My 256 gb ssd is a little low on disk space, I have a huge FSX folder! One tip that might help someone save some space is your screenshot folder. In my pictures\flight simulator there can be a lot of saved screenshots. Mine was over 9gb! Now I have over 30gb free instead of almost 20. Just an FYI

Thanks a lot, I jst found that out the other day, I didn't think it could be that much data just for screenshots.

The funny thing is, while some screenshots were really great, and I'm gonna share them with y'all here as soon as possible, an awful lot have obviuosly been taken by "accident". And what really annoyed me when I went over my screenshots, was that I seem to press the V key for way too much time and thus taking literally dozens of (nearly) identical screens.

 

Cheers,

Flo

I seem to be extremely lucky to not have a FSX / Screenshot Folder. When you press the "V" KEY, all pictures are saved to C:\My Pictures\Flight Simulator X Files ..... which is OUTSIDE of my FSX folder, and on another drive entirely.

 

C: = Windows ONLY!!!!!!!

D: = CD-ROM

E: = External Drive (FS9, FSX, FS9 BACKUP FILES, FSX BACKUP FILES, FS9 BUILDING TOOLS, FSX BUILDING TOOLS) 66 gig free of 300 Gig.

Yeah, I have always converted my screenies to a jpg to reduce them from roughly 7 mb's each to 100-200 kb each (obviously some quality loss but worth it). I do this after every second flight or so. 7 mb's per pic is crazy to have lying around chewing up drive space.

I seem to be extremely lucky to not have a FSX / Screenshot Folder. When you press the "V" KEY, all pictures are saved to C:\My Pictures\Flight Simulator X Files ..... which is OUTSIDE of my FSX folder, and on another drive entirely.

 

C: = Windows ONLY!!!!!!!

D: = CD-ROM

E: = External Drive (FS9, FSX, FS9 BACKUP FILES, FSX BACKUP FILES, FS9 BUILDING TOOLS, FSX BUILDING TOOLS) 66 gig free of 300 Gig.

 

I have my SSD as my main C drive, and installed FSX there too. Not sure if this helps performance but when I first setup my computer I though it did.

 

I have a D drive that's a separate 2tb drive for all my other games, and any downloads and installers I want to keep. And the D drive also has my swap file on it.

 

Yeah, I have always converted my screenies to a jpg to reduce them from roughly 7 mb's each to 100-200 kb each (obviously some quality loss but worth it). I do this after every second flight or so. 7 mb's per pic is crazy to have lying around chewing up drive space.

 

It's crazy how big the screenshots are! they are all BMP files, at over 8MB a piece! I run 1920x1080 resolution.

Why not give this a try. I have been using it for about ten years now. No more huge BMP files: http://www.michielovertoom.com/software/snapper/

Another disk space saver, if your using an SSD drive, is to turn off your system page file.

This should save you somewhere around 1.5x the amount of space, as you have memory.

 

So if you have 8GB memory for example, it might just free up almost 12GB of space (1.5x your memory limit)