There's a response to my graphics enquiry in the Hardware forum from F35Lightning, reads "Don't worry about FSX not working on Win8. I currently use Win8 Release Preview as my main OS and FSX runs just fine."

RAMPRAT wrote on Oct 21^st, 2012 at 11:56am:


Installed FS9 again after impossible install problems

Hi.
In november I upgraded from XP to Win8. For a week and a half now I have tried to install FSX De Luxe. The install halts at the end. I have reinstalled both Win8 (clean, as well as keeping files) several times to no avail. And yet it ran well, and installed well, in WinXP.

I have searched the forums. I have found one person with the same issue and same error messages, but he ran Win7. After he reinstalled Win7, FSX installed. Not in my case though.

I have since installed the demo version of FSX: Installs and runs OK, but I can't tweek it into accepting SP1 and SP2. Now I have given up most hopes for Win8 and FSX, since there is no help to get from Microsoft, they don't hardly answer.

So installed FS9 again. With a lower resolution it runs well. But I am disappointed that the last (and very nice) OS Win8 can't cope even with installing the Microsoft program FSX.