Just a little suggestion: Provide us with some insight to the specificity of your personal case.
Some examples (or at least what I would have done):
Try starting FS9.EXE (or whatever the shortcut on your desktop is) with admin rights (right click and 'start with admin...)
Use snipping tool to take a snap shot of the error dialog that appears when FS9 crashes / fails to start (TBH I would have typed in this to google as it has most likely already been addressed as FS9/FSX is extremely popular in the flight sim community)
Provide a copy of the crash log as coping the relevant information (if it is not a hundred pages long) or upload the file to the cloud and sharing the link here
Use Window's compatibility feature to emulate or whatever the heck it does to make windows more friendly to older versions of windows (which your product was designed for) i.e. FS9 <;=>; FS2004 A Century of Flight (same thing, diff name). Windows XP was released so first I would have tried SP3, then decrement the SP till you are just at Windows XP
Honeslty Brah you need to give us more than that. You should also include all you specs. Here's mine: Win 8.1 Pro w/ MC x64 i7-2600k @ 3.4 GHz 14 GB DDR3 4GB Nvidia GeForce GTX 670 FTW 1GB ATI Radeon HD 6870
it all helps but along with specs we really need what it says when it crashes or won't start. I am installing FS9/FS2004 right now on my machine so I'll let you know, but I'm sure it will work.
Simple search (and I mean little to no effort) will produce something viable to answer your general question as to it working on 8 or not. "will fs9 work on windows 8.1" ->; Trying to install FS2004 on Windows 8.1...
I read that the first 4 posts in the thread and it reminded me of UAC (run as administrator / with admin rights) and I was like, oh ya,,, i'm a dumb rubbish! This is usually the #1 solution to all your problems.. ALWAYS TRY THIS FIRST (BUT KNOW AND TRUST YOUR PROGRAM AND WHERE YOU GOT IT FROM) elevating a icon-less .exe that you don't know what or where it came from is more than stupid homer simpson street cred and is just asking for a nice F bomb to discombobulate your PC.
I will still install it just to check for you but I'm 99.99% sure it will work, we just need to figure out if it's you or your computer. I will edit this when I have some info for you.
Hairy, is there a way to run programs not in Admin mode??
some of my programs appear to force open or "need" to be opened in Admin mode.. but I just want to open them in "standard mode" not with Administrative privileges.
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