February 8, 20206 yr I have my OS and P3Dv4 located on a 1TB SSD. P3D has been expanding and I now have only 177GB free space left. Is that enough? I do have a 2TB HDD with lots of room. Is there a way to move P3D from my C drive to my D drive without having to reinstall everything? Would migrating the scenery to the D drive be a better option? Does having scenery on one drive and P3D on another drive affect performance? Noel Edited February 8, 20206 yr by birdguy The tires are worn. The shocks are shot. The steering is wobbly. But the engine still runs fine.
February 8, 20206 yr The best you can do for now is to migrate your addon scenery to another drive. Your performance will not be noticeably affected. Cheers, Ed Cheers, Ed MSFS2020 Steam // Rig: Corsair Graphite 760T Full Tower - ASUS MBoard Maximus XII Hero Z490 - CPU Intel i9-10900K - 64GB RAM - MSI RTX2080 Super 8GB - [1xNVMe M.2 1TB + 1xNVMe M.2 2TB (Samsung)] + [1xSSD 1TB + 1xSSD 2TB (Crucial)] + [1xSSD 1TB (Samsung)] + 1 HDD Seagate 2TB + 1 HDD Seagate External 4TB - Monitor LG 29UC97C UWHD Curved - PSU Corsair RM1000x // Thrustmaster FCS & MS XBOX Controllers
February 8, 20206 yr Commercial Member 29 minutes ago, birdguy said: I have my OS and P3Dv4 located on a 1TB SSD. P3D has been expanding and I now have only 177GB free space left. Is that enough? My entire P3Dv4 installation is only 83GB. 177GB is more than enough unless you plan on adding another 120+ GB of content. Cheers! Luke Kolin I make simFDR, the most advanced flight data recorder for FSX, Prepar3D and X-Plane.
February 8, 20206 yr @Luke My entire P3Dv4 installation is only 83GB 865 GB. If this was a contest, I guess I would have won, or indeed lost, if the contest was to see how small the installation could be. 😐 @Noel. You could copy and paste P3D to the HDD and when you run it from there, it will create a revised Windows Registry entry and work as before. Otherwise, you can also migrate all your scenery to the D drive and the only small downside is that it will load slightly more slowly.
February 8, 20206 yr Author I guess I come in someplace ion the middle with 568GB. Thanks for the suggestions guys. For now I will opt for migration. A new system may be coming in the Spring (Fall for you guys down under). Noel The tires are worn. The shocks are shot. The steering is wobbly. But the engine still runs fine.
February 8, 20206 yr Commercial Member I don't mean for this to be a contest - my point is that you have enough room for now. If you are comfortable migrating things and ensuring the configs are updated or the reinstall goes without a hitch, you're welcome to migrate to a slower drive. But unless you're planning on installing more, I'm not sure why you feel you need to. Cheers! Luke Kolin I make simFDR, the most advanced flight data recorder for FSX, Prepar3D and X-Plane.
February 9, 20206 yr I had most of my scenery in a separate HDD, only some Highly detalied one in SSD, well, it slows down loading (especially at 6%), but It doesn't bother me, in flight it's all OK. And moving scenerys around is fairly simple.
February 9, 20206 yr SSD performance begins to diminish when they are more than 75% full. The easiest thing for you to do is to move the scenery files to that 2TB HDD. You may notice slower scenery loading due to the inherent slower speed of a HDD, but it will free up your SSD for optimum performance. Otherwise, move P3D and its scenery files to a separate SSD. Edited February 9, 20206 yr by stans My computer: ABS Gladiator Gaming PC featuring an Intel 10700F CPU, EVGA CLC-240 AIO cooler (dead fans replaced with Noctua fans), Asus Tuf Gaming B460M Plus motherboard, 16GB DDR4-3000 RAM, 1 TB NVMe SSD, EVGA RTX3070 FTW3 video card, dead EVGA 750 watt power supply replaced with Antec 900 watt PSU.
February 9, 20206 yr Author I own all of the Orbx scenery for P3D. I migrated Europe, Australia and New Zealand to my D drive. My SSD is now only 60% full. This will do me until I get my new computer ion a month or so. Thanks guys for you help and suggestions. Noel The tires are worn. The shocks are shot. The steering is wobbly. But the engine still runs fine.
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