I will soon need to install W7 in a new PC. Presently FSX is on a seperate HD. I know that I will need to reinstall all applications included FSX and I Suppose the add ons.

 

On the FSX HD I have all the usual FSX libraries and all add-ons such as FS Genesis, FEX, Ultimate Terrain, My Traffic X.

Can I take advantage that the FSX libraries are already up to date on the seperate HDD that will be physically transferred from old to new PC. Also true for some airplanes add-ons (Coranedo, the Twin Otter, and another one) ?

 

Roger

Not sure if I understand all that you are asking and know exactly what you are doing. You won't have to reinstall FSX if you following the procedures in another post in this forum (http://forum.avsim.net/topic/367986-move-w7-from-ssd-to-hdd/). Reinstalling FSX and addons is the best method in my humble opinion though. If you reinstall FSX, all of your FSX libraries will be up-to-date so don't understand your comment about taking advantage that the FSX libraries are already up-to-date. When you reinstall addon sceneries, you can install them on a separate hard (except for Orbx/FTX sceneries). FS Genesis and MyTrafficX can be installed on another HDD too separate from FSX. But, FEX simply replaces the textures for your sceneries so that will replace the scenery textures in your main FSX directory. Ultimate Terrain is landclass and should be installed with on the main FSX directory. In the scenery library, place UTX scenery areas just above Propeller Objects. UTX is landclass that tells your scenery textures what textures to load depending on where you are flying. All aircraft, including addon, must be located in the Airplane folder in the main FSX directory.

 

Best regards,

Jim

Well I made up my mind.

Step 1 I am going to install Win7 Premium on a SSD 128 Gigabyte and keep FSX on the WD black as it is today.

Step 2 latter on I will buy a second SSD 258 Gigabyte and migrate FSX on it;

Looks like a good plan. Just keep the WD available for any MegaScenery or other large photo real scenery programs. I have all my MegaScenery on my HDD and FSX/Windows 7 on my 256 GB SSD. I currently have 91.2 GB free. These SSD's fill up fast!

 

Best regards,

Jim

Jim,

 

I am reinstalling FSX from scratch. As you saw in another topic I had some difficulties with FSW De Luxe and Acceleration and SDK. But now apparently everything is in order. I will now continue with all the add-ons. Luckily I do not need to redownload the products. They are backed-up on an external disk.

Roger

On this same subject, I just built a new system (due to my old one dying last fall) and am in the process of reinstalling all my FSX goodies.

 

My system is as follows: (Main items)

 

I7-3770K

Cooler Master HAF 932 Advanced tower

Cooler Master Hyper 212 EVO Cpu Cooler

MSI Z77GD65 MOBO

Gigabyte Geforce GTX670 GPU

8GB Crucial 1866 DDR3

256GB Crucial M4 SSD (Operating System and other major program files)

WD 1TB Caviar Black All the rest including FSX, Addons

 

I have installed FSX and Acceleration on my 1TB drive and the plan is to connect my old HD and just copy the config files, simobjects, scenery dir., and anything else that would put FSX back the way it was when my old MOBO failed.

 

I then plan to research all the tweaks here and apply what is needed to get me up to date.

 

Does this sound reasonable? Any hints or shortcuts to make this less painful and time consuming would be much appreciated.

 

Note - I am running everything at stock speeds at the moment. I will probably do some light OC'ing when I get the new system configured and all my software loaded.

 

Thanks.

On this same subject, I just built a new system (due to my old one dying last fall) and am in the process of reinstalling all my FSX goodies.

 

My system is as follows: (Main items)

 

I7-3770K

Cooler Master HAF 932 Advanced tower

Cooler Master Hyper 212 EVO Cpu Cooler

MSI Z77GD65 MOBO

Gigabyte Geforce GTX670 GPU

8GB Crucial 1866 DDR3

256GB Crucial M4 SSD (Operating System and other major program files)

WD 1TB Caviar Black All the rest including FSX, Addons

 

I have installed FSX and Acceleration on my 1TB drive and the plan is to connect my old HD and just copy the config files, simobjects, scenery dir., and anything else that would put FSX back the way it was when my old MOBO failed.

 

I then plan to research all the tweaks here and apply what is needed to get me up to date.

 

Does this sound reasonable? Any hints or shortcuts to make this less painful and time consuming would be much appreciated.

 

Note - I am running everything at stock speeds at the moment. I will probably do some light OC'ing when I get the new system configured and all my software loaded.

 

Thanks.

 

Thats what I did. 2 times now. But this time I saved my 2 do list with all my serials on it so everything is on one place. That was the most time consuming thing. I added a 2TB drive strictly for FSX.

Reinstalled FSX and SP's from scratch and copied the following Dir's to the new install after reinstalling and activating all addons.

 

Simobjects Airplanes Rotorcraft (Keeps current added liveries)

Gauge folder (Keeps modded gauges intact)

Sound Folder (Keeps added and aliased sound configs)

Effects folder

Addon Scenery

Scenery\Global\Scenery (no overwrites)

Doc and Settings controls folder (Keeps a non default keyboard layout intact)

Doc and settings sim objects folder (Keeps current aircraft hours)

Grantedrewards.bin

My Documents Flight Simulator X Files (Logbook, current flight plans bla bla bla)