Multiple Install of FSX on Seperate Drives

[Donmo 6]

Hi, all. I have tried to search for this answer, but I am not finding the exact situation I have. I have FSX and Acceleration installed in my C drive, with VISTA as the O/S. I just added another drive into my case. I want to install FSX onto it for a seperate version of FSX for older aircraft. Is it as easy as just loading it out, or am I going to run into problems, and if so, what are the work-arounds? Thanks for any help or directions you can point me to.

 

Don

[OldMaintChief 7]

You could set up a dual boot, with Windows 7 and FSX om the other drive. I had this with XP32 and Vista32 for awhile with no problem.

 

Dave

[machine2035 176]

Hi, all. I have tried to search for this answer, but I am not finding the exact situation I have. I have FSX and Acceleration installed in my C drive, with VISTA as the O/S. I just added another drive into my case. I want to install FSX onto it for a seperate version of FSX for older aircraft. Is it as easy as just loading it out, or am I going to run into problems, and if so, what are the work-arounds? Thanks for any help or directions you can point me to.

 

Don

You will need to have two windows installs with dual boot as Dave mentioned above.

 

You can't install FSX twice with one OS install, the registry just won't accept it, and when you go to install you will get 'Repair/Remove' prompts instead of 'Install' prompts.

[Donmo 6]

Thanks, guys. I think I am going to install a second FS9 instead. It is easier, and I'll only be using it once in a while. I appreciate the help.

 

Don

[ABE 0]

You can use 2 installations of FSX on 2 different "C's" using the same ONE "FSX" folder.

I am running FSX  with XP64 and Windows 7, both using the same FSX folder.

[Gypsy Baron 10]

Just make a copy of your fsx.exe file and rename it, say, fsx2.exe. When you run fsx2.exe it will create a new cfg file named fsx2.cfg.. You can call out different simobject locations in that cfg file while keeping your original cfg file intact. You can run fsx.exe or fsx2.exe and the two unique cfg files will let you have diferent setups for each.

 

I do this for various types of flying. I have 5 or 6 'fsx.exe' copies with unique names.

 

I also have a dual-boot WinXp 32/Win 7 x64 with two separate FSX installs. They do share a common "addon scenery" which is a separate logical drive holding all my addon scenery and aliased to the empty addon scenery folders in each fsx directory.

 

  Paul