I am in the process of a complete reinstallation of Windows on one of my SSDs, and FSX on my WD Black Caviar 640g, 64 cache mechanical drive. Unless I wanted to buy a new 240 SSD, that was about all I could do since I could not load most of my payware scenery since FSX had used 110g of the 120g available on my second SSD.

 

A few months ago I had deleted all my Australian ORBX sceneries to make room, but going with the larger drive, I even bought and loaded additional Australian airports.

 

Alice Springs has to be one of the most stunning payware sceneries on the globe. It is so real you can almost feel the sand in your teeth, and the blistering heat on your arms. I never imagined it would be as detailed and delightful as it is.

 

Same goes for Wollongong and Port Macquarie. Haven't even loaded NA or utilities yet. It's a lot of work with little time it seems to get it all done.

 

Anyway, I had a few of those special FSX "WOW" moments and want to share it.

 

Kind regards,

Totally agree, Stephen. YBAS is really great. It makes me want to move there (nearly) I only have it and a couple of NA payware fields, and YBAS makes me want to spend lots of money of ORBX Au airports.

 

I've got it working in P3d and have been doing some side-by-side testing of them..it's a great user of hardware and gives a good comparison (hanging out for the new ORBX "porter" program they are working on)

 

best

 

jake

Definately am curious Stephen, after you go back to you WD for FSX do you really notice any difference in performance? My guess is during loading a "yes" but in actual gameplay, probably "not really". I have only 26GB left on my 256GB SSD solely used for FSX. So I have moved a lot of my scenery add-ons to another drive, a 600GB WD Velop for all my photoreal scenery (Megascenery, my own, etc.), and I can't really tell any real drop in performance. Maybe there is. I even run some scenery on an external WD 7200 drive and it works quite well.

Remember guys, a mechanical drive will start loosing perf. at 60% + of his filling capability as of an SSD will be 90%.

Remember guys, a mechanical drive will start loosing perf. at 60% + of his filling capability as of an SSD will be 90%.

 

Great to hear Stephen.

 

Alain, can you followup with me on this one please? I have my FSX complete installed onto a separate SATA drive. It has 86 gigs free of 500 gigs total. Will this impact the performance of my FSX by not having more space available?

 

Also, interestingly, I had a recent C: root drive failure (the one that came with the computer, only two years old). I bought a 2 terabyte drive as a replacement. After re-install of Win7, 64 bit and loading up with my usual array of software products I then linked up FSX using freeware registry utility. I have had to do some reinstalls of planes to get them to work properly but otherwise most stuff is working perfectly. I also maintain a backup of the fsx settings, you know, fsx.cfg and scenery.cfg etc so I had no rebuilds of that stuff.

 

Anyway, my FSX performance went up signficantly. I have no idea why? Other than the new root drive and reinstall of Win7 everything FSX is exactly the same. Any idea on what might cause the improved performance of FSX? I have mentioned elsewhere that I am seeing 25%-50% increase in fps over what I was getting before.

Alain, can you followup with me on this one please? I have my FSX complete installed onto a separate SATA drive. It has 86 gigs free of 500 gigs total. Will this impact the performance of my FSX by not having more space available?

 

You are border line OK, 10% of 500GB is 50GB and you have 86GB left, since the SSD will start losing perf. at around 90% + or - I would not put more stuff on it. I keep mine topped at 80%.

 

Anyway, my FSX performance went up signficantly. I have no idea why?

 

To pin point what was the problem with your old C drive is a shot in the dark since you had a failure, if the C drive was filled up at more than 50% (it was a mechanical drive right?) it may be why your perf were not up to par, if you are seeing 25 to 30% more FPS I'm faitly certain that something else was going somewhere with the old drive, something you did not know was happening somewhere (incompatibility?), reinstalling the OS probably took care of it, what it was may stay a mistery.

Alain, makes sense, some other issue going on, and the incompatibility issue could be it as well.

 

All I know is I have great FSX performance for the first time in a long time. I had written off the poorer performance to loading up my computer with so much stuff.

Impressive as SSD's are their current price premium is still (IMHO ludicrously) high :Waiting: You'd have thought they'd have increased in capacity and decreased in price quicker? Still it's worthy of note that folk still complain about the performance of add-on A over add-on B whatever disc they have them installed on? As a "Train Simmer" too MSTS, almost 11 years old now, was built on the flakiest of foundations and with that I concluded that HDD speed had a lot to do with poor frame rates in the Sim. However until SSD's come down in price considerably I'll not be in a position to test that theory fully.

 

Geoff