I already posted a question on this subject but I did not add enough information in my initial post. Several years ago I bought the newest edition of Flight Simulator X which was the Gold Edition. When I bought the game I was running Winows 8 which I upgraded to 8.1 and I recall the game working fine.
The end of July I upgraded to Windows 10. Several days ago I decided to play the simulator and when I attempted to run it I immediately got an error message telling me I was running the wrong version of DirectX and I needed to download and install DirectX 9 for the game to work. With Windows 10 I am running DirectX 11.5. I fear that downloading and installing DirectX 9 will cause problems and I am hesitant to even attempt it.
I did some research regarding FSX Gold Edition compatibility with Windows 10. According to my research FSX Gold Edition will work with Windows 10 but only provide I had not also installed the acceleration option (which I had done). I figured maybe I could reinstall the game and leave out the acceleration option. Guess not. I load the first CD and the drive does nothing but continue to run full blast. I do not get any of the installation screens. I tried opening the CD and selected setup.exe and did get a screen asking me if I wanted to install the game. I selected this option and got a dark screen with a small windo indication applications were being deleted (??) and got 4 or 5 bars indicating something was happening but never got any farther. The DC drive just continued spinning like it was going to launch out of the computer.
I'm guessing FSX Gold Edition does not play well with Windows 10. Has anyone else had a situation similar to this and if so did you get anything to work and if so, how?
Apr 03, 2015 'C:Users(User)AppDataRoamingFlight One SoftwareGEXGEXInterface.exe Basically you've installed GEX now and the textures and you now need to run the interface which will back up your FSX textures then copy the new ones into the sim.