

(I am a former pilot who happened to be in a commercial plane crash - as a passenger - in Alaska in 1996. If not, I'll just uninstall and keep the XP machine for CSF2.

And yes, it is unfortunate that this issue is so opaque! Given that I still have my XP machine, I'm gonna just load into the Win7 machine, download drivers, and see if it'll fly.

I can assure you though, if your interest in CFS2 and other Combat simulators for that matter persists, you will sooner rather than later end up at SOH. This might sound far-fetched if your not familiar with SOH. A friend found this out the hard way when he bought a new computer equipped with W7 Home Premium and couldn't even run FS2004.Īfter all the rubbish I read in all kinds of forums on this topic since your original post, I am convinced that your best and safest course of action would be to take out free membership with SOH (Sim Outhouse) and ask the folks over there. What irks me is that they make no mention of the fact that in order to use Compatibility mode you MUST use one of the flagship W7 versions. Well, pathetic in my mind, we all knew that anyway. Here is Microsoft's 'enlightening' revelation concerning Compatibility mode: I understand your consternation for two reasons: CFS2 is a unique FS and as you've already found out, to get reliable info of whether or not W7 will run CFS2 is nearly impossible to come by.
