Windows 10 to Windows 11

[Mariano]

Reluctantly, it looks like I will be updating my Windows 10 PC to Windows 11 (not buying a new PC, but installing Windows 11 on my current PC).

Has anyone experienced any issues with PSX after going from
windows 10 to Windows 11 (on the same PC)?

Thank you and best regards,

Mariano

[Jeroen Hoppenbrouwers]

No problems at all here. As always with programs not specifically developed for Windows, I heavily recommend to not install it in the default \Program Files\ folder. Instead, change the installation to, for example, c:\psx so that Windows does not attempt to "protect" the file tree from "unauthorised" writes.

Windows may ask you whether you want the PSX network server to become available outside your PC. This is trivial and easy to change later if you need to.

I have had no other issues.


Hoppie

[Dirk Schepmann]

Same here, I updated roughly 2 years ago and it worked out of the box.
Also the major interim updates which come from time to time did not affect PSX so far.

(I still think that Windows 11 brought me several steps closer to switch to Linux one day... )

Good luck!

[Will]

I bought a new computer and migrated PSX and all my other sim stuff to it. The old box had Windows 10, and the new one is running Windows 11. (The old one also had MSFS 2020, the new one has 2024.)

I had some hiccups getting everything adjusted, but no issues were related specifically to the new version of Windows. That part was pretty seamless.

[Mariano]

Thank you, guys! I have less anxiety now.

Has anyone had any issues with PFPX after the upgrade?

Jeroen, what do I answer to this, if I use PSX mostly stand-alone, with addons located in the same PC: "Windows may ask you whether you want the PSX network server to become available outside your PC."?

I use only PSX.NET, PSX Sounds, PSX CMC, Aeromap, BACARS, all in the same PC. I do not use external scenery generators.

Thank you,

Mariano

[Will]

Hi Mariano,

No problems with PFPX in Windows 11.

[Mariano]

Excellent. Thank you, Will.

Best regards,

Mariano

[Jeroen Hoppenbrouwers]

Jeroen, what do I answer to this, if I use PSX mostly stand-alone, with addons located in the same PC: "Windows may ask you whether you want the PSX network server to become available outside your PC."?

If this happens, Windows wants to know whether you need to access the PSX Server from outside the PC as well, i.e., from over your network. If you don't run anything on another PC or iPad or whatever then no, you do not want this. However it won't usually endanger your installation if you open it -- your internet gateway should still provide a heavy-duty firewall against ingress from the Real Outside.

Modern Windows may also be able to shield PSX from access inside the PC. This would stop all your add-ons from reaching PSX, so this burns one bridge too many.

Typical Windows protections:

Domain: unlikely to be relevant for people at home. This is a corporate thing with a master Domain Controller on the network that governs a lot of common settings on all PCs.

Private: the typical home situation, for all IP addresses that start with 192.168.*.* or 10.*.*.* plus the in-PC address 127.0.0.1

Public: whatever else, usually this also needs to pass through your internet gateway which should by default block all this.

I leave out the IPv6 addresses, which are longer and look like number:number:::number ... different game.


Hoppie

[Mariano]

Thank you; very thorough.

Best regards,

Mariano