Hello all

 

Need some advice please Gents,

 

I have just bought a Kingston 128gb ssd that i want to have FSX dedicated on, so what do i do,

 

Do a complete reformat of windows on my WD caviar black(where fsx lives at the moment) and install FSX onto the SSD or,

 

Use the oem Acronis image software that came with the SSD to shift FSX over?

 

Whats the best way to go here??

 

Thanks for you're help.

Start with a clone of your mechanical drive to the SSD, as long as you have the necessary space to do so. Acronis will do nicely. You can reinstall programs (add-ons and other non-FSX programs) on the mechanical drive.

 

Ideally, you want both the O.S. and FSX on the SSD to really see the benefits.

Hi Techguy,

 

Can i ask what are the benefits of having the os on the same drive as FSX? Also, this might sound daft, do i put fs addons like AS2012, RC, onto the SSD with FSX or can they run on the WD?

 

I only have 128gb on the SSD.

 

Thanks for your help mate.

Hi Techguy,

 

Can i ask what are the benefits of having the os on the same drive as FSX? Also, this might sound daft, do i put fs addons like AS2012, RC, onto the SSD with FSX or can they run on the WD?

 

I only have 128gb on the SSD.

 

Thanks for your help mate.

 

An SSD can load data faster than a mechanical disk. If you have the O.S. on the SSD pretty much everything your computer does will happen quicker. What you need to do is look at the space taken up on your mechanical disk now and see if that exceeds the amount of space available on the SSD. If it does not, go ahead and clone it with Acronis. If it does, you'll want to uninstall things until you're down to a size which will fit on the SSD.

I have FSX, Windows 7, 3 add on planes and only 3 addon sceneries loaded on a new 128 MB SSD and it it almost full. I have a 1.5 TB 2nd drive with really nothing on it. My computer is exclusively for FSX. That was my mistake - a 128 GB SSD is too small to put FSX on. I think I am screwed now.

Hello all

 

Need some advice please Gents,

 

I have just bought a Kingston 128gb ssd that i want to have FSX dedicated on, so what do i do,

 

 

 

What I did, was copy the entire FSX directory to the SSD.

 

Then, start FSX from the SSD copy.

 

Leave the operating system where it is.

 

You can use the Flight1 Registry Repair utility to update

the OS so it knows where FSX is now to be found.

 

When it is all working nicely, you can delete the original FSX folder on the HD

(or keep it as backup..)

Thanks for all your help Guys

No Need to reinstall everything. Oh Lord.. No.

 

Do the copy to the new disk thingi

 

Do what Bert says

 

 

 

I have FSX, Windows 7, 3 add on planes and only 3 addon sceneries loaded on a new 128 MB SSD and it it almost full. I have a 1.5 TB 2nd drive with really nothing on it. My computer is exclusively for FSX. That was my mistake - a 128 GB SSD is too small to put FSX on. I think I am screwed now.

 

FSX out of the box is about 12 Gb. Windows is about 35 Gb. Something must have gone wrong with the installation of those 6 addons ^_^ I would put addon scenery's and SimObjects folder on that 2nd drive, so the FSX folder will not grow to much in the future.

So if Windows and FSX are both on the SSD, and my 1.5 TB disk is pretty empty, I can keep them on the SSD and load the scenery to the 1.5TB disk?

 

I amnot sure ow tis would work, wouldn't FSX look for the scenery inthe FSX scenery folder on the SSD. How would if ever know it is on the 2nd disk drive? I amnot a computer techie, so if you can give an explaination of how to set this up, I would graetly appreciate it. (Keep it simple for me please) This is the main reason I dont add anymore "stuff" to FSX - no room.

 

I have to see what else is on the SSD -but this is a dedicated FSX computer - nothing else on it. I will list what is on it on Thurs ( I am on vacation now - miss flying).

 

Thanks for your support Forum.

Hi Paul,

 

When installing addon scenerys simply install them to let say a folder, D:\Addon Scenery. The installer will take care of the correct path in the scenery.cfg file. That should work. Scenery's you install manually you have to add in FSX, the correct path comes automatically when you activate them there.

 

The SimObjects folder can be moved from FSX to say: D:\SimObjects. For this you have to modify the FSX.cfg this way:

 

[Main]

User Objects=Airplane, Helicopter

SimObjectPaths.0=D:\SimObjects\Airplanes

SimObjectPaths.1=D:\SimObjects\Rotorcraft

SimObjectPaths.2=D:\SimObjects\GroundVehicles

SimObjectPaths.3=D:\SimObjects\Boats

SimObjectPaths.4=D:\SimObjects\Animals

SimObjectPaths.5=D:\SimObjects\Misc

 

When installing Addon airplanes you'll have to install them into that directory. I think this will do. I'm waiting for my own 120 Gb SSD to be delivered so i have no real experience yet, but am confident it will work.

 

You could also make a Program Folder on that other drive to install other applications that don't require fast acces.

 

Hope this helps,

In preparation of my SSD to arrive i just did the above. Moved SimObjects and Aerosoft folder out of FSX folder to another location (23 Gb). Airplanes loads as always and after changing AS scenery location paths (with SceneryConfigEditor), scenery loads fine too.

Thanks for the solution. I thougt I was finished with a 80% full SSD. It is good to know I can start using that 1.5 TB 2nd drive that is pretty much empty.