade but maybe not. If it does FSX's screen will just be black when you go into a flight. If so you'll need to re-install DX9. DirectX 9 is no longer supported by default but can be installed.

I even have edit's to many aircraft.cfg files and other system files and moved all my traffic files to one location as scenery and many other complex system edits. And as you say I have different aircraft and scenery addons some that were manually installed and aren't registered with windows and some had installers and do register (show up in Programs and Features/Add Remove Programs applet).

To clean install Windows 11 and NOT Start over with FSX also you must be an expert in FSX folder/file structures and understand the type and location of all your add-ons.

I have a very complex and highly modded system spanning multiple drives so when I upgraded from Windows 7 to 11 it was a combination of a clean install then overwrote the clean install with my backed up FSX files including the entire FSX folder and it's subfolders and all my Microsoft Flight Simulator Files under my Docs and all of my non-Win registered add-ons stored on drive C: as they would be wiped out. And the hidden files scenery.cfg and fsx.cfg and others. That way all scenery and all configuration changes come back except the add-on's that register themselves with windows. All those I re-installed separately. Including Active Sky Next for example. I don't recall but I'm sure I had a few other things to work on but in my case this saved me hours and I would have lost a lot of changes I didn't even remember I had made over the years. But again you must be expert on FSX topology and your add-ons as well to do it this way.

I have written a step-by-step guide on Installing FSX fresh on Windows 11 and the existing issues with installing it that you will run into. You WILL want to read it and follow if you do a fresh install and there are some topology tips in there too:

https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2807314071

[Shephard]

Thanks for the quick and detailed reply.

I think I'll try an upgrade and see how it goes, if it goes wrong, I know what I will be doing for a while.

I assume Win11 will allow me to delete any programs (scenery etc.) that were installed in Win10