December 26, 200223 yr Hi folks,Please excuse my stupid :-newbie question and also sorry if this has been asked before. I don't have time to trawl through all the previous posts.I have two HDs in my box, and FS2K2 on C:, along with gigs of all the other stuff you usually find on a C: drive.I don't feel that FS is running at it's best on there ( sluggish, crashing, lock-ups),despite cleanups and defrags, so I thought of sticking it on the D: drive on its own and seeing if that helps.The thing is, when I put the CD in, I don't see a way to install it to D:, only start or uninstall.So do I have to uninstall FS from C: first? Then how can I force it to install to D:?Do you experts consider this plan to be worthwhile, or should I just go out and buy a new box?My setup is something of a hybrid, quite old, but a PIII 450 and 192 MB RAMCheers for any advice
December 26, 200223 yr What you do is re-name FS2002 on your C: drive to FS2002_old then start the installer again what happens is that it already sees that FS2002 is installed on the C so it will not install another copy so you just need to trick it into thinking that FS2002 is not installed by just using the rename method.I am running FS2002 on my D: drive and it runs much better then on my C: w/ the OS and other programs.Have [email protected] JetLine Systems Gravity GT2-Windows 10 Home Edition (64-Bit), NZXT H500 Mid-Tower, Black, Gigabyte Aorus Z390 PRO WIFI, LGA 1151, Intel 9th Gen Core i9 9900K (5.0GHz Turbo) 8 Core / 16 Thread, Corsair Hydro H60 120mm Liquid Cooling, 32GB Corsair DDR4 SDRAM 3000MHz RGB, 12GB Nvidia GeForce RTX 4070, GDDR6, 750 Watt Corsair RM Series Power Supply, 5.1 Channel Realtek Integrated HD Audio, Primary SSD Drive:1TB Samsung 970 EVO, M.2 NVMe PCIe (SSD), Secondary SSD Drive:2TB Samsung 970 EVO, M.2 NVMe PCIe (SSD) 4TB WD Black 7200 RPM Mechanical , SimOn Solutions 737 Professional Compact Trainer (MIP, OH). CFY 737 Max Motorized TQ Gold V3, MSFS2024, ProSim 737. 2 45" Samsung 4K TV.
December 26, 200223 yr Cheers John,I learn something new everyday! First indications are that is works fine with just FS on the D: drive.Cheers and happy New YearGraham W
December 26, 200223 yr Glad to hear it's working OK. I have used the second drive for flight sim for years without problem. In general, FS should be placed on the drive that is fastest, that is, a 7200 rpm drive will be better than a 4200 rpm drive. The smallest drive I would consider is a 40 GB drive, and 8o GB is better. Sure, you can get it to run on a smaller drive, but things will start to slow down as the drive nears capacity.Dale
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