Using FSX: SE with Windows 10 [Official]

[DTG_Martin]

Dovetail Games has been conducting Windows 10 compatibility testing with FSX: Steam Edition for some time, and we are pleased to announce that the latest round of testing has shown no major issues.

Regardless, as this is a new Operating System, some users may experience issues not witnessed by us during our testing.

We will be collecting feedback and will endeavour to provide fixes for major issues that arise, so if you encounter any strange behaviour please let us know in this thread.

Happy flying!

Microsoft Flight Simulator X: Steam Edition Team
Dovetail Games

18/08/2015 Update

Thank you to everyone who got in touch with us about running FSX: SE with Windows 10. It seems a lot of you are having mixed results ranging from everything working fine to nothing working at all.

Windows 10 is a brand new operating system, and like all new OS, a few problems are likely to pop up. Likewise, many graphic and sound card makers are yet to release driver updates which are compatible with Windows 10. Things will get better, however it will take a little time. We understand that this doesn’t stop the situation being any less frustrating for those of you experiencing unexpected problems.

We have compiled a list of possible fixes for those of you having issues running FSX: Steam Edition on Windows 10. While these fixes may solve the majority of problems, we cannot guarantee they will work for everyone.

Please see either FSXinsider[fsxinsider.com] or our support website[dovetailgames.kayako.com] for the list of recommended fixes.

Microsoft Flight Simulator X: Steam Edition Team
Dovetail Games

[J.Ko]

jscak67님이 먼저 게시:

flaviossa님이 먼저 게시:

You´re running on dx10 preview. Disable it to get your textures back.

If I disable DX10 Preview, I lose capability to switch aircraft, run instant replay, and all other menu accessed items. Thinking of installing Steve's DX10SceneryFixer - any pros and/or cons?

Mentioned problems are not relevant to DX10. I thing your DX9 is not properly configured on W10 - go to FSX folder and then into _CommonRedist. There is DirectX, Jun2010. Run DXSETUP. It will install DX9 runtime libraries.

But, back to DX10. Fixer is not needed. Steve did some shaders which are for free on AVSIM. Search for shader_release_v3.2.3.zip file. This shaders will solve missing textures problem, but old FS2004 aircraft and sceneries doesnt work properly. For this you have to buy paid Fixer which have many possibilities for fixing problems and adding/controling effect like lights, shadows, bloom, reflections and so on..

[jscak67]

komplik님이 먼저 게시:

jscak67님이 먼저 게시:

If I disable DX10 Preview, I lose capability to switch aircraft, run instant replay, and all other menu accessed items. Thinking of installing Steve's DX10SceneryFixer - any pros and/or cons?

Mentioned problems are not relevant to DX10. I thing your DX9 is not properly configured on W10 - go to FSX folder and then into _CommonRedist. There is DirectX, Jun2010. Run DXSETUP. It will install DX9 runtime libraries.

But, back to DX10. Fixer is not needed. Steve did some shaders which are for free on AVSIM. Search for shader_release_v3.2.3.zip file. This shaders will solve missing textures problem, but old FS2004 aircraft and sceneries doesnt work properly. For this you have to buy paid Fixer which have many possibilities for fixing problems and adding/controling effect like lights, shadows, bloom, reflections and so on..

Turned DX10Preview off per flaviossa's suggestion (after turning off full screen mode) and textures appeared on 3rd party AC. Used Alt-Enter to switch back to full screen mode and textures remained. Through experimenting with windowed & full-screen modes - found out I need to be in windowed mode to activate FSX menue items but can switch to full screen mode using Alt-Enter once changes have been made.

Will running DirectX, Jun2010 and see if I can stay in full-screen mode when making changes and/or selections in FSX menu.

Thanks for info on DX10 Fixer.

[FlavioSSA]

Try using the little tool i talked about "Pseudo-Fullscreen.zip"
You will use FSX in a pseudo full screen and won´t see any difference. You can toggle the viewing mode using the key: window button + 11

[jscak67]

jscak67님이 먼저 게시:

komplik님이 먼저 게시:

Mentioned problems are not relevant to DX10. I thing your DX9 is not properly configured on W10 - go to FSX folder and then into _CommonRedist. There is DirectX, Jun2010. Run DXSETUP. It will install DX9 runtime libraries.

But, back to DX10. Fixer is not needed. Steve did some shaders which are for free on AVSIM. Search for shader_release_v3.2.3.zip file. This shaders will solve missing textures problem, but old FS2004 aircraft and sceneries doesnt work properly. For this you have to buy paid Fixer which have many possibilities for fixing problems and adding/controling effect like lights, shadows, bloom, reflections and so on..

Turned DX10Preview off per flaviossa's suggestion (after turning off full screen mode) and textures appeared on 3rd party AC. Used Alt-Enter to switch back to full screen mode and textures remained. Through experimenting with windowed & full-screen modes - found out I need to be in windowed mode to activate FSX menue items but can switch to full screen mode using Alt-Enter once changes have been made.

Will running DirectX, Jun2010 and see if I can stay in full-screen mode when making changes and/or selections in FSX menu.

Thanks for info on DX10 Fixer.

Ran DXSETUP in DirectX, Jun2010 directory. Installed several DX files but FSX-SE menu selections could not be run in full-screen mode. Will continue to use Alt-Enter full screen switch to access FSX menu items since I know that works. Might try Pseudo-Fullscreen.zip at a later date - tired of messing with FSX for today.

[K1ng_jAK]

disable startup screen in the config file, then when it loads the default flight up, try hitting Alt + enter. I make sure to alt + enter to windowed before quitting any flights back to the fsx main screen. THEN you can enable the start up screen as long as you always remember to alt enter to windowed before quitting your flight. works for me anyways.

[RedGameZ]

This_Multiverse님이 먼저 게시:

disable startup screen in the config file.

I don't know which file that is, there are multiple .cfg files. I don't know which one to select :( I'm quite new to FSX, I've played FS2004 a long time though.

[RedGameZ]

I degraded back to Windows 8.1, and everything went back to normal.

[Trademark™]

Verfied the game and it fixed the black window where the aircraft should show up but now proggresive taxi isnt working

[Stew]

Hope they keep patching this for Win10 so we dont have to play about trying to fix it.

[bjornskinl]

The screen becomes black when trying to return to main menu and not much can be done. Pressing Esc will sometime but you back to the flying mode but getting back to main menu results in black screen. When trying to get to task manager the FSX menu apears only for 3 seconds to click.

[jscak67]

bjornskinl님이 먼저 게시:

The screen becomes black when trying to return to main menu and not much can be done. Pressing Esc will sometime but you back to the flying mode but getting back to main menu results in black screen. When trying to get to task manager the FSX menu apears only for 3 seconds to click.

I had similar problems and this is what works for me: After you start FSX-SE push Alt-Enter to change screen from fullscreen to windowed mode. Then you should be able to enter menu. After you make changes in menu you can switch back to fullscreen by using Alt-Enter; however, anytime you want to open main menu you have to return to windowed mode first (Alt-Enter).

[rokerparker]

Steam FSX was working fine on Windows 10 until your changes on Saturday (22/8/15). Now works but planes have bits missing, doors are transparent. Windscreen is opaque. Wheels, propelllors etc are now independent and now cfloat above or alongside the plane. Not to mention the numerous blocky artifacts that mask chunks of the scenery/background!

[aviationislife]

I havent had any problems with it on WIN 10, no black aircraft selection or anything, just make sure that you DO NOT reinstall FSX:SE after you download WIN 10. Other than that if you didnt it should work

[Brulzie]

Let's be honest for a moment. MS released WinX as an OS, they're not bothered if gamers are pulling their hair out over some incompatible games, probably the reason why they sold off the MS FSX anyway... The support from DTG has been patchy at best, but even they don't know what causes so much misery for their FSX gamers.
Some questions are being avoided or ignored, for instance, what is it with dual screen issues, WinX has a bar on each screen which is totally incompatible with FSX SE for those that use their second screen for GPS and such.

WinX is almost ready as an OS, but it's not going to be compatible with every game, neither was the OS before it, or the one before that . . . We'll only get the resolution when they can be bothered to find it, till then, someone somewhere will always be having problems with FSX.

I did get FSX SE working with WinX, but the second monitor was useless. I reverted back to Win7 and the second monitor is now fit for purpose. . . the common factor there is ;)

[DTG_Martin]

pirateinparadise님이 먼저 게시:

Its working great for me Martin. Tell your coworkers that I appreciate all of their work!

I had a coupke of days of headaches, though. Mostly c0000005 errors, but they weren't limited to just FSX. I'm not sure if I fixed it, or MS fixed it. The last thing I did was to find the executables for ASN, Rex4, GSX Couatl engine, and FSX and set them to "Run as administrator" for all users.

Thank you pirateinparadise. I will be sure to let everyone know. I am glad to hear that you got it all working in the end.

- Martin