Windows 10 and Flight Simulators
I have used Flight simulators for many
years and with many operating systems. We all slowly had to change as Windows
bribed, coerced or even blackmailed us into changing as the years went by ( 95,
98, ME, XP, Vista ,
7 and 8 ) before 10 came along.
All had issues when it came to simulators,
admittedly some were never designed for systems that weren’t around when the
product was released but patches were soon available to keep your favorites
going, and pretty well under control up to window XP.
And so we came to Windows 10, hailed as the
ultimate, version (don’t miss the opportunity to change while it’s free) and it
is to be here forever, we soon found
that just like some of it’s luckless predecessors it did have faults.
The very latest and I believe the last
Microsoft Fight Simulator was FS x also named 10 and it was the most expensive
which required a large amount of disk space and needed a more powerful computer
so I changed going up quite a lot in specification. The simulator did need a lot of tweaking but
did run.
However after the last few update or
upgrades it will not work at all, uninstall and start again results in the
start up wizard failing before it even gets to actually installing the program,
and a similar fate has befallen most of the other simulators I have when trying
to run in Widows 10.
Combat Flight simulator Europe WW2 a very
old one loads and opens but you can’t control the plane with the joystick,
Combat 3 a later version installs but won’t open at all , FS 2004 installs and
won’t open, but FS 2002 which incorporates 2000 and is quite ancient works
perfectly !
My query is with the Windows policy, do
they intend planned obsolescence of Microsoft products because it so they are
doing a good job, but does anyone designing any Windows operating systems
actually try to run older programs to see if they work or do they just wait
until the complaints and cries for help arrive and then try and fudge something
together.
I have tried compatibility settings when
available and running as administrator, also painstakingly following cures
posted on the net which frequently become very involved but mostly refer to
files either to change or delete which I do not have in my computer so I can’t
complete the task.
Some
of MS support was tried which in the case of getting FS x to load involves
changing the file name, that did not work, or installing a windows package only
to be told I did not have enough storage space when I tried, ( 1 TB 80% unused,
how much do they want ? ). Close
certain files which I could not locate even after following the detailed instructions on how to
find them, but I did stop at the suggestion of creating a new account as I could
see real trouble ahead in that direction and finally decided not to download
.NET FRAMEWORK because I had no idea what it was designed to do.
So a bit of a moan I am afraid but there
must be hundreds if not thousands of us in the same situation.
My own solution. ? Drag out my old computer which runs XP and re
load all the simulators into it, don’t plug into the WWW and disable the AV and
firewall if it still works that way at least I shall be able to get some
results
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