Delta Virtual Airlines Water Cooler - Windows 10 Clean Install of FSX and Related Programs

Delta Virtual Airlines Water Cooler | PC Support | Windows 10 Clean Install of FSX and Related Programs

DVA1523
First Officer, B767-300

Joined on February 13 2004
Century Club

Westbury, NY

138 legs, 252.4 hours
35 legs, 71.9 hours online
80 legs, 143.8 hours ACARS
1 legs, 1.3 hours event

Posted onPost created on September 10 2015 21:26 ET by Joseph Gilbert

I recently installed Windows 10, and right now I'm kind of kicking myself in the butt. However, I want to try and install a clean sweep of FSX and my addons. When trying to uninstall my add ons tonight, everything was going fine until the uninstall feature of windows 10 all of a sudden decided not to work. It began when I tried to uninstall PMDG products. Windows won't find the uninstall location I guess. Also, trying to uninstall FSX itself (even though I know to do the add ons first, but wanted to see if that would work) and it itself is not giving me any prompts. My third party uninstallers are telling me that the path cannot be found. Windows 10 just sits there when I click uninstall, no action. Any pointers? I cannot find any solutions online, and the Microsoft fix it app for this particular issue is not yet compatible with Windows 10.

Thank you for any support!

JL

DVA12719
Senior Captain, DC-8-61
OLP

Joined on July 26 2015
Piranha Club
50 State Club
Century Club
US Capital Club
Piston Prop Professional
DVA Five-Year Anniversary

"Let the FO land"
Boca Raton, FL

153 legs, 258.9 hours
32 legs, 43.1 hours online
145 legs, 252.0 hours ACARS
16 legs, 23.9 hours event
12 legs dispatched, 16.4 hours

Posted onPost created on September 10 2015 23:04 ET by Yisrael Wealcatch

I hate Windows 10. That's why I don't use it

Yisrael Wealcatch (DVA12719)

DVA10236
Captain, B747-400

Joined on October 02 2011
Century Club
DVA Ten-Year Anniversary

LaGrange, GA

107 legs, 433.3 hours
51 legs, 144.5 hours online
105 legs, 429.8 hours ACARS
3 legs, 3.9 hours event

Posted onPost created on September 10 2015 23:49 ET by Jacob Buchanan

W10 works well on my end with all my addons (FS9), and I know a few others have had all their stuff work well on FSX and some people on P3d too.

Jacob Buchanan (DVA10236)

DVA11957
Captain, MD-11
OLP

Joined on February 02 2014
DVA One-Year Anniversary
Double Century Club
Online Double Century Club
Everett Century Club
Events Century Club

"Fly everything, it never hurts."
Centereach, NY

290 legs, 843.0 hours
256 legs, 779.3 hours online
276 legs, 797.1 hours ACARS
117 legs, 260.7 hours event

Posted onPost created on September 11 2015 06:08 ET by Darren Tung

You'll have to manually remove the folders in your hard drive titled FSX, PMDG, etc. Speaking of PMDG, what addons work with Windows 10 in FSX?

Darren Tung

Captain, MD-11

DVA11699
Captain, B777-200
OLP

Joined on July 30 2013
Everett Century Club
Online Century Club
DVA Two-Year Anniversary
Triple Century Club

"Wake Turbulence, Ain't nobody go time for that"
Pittsburgh, PA

312 legs, 663.0 hours
124 legs, 188.0 hours online
289 legs, 601.3 hours ACARS
32 legs, 69.7 hours event

Posted onPost created on September 11 2015 09:39 ET by Domenick Rapone

I strongly recommend that you DONT install Win 10. I've had a sharp increase in CTDs, there is really no FPS increase or decrease. All of my PMDG addons work, Majestic Dash works fine, had a bit of trouble getting VPilot started but I've got it working now. All of my Orbx areas work without flashes. I tried to get Dx10 to work but it brought my FPS from mid 20s to a steady 5 with AA turned off. It worked well with win7. Just my two cents.

Domenick Rapone (DVA11699)

DVA2080
Captain, B777-200

Joined on January 07 2005
Everett 500 Club
Million Mile Club
Millennium Club
DVA Twenty-Year Anniversary

Broomfield, CO

1,316 legs, 3,636.3 hours
2 legs, 3.3 hours online
1,150 legs, 3,279.0 hours ACARS

Posted onPost created on September 11 2015 11:45 ET by John Noe

Windows 10 is fine. If all of your software is on a single drive, you may want to consider doing a clean install of Windows 10 and then reinstalling everything. As a start though, I would recommend you go back to your earlier operating system and uninstall there and then upgrade to Windows 10 again. If you had Windows 7 before, going back is easy. Just look at the recovery tab of Win10

John Noe

Captain, B777-200

Posted onPost created on September 16 2015 18:04 ET by Joseph Gilbert

Thanks everyone. I got FSX working with some of the pointers here. Windows 10 isn't giving me much trouble anymore.

Now, that I did a clean install of PMDG products. I'm back at my Autobrake RTO, braking issue. I forget how I handled this problem before (I did fix it about a year ago). I tried a few steps that I found online but nothing is working this time around.

PROBLEM:

Push back from gate. Set RTO, start taxing. Need to take a turn, so I hit the brakes and move the tiller (rudder pedals :-) ) and then the braking remains to some degree. The only way to get the aircraft to move normally again, without excessive thrust of course, is the reset the autobrake; first to OFF and then back to RTO. Hit the brakes again, and the problem/solution starts all over again. Tried to play with registry edits for Saitek, FSX sensitivities, null zones, calibration. Nothing is working. Again, this problem was fixed before my new installs. But it's back.

Thoughts?

DVA12198
First Officer, B737-800
OLP

Joined on May 28 2014
50 State Club
Online Double Century Club
Everett 250 Club
DVA One-Year Anniversary
Black Pearl Club
Triple Century Club

FL

303 legs, 703.8 hours
267 legs, 584.6 hours online
292 legs, 681.8 hours ACARS
36 legs, 78.6 hours event

Posted onPost created on September 16 2015 21:55 ET by Tom Stallings

Windows 10 had been good for me as well, I even see a FPS increase since the OS is lighter.

As far as your second issue, what device are you using, ie yoke, throttle and rudder petals? I did have an issue with my X-55 at first, but a new driver update corrected the issue with stuck buttons.

Tom Stallings

First Officer, B737-800

Posted onPost created on September 17 2015 01:29 ET by Joseph Gilbert

Saitek Pro Flight Pedals

Plugged into the side of the pro flight yoke

X52 pro flight throttle also plugged into the yoke.

Saitek throttle quadrant (throttle mixture prop) but assigned for speedbrake, landing gear, and flaps

Plugged into the yoke too

Posted onPost created on September 17 2015 20:40 ET by Tom Stallings

Have you installed the new x-52 driver for 10? They are still beta I believe, might be having issues with that.

Tom Stallings

First Officer, B737-800

DVA12764
First Officer, B757-200

Joined on September 17 2015

Swindon, United Kingdom

13 legs, 14.3 hours
12 legs, 13.1 hours ACARS

Posted onPost created on October 03 2015 02:51 ET by Vern Moorhouse

I just upgraded my main PC to Win 10 but cannot get FSX to run beyond the front end UI, just locks up. Have tried various tips and tricks gleaned from around the net but no joy. Wondering whether the Steam version has better compatibility but posts I have seen from Dovetail indicate it's not 100% guaranteed.

In the meantime and very fortunately I have been able to persuade FS9 to run albeit in windowed mode and it's actually very smooth.

However at this stage seriously thinking about rolling back to Win 7 but it's still only a stopgap measure when in a few years time the main PC is replaced and the only option is a new box with Win 10 pre-installed.

Vern Moorhouse

First Officer, B757-200

DVA10323
Chief Pilot, B727-200
OLP

Joined on November 26 2011
50 State Club
Globetrotter
Tin Dispatcher
Tri-Jet Triumph
US Capital Club
Online Seven Century Club
US Mountaineer Club
DVA Ten-Year Anniversary
Flying Colonel
Everett Millennium Club

"GPS, we don't need no GPS"
Gulfport, MS

1,585 legs, 1,452.3 hours
737 legs, 681.1 hours online
1,577 legs, 1,444.8 hours ACARS
41 legs, 58.7 hours event
327 legs dispatched, 343.5 hours

Posted onPost created on October 03 2015 07:39 ET by Kevin Lundy

Vern Moorhouse wrote:

Wondering whether the Steam version has better compatibility.

I have Windows 10 and I am running FSX:SE with no problems. I upgraded from Windows 8.1 and would do it again in a second. I did have a video driver issue but I knew that going in. I installed the driver updated and everything works without any issues.

Kevin Lundy

Chief Pilot, B727-200

DVA12764
First Officer, B757-200

Joined on September 17 2015

Swindon, United Kingdom

13 legs, 14.3 hours
12 legs, 13.1 hours ACARS

Posted onPost created on October 03 2015 13:05 ET by Vern Moorhouse

I think I'll give it a try Kev, have uninstalled the old boxed version and add-ons ready, even if it doesn't work in Win 10 at least if I roll back to 7 I'll have the latest version rather than the Box + Service Packs.

Vern Moorhouse

First Officer, B757-200

DVA12764
First Officer, B757-200

Joined on September 17 2015

Swindon, United Kingdom

13 legs, 14.3 hours
12 legs, 13.1 hours ACARS

Posted onPost created on October 03 2015 17:04 ET by Vern Moorhouse

Update - after some trial and error, have got FSX SE to run.

However a couple of issues which DVA possibly need to look at. The version of FSUIPC bundled with your downloads is out of date and caused FSX SE to generate a warning message on loading - select "Yes" and the load aborted, "No" and FSX loads but none of the third party aircraft (in this case the 757's) appear in the menu. Solution - downloaded the latest version from Pete Dowson's site.

In FSX SE none of the external textures are showing on your aircraft in the menu and in game, at least on the 757. Off to grab a different one from FS.com or re-install my Just Flight ones, but would appreciate if there is a solution so I can fly the officially approved 757 (which is very nice otherwise).

Vern Moorhouse

First Officer, B757-200

DVA12764
First Officer, B757-200

Joined on September 17 2015

Swindon, United Kingdom

13 legs, 14.3 hours
12 legs, 13.1 hours ACARS

Posted onPost created on October 04 2015 16:09 ET by Vern Moorhouse

Update:

The missing textures obviously due to running FSX SE in DX10 preview mode. Tried unticking this but just crashed and not at all reliable.

Have now rolled back to Win 7 which is where it will stay until they prise this PC from my cold dead hand. FSX SE "returned" for a refund and will reinstall boxed FSX during the next couple of days.

Vern Moorhouse

First Officer, B757-200

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