I have been a longtime FS9 and FSX user. Last week my hardrive crashed and I need to replace my system. My question for the forum is what updates should be added and where to I get them for the FSX program first. Secondly below is the list of my many aircraft addons. The question is in what order should they be loaded to the new system. I have had problems in past with new addons affecting exisitng addons etc. I have the following aircraft addons for FSX:

 

Carenado: C340, 182, 210, baron 58, Piper Turbine Meridian,

Realair : Beach Duke Piston and Turbine version

PMDG: 747, MD11,

Captainsim:707, 727, 767, 757, all versions

Ariane: 737-700, and 800

Flight1: PC12

Wilcopub: All EmBraer Aircraft, Airbus a319,a320, a330, all versions

Digital Air: Piper Cheyenne, All versions

MilVis: c310

CLS: Dc-10, 747

HJG: Dc-8, L1011,

MD-88

LVDS:-767

 

 

I have a few others as well buit you get the picture. Is there an particular order or process for starting up a new system with the FSX product and replacing the addons?

 

Thanks in advance for your suggestions.

This should get you pointed in the right direction. Think of the earth as a bunch of layers and install accordingly e.g.products like FSGlobal first, then stuff like UTX then texture files such as GEX. Add-on airports after all that is done. Add-on aircraft last.

 

Good luck!

Almost everything you have listed are addon aircrafts.. It doesn't matter the order you install add on aircrafts.

 

For that matter, even addon sceneries...if you install them out of order, you can go into the scenery menu settings and stack em in different orders. no permanenant damage done

I remember that the manual that came with the PMDG NGX suggested a particular manner of installing FSX from scratch, so if you have the NGX manuals it might be worth a look.

Think of the earth as a bunch of layers and install accordingly e.g.products like FSGlobal first, then stuff like UTX then texture files such as GEX

 

Thats how i install FSX also...sim is running just fine..

I remember that the manual that came with the PMDG NGX suggested a particular manner of installing FSX from scratch, so if you have the NGX manuals it might be worth a look.

 

It just says don't install FSX in the default Program Files / Program Files (x86) locations as there are certain write permission issues that can come up from that.

Installing FSX to it's own directory (C:\Flight Simulator X) or similar bypasses all the protection Microsoft put on the default Program Files folder.

 

There's nothing about what order to do what, unless you're talking about the legacy products on FS9 which had to be in a certain order which they explained in one of the documents from their website.

 

One thing I'd recommend is after installing each addon (plane, scenery, mesh, terrain textures, whatever) start FSX to let it load the addon, boot up the default FSX flight to "seat" everything then reboot your computer completely before installing the next addon.

Well, I've had a problem whe installing Wilco products after installing the PMDG MD-11, because the Wilco installer corrupted the dll.xml file causing CTDs every time I loaded up the MD-11. After sorting that out, everything worked fine again, though.

Note: that was some years ago, maybe they've changed the installer since then, because from what I remember, there seemed to be quite a few people out there facing the same problem.

 

Regards,

Flo

777Fan,

 

You may have an answer to my question. I have FS9 on my hard drive and went to install fsx in a separate folder because I wanted to use the full 64 bit Win 7 and he 12gb RAM.However, when I install FSX, it copies a couple of files to the FSX folder I created but the rest of the files are loaded in the X86 microsoft games folder with fs9. How do I stop FSX installing this way without deleting FS9? Suggestions welocome from anyone.

 

Craig

Change the FS9 directory name while you're installing FSX? Change it back when you are done. Just a suggestion.