September 22, 201015 yr Using FSX and have it installed on a dedicated Raptor HDD. Myquestion is, for best FSX performance where should FS Global mesh be installed ? Should it be installed on same HDD with FSX or is it acceptable to install it on a different HDD ? Is there much of a performance difference either way ?Thank you,Ken Boardman Ken Boardman
September 22, 201015 yr First I had FSX and FSG on two HDDs separated. Meanwhile, after upgrade to a 2TB HDD, I have both on the same HDD, but FSG outside of FSX so it has only to be defragged once. I could not observe any difference in performance.Harry - Harry 9800x3D (Strix x870e-E) - 64GB RAM (DDR5 6000, CL 30) - RTX 5090, 34'' 1440p OLED HDR - Windows 11 Pro (1TB M.2) - MSFS 2024 (MS Store, 4TB M.2).
September 23, 201015 yr Using FSX and have it installed on a dedicated Raptor HDD. Myquestion is, for best FSX performance where should FS Global mesh be installed ? Should it be installed on same HDD with FSX or is it acceptable to install it on a different HDD ? Is there much of a performance difference either way ?Thank you,Ken BoardmanHi Ken,Basically, using two different PHYSICAL hard drives is always advantageous in theory. Using the same hard drive for FSX and to load complex or large files, whether they be textures or mesh, will mean that the hard drive read-write heads are moving to get FSX-related files, and then the same heads will have to move to also get the mesh/textures files of FS Global. Splitting that job to two (or more) drives should help a bit, but as you said, the difference may not be noticeable.I have read over and over again in AVSIM forums and also experienced it myself, that FSX is CPU intensive and also requires a really good video card to go with the powerful CPU.But in general, using two hard drives may increase performance of texture/mesh loading a bit. The best is probably to use a solid-state drive (SSD) which would be lightning fast, though I have not used one yet.Hope this helps.John I love flying my "iddy biddy Jumbo" CPU: Intel Core 2 Duo E8400, socket 775/3GHz/1333MHz bus/6MB cache MOBO: Asus P5E3 Deluxe WiFi-AP@n/Intel X38 chipset RAM: 4GB Kingston HyperX 1333MHz. rated 7-7-7-20, matched pair (2 x 2GB) GRAPHICS: Sapphire Radeon 5770HD 1GB (w/ fan) MONITOR: Samsung 24", 2494HM LCD wide-screen 1920x1080 SOUND: SoundBlaster Audigy 2 ZS HARD DRIVES: 1xWestern Digital WD1600JD SATA 160GB (primary/Windows XP and system boot drive) 1xWestern Digital WD3200AAJS SATA2 320GB (secondary/Flight Simulator 2004 running off WinXP Pro 32-bit, games video editing drive) 1xWestern Digital 500GB Black series SATA2 (Windows 7 64-bit: FSX is running off Win7; Windows XP Professional 32-bit) CASE: Antec Sonata III 500W OS: Windows 7 Professional 64-bit for FSX; Windows XP Pro 32-bit for other things.
September 23, 201015 yr Author Hi Ken,Basically, using two different PHYSICAL hard drives is always advantageous in theory. Using the same hard drive for FSX and to load complex or large files, whether they be textures or mesh, will mean that the hard drive read-write heads are moving to get FSX-related files, and then the same heads will have to move to also get the mesh/textures files of FS Global. Splitting that job to two (or more) drives should help a bit, but as you said, the difference may not be noticeable.I have read over and over again in AVSIM forums and also experienced it myself, that FSX is CPU intensive and also requires a really good video card to go with the powerful CPU.But in general, using two hard drives may increase performance of texture/mesh loading a bit. The best is probably to use a solid-state drive (SSD) which would be lightning fast, though I have not used one yet.Hope this helps.JohnMany thanks for the helpful replies. I've decided to install the mesh on a separate drive for now.Best regards,Ken Ken Boardman
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