by ggunners » Thu Dec 27, 2012 4:41 pm
Hmmm... I never had any problems with WinXP and FMS except the com port error which is easily fixed with a work-around. I've found many more problems with Win8 that so far do not have a satisfactory solution. Working but with a low frame rate of 8 fps.
Are you running in windowed mode? Did you try locking with vertical synch under the "Graphics" "Options" menu?
Hopefully you are using FMS 2 alpha 8.5. If not, you may be trying to fly an alpha 8 model with beta 7, which will not work.
Some people solved a graphics problem by turning of DirectX hardware acceleration.
Try changing the graphics options one at a time and see if they help. If you find a fix, share it here.
-- ggunners