Running Microsoft Flight Simulator Deluxe Edition on Windows 10

Hi Kevin,

What you are seeing there in:  "C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Games\Microsoft Flight Simulator X\fsx.exe (.FSSAVE)", is probably an old install, which is in FSX's default location, but with a .FSSAVE indicating that parts of your FSX have been saved/transitioned when you changed over to Win10.  Any of these files will probably not be useful anymore.

It's likely that you now have bits and pieces of FSX all over the place (and clearly, your Repair attempt did not yield any positive results), so you need to get rid of every instance of FSX before you can do a fresh install of FSX.   Firstly, when you go into your Uninstall programs (i.e. the long list of installed programs that can be deleted from there), does FSX or FSX Service Packs .... show up?   If it does, then uninstall from here.   Secondly, go to your Cortana Search box on desktop and type in  FSX, and see if any entries come up for that.   FSX should be removed from a number of places, including your Registry, so hopefully your search will throw up some of those spurious entries.   If you use a program like Advanced System Care (free and paid), then that has a provision of a 'powerful uninstall', where it does a pretty good job of cleaning out remnant files.

Once FSX has been removed completely, reboot your computer before doing a fresh install.   Also, hopefully the install will go through smoothly as FSX has been known to give issues when installing or activating in Win10.   But that's another matter.   If the install goes through correctly (and I would suggest installing FSX to the root of your drive, e.g. C:\FSX), then check the location (whether the drive or in Program Files (x86)) to see if FSX has actually installed.   At this stage, I wouldn't even consider installing Service Packs 1 and 2, as it's imperative to have FSX functioning properly first.

See how you go.

Chris

Hi Kevin,

Thank you for writing to Microsoft Community Forums.

I understand your query related to using Microsoft Flight Simulator game on Windows 10.

Based on my research, the game is compatible till Windows 7 and that is the reason you are unable to launch the game on Windows 10. You can check the system requirements from the article Flight Simulator X: Minimum System Requirements

As you have already tried using compatibility settings to run the game, one of the things that I suggest you to try re-installing the game in compatibility mode and see if the game launches. Refer the article Make older apps or programs compatible with Windows 10

However, assuming that you may be interested in Flight simulator, you can also follow: Microsoft Flight Simulator

Let us know how it goes.

Regards,

Prakhar Khare

Microsoft Community – Moderator

Hi,

in case useful check at my flightsim site at http://flightlessons.6te.net/tutwork.htm#reinsta

Main thinks in case of a reinstall of FSX: look and save for the freeware, special files, etc. you may have / just clean your DVDs before reinstall; as silly as it may sound, that's a main cause of install failure :)  / be prepared to some trouble when registrating the Acceleration pack (check at the adress above)

G. Guichard

"Right clicking current desktop icon for FS does not give compatibility options but will reload and see."

Did you select Properties from the drop down list ?

• If your game is from Steam, you would need to locate the games .exe in the games install folder in Steam Apps, as

Steam use a 'web document' instead of a shortcut made from the games .exe file, and this has no Compatibility tab.

You can delete the Steam shortcut and create a new one from the games .exe if you like (R/click and select Send To > Desktop)

• If your game is disc based read the thread below. This thread is in relation to Flight Sim 2004, but may apply to yours as well.

I have full details of a problem MS created for disc base games that use SafeDisk copy protection (all old MS games) in my post.

When attempting to start Flight Simulator 2004, I receive a warning - Microsoft Community

Hi 

Thanks for prompt response.  

Right clicking current desktop icon for FS does not give compatibility options but will reload and see.

Regards

Kevin