Installed FS2 on a 64-bit Win7 Pro laptop and it runs just fine (so far). But the aspect ratio causes a stretching of circles into ovals (especially annoying when viewing planets). Nor does the laptop have a numeric keypad. So I installed on an XP machine with a 4:3 monitor and full size keyboard (and better speakers plus a subwoofer) to see how it felt. Well, not good.

The "overlays" (option panels, the flight HUD, etc.) flicker at a disturbing rate and mouse tracks (sometimes a pointer other times what appears to be garbled text) are left everywhere cluttering up the screen; when I change 'pages' in the Options panel(s) the previous screen display (text and graphics) isn't removed so there is serious overlaying of the new with the old making it unusable; many indicators and buttons are simply not visible; there is garbled text in a small font (almost like a debug console display) when I do manage to click a button. There are also drawing artifacts (lines) everywhere when rendering anything in the Tech Room.

The mission description (the 1st training at least since I haven't gotten any further)is sometimes a completely black screen (and sometimes it's fine). But worst of all, since I can't change the default config of a joystick to a mouse, can't move around to check on mechanics.

I thought it strange, is all, that this should work so well on a modern machine but fail so hugely on a machine I built a few years after FS2 was released in 1999.