FS9 and Windows 7 ?
 

I would like to know what your experiences are with running FS9 and addons under Windows 7. Please say wether you are using a 32 or 64 Bit version, and what Windows it is (home, ultimate, pro).

My decision to get a new system is riping, and it will be a dual core and Windows 7, obviously. But I get very diverse feedback on the web whether FS9 works under Win7 or not. For some it seems to work flawlessly, for some it doesn't work at all, and some say it works with 32 but not 64 Bit Windows 7.

I would be screwed if I cannot use my heavily modded FS9 anymore. No interest to buy all that stuff again for FSX - which is also reported to have mixed outcomes of cooperation with Windows 7.

Home Premium, 64x, on an AMD/ATI system. Absolutely 0 compatibility issues - running a rather complex setup here myself (with a lot of add-ons and external software for things like weather and ATC), and the game is rock-solid. Installing was not a problem and I've never really had crashes. Because Win 7 is good at dividing multi-core processor loads, I actually have a better experience with it, since on XP my game would sometimes get stuttery and force me to change CPU affinity to just one core, whereas here it never has issues dividing the workload. The result is a smooth experience.

You're definitely not screwed. I had a similar worry, but my migration went well. I'm also sticking to FS9 over FSX because yes, there is no way I'm buying that $700 worth of software again.

I hope I belong to the majority of the lucky ones. However, you can find many reports of people having troubles (also in case of W7 and FSX). A risk remains, I think.

Well, there's always risk in anything I guess, that's life for you :O:

More often than not I think it's something like a bad combination of hardware, drivers, and luck. But again, I've had no issues with any of it nor had to do anything special to get it all running. Couple of hundred of flying hours later, still no major problems - an occasional crash does happen but very, very rarely (maybe once in 15-20 hours). Also occasionally but rarely FSUIPC has a fit (and freezes up one of the related apps), but I can normally restart/get it back without having to reset the game at all.

In 7-10 days I will find out. But with that rig I expect FS9 to race like a rabbit. :D If windows 7 likes it, of course.

Else there will come a second internal HD with XP on it.