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Andrew226:
Hello, I have the Base GSX for Windows 7 x64 and it works fine but  ???I want to ask if the GSX Level 2 is compatible with the Windows 7. ??? ???

virtuali:

--- Quote from: Andrew226 on June 30, 2019, 08:28:21 pm ---Hello, I have the Base GSX for Windows 7 x64 and it works fine but  ???I want to ask if the GSX Level 2 is compatible with the Windows 7. ??? ???
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If your GSX is full updated, you already have GSX L2 in Trial and the status of the Trial won't make any difference to how it runs under Windows 7. Which, as explained so many times in this thread, runs perfectly fine but, some users (not all of them), have a completely harmless crash on exit the sim, which is not even visible, unless you go into the Windows Event Viewer.

paradisca1:
GSX in Windows 7
I have reinstalled Windows 7 and P3Dv4.5 and have GSX Level 2 and all my FSDreamteam airports working it seems. To do this I had to use 32 bit couatl. I have made a backup copy of the Addon Manager folder.
My question is if I attempt a Live Update and it breaks my GSX can I recover by restoring my backup copy of the Addon Manager folder and editing the addon.xml to point to couatl32. Or could something else change that thwarts that plan? Thank you.
Steve Paradis

virtuali:

--- Quote from: paradisca1 on June 25, 2022, 10:02:56 pm ---My question is if I attempt a Live Update and it breaks my GSX can I recover by restoring my backup copy of the Addon Manager folder and editing the addon.xml to point to couatl32. Or could something else change that thwarts that plan?
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That might work for a while but, when we install an update, it's not something "just" in the Addon Manager folder.

A future updated VC++ redistributable, and updated QLM License Manager, which register themselves in Windows, might just not work on Windows 7 so, even if you remove the whole Addon Manager to restore an old version, this might not work with those other updates, with the only option to reinstall the whole OS to "restore" them.

Obviously, once you find out it's time to reinstall the OS, you would be better to install Windows 10 anyway. I really cannot understand how anybody would want to expose itself to such security risks ( running a completely obsolete OS that won't even get security patches ), to such heavy maintenance, risking losing products you bought, using the wrong version of the software ( 32 bit apps runs slower in a 64 bit OS due to the "thunking", just search for that), for what, exactly ? It's not as if any hardware that can run Windows 7 can't run Windows 10.

But that's besides the point. The point is, do what you want to, just know you are completely unsupported by doing this.

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