Okay I have the following add ons for FSX:

 

1) REX Essential Plus Overdrive

2) GEX

3) UTX

4) Active Sky 2012/OpusFSX

5) FS2Crew PMDG 747 Voice Commander Edition

6) FSpassengers

7) Ground Services X (GSX)

8) Various airplanes from Carenado, Aerosoft, PMDG

9) Various scenery from Orbx, UK2000, Aerosoft, FSdreamteam, etc

10) ENBseries

11) Accu-Feel

12) SW 3D Lights Redux

13) UT2 (Ultimate Traffic 2)

 

I will be doing a fresh install since I am building an entire new pc just for FSX. I will be using Windows 7 Ultimate 64bit. Now before I start the installation, I'd like to know if there's a prefer order to install all these addons? I want to get everything right from the beginning so that I don't run into any problems later on with the game. Another thing I read about is DX10 mode for FSX. I'm assuming when you install FSX for the first time it will default to DX9? Do you all recommend I enable DX10 mode. I'm not sure if its as simple as hitting a switch or will I have to dig deeper in order to get DX10 mode to work with FSX?

 

I am coming from a Mac using X-Plane and want to give FSX a try out. I appreciate the help from the community.

Somebody correct me if I'm wrong, but I think the most important one is installing FSX itself. You just have to make sure you test, then defrag and reboot after the FSX installation and then test and defrag and reboot again after installing Acceleration.

 

After my fsx/acc install, I begin installing my add ons one by one. After each install, I load up fsx to make sure the add on is working, then defrag and repeat for the next install.

 

I have tried DX10 but there are a lot of issues that will pop up. You can find fixes for them on the DX10 forum.

 

Hope this helps.

My build will have a 128gb SSD, this is where I will install the OS onto, I have a dedicated 2TB HDD for everything else which I wlll install FSX and addons onto. Is defragging absolutely necessary after installing every single add-on?

 

I thought there's a certain order to install certain types of scenery so that one will overlay on top another and will look correct while flying?

Is defragging absolutely necessary after installing every single add-on?

 

I wouldn't regard it necessary after every single addon, but after every larger addon(e.g scenery addons that cover a large area, PMDG birds, Airbus X Extended,... I think you get the idea).

Also, if you want to install any Wilco aircraft, I'd recommend installing them first, as they tend to mess up the dll.xml a bit, causing crashes when you load other planes.

 

Regards,

Flo

If you have an SSD, do not defragment it. I used this guide to install FSX and this guide to tune it up. Also try using this defrag software for your HDD. I'm not sure how real their claims are for the "high performance area" but it does seem to be logical.

DO NOT defrag the SSD!

http://forums.dpreview.com/forums/post/40335972

I'm not installing FSX onto my SSD, and I know not to defrag my SSD. I heard that if you use Orbx addons that they're incompatible with UTX?

DO NOT defrag the SSD!

http://forums.dprevi...s/post/40335972

If you have an SSD, do not defragment it

A bit late there

 

I don't know whether ORBX and UTX are compatible, I only have ORBX stuff.

Does it matter which order you install your add-ons, or can you somehow adjust that later in the configurations/settings? It would suck if you got everything installed only to find out that something is out of order and you have to redo the entire installation, which is what I'm strongly trying to avoid by getting this correct before I proceed.

Does it matter which order you install your add-ons, or can you somehow adjust that later in the configurations/settings?

In one word: No!

The order of installation will be reflected by your scenery library initially, but you can easily move areas up and down. Furthermore, there are some packages, that always want/need to have a certain priority, but usually they are take care of that themselves. For example, ORBX scenery is always on top of my scenery library, no matter what the last thing I installed was.

 

Regards,

Flo

The order of it all shouldn't make 1 bit of difference, but just load FSX after each one to make sure it works correctly..

 

The defragging is really not required in such heavy doses. Installing loads of stuff is not what fragments your drive, its the removing/adding/removing/adding of stuff over time that fragments things on mechanical drives. Maybe 1 defrag after installing the whole lot, but definitely not after every add-on, that's just bonkers, pointless and a waste of time...

 

Out of interest, how come your installing AS2012, REX AND Opus? 3 weather engines?

ok, 1 for textures (REX), 1 for weather(Opus), but the third? What will AS2012 do for you if you have the previous 2?

I heard that if you use Orbx addons that they're incompatible with UTX?

 

It's not a case of Orbx addons being incompatible with UTX but that in areas where they are both active, UTX is completely redundant. That is why it is imperative that Orbx be placed above UTX in the scenery library. Remember, though, that Orbx covers only a tiny fraction of the area that UTX does; unless you're talking about Australia!