I am a 71 year old and am chasing an "expert" piece of advice please.

 

I have a new PC I7, 6 cores, watercooled and overclocked by the supplier to 4.4 GHz with 32 GB of memory running at 2133 Mhz.

 

GPU is NVidia 770 GTX.

 

On board are a number of SSD's, 4 of them are 1GB.  The installed OS is Windows 10 Pro.

 

Which option out of the following is to be preferred please.

 

1. FSX into the C, Win10 Drive  primarily VFR over Horizon Photoscenery Version 3, with P3D V3 on D Drive and FSX-Steam Edition on E Drive

 

OR

 

A separate, multi boot OS on C, D and E with one sim per Drive.

 

There is a huge amount of space either way for scenery installation.  P3D is likely to be for Heavy Metal and FSX-SE is likely to be ORBX UK, Oz, PNW etc.

 

I would prefer to do this installation just once and can see both advantages and disadvantages to each.  The last option is OS on C with Sims on D,E and F.  Any advice gratefully received. Thanks.

 

I would buy P3DV3 and appropriate addons (most FSX scenery should work but be advised this is a new product so install one thing at time and test). PMPG for example needs a separate P3D license). P3DV3 is miles better than FSX. As for SSDs put OS (s) on a separate drive from Flightsim,  put your flight sim on another SSD and keep scenery in a separate folder away from the flightsim.

Thanks for the quick response.  I already have the licence for each sim, so I don't think I have anything to purchase just now.  A couple of Win 7 to update to Win 10 are here too, but I am leaning towards C = OS only and D, E and F could all be loaded, complete with many years of addons for FSX.  P3D V2.5 is currently on the PC with some addons loaded with the Migrator.  I just would like to setup once only.  Thanks again. Regards.

3DV3 is a whole new ball game compared wih 3DV2.5,  I have had no OOMs and can run even complex scenery such as Aerosoft EGLL with a PMDG T7 which brought P3DV2.5 to its knees. Also FSCubed makes reinstallation a breeze.

I would go for option one. EDIT I meant your last option: C for OS and each sim on its own drive. No need at ALL to have a seperate multi boot: can't see any use in that. I personally would ditch both FSX sims and go for P3D v3 which has it all, but well, that's your choice. I am a bit surprised to see you want to use FSXSE for Orbx because P3D is much better for enjoying the scenery (with its pop up free autogen and superior lighting).

 

BTW You said you have 4 SSD's which are 1 GB...? I suppose they are 1 TB...? I am quite surprised to see your new and apparently costly system only has a 770 GPU... I would have expected at least a 970 in a PC like this. Or a 980 or even 980 Ti.

Paladin,

 

We have virtually the same setup and scenery dispersal. I used FSCubed for v2.x to back up my 0.75 TB (750GB) worth of scenery(ALL FsGenesis Mesh, and bunches of Orbx And MegaSceneryX goodness). I was dismayed to find that via FSCubed for V3, the Gigage of scenery would only be restored to my P3dv3 source drive/directory.

 

Since I distribute the scenery on I:, L:, SSD partitions of the same drive, and N:, a USB3 connection to a 1TB drive, ALL this data will not fit on my Measely 500GB I:, L: drive.

 

My answer for now is, THEFT.

 

...since I had 40GB free on my I: Drive, I installed P3dv3 there and STOLE the scenery.cfg and terrain.cfg from my 2.5 install, and copied it(after backing up both originals) to my v3 .cfg files, thus SHARING v2 scenery with V3.

 

Problems?....yup...UTXUSAv2... Only works in P3dV2.5, and NOT in v3....yet.

 

Just a heads up on my forays into the v2.5/v3 conundrum....Yess dammit I know....I am going to have to be forced to switch to V3 eventually, because of the "Randazzo Edict", but now I have the ...best?....shall we say acceptable ...for now...solution...

 

A fully configured and functioning V2.5, WITH my beloved 737NGX and T7, and an experimental and fun learning tool with ALMOST all my scenery available, MINUS my 737NGX and T7 mind you, in v3 through a little cursing from the former situation, and a smile resulting from friendly thievery.

 

Chas

I have my os on a samsung 256gb drive then i have fsx pr3dv2.5 and pr3dv3 and megasceanary city's on a 500gb samsung drive then i have 1000gb for the rest of my scenery.

I have not had a bit of problem with this set up.

As for pr3dv3 it loads scenery so good i think i am going to put every thing on a 2000gb drive. Doint think i need the speed of ssd hard drive any more for scenery.

 

Regards Ted Kiser

 

P.S Doint think pr3dv2.5 will be on my system much longer. I just keep fsx for pmdg md-11 and the jetsteam

Many thanks to you all for your responses, I am most grateful.   The multi boot *failed* last evening, so I am going to do something, still a little unsure.

 

@J van E.  The graphics card remains unchanged from my last system.  My current monitor is not up to the task for a 980 TI  I do have, on my dining room table an IIyama B2888 which I have failed to get running, so will be returned tomorrow. The budget is there for a new Monitor/GPU and will soon replace what is currently there.

 

Thanks again to all respondees, I think that Win 10 on C and separate Sims will be my way to go fo now.

 

Best regards to all.