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Delta Virtual Airlines Water Cooler | PC Support | Windows 8

DVA7988
Captain, MD-88

Joined on November 21 2009
DVA Five-Year Anniversary
Century Club

Irving, TX

120 legs, 175.8 hours
110 legs, 165.6 hours ACARS

Posted onPost created on July 28 2013 10:54 ET by Daniel Bednar

Has anyone had any luck running FSX or FS2004 on Windows 8? I'm considering purchasing a new PC with Windows 8, but I've heard mixed reviews about how FS performs on it.

Daniel Bednar

Captain, MD-88

DVA10131
Captain, MD-11
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Joined on August 29 2011
50 State Club
Century Club
Online Century Club

"If it's not Boeing, I'm not going"
Charleston, SC USA

136 legs, 473.3 hours
123 legs, 428.0 hours online
130 legs, 451.7 hours ACARS
11 legs, 38.5 hours event

Posted onPost created on July 28 2013 18:02 ET by Robbie Johnson

I've heard some bad things about compatibility with Win 8, especially with the 8.1 preview. I would recommend going with Win 7. I would also recommend either building it yourself or having someone build it for you (I build and ship if you are interested), by doing that you end up with a much better performing system with higher quality parts and typically save a decent amount of money. If you shoot me an email with your budget and uses outside of FS I can start getting a parts list together for you.

Robbie Johnson (DVA10131)

DVA7171
Senior Captain, B757-200

Joined on March 14 2009
50 State Club
Event Half Century Club
Everett 250 Club
Online Quintuple Century Club
Seven Century Club
Black Pearl Club
DVA Fifteen-Year Anniversary

"Walk away from all your landings..."
Sebring, FL

725 legs, 1,676.2 hours
573 legs, 1,401.2 hours online
716 legs, 1,660.6 hours ACARS
56 legs, 127.6 hours event

Posted onPost created on July 29 2013 19:24 ET by Sergio Lopez

I am running FSX in Windows 8.

Some problems I am having:

DVA ACARS is not compatible, so the text boxes are all over the place. For example:

https://lh5.googleusercontent.com/-J87kiPnDHro/Ufb4A_ZgNCI/AAAAAAAAABo/SVre2C9qkfQ/w1524-h857-no/DVA+ACARS.png

If I click anything on ACARS while the program is on top of FSX, then FSX will automatically crash.
DVA ACARS is the not the only program with problems with text fields and buttons. Everything created before 8 has the same problem.

There might be other stuff but I have yet to find it.

Here are my specs:

Windows 8 64-bit OS, x64-based processor
Intel Core i7-3537U @ 2.00GHz
12 GB RAM DDR3L
SATA (5400 rpm) and SSD (Solid State Drive) 1TB
NVIDIA GeForce GT 735M 2GB Dedicated

*It is touch screen.

I have also been trying to find a solution to the boxes issue, but have found nothing so far.

Sergio Lopez (DVA7171)

DVA11673
First Officer, B737-800

Joined on August 03 2013

Madison, WI

22 legs, 37.5 hours
20 legs, 35.0 hours ACARS

Posted onPost created on August 25 2013 18:37 ET by John Carlson

I've had good luck with Windows 8 so far. I only made two minor changes, and that is to run ACARS in Windows 7 compatibility mode and FSX in Windows XP Service pack 3 compatibility mode. Once I made those changes, the frustrating cycle of crashes has stopped... I have not seen the issue with the boxes that Sergio reports, although that does not surprise me either.

My specs:

Windows 8 (64-bit)
Core i7-4770k
12 GB RAM
256 GB SSD
Nvidia 760 GTX (2GB)

John Carlson

First Officer, B737-800

Posted onPost created on August 27 2013 19:20 ET by Sergio Lopez

I am trying to fix the boxes issues. I think it might be that I have a touch screen.

Sergio Lopez (DVA7171)

Posted onPost created on August 28 2013 09:34 ET by Sergio Lopez

Spent about 2 hours last night with VAIO support. I got the problem fixed.

It was the overall Windows font size which was set to medium (default) instead of small. Even the tech did not know that was even possible.

Well, DVA ACARS runs perfectly now and so do every other program that had the same problem, like Skype.

Sergio Lopez (DVA7171)

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