I have noticed today that megascenery earth takes up a lot of space on my hard drive.  I have 3 states and that is 150GB of memory.  I have a external hard drive that uses USB hook up.  Am I able to put scenery and other FSX files on that and keep it plugged in or would that not work.  I never realized how much memory FSX takes with add ons.  I have over 300 GB of memory used in FSX and add ons.  If there is a way to separate some files onto the external that would be great.  Any advice would be greatly appreciated.  Thank you.

You could use the USB drive, but I'm guessing that loading times will be slower than an internal drive

 

It might not make that much of a difference, but it is a consideration.

Why not add a 1 TB internal 7200 rpm drive..

I am trying not to spend any extra money. Use the resources I have.

 

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I doubt it will work.  One other individual tried to run FSX on an external USB HDD and kept getting crashes.  I own almost all of the US states and what I did was place installation files on the USB HDD.  I then installed the MSE states to one of my HDD's.  300GB of data isn't very much.  My SSD where FSX resides has 45GB's, Drive D has 773GB's, and Drive E has 444GB of FSX data/files.  My USB Drive (a 2 TB WD drive) has 1.23 TB in the FSX backup folder (contains all my installation programs for all of my addons).

 

Photoscenery takes up a tremendous amount of VAS and, if you have all three of your photoscenery states enabled in the Scenery Library, all will load in the background whether you plan on flying over them or not.  While you're flying, you'll hear disk thrashing as the States continue to load.  If you have Orbx stuff, it will be loading too.  If you have any photoscenery overseas, it will be loading too even though you might be only flying over Kansas.  After I discovered this several months ago, I disabled all the addon scenery in the Scenery Library and only enabled the scenery I was going to use in my flight plan.  FSX loaded up faster plus I was able to save a lot of system resources.  I remembered a Scenery config editor that I had used in the past and decided to use it again (you can get it on the Internet.  Just search for SceneryConfigEditor).  The utility is freeware and works great.  Before I even start up FSX I can open up this utility and enable only the scenery I plan on using during a flight.  I no longer get Out-of-Memory or a warning from FSUIPC that I'm running low on memory.

 

Hope this helps.

 

Best regards,

Jim

 

P.S.  I'm also moving this to the Photoscenery Forum where this subject is discussed frequently.  You'll also get a lot of ideas and suggestions from the members who frequent that forum too (including representatives from MegaSceneryEarth).

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We've had customers run the scenery of USB drives before. It can be done, but obviously USB 3.0 would be your best bet there. You will get slower initial load times and the scenery may take longer to fully resolve during a flight, especially if you jump to or slew fast across the scenery, but it can be done. Obviously, an internal hard drive is preferable (SSD even better) but you can just give it a try on your current external drive and see how you go.

I bought a 70 rim internal hd 1 to. Do I have to uninstall all my fsx files and reinstall them on the new hd?

 

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7200 rpm

 

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If you are talking about storage for MSE, then no, you can leave your existing FSX stuff where it is. Just move the MSE files to that new drive. If you already have some MSE installed into FSX, just go into the Scenery Library, and for each MSE item listed, highlight each, click "Edit Area" and then point it to the new path on the new drive.

I thought about putting all fsx files on one drive.

 

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You can move the entire FSX folder over to the new drive.

 

If you did not have FSX on the C: drive, but say the D: drive, you can change the drive letters

so that the new drive is the D: drive - and nothing else has to be changed.