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Delta Virtual Airlines Water Cooler | PC Support | Windows 7 XP mode

DVA6936
First Officer, B777-200

Joined on January 22 2009
Online Century Club
50 State Club
Double Century Club

Western United States

217 legs, 732.8 hours
153 legs, 560.3 hours online
200 legs, 678.8 hours ACARS
1 legs, 3.4 hours event

Posted onPost created on March 01 2010 19:02 ET by Tyson Dohrer

Im thinking about trying to run fsx in windows 7 xp mode wondering if anyone else is doing this and if it works?

Tyson Dohrer

First Officer, B777-200

DVA6626
Captain, MD-11

Joined on November 07 2008
Six Century Club
Million Mile Club

""PROFILE CLIMB""
Las Vegas, NV

753 legs, 2,288.9 hours
28 legs, 55.2 hours online
747 legs, 2,255.7 hours ACARS

Posted onPost created on March 01 2010 19:21 ET by Michael Pare

I haven't figured it out yet.

Michael Pare (DVA6626)

DVA4295
Captain, B767-300

Joined on April 05 2007
Online Century Club
Double Century Club

Stratford, CT USA

212 legs, 397.9 hours
194 legs, 368.4 hours online
190 legs, 356.7 hours ACARS
3 legs, 6.7 hours event
19 legs dispatched, 10.0 hours

Posted onPost created on March 01 2010 19:34 ET by John Alusik

It is probably a bad idea because when you run XP in windows 7 so you will literally be running a program in a program which is likely going cause poor performance.

John Alusik

Captain, B767-300

DVA6198
Captain, B737-800

Joined on July 23 2008
50 State Club
US Coastal Club
Online Triple Century Club
DVA Fifteen-Year Anniversary
Quatercentenary Club
US Mountaineer Club
Everett 250 Club

Virginia Beach, VA

466 legs, 529.3 hours
396 legs, 439.3 hours online
465 legs, 528.2 hours ACARS
4 legs, 7.6 hours event

Posted onPost created on March 02 2010 06:54 ET by Jeremy Jeffreys

Actually I run FS9 in XP SP3 compatibility mode with no issues. It is just a check box give it a try and see what happens.

Jeremy Jeffreys (DVA6198)

Posted onPost created on March 02 2010 14:09 ET by John Alusik

My post is related to running FSx through the XP virtual machine.

John Alusik

Captain, B767-300

DVA043
Senior Captain, MD-11
OLP

Joined on June 10 2001
Event Half Century Club
Online Double Century Club
50 State Club
DVA Twenty-Year Anniversary
Everett 1500 Club
Bi-Millennium Club
Four Million Mile Club

"Col. Panic"
Marietta, GA

2,324 legs, 9,352.8 hours
240 legs, 553.9 hours online
1,982 legs, 8,145.9 hours ACARS
75 legs, 196.3 hours event
2,360 legs, 9,487.7 hours total
91 legs dispatched, 66.4 hours

Posted onPost created on March 02 2010 14:19 ET by Luke Kolin

John++. You do NOT want to run any flightsim stuff via the VM.

Cheers!

Luke Kolin

Senior Captain, MD-11

DVA894
Captain, B757-200

Joined on September 27 2002

Round Lake, IL USA

24 legs, 55.6 hours
8 legs, 22.1 hours online
4 legs, 10.5 hours ACARS

Posted onPost created on March 02 2010 17:26 ET by Bill Bouxsein

I will second that Luke. Definitely do not run FS or any other gaming or high demand software application through XP mode in Win7. XP runs in a Virtual Machine process on Win7. Basically you are running XP in a window in Win7. I do not believe that you will be able to get any hardware acceleration and can look forward to a frame rate of about 1. Running in compatibility mode is something else entirely. Compatibility mode can be used to change settings such as the color depth, resolution etc. for older programs to run on a newer operating system.

Bill Bouxsein (DVA894)

Posted onPost created on March 03 2010 07:29 ET by Jeremy Jeffreys

Yes I am sorry John I misunderstood your question, DO NOT USE THE VM, you can check the box for compatibility in the UAC but do not run the VM as the others have said.

Jeremy Jeffreys (DVA6198)

DVA1580
Captain, B767-300
COMM

Joined on March 16 2004
Century Club
Everett Century Club
DVA Ten-Year Anniversary

Caryville, TN USA

199 legs, 476.5 hours
70 legs, 168.4 hours online
84 legs, 232.9 hours ACARS
4 legs, 10.4 hours event
27 legs dispatched, 71.5 hours

Posted onPost created on March 03 2010 10:32 ET by Scott Breuer

I know this sounds dumb, but why would you want to? I just installed 7 on this lap top and have dabbled with FS but nothing serious yet. It seems to run better on this lap top with 7 than it did with XP so far. I have been out of the loop because of work so if I have missed a bunch on this Im sorry.

Scott Breuer (DVA1580)

DVA7209
Captain, B767-300

Joined on April 11 2009

Seattle, WA USA

36 legs, 120.9 hours
1 legs, 1.8 hours online
34 legs, 113.7 hours ACARS

Posted onPost created on March 03 2010 18:39 ET by John Byre

I believe DirectX 9 and up doesn't work on virtual machines anyway. So you wouldn't even be able to load it up.

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