I've got a fresh install of FSX sitting here in d:\FSX. Its clean. No Add Ons at all. Then I have this pile of AddOns waiting to be installed. I was wondering if maybe you guys might give me some advice on what order to install these in. I know I'm supposed to do UTX and patch that up before doing GEX...but beyond that I'm not sure. Any hints you have about installing any of it would be appreciated.

 

Here is what I've got:

 

UTX USA

UTX Canada

UTX Alaska

UTX Tropical & Carribean

 

GEX North America

GEX Atlantic & Pacific Tropics

 

REX Essential (I haven't downloaded Overdrive yet but I'm sure I will)

OpusFSX

ActiveSky 2012

 

I see that some folks use something called "FS Global 2010" or "FSGenesis" but I don't have anything like that and I'm not entirely sure what its for. Should I pick up something like that? What does it do? Or does the UTX stuff do the same thing? If you were to recommend that I pick up something like FS Global 2010 or FSGenesis, should it be installed before or after UTX?

 

I was thinking I'd install in the order I listed them, but I've never installed AddOns into FSX before so I wanted to check and see if I'm doing this right.

 

Also, I'm planning on picking up some ORBX scenery. Should those be installed last?

 

ORBX/FTX NA Pacific Northwest

ORBX/FTX NA Pacific Fjords

ORBX/FTX NA Northern Rockies

ORBX/FTX US Central Rockies

 

Thanks!

I'm planning on picking up some ORBX scenery. Should those be installed last?

ORBX/FTX NA Pacific Northwest

ORBX/FTX NA Pacific Fjords

ORBX/FTX NA Northern Rockies

ORBX/FTX US Central Rockies

 

Orbx/FTX scenery is loaded at the top of your scenery.cfg by the FTX Central utility. You do not have to worry about organization in your scenery library as they do it for you. If you just want your normal addons/default scenery running, you go to FTX Central and it will remove the Orbx scenery lines until you go back in and load them again.

 

Your UTX landclass should be located just above Propeller Objects in the Scenery Library and any addon scenery above that. GEX replaces all of your default textures and backsup the default. These is no line placed in the Scenery Library. You just have better optimized and better performing scenery textures.

 

OPUS and Active Sky are weather programs. You should install one or the other but not both (that's what I would do anyway! Others would say load both but run only one at a time). Neither program will appear in your scenery library as they are standalone programs.

 

Hope this helps.

 

Best regards,

Jim