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FS2000 and Windows Vista

Postby athro » Thu Aug 23, 2007 4:04 pm

Having been an avid fan of FS2000 and having bought a brand new Laptop with Windows vista - I now find I cannot run FS2000 on it !!!
It all installs ok - I apply the patch etc the music loads - the concorde load screen then just sits there and nothing else happens!
Any help to fix this will be greatfully recieved
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Re: FS2000 and Windows Vista

Postby colsie123 » Fri Aug 24, 2007 6:06 pm

I dont get things like that why does less advanced software allways never work in more advanced software. Makes me angry. Oh yeah sorry if this didnt help.
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Re: FS2000 and Windows Vista

Postby Felix/FFDS » Fri Aug 24, 2007 10:36 pm

Athro - you may be faced with the inevitable. ...  a 7+ year old program will not work anymore with the latest software.

Under VISTA, can you run in Windows XP emulation mode?
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Re: FS2000 and Windows Vista

Postby athro » Sat Aug 25, 2007 11:44 am

Thanks - Tried just about everything but no joy - Have spent years building up an extensive library of Aircraft for Fs2000 - now have to do the same for FS2004 - Some of the fs2000 actually transfers nicely into fs2004 though!
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Re: FS2000 and Windows Vista

Postby simonmd » Sat Aug 25, 2007 8:45 pm

One question, WHY?????!!!

I understand you may be proud of your FS2k collection but you can still only use one at once. If you've got FS9, you've got AI aircraft and animated ground objects in some freeware scenerys, it's another world!
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Re: FS2000 and Windows Vista

Postby Wingo » Wed Aug 29, 2007 4:02 am

what version of DX did fs2000 use? was it DX8? If so Vista and DX10, as far as I understand, have little to no backwards compatability with anything under DX9. That might be the reason
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Re: FS2000 and Windows Vista

Postby Wing Nut » Mon Mar 10, 2008 6:25 pm

If you're running dual core processors try, this:

Do a Ctrl/Alt/Del to bring up the task manager,

Right click on the FS Process (FS2000.exe)

Go down to 'Set Affinity'

Uncheck one of the processors (doesn't matter which).

See if this helps.  I don't know if Vista will let you set the compatibility like XP, but if you can, do this:

Right Click on the shortcut for FS2000

Click the 'Compatibility' Tab

Set the compatibility to FS98


I hope this helps...
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Re: FS2000 and Windows Vista

Postby Wii » Tue Mar 11, 2008 2:55 pm

With a new laptop you should get AT LEAST FS2002 if not FS2004...I don't even think 2002 runs on vista let alone 2000
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Re: FS2000 and Windows Vista

Postby Mazza » Fri Mar 14, 2008 11:02 pm

Why would have 2000 when you can get fsx and 9 for around $40-90 :-? :-? :-?
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Re: FS2000 and Windows Vista

Postby Wii » Sat Mar 15, 2008 11:07 am

Why would have 2000 when you can get fsx and 9 for around $40-90 :-? :-? :-?

FS9 - $5
FSX - $20
eBay ;D
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Re: FS2000 and Windows Vista

Postby Anxyous » Thu May 22, 2008 3:48 am

If you have a laptop that can run Vista, you should be able to run FS9 or FSX at decent frames.
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Re: FS2000 and Windows Vista

Postby ozzy72 » Thu May 22, 2008 11:34 am

A lot of older games can be run using DOS Box, just google it. Great piece of freeware ;)
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Re: FS2000 and Windows Vista

Postby BrandonF » Sat Jun 19, 2010 8:13 pm

I was able to install FS200 and run it on Win 7. Workiks just fine but... The joystick doesn't work. I've tried calibrating and a few things, but can't get it to work.
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