Me to works fine check your settings and yes people are using windows 8 I love it . Performance was actually better with Xplane 10 . Cant see what all the whining is about the start menu . I never really did use it . The only thing that bugs me is that all non app programs still open up in the desktop I say kill the desktop its useless windows explorer does not need to be running while running while programs are running shut it down in with the task manager and see for yourself . There are those that want to live in the past not me though , but than again my system should not run at all if you listen to all the Nvidia and Intel fan boys . I run windows 8 with with an AMD Phenom II X6 and a HD7870 graphics card and we all know that AMD does not do OpenGL very well . I guess that's why only average I average 25 to 30 FPS with settings almost maxed out