The reason for not installing in the Programs folder, is that WIn7 is very protective of that folder and will block addons from installing there.

 

As to RAID or not, I'm not the guy to ask, but if it were my system, I would designate one as the system drive and one as the FS drive.

The reason for not installing in the Programs folder, is that WIn7 is very protective of that folder and will block addons from installing there.

Odd, I installed a ton of addons and not 1 single thing got blocked from being installed their at all.

In all my years, I've never heard anybody say this at all about the programs folder. Most apps by default install there, thats what its designed for, so saying Win7 is very "protective" of that folder and advising others not to use that location to install, in my opinion is false information, and wrong.

 

Based on what your saying, we shouldnt install anything there because windows 7 is guarding it with its life, when in fact thats just not the case.

 

All the addons I installed, all went there, and they all found FSX at its default location, and installed no problemo what-so-ever, and worked. Aerosoft Sceneries, PMDG737NGX, FS2Crew, FSFlyingschool and lots of others..

 

I would go as far as to say that telling people to install it elsewhere could actually cause more problems, because later they might forget they installed it elsewhere, and addons will try to find FSX in its default location, and will not find it, throwing up errors..

 

As for RAID, I decided to keep the 2 drives as RAID0 and simply rebuild the RAID array with a slightly bigger strip size of 128k instead of 32k. It makes no sense to install FSX onto a seperate drive, as you are then introducing additional disk I/O traffic when your system drive is trying to read from the FSX drive to then feed it all back to your CPU, instead of just taking it straight from Drive C and directly on its way to CPU, so I kept it as 1 huge drive, all data straight in and straight out, no cross referencing going on.

 

Keep It SimpleS B)

Simple is good!

 

I did not exactly invent the advice to install FSX outside the Program Files folder, however...

 

Add-ons will find the FSX folder, regardless of where it is installed... so no concerns there..

 

Nevertheless, if you've got it all working - great!

Odd, I installed a ton of addons and not 1 single thing got blocked from being installed their at all.

In all my years, I've never heard anybody say this at all about the programs folder. Most apps by default install there, thats what its designed for, so saying Win7 is very "protective" of that folder and advising others not to use that location to install, in my opinion is false information, and wrong.

 

PMDG and many other developers recommend it. I dont think its an issue everyone experiences. Its more of a preventative step.

 

IMPORTANT - we do NOT recommended installing to the default file location in Windows Vista or Windows 7. (Program Files or Program Files (x86)) - Windows "protects" anything within these folders and has been shown to cause numerous problems with the install and configuration of addons. We recommend you pick a simple folder path outside of these folders such as C:\FSX

 

FSCommander:

 

Important: We strongly recommend NOT to install FlightSim Commander under C:\Program

Files, because this may lead to a number of very unpleasant problems, especially under Vista

and Windows 7. If your computer has more than one drive, we recommend to install FlightSim

CommanderonadriveotherthanC:

PMDG and many other developers recommend it. I dont think its an issue everyone experiences. Its more of a preventative step.

Used to be a problem in Vista, so maybe is paranoia and history... But then almost everything was a problem in Vista :blink:

Windows 7 is like everything Vista "Should" have been and then some.

 

Jon, funny how our quest for realism leaves us dissapointed at the actual workd arround us huh.. ha ha ha