May 13, 20215 yr So out of the box, Microsoft Flight Simulator 2020 (the new one) does not support 7 or 8. Obviously, it came out past the EOL date of 7 and MSFT wants to forget about 8. But I really think it is possible to get working. Trying to run the app with steam just ends up in it closing, and running FlightSimulator.exe gives us this: Alright, a missing function. This is something we would need to extend in the DLL, but I am not sure what would be a worthy replacement. Someone with knowledge like win32 would be helpful here, but I don't want to disrupt his time making the already awesome Vista extended kernel. I would assume that it may be easier to port 8 functions over first, but we aren't in a need of that. The first step is to find if this function exists in 8, and see if we can use the same dll on 7 or port over its function. But this isn't our entire problem. The main issue is that this isn't the only missing function. There are a lot of missing API-MS-WIN-* DLL files (might exist in 8) and as well as that, the missing functions using DependencyWalker tell us this: ESENT.DLL -> JetStopServiceInstance2 IEFRAME.DLL -> Entry Points not bound, function #160, 141 and 159 API-MS-WIN-CORE-THREADPOOL-L1-1-0.DLL -> SetWaitableTimerEx IMM32.DLL -> ImmDisableLegacyIME NCRYPT.DLL -> NCryptKeyDerivation MFPLAT.DLL -> MFRegisterLocalByteStreamHandler, MFCreateMFByteStreamOnStreamEx UXTHEME.DLL -> GetThemeAnimationTransform, GetThemeAnimationProperty, GetThemeTimingFunction DWMAPI.DLL -> DwmTetherContact, DwmRenderGesture NDFAPI.DLL -> NdfCreateNetConnectionIncident OLE32.DLL -> CoIncrementMTAUsage, RoGetAgileReference MFPLAT.DLL -> MFCreateDXGIDeviceManager API-MS-WIN-CRT-PRIVATE-L1-1-0.DLL -> __CxxFrameHandler4 Those are all the missing functions. There is a lot to do here, but who knows if it will work anyway because the game is DirectX12 now. After looking through deeper, the last missing DLL seems to just be a number that is wrong. *FrameHandler4 does not exist in that DLL, but *FrameHandler3 and 2 exist. I am wondering if they give the same results when used. Some other DLLs like OLE32 tell us that the missing functions just don't have anything related at all. Any ideas here?
December 22, 20232 yr On 7/14/2021 at 4:13 PM, Jaguarek62 said: it does work under 8.1 with some workaround: What was this if you don't mind me asking? The video got taken down
December 22, 20232 yr 6 hours ago, TheFighterJetDude said: What was this if you don't mind me asking? The video got taken down It was about running Microsoft Flight Simulator 2020 on Windows 8.1, but with a workaround.
December 22, 20232 yr 5 hours ago, mina7601 said: It was about running Microsoft Flight Simulator 2020 on Windows 8.1, but with a workaround. I wasn't sure what the workaround was as the video got taken down.
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