October 9, 201411 yr As I continue to purchase more add-ons my main FSX SSD is filling up. I have my Windows OS and FSX on a 240gb SSD and I have a nearly empty 1TB HDD. Out of my add-ons what can I install on to the backup drive and is there a specific way to do it? FSX Rex4 ActiveSky Next Vpilot FTX Central (global) PMDG 737NGX Wilco CRJ Nextgen FS2Crew I know FTX and scenery stuff needs to be on the main drive, what about the rest?
October 9, 201411 yr I know FTX and scenery stuff needs to be on the main drive, what about the rest? Actually, some scenery stuff doesn't need to be there. I run all of my photoscenery on a second (and third) drive. So long as the path points to the right place in the scenery library, you're golden. Scott
October 9, 201411 yr I run all of my scenery on a 3TB HD including ORBX. I haven't noticed any difference in the Sim when I switched ORBX from a SSD to a HD. Really, I don't think there is a reasonably priced SSD big enough that would accommodate all of ORBX,global,mesh, vector and Photo scenery ZORAN
October 9, 201411 yr I have 5 drives for FSX (3 SSD and 2 platter) All my scenery is on separate drives, except for the stock scenery that's installed when you install FSX. My ASN, REX, and FEX addons are also on the separate drives. Like Zoran above, I don't really notice a difference between the scenery that is on the SSD's or platter drives when in the sim. Where there IS a difference is transferring files around. Chris Chris Strobel KSNA
October 10, 201411 yr Author When I installed the ASN update today it said it had to be on the FSX drive, I guess not? I am curious what your guys folders look like for scenery being pointed to the main FSX scenery folder I would like to do this.
October 10, 201411 yr Recently installed an extra HD as the HD with FS9/FSX including my add-ons was nearly full. Re-installed MSE on this HD without any trouble, I just altered the disc letter in the path. Wanted to do the same with Aerosoft Night Environment scenery as I had just downloaded the up-date versions. However when I tried to changed the disc letter I got a message that FSX could not be found. So I just re-installed on the original "FSX" disc. Any suggestions
October 10, 201411 yr My SSD is partitioned and I keep all of my scenery on the second partition. I've ben running scenery from a separate hard drive for several years previously with no issues. FSX can run a lot of things from a separate location, but some scenery and aircraft can be a bit picky about where it is placed (e.g. ORBX). IAN Ryzen 5800X3D, Nvidia RTX5080 - 32 Gig DDR4 RAM, 1TB & 2 TB NVME drives - Windows 11 64 bit MSFS 2024 Premium Deluxe Edition Resolution 2560 x 1440 (32 inch curved monitor)
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