March 18, 200818 yr My new puter will have a 150G Raptor @10,000 rpm...Also I will have a 350G Sata @ 7,200Both the OS and all games will go on the Raptor for sure....But which drive should I place my Anti-virus and Spyware and CC-Cleaner? And why?Thanks.....Mason
March 18, 200818 yr Anywhere... just because. :)I would place it in the default directory, most likely within the "C:Program Files" structure somewhere. Factoring in speed, performance, and effectiveness - utilities like AV and anti-spy software really will not have any serious hard drive impact on your machine.-Greg
March 18, 200818 yr You will get much better performance out of FSX/FS9 if the OS is on its own drive and FSX/FS9 resides on its own drive.
March 18, 200818 yr So then..You are saying to place the OS on my slower Sata drive and my games on my faster Raptor drive??? Or Vice-Versa???Or to place the OS and games on the Raptor drive..This way keeping junk off the faster drive??Please elaborate...I'm tired,old and confused...LOL Thanks...Mason
March 19, 200818 yr >You will get much better performance out of FSX/FS9 if the OS>is on its own drive and FSX/FS9 resides on its own drive.Tell me if you know for sure, does the performance (smoothness) impact caused by .wav file loading improve when you set up FSX on a sep drive than the OS drive?Right now I am planning to put FSX on a 73GB scsi 15K.5 drive all by itself. FS9 runs so well even on the same drive as XP that I see no point in moving it to a different drive. I plan on installing Vista64 sometime when I get around to it. It's unopened in box right now. I will put it on a new 250gb SATA 2 drive, and FSX on the scsi. Should be pretty dang racey, for FSX that is.QX9650 w/ Retail HSF|8GB Muskin PC-6400|ASUS P5E|EVGA 8800GT @700|Seagate SATA 2 x 4|Seagate Cheetah 15K.x|XP Pro|Vista 64--soon to be installed Noel System: 9900X3D Noctua NH-D15 G2, MSI Pro 650-P WiFi, G.SKILL 64GB (2 x 32GB) 288-Pin PC RAM DDR5 6000, WD NVMe 2Tb x 1, Sabrent NVMe 2Tb x 1, RTX 4090 FE, Corsair RM1000W PSU, Win11 Home, LG Ultra Curved Gsync Ultimate 3440x1440, Phanteks Enthoo Pro Case, TCA Boeing Edition Yoke & TQ, Cessna Trim Wheel, RTSS Framerate Limiter w/ Front Edge Sync. Aircraft used in MSFS 2024: Fenix A320, Aerosoft CRJ, FBW, WT 787X, I-Fly 737 MAX 8, Citation Longitude.
March 19, 200818 yr >Tell me if you know for sure, does the performance>(smoothness) impact caused by .wav file loading improve when>you set up FSX on a sep drive than the OS drive?Noel,I do not know for sure that it impacts .wav file loading. I can tell you for sure that having FSX on its own dedicated drive definitely increases overall smoothness within the sim (overall improved file access).
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