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/yabb Old Flight Simulator Series >> FS 2000 >> FS2000 and Windows Vista /yabb?num=1187903072 Message started by athro on Aug 23^rd, 2007 at 5:04pm

Title: FS2000 and Windows Vista
Post by athro on Aug 23^rd, 2007 at 5:04pm

Having been an avid fan of FS2000 and having bought a brand new Laptop with Windows vista - I now find I cannot run FS2000 on it !!!
It all installs ok - I apply the patch etc the music loads - the concorde load screen then just sits there and nothing else happens!
Any help to fix this will be greatfully recieved
Kind regards

Title: Re: FS2000 and Windows Vista
Post by colsie123 on Aug 24^th, 2007 at 7:06pm

I dont get things like that why does less advanced software allways never work in more advanced software. Makes me angry. Oh yeah sorry if this didnt help.

Title: Re: FS2000 and Windows Vista
Post by Felix/FFDS on Aug 24^th, 2007 at 11:36pm

Athro - you may be faced with the inevitable. ... a 7+ year old program will not work anymore with the latest software.

Under VISTA, can you run in Windows XP emulation mode?

Title: Re: FS2000 and Windows Vista
Post by athro on Aug 25^th, 2007 at 12:44pm

Thanks - Tried just about everything but no joy - Have spent years building up an extensive library of Aircraft for Fs2000 - now have to do the same for FS2004 - Some of the fs2000 actually transfers nicely into fs2004 though!
Regards

Title: Re: FS2000 and Windows Vista
Post by simonmd on Aug 25^th, 2007 at 9:45pm

One question, WHY?????!!!

I understand you may be proud of your FS2k collection but you can still only use one at once. If you've got FS9, you've got AI aircraft and animated ground objects in some freeware scenerys, it's another world!

Title: Re: FS2000 and Windows Vista
Post by Wingo on Aug 29^th, 2007 at 5:02am

what version of DX did fs2000 use? was it DX8? If so Vista and DX10, as far as I understand, have little to no backwards compatability with anything under DX9. That might be the reason

Title: Re: FS2000 and Windows Vista
Post by Kevin on Mar 10^th, 2008 at 7:25pm

If you're running dual core processors try, this:

Do a Ctrl/Alt/Del to bring up the task manager,

Right click on the FS Process (FS2000.exe)

Go down to 'Set Affinity'

Uncheck one of the processors (doesn't matter which).

See if this helps. I don't know if Vista will let you set the compatibility like XP, but if you can, do this:

Right Click on the shortcut for FS2000

Click the 'Compatibility' Tab

Set the compatibility to FS98

I hope this helps...

Title: Re: FS2000 and Windows Vista
Post by Wii on Mar 11^th, 2008 at 3:55pm

With a new laptop you should get AT LEAST FS2002 if not FS2004...I don't even think 2002 runs on vista let alone 2000

Title: Re: FS2000 and Windows Vista
Post by YMMB on Mar 15^th, 2008 at 12:02am

Why would have 2000 when you can get fsx and 9 for around $40-90 :-? :-? :-?

Title: Re: FS2000 and Windows Vista
Post by Wii on Mar 15^th, 2008 at 12:07pm

Mazza wrote on Mar 15^th, 2008 at 12:02am:

Why would have 2000 when you can get fsx and 9 for around $40-90 :-? :-? :-?

FS9 - $5
FSX - $20
eBay ;D

Title: Re: FS2000 and Windows Vista
Post by Anxyous on May 22^nd, 2008 at 4:48am

If you have a laptop that can run Vista, you should be able to run FS9 or FSX at decent frames.

Title: Re: FS2000 and Windows Vista
Post by ozzy72 on May 22^nd, 2008 at 12:34pm

A lot of older games can be run using DOS Box, just google it. Great piece of freeware ;)

Title: Re: FS2000 and Windows Vista
Post by Hughes-MDflyer4 on Jun 19^th, 2010 at 9:13pm

I was able to install FS200 and run it on Win 7. Workiks just fine but... The joystick doesn't work. I've tried calibrating and a few things, but can't get it to work.