I love O & O defrag program. I do love it for its speed and efficiency. However, if you have it, what's the best way to defrag? I heard tha Complete/Name is the proper choice. Is it? Or is there a better setting for FSX performance?Stan

Complete/NAME because it orders the files sequentially - a lot of the terrain files and such are named sequentially and will load in that order or close to it as you fly along your route. It's not a massive improvement, but it could cut down on stutters from disk thrash if your HD's heads have to move all over the place on the disk's physical surface to find the files.Another trick is making your FSX folder the first folder on the HD alphabetically - O&O will place it on the outer edge of the disk, which actually moves faster than locations further toward the center. The outer edge has the same rotational speed as the rest of the disk, but it travels a longer path than points further inward and is therefore faster.

I love O & O defrag program. I do love it for its speed and efficiency. However, if you have it, what's the best way to defrag? I heard tha Complete/Name is the proper choice. Is it? Or is there a better setting for FSX performance?Stan

Complete/Name first time around, Stealth for regular maintenance... Semi-annually, another Complete/Name defrag (takes a lot longer)..

You could also enable the zones - the begining of the disk is approx 40% faster than outer sectors, this is why it is important, to have the crucial files (mainly scenery) at the beginning of physical surface of the disk.Please note, O&O Defrag gives no benefit, when You use SSD harddrive. The latency is almost equal to zero, there are no mechanical parts, so there is no difference in terms of speed if the file is at the beginning or at the end of SSD. Actually, You shouldn't defrag SSD - it decreases its lifetime - each flash memory has an maximum amount of Input/Output operations. The number of I/O is pretty big nowadays, it will be sooner SSD is too small and too slow so You will replace it.

Go the the below link and to the post by NickN on 4/11/10 @ 4:31 PM, read through it and down in there is a complete set of instructions for using O&O.http://www.simforums.com/forums/forum_posts.asp?TID=34141If you are using Win7 and you decide to use the guide to tweak Win7 also look at posts from NickN on 5/14/10 @ 12:15 and 5/16/10 @ 6:31 PM, he made some changes / additions to the original guide.

Thanks. Very informative. That NickN...he is unbelieveable.Stan

Thanks. Very informative. That NickN...he is unbelieveable.Stan

NickN is unbelievable and the amount he helps people is amazing.I asked him what settings I should use to OC my system and he took the time to give me a suggested settings for a 4.2GHz OC for every setting in the BIOS of my MD and then he went on to give me even more detailed settings should I need them to get the OC stable and I did wind up needing them.This is just one of the times that he has helped me personally over the last 3.5 years with very detailed explanations and settings for not only FSX related questions, but hardware and OS.NickN is no longer a memeber of Avsim, but just the same here is a public thanks to NickN for all the help he has given me over the years!

Complete/NAME because it orders the files sequentially - a lot of the terrain files and such are named sequentially and will load in that order or close to it as you fly along your route. It's not a massive improvement, but it could cut down on stutters from disk thrash if your HD's heads have to move all over the place on the disk's physical surface to find the files.Another trick is making your FSX folder the first folder on the HD alphabetically - O&O will place it on the outer edge of the disk, which actually moves faster than locations further toward the center. The outer edge has the same rotational speed as the rest of the disk, but it travels a longer path than points further inward and is therefore faster.

How do you place the FSX folder on the outside edge of the disk?

How do you place the FSX folder on the outside edge of the disk?

Naming the folder first in alphabetical order, as I said... ie "C:\aFSX" or something thing like that. Be aware if you do this after FSX is already installed somewhere else you'll have to fix the registry to point to the right location using the Flight1 tool.You can also do it without renaming by using the Zone system in O&O 12.x if you have the latest version, though when I've tried it I've found it pretty hit or miss as to whether or not it actually moves stuff to the right place.

Same here Ryan, i gave up on the Zone method and just named my FSX folder "aaaFSX" and use the name defrag. Works a treat.

How do you place the FSX folder on the outside edge of the disk?

The best way is to have FSX on its own hard drive and on the hard drive only have FSX and addon that have to go into the main FSX folder.I have a 300GB Velociraptor that only has FSX and necessary addons like UTX, FSG, ST, MTX, FTX, addon planes, addon airports, etc. This keeps FSX as close to the outter rim of the hard drive as possible.Programs like FEX, GEX, MSX, MSE, etc. that are just data bases and do not have to go into the main FSX folder go on a separate data drive.

I'm just before a complete new install of FSX and would like to get some advice please. My rig:First Harddisk SSD 80GB:------------------C:\ = I have Win7 Ultimate installed here, and only drivers and most necessary system programs. I still left ~50GB free due to performance reasons.Second Harddisk 1000 GB:-------------------------D:\ (first partition) 700GB:My filebase, personal data i.e. pictures, videos, and all the programs installed.E:\ (second partition) 300GB: My flightsim partition. X-Plane 9 occupies about 110GB, about 190GB are free and ready for FSX now. On this volume only X-Plane9 directory exists for now.I ran O&O Defrag on D:\+E:\ at Complete/Name, it took many hours (all the night) but it's finished now and ready.My questions:-------------I plan to install FSX Deluxe + Acceleration-Pack on E:\aFSX as mentioned on this thread. I have to install also following addons:- FS Global 2010 X- UTX Europe+USA- GEX Europe+USA- REX 2.0As I remember, FS Global 2010 X asks for a separate installation directory, not into FSX-installation directory, right? Should I choose for example E:\FSGlobal2010X ?As I remember, UTX asks also for a separate installation directory. So should I install to E:\UTX\UTX_Europre and E:\UTX\UTX_USA?The same for GEX?? E:\GEX\GEX_USA and E:\GEX\GEX_Europe ?And for REX? E:\REX ? Or should REX be installed within the E:\aFSX folder?Hope someone can help before i start installing the software.

If you really want my opinion you should put FSX on its own hard drive, not on a partition. Right now on what you describe D: is going to be on the outer part of the platter and E: is going to be on the inside, the inside part of the platter is the slowest part of the platter to have data. The head of the hard drive has to travel farther to the inside to read data.As far as how you install, let UTX load where it wants, from what I recall it has to go on the same HD as FSX. GEX you can put anyplace because it is just a data base. The other two you are asking about I do not use so I can not comment.