Hi, Thank you for contacting Microsoft Community. I will certainly help you with this. I would suggest you to go through the below links: Refer the suggestion given by Shinmila H replied on Feb 12, 2010: Also refer the links: Combat Flight Simulator 3: Known graphics issues Combat Flight Simulator 3: How to Improve Game Performance Also try the Flight Simulator Community link for additional support: I hope this helps. Please let us know the results. Feel free to write us back for any further assistance with Windows, we’ll be glad to assist you.

Jun 6, 2003 - More Combat Flight Simulator 3 Fixes. [EiTheL] backup CD Combat Flight Simulator 3 v3.1 SPA Combat Flight Simulator 3 v3.1 ENG.

It had to happen sooner or later. I'm running Windows 10 on a separate HD from my trusty Win7 setup. This is not an upgraded setup, it's a new, clean install for evaluating the new OS.

Yesterday I got CFS3 installed from scratch on my Windows 10 hard drive and the installation went smoothly. CFS3 won't run in Windows 10. Vashikaran mantra to control. It doesn't seem to know how to look for the CD to authenticate the install each time it runs. FS9 users have reported the same problem with their CDs.

The answer is well known to many of us, and it's the no-CD patched version: CFS3 starts and runs with that every time. I don't see any reason ETO, MAW and the rest shouldn't also work that way. As many of us also know, discussion of this patch on SOH is barred as a longstanding policy. Please refer to Tom Clayton's post in the for the reasons and do any file hunting away from SOH. Edit: Recent updates borked that too, see hypercide's post (#13) below for the current answer. I'm now not getting CFS3 to run in Windows 10 at all.

Oh bother.Hi Hairyspin, I'm having the same problem with Win10 and my half-dozen or so installs. Discovered I couldn't run Pat's BoB yesterday.

Solution: set up to WinXP SP3 compatibility mode by right clicking on the cfs3exe and going into properties. Suspect: Sodding recent Win 10 update. These are now forced on us with no user choice. I could start ranting about how we are now, as owners of PCs and payers for the privilege of MS software, held HOSTAGE to our software and the software CONTROLS access to our own sodding hardware!!

Switch on PC for a quick flight or to test something, and in the background PC performance grinds down as background updates for innumerable things occur, even when I try to disable them in the Startup menu.grumble rant rave. Incidentally I was running CFS3 installs directly on my root pathway to D: drive. Now I've created a Program files (x86) additional folder in my D drive for cfs3 installs, can't see any difference really, but maybe running cfs3 would be better if install is outside of program files folder, like I had originially??

Given the problems (speculative) with Win10 upgrades. Hi folks, Bought CFS3 from old-games yesterday because I wanted to buy WOFF. Initially no joy under Win 10 Home, with XP SP3 compatibility mode, running as Admin--the only suggestions I could find on the net.

Brainticket cottonwoodhill rar. Then, in a what-if kind of moment, I toyed with the 'Settings' options under the Compatibility tab in the cfs3.exe Properties. I've enabled 'reduced color mode' at 16-bit, 'Run in 640-480 screen res' and 'Display display scaling' (in addition to XP SP3 and run as admin).

This works, and in game you can then fiddle with the display options. Additionally, I have it running in its own directory in my second hard drive. And I've successfully installed the current WOFF bundle (also on second hard drive) and did three different mission types over 45 mins with no problems. (I have a Dell XPS with a GeForce GTX 745) Tim. Much tweaking and experimentation later, here's the lowdown on CFS3 in Windows 10. My thanks again to Tim (hypercide) for his discovering this.

• Install CFS3 from your original CDs (or DVD if you're lucky). Make life easier by not installing to the default folder, use something like C: CFS3 and avoid UAC problems later. Don't run the sim yet!

• Apply the 3.1 and 3.1a patches. Don't run the sim yet! • Replace cfs3.exe with the unmentionable patch but don't run the sim yet! Now set the patch program's compatibility as shown:– Yes, the program is being set to run in 640x480 display mode and reduced colour. Now run CFS3 and once the sim starts (in ghastly 1998–style graphics) you can set the display resolution and colour depth to suit your system (in my case 1680x1050 and 32-bit colour.) CFS3 will run happily but to exit the program use Control-Shift-Q. With this done you can now use cfs3config.exe (run in XP SP3 compatibility) to set your preferences: disable intro movie, switch off dual-pass render, switch on high resolution z-buffer, the usual suspects. But one thing you must not do is switch on anti-aliasing.