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Is this normal?

Postby cavity » Sat Jan 15, 2005 10:07 am

When I run DXdiag and look at the Network page, it lists 2 flight simulators.  One just says Flight Simulator, the one below it says MS flight Simulator 2004.  Whats interesting is that both say it is version 9 and they have the same registry entry.  I dont have any other flight sim on this computer.  Can anyone please check what yours says and let me know.  Thankyou, Todd
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Re: Is this normal?

Postby chomp_rock » Sat Jan 15, 2005 10:17 am

Yes, this is perfectly normal, no worries :)
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Re: Is this normal?

Postby cavity » Sat Jan 15, 2005 10:30 am

Thankyou for the quick reply.  Mind is now at ease.  Todd
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Re: Is this normal?

Postby MattNW » Sat Jan 15, 2005 8:39 pm

Interesting. If you will look inside your Fs9 folder you will see three flight sim programs. There's Fs9.exe FS2000.exe and FS2002.exe. I haven't the slightest idea why FS 2004 needs the other two but they are there. Clicking on them doesn't do anything except for the Fs9.exe which starts FS 2004.
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Re: Is this normal?

Postby Craig. » Sat Jan 15, 2005 8:41 pm

Its because flight sim is technically just an update of the previous version, rather than something completly new. I believe.
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Re: Is this normal?

Postby Joe_D » Sun Jan 16, 2005 3:45 am

Interesting. If you will look inside your Fs9 folder you will see three flight sim programs. There's Fs9.exe FS2000.exe and FS2002.exe. I haven't the slightest idea why FS 2004 needs the other two but they are there. Clicking on them doesn't do anything except for the Fs9.exe which starts FS 2004.


The other exe's are mainly there for compatability with install programs (originally written for older FS versions) that will look for them to know where to install.
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