Getting the Flight 1 Cessna Mustang working in Windows 8

[HansRoaming 73]

A number of us Flight1 Mustang users are unable to use this aircraft since updating our OS to Windows 8 (i.e. Windows 8 Pro 64bit) and the developer (Jim Rhoads) has indicated that they will not look to resolve the issue until such time they know Windows 8 is solid, possibly a SP1 release in order to avoid unnecessary work, which is a valid position to take.

 

In the meantime I would like to ask has anyone got their Flight 1 Mustang working under Windows 8 and what if anything did you need to do?

 

Al an alternative one of us customers swapped out the Garmin 1000 gauge for the default and the aircraft works although without a major feature set.

 

Has anyone used the Mindstar Garmin 1000 with the Flight 1 Mustang and if so what part of the feature set did you loose please?

 

Any replies would be appreciated, thanks.

[HansRoaming 73]

Just prompting to see if anyone has the Flight 1 Mustang working under windows 8 and what did you do if anything to make it work?

[Mike6800 1]

I got an old wrapper from 2009. Installed and patched to 1.04 the mustang loads fine. Haven't flown yet but checking systems while being parked everything seems to be working (no framerate drops, System & engines start, playing around with gps, etc.) Only the (invisible) fuel Lever for engine 1 is miising in VC, but exists in 2d.

When I install from the current wrapper 1.07 I can load the Mustang in the freeflight screen but FSX got stuck at 3% when loading the flight.

Also noticed with 1.04 when loaded in free flight screen a window opens showing that navdata is being loaded. I don't have this with 1.07.

 

Best regards, Mike

 

FSX Acc.Pack // Windows 8 -64bit

[HansRoaming 73]

Thanks Mike, much appreciated.

[Propane 16]

Just a thought, are you guys using the default Windows Defender in Windows 8? Or perhaps you have a 3rd party antivirus/malware program that doesn't disable Windows Defender or you forgot to disable it? I have no issues with 1.07 in Windows 8 64-bit, but I have only tried it after turning of Windows Defender. Defender was causing problems for me with the Eaglesoft Citation X 2.0, perhaps that's also the case with the F1 Mustang?

[HansRoaming 73]

Thanks for that, have tried it and no joy for me but will pass it on and see if it works for others.