Hi,

 

I have my Operating System on drive C and flight simulator FSX on drive D.   I try to keep my scenery on drive E.  I would like to install Switzerland Professional scenery and I understand, with my drive arrangement, It would automatically be loaded with the FSX on drive D.  I asked the provider for the mechanism for loading their scenery on drive E.  I have got the following advice:

 

you can select the path for the installation in the setup.

Automatically the path where your FSX is installed will be selected. To change it to another path manually you need to have an FSX.exe located there. Just copy the one from your main FSX folder into the other path where you want to install the addon and then point the installer there manually with the "Browse" button in it.

 

 

When I look at the FSX folder in drive D, I see lots of sub-folders and files, including the fsx.exe.  By copying only the  fsx.exe on drive D into drive E, does this mean that I would not have all the contents of the FSX that is on drive D?  Would any of these contents be needed when running the Switzerland scenery?  Would I effectively have two FSX's installed, one on drive D and one on drive E ?   I normally just click the FSX icon on my taskbar to launch the flight simulator on drive D.  With this new arrangement, would it be sufficient only to click fsx.exe on the drive E when launching the Switzerland scenery?  

 Would this setup cause any conflict between the two FSX’s and my other scenery?

 

Ray

Your Taskbar icon will still point to the correct FSX.exe.

 

This will present no problems for your day to day ops.

 

The only time you would have problems is if you tried to double click on the second FSX.exe.

 

In fact, I suspect that once you get the scenery installed you can delete the second FSX.exe.

 

It sounds like their installer is set to verify the install location by checking for the .exe. I doubt it has anything to do with using the scenery once it is installed.

 

regards,

Joe

Thank you Joe for that.  I've had further precise information from the provider of the scenery, as to what happens with my proposal to load their scenery in a different drive to that of FSX:

 

By copying the FSX.exe into the E drive you would enable our installers to install the scenery there.  The actual FSX.exe which you copied into your E drive is of no value for the simulator itself. You still need to start FSX from the D drive. Therefore it is important that you COPY the files there and do NOT cut and paste it! The FSX.exe still needs to be in the D drive for your FSX to run and this is also from where you still have to start FSX.

 

I'll give it a go.

 

Ray