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Finally after a long time I now have FSX maxed out and running great on Windows 8 64 bit.
The only bad news I had to purchase the FSX Gold edition as the standard edition will not work due to compatibility issues
I upgraded my system and now run a ASUS P8Z68 V series mother board a GTX 550 TI video card a I 7 Quadcore sandy bridge CPU and 16 gigs of ram. I can add a total of 32 gig on this mother board and can use three video cards .
I could over clock this but have no desire to do so. 8-)

The penalty will be solitary confinement with a Pentium P5 MMX 66MHz Desktop Computer, a 2MB PCI S3 Virge graphics card, and 256MB of system memory.

...and weak porridge and water twice a day..

Paul...

You mentioned Standard addition won't work. I'm running deluxe with Acceleration installed. What are everyone's thought's on whether mine will work?

I love Windows 7 but it is getting a little slow on my system (boot up takes almost 5-6 minutes) and I guess it's time for an upgrade.

Right now that is the only thing holding me back. If my FSX won't work on Windows 8 then I'll stick with Windows 7 and get another system with Windows 8 already installed on it.


My current system is as follows:

HP Pavillion dv7 (17.3")

Windows 7 Home Premium 64-bit\Dual run Linux Ubuntu 12.10

1T hard drive

8 Gigs of installed Ram

Intel corei7-3610QM CPU @ 2.30 GHz.

...and of Course FSX Deluxe with Acceleration installed  8-)

Any response will be greatly appreciated.

i have fsx deluxe and acceleration running on windows 8 pro 64bit

I wish I could tell you for sure but all I know is that the standard version will not work.
The gold addition comes with acceleration. There are two separate disks.
I have no way of knowing if the FSX version in Gold is any different than the standard edition. The compatibility checker has no way of distinguishing between the two. About all you can do is to try it and see. 8-) 

i have fsx deluxe and acceleration running on windows 8 pro 64bit

Do you notice any problems that wouldn't be there in Windows 7? Any black screens or anything like that?

Before I upgraded my computer I had a (old and comparably weak) Athlon 64 X2 5000+ @2.6 GHz.

i have not had any problems with fsx that would not be there in windows 7 but i would try to stick with what you have as windows 8 as a system isn't great.

nice plane