Hi all,So looking for inputs. I bought a 120 gb OCZ RevoDrive PCIe for FSX. I'm wondering if I should also install my WIn7 64 on it also to maximize performance? I know about the super fast boot speeds Windows would have, but I bought the Revo for FSX and my main purpose is tomaximize my FSX xperience. So should I dedicate it solely for FSX?My setup is i7@4ghz 1800DDR3 GTX480 WIN7x64, I'm not expecting a major FPS boost, but faster initial loads and scenery loads. Does anybody have any experience with this type of setup?

Hi all,So looking for inputs. I bought a 120 gb OCZ RevoDrive PCIe for FSX. I'm wondering if I should also install my WIn7 64 on it also to maximize performance? I know about the super fast boot speeds Windows would have, but I bought the Revo for FSX and my main purpose is tomaximize my FSX xperience. So should I dedicate it solely for FSX?My setup is i7@4ghz 1800DDR3 GTX480 WIN7x64, I'm not expecting a major FPS boost, but faster initial loads and scenery loads. Does anybody have any experience with this type of setup?

You probably won't see a measurable FPS difference, but you'll certainly see improved loading times. I would recommend you put both Win7 and FSX on the SSD as this way you'll get improved performance across the board and not just when loading FSX. SSDs have no mechanical parts so things like fragmentation or how many other programs are installed on the same drive don't matter here. For me the biggest issue with FSX and SSDs is how much space FSX can require with things like HD textures and mutliple scenery and plane addons. SSD space is expensive, but the 120GB you have bought should be more than enough.

I installed Win7x64, the applications and the FSX with Addons on my SSD. Only large photo sceneries are located on a conventional data disk. FSX on SSD helps to load textures and contributes to a smooth operation.I have deactivated hibernation and set the swap file (pagefile.sys) to 3 GB. This saves valuable space.

I found the OS to benefit very much from a SSD while FSX just worked as before, so maybe your next approach could to move the OS to that disc and let FSX on a currently bigger one of the old style or on a second SSD.The loading times (of flights) were fine with a SSD for FSX but the rest didn't show improvements at all. As fps don't come out of such devices too, one could see them as currently obsolete for big FSX installations. The not needed defragmentation tools are a pro though.Here are some more enthusiastic thoughts on (FSX) SSDs if mine seem too negative.

Generally speaking - the OS and FSX should not be on the same drive. FSX performance will suffer a bit - not as much as both on a mechanical drive and not a huge diffrence but if you bought the drive to increase FSX performance why do anything that will detract from it? Ideally you want FSX on it's own drive.Vic

Generally speaking - the OS and FSX should not be on the same drive. FSX performance will suffer a bit - not as much as both on a mechanical drive and not a huge diffrence ...

What kind of disadvantage are you referring to? What exactly would suffer a bit?

Generally speaking - the OS and FSX should not be on the same drive. FSX performance will suffer a bit - not as much as both on a mechanical drive and not a huge diffrence but if you bought the drive to increase FSX performance why do anything that will detract from it? Ideally you want FSX on it's own drive.Vic

I have my FSX and OS on the same SSD but in different partitions. No discernable change in performance from having them on the two separate hard drives that I had previously.

I have my FSX and OS on the same SSD but in different partitions. No discernable change in performance from having them on the two separate hard drives that I had previously.

+1, but just in different directories, not different partitions

Yup - my bad. The issues with a mechanical drive are not the same on an SSD. Typed an answer before thinking. :Silly: The only issue would be disk space and the SSD has an advantage there also.If you get to 90% full on an SSD you will begin to get degrading performance so be sure you have enough space for both the OS and FSX.vic

Thanks for the info, guess I will load them both, just have to verify my FSX/OS size. I also run FS9, but it runs so well on defaults that I'll keep it on the harddrives. One guy recommended once I get Win/FSX install to image the drive so once performance degrades I can easily restore it.

You can make the OS smaller by deactivating the hibernation function. This eliminates the very large hibernation file hiberfil.sys. Working with images is a very good method to keep the software installation performing and clean. I do it since years with Acronis.

Turn off page filing. If you have a large amount of RAM, you can save a few gigs of space by deleting pagefile.sys and turning the option off

BUT .. before you delete pagefile.sys be ABSOLUTELY certain that none of your present (and any probable future) installed programs require the pagefile.sys

You can make the pagefile.sys small, i. e. 1024 MB.

You can make the pagefile.sys small, i. e. 1024 MB.

Or as I do, I have my pagefile on another standard hard disk in its own partition.