Mine's 3.5GB, and that's with my photoreal Tucson scenery! Who has the smallest FS folder?

Sheesh, I though my folder was big at 6.9 Gig.Adam

Yep,and next week will be the annual "Looky how many icons I have on my desktop,har!how many do you have?"Then they wonder why it takes five minutes to boot up to where you can run any programs....David

>Mine's 3.5GB, and that's with my photoreal Tucson scenery!>Who has the smallest FS folder?2.8GB here. But I'm also using FS2002.

>That's costing you performance pure & simple.Jim, no it's not. I got my system running perfectly smooth, it's running as fast as it was with 10GB or less, only moment where I feel a loading time is when I want to enter aircraft list, it takes more time to list them. But, that's it. Disk is defragged weekly, and performance is just great. Only problem I got now is due to overheating sometimes, but it's just cuz it's pretty warm here.

Do you guys remember a utility that MS Office installed called "findfast" and all the hoopla a few yrs back about shutting it down in msconfig because it was bringing a lot of computers to their knees by running some kind of dynamic index of files or something? I never pretended to understand it, but I once read somewhere that FS uses a variant of this to index your fs folder while the sim is running. For that reason it was advised to keep your FS folder as small as possible. Probably BS, and now that you mention it, I haven't seen anything to that effect in several years so it probably was just some guy on some forum blowing smoke up everybody's a--.Anyway, I like to at least imagine that my sim runs better if I clean all the unused crap out every once in a while, and besides, I'm old and if I don't stay on top of it I'll forget whats been added on and what's default :) . Have I actually quantified any performance gain after a cleanup? No.Maybe I'm just jealous of all you guys with high speed connections because I'm still stuck on good ole dial-up :) .Jim

>Maybe I'm just jealous of all you guys with high speed>connections because I'm still stuck on good ole dial-up :) .Oh oh dude, so sorry bout dialup! I know how it was back then, like 8 years ago last time. 12mbit here :) I hope you get something faster soon.

>Ah, the annual 'size' comparison. Bet you've got a gold>chain and a red Corvette, too, Word Not Allowed ;-) I'd like to know who>your '4 silent fans' are :9 Mark, LOL!!!Ah, Corvette is just too weak. I'd prefer a F360 Spider. And man, do I hate gold chains!Btw. those fans are veeeeeeeeeeeeery secretive! They rather prefer not to discover themselves :-lolPS. 4x Papst 8412 NGMLV.

62.5GB here:)

is guess this is the time for me to go grab me another 80GB Seagate, run Raid, and use the 2nd one for fs and join in ehh??BTW, with Raid, can you dedicate 1 entire HDD to something like FS??

is guess this is the time for me to go grab me another 80GB Seagate, run Raid, and use the 2nd one for fs and join in ehh??BTW, with Raid, can you dedicate 1 entire HDD to something like FS??

lol, you guys just changed my whole philosophy of reinstalling when crossing the 8GB mark.

WOW

Ah lol, yeah the annual comparison. *:-*And my folder shrunk from like ~7 to about 3.87 gigs.Etienne :-wave

18.5 actual size13.9 compressedsave myself 4.5gb....LOLRegards,Tom