I intend to:

 

1.Install FSX then make a short flight before finally rebooting.

 

2.Install Service pack 2 then reboot.

 

3.Install Acceleration then reboot.

 

I'd appreciate confirmation that I'm correct before I go ahead.

 

Cliff

Looks good to me. A good idea is to not install FSX in its default (program files) folder, but create your own folder f.e. C:\FSX

 

Harro

IMHO, reboot before doing any testing. Go here for one of the most definitive answers anywhere.

If you install Acc, you won't need to install SP2, as it'll ask you to uninstall it before installing Acc.

I thank you all for taking the time to answer my query.

 

Regards.........Cliff

Funny thing this install...

 

I run Win7 x64, and ignored all this and simply installed the whole lot, FSX Gold, then acceleration straight on to with no "test flights" or loading FSX at all, nothing, just installed everything back to back and launched it, and flew... All went well, zero issues, and its running sweet... No problemo's..

 

Mine is all installed in its default location too, none of this mucking about with seperate locations or drives...

Not given me any hassles, and this is the 2nd time I've installed everything in this manner on my PC, and I did the exact same on my laptop, installed everything back-to-back, ran it a flew, all in default locations, zero problems.

 

From what i have read up on, this "Install it in a different folder/directory" seems more related to Vista and older systems where it guarded the program files directory quite over-brearingly, but is no longer the case with Win7...

 

Sorry to cause you any confusion Cliff, but my experiences with FSX have shown me that installing it and start flying works just fine, with no need for seperate directories or repeated reboots..

 

Not saying my way is the right way, far from it, just that I ignored all that stuff about installations as I felt a lot of it is old info NOT based on todays systems, so i ignored it, tried it out 3 times, and 3 times it worked perfectly :-)

 

I'm sure some will shoot me down though for saying this?

but is no longer the case with Win7..

Not true. Please do as all developers recommend and install outside the Programs folder. They seem to know what their talking about.

Not true. Please do as all developers recommend and install outside the Programs folder. They seem to know what their talking about.

ok, and your evidence is?

So far, my evidence is by trying it, and testing it, and so far, everything works perfectly...

 

I know what the developers have "Said previously", god knows I've spent weeks/months reading it all, but I'm from an I.T background, know Windows O/S's very well, and so could see no reason for these specific instructions, so decided to ignore them, and everything works perfectly.

 

Not trying to rock the boat here guys, just looking for the definitive proof as to WHY people keep spouting this stuff, when my experiences have been fine, by ignoring it all..

XP/Vista/Win7 are NOT the same, yet appear to keep pushing instructions as if they are all identical?

I'm sure some will shoot me down though for saying this?

 

Hey!! That's my line (LOL).

 

FWIW In many respects, I think you are absolutely right, and I used to always do as you have done, and was successful too. But I got to the point of thinking it takes only a few minutes to do it the way the "experts" say and surely they know more than I. So since I know so little about the computer world (when I first started flight simming all I wanted to do was to see "the pretty airplanes fly around") I followed the path hewn through the forest of improperly installed programming and did as they said. And you know what?? It flies about the same as before, maybe a little better. No, actually a lot better, but that's as much to do with having a heavy hitter computer (Jetline Hellfire GTO) as anything else

 

I think flight simmers are as given to following fads as anyone else. And I'm equally as sure as you that someone will shoot me down for saying it too.

 

But I really would install FSX and its' attendent programming outside the usual folder and even on a dedicated hard drive if I had the option.

FSX is surrounded by a lot of black magic... FSX has never run stable for long on my computers no matter how I installed it. It just takes one addon to create mayhem.

It just takes one addon to create mayhem.

That I can totally agree with...

1 Thing I did do was to make a copy of the FSX directory right after a clean install, just in case I need to compare later should any add-on go a bit screwy...

 

I must admit though, if I had 2 slow &@($* hard drives, I "might" consider installing FSX to its own drive ONLY to reduce latency in loading everything through 1 drive, but I'd be more likely to put both drives into RAID0 instead, but only for speed, and nothing to do with the black magic around installing and permissions...

 

I dont think its any coincidence either that my 20yrs in I.T working with thousands of computers of all different config's, different Operating systems and different security settings and the fact that the way I do things generally gives me almost zero problems with most things... I religiously read manuals for everything before installing anything, check reviews also, and can spot when something isnt right in a user manual, or refers to something that "used to be relevant years ago and is now just habit or "precautionary"...

 

To the original posted "Cliffard", I dint actually know FSX runs on a MAC?

Your computer in your profile says your using a MAC with Mountain Lion on it...