Hey Flyer and welcome to the club!
It would be good to know some details regarding your rig and OS first. But, to start with, here is a thread of known hiccups and you can compare / cross check what you have done so far. Most of it should work with WIN 7 and similar with WIN 8.
http://www.subsim.com/radioroom/showthread.php?t=212323
As I said, we need details
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