m0dpsych Posted October 26, 2011 Share Posted October 26, 2011 Hi All, I was just looking at some of the freeware and wanted to know if there are any compatability issues with them running in FSX with Win7 64 bit. Regards Gary Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JanTenner Posted October 26, 2011 Share Posted October 26, 2011 Hi Gary. Which freeware do you mean? You are talking about Orbx' freeware? There should be no problem. I have all the free airports and havent got any problems. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
m0dpsych Posted October 26, 2011 Author Share Posted October 26, 2011 Hi Jan, Sorry, I did mean Orbx freeware. If it is half as good as there payware I will be happy. Gary Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
brett2634 Posted October 26, 2011 Share Posted October 26, 2011 Hi Jan, Sorry, I did mean Orbx freeware. If it is half as good as there payware I will be happy. Gary I think you will be way more than happy and shouldn't have any problems with win7 64 bit. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
spud Posted October 26, 2011 Share Posted October 26, 2011 Gary, are you talking about just downloading the freeware ORBX airports and running them in default FSX? If this is the case you may have issues like field elevation anomalies etc. as the freeware airports are designed to run within the ORBX scenery area where the field is located and was designed with that mesh etc. Only way to find out is try it and see but if it does have problem the only solution is to by the ORBX area scenery. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JanTenner Posted October 26, 2011 Share Posted October 26, 2011 Its correct what Spud said. If you want to try out some NA-stuff you should download the demo-scenery. An airfield in high quality is incuded (Bowerman). There all should work fine Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dean (PC Aviator) Posted October 27, 2011 Share Posted October 27, 2011 Good info above, but in addition, because of permissions settings in Windows 7 64-bit, it's best to have FSX installed in its own folder outside of the default "Program Files" (e.g. install FSX to C:\FSX or K:\FSX etc etc) to avoid some of the permissions issues inherent in Win7 64-bit. This saves you having to remove User Account Controls or set specific permissions for files. Not all add-ons are affected by this but some are, so its best to reduce any potential right from the start and put FSX in its own (different) folder from the location offered by default with the installer. Also, best to get the region packs for each freeware Orbx offering too, so you see everything available in the freeware, and it all looks as it should. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BionicCrab Posted October 27, 2011 Share Posted October 27, 2011 Permission Issues in win64?. I would squarely lay the blame on the developer not making it Windows compatible in the first place. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bassman Posted October 27, 2011 Share Posted October 27, 2011 It is windows compatible, you just have to go thru the security protocols which are at worst only a nuisance and Dean's advices solves that little pecadillo..pcadolo..pecadilo.....where's spellll chwck in thus forem ;D Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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