Windows 10 and FSX

Hello all,

After a long time away I am looking at a new rig and a return back to flying.

I was just wondering if FSX and Windows 10 go together? I've done some reading on various other posts on the forum and it seems people have mixed opinions; works for some and doesn't for others.

I think I still have the original FSX Deluxe boxed edition somewhere but last time I actually did any simming I had a PC that was running XP. I have various other add-ons I was using at the time too but understand if these may perhaps be outdated now as times have moved on.

So in summary, I just wanted to get a feel for what people's experiences are with FSX and Windows 10, or is it too much of a pain?

Thanks.

Hi Johnep,

Thank you for your reply.

I've heard a lot about this Steam.

After doing some research my worry is FSXs architecture is still based on 32bit rather than 64bit. I'm in two minds in which way to head; either FSX or XPlane. I still have loads of FSX add-ons but the performance side of things both with Windows 10 and 32bit worry me slightly. Whereas XPlane 11 will be engineered for 64bit I believe.

Decisions!!!!

I have used FSX and FSX:SE with windows 10 64-bit without any issues.

One key consideration for FSX vs FSX:SE (Steam Edition) is that AES doesn't work with Steam, so it's goodbye to decent jetway animations! However Steam handles memory better so is much less likely to get OOM (out of memory issues). Particularly handy for long flights and/or where you fly over areas with lots of high resolution scenery files & objects.

So for me it was to decide between AES vs OOM.

Of course the elephant in the room here is the new flight sim from dovetail which will be 64 bit, and a stronger competitor to the likes of X-Plane and p3d (being able to have much better graphics and finally remove the shackles of 32 bit memory limitations). But there is no launch date set yet (my own guess is later this year as they launched flight school in 2016).

So it depends how long you want to wait to make up your mind. If you can get FSX to co-exist with boxed you will get the best of both worlds, but this is not for the faint hearted as it requires a lot of setting tweaks to make it work.

I hope this helps!

I'm running both fsx and fsx se on my windows 10 system.

I can report that after getting PC there no issues.

Might need to run the easy fix compatibility tool.