Hey, Realflight 6 installs and updates on my Windows 8 pro laptop, as well as the Heli megapack. Reading the suggestions from this thread helped greatly, thanks to all.
AS others have seen the only major problem is each time I ran an install from the disc's or download update it took about 20 minutes for the RealFlight install dialouge box to show up with nothing on the windows desktop showing any progress etc. I think most if not all who are installing realflight 6 or 6.5 in windows 8 are having this same issue, as I have read on this and other forums.
So be patient, it takes hours to complete a full install but seems to work ok after all the installs are finished.

This is my first post on here, so hi to everyone who reads this.

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