August 19, 201015 yr Hello!I've FSX Deluxe installed and want to purchase/install Acceleration (primarily because some add-on payware aircraft require it). Doing some browsing around, it's cheaper to buy FSX Gold edition than trying to buy a new copy of just Acceleration. My question is if I buy the Gold edition, can I just install Acceleration from the Gold discs on top of my current Deluxe install? Or am I looking at a complete re-install of everything FSX on my machine?Thanks!-Dan _________________________________ -Dan Everette CFI, CFII, MEI 7900X OC @ 4.8GHz | ASRock Fatal1ty X299 Professional | 2 x EVGA GTX 1080 Ti FTW3 (SLI) | 32GB G.Skill DDR4 2800
August 19, 201015 yr Moderator Hello!I've FSX Deluxe installed and want to purchase/install Acceleration (primarily because some add-on payware aircraft require it). Doing some browsing around, it's cheaper to buy FSX Gold edition than trying to buy a new copy of just Acceleration. My question is if I buy the Gold edition, can I just install Acceleration from the Gold discs on top of my current Deluxe install? Or am I looking at a complete re-install of everything FSX on my machine?Thanks!-DanProbably best to be safe and start from scratch and completely wipe out your existing install. Just don't make the mistake of trying to make copies of the folders of addons and then when you install the new sim, copying the folders back to FSX. That's usually a recipe for disaster since a lot of addons need a proper registry entry. Best to reinstall everything from scratch and be safe as much of a pain as it maybe. Avsim Board of Directors | Avsim Forums Moderator
August 19, 201015 yr Author Probably best to be safe and start from scratch and completely wipe out your existing install. Just don't make the mistake of trying to make copies of the folders of addons and then when you install the new sim, copying the folders back to FSX. That's usually a recipe for disaster since a lot of addons need a proper registry entry. Best to reinstall everything from scratch and be safe as much of a pain as it maybe.That's pretty much what I feared. I just spent 2 full days reinstalling everything before I realized I needed Acceleration. Oh well... guess I'll buy Gold and just wait until the next time I do a full reinstall.Thanks!-Dan _________________________________ -Dan Everette CFI, CFII, MEI 7900X OC @ 4.8GHz | ASRock Fatal1ty X299 Professional | 2 x EVGA GTX 1080 Ti FTW3 (SLI) | 32GB G.Skill DDR4 2800
August 19, 201015 yr HelloI installed accelleration on top of a fsx deluxe edition with no problems at all. Heino Nikolaisen Copenhagen Denmark Q6600 2,4 ghz stock 8600 GT 512 MB 4 GB RAM Windows 7 64bit, home edition CH Yoke, CH Throttle quadrant, CH Pro pedals, Microsoft Sidewinder, Track IR 4, FSX Acceleration PMDG 747-400, MD11, JS4100 (all with FS2CREW), 737 NGX A2A Piper cub, B-17, B377, Razorback, Spitfire (all accu-simmed)
August 19, 201015 yr FSX Gold consists of two disks. One is the Deluxe version, and the other disk is Acceleration. If you already have Deluxe FSX installed, then you just install the Acceleration disk. That's what I did and it worked great.
August 20, 201015 yr Author That's awesome news.. Thank you! Just clicked the buy button on Amazon for Gold.I _really_ didn't want to have to do another complete reinstall of everything.Fly safe!-Dan _________________________________ -Dan Everette CFI, CFII, MEI 7900X OC @ 4.8GHz | ASRock Fatal1ty X299 Professional | 2 x EVGA GTX 1080 Ti FTW3 (SLI) | 32GB G.Skill DDR4 2800
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