Good day all,A friend of mine was wondering how strict the requirement for a 32X DVD drive is for install of FSX? He does not have a DVD drive in his computer and after checking our local Future Shops we have only been able to find 16X DVD drives.

As far as I can tell, the ONLY place where the speed of the dvd drive comes into play is during the installation. Do a full install of FSX, and you'll be able to put the dvd away and never touch it again until you need to reinstall it. Thus, it isn't used during FSX's use, so therefore the dvd drive's speed is unimportant to FSX's performance...A slower drive will just take longer to install... :)

I'm a bit confused with your question. I've looked all over the FSX deluxe package and can't find a statement that says you must have a 32X DVD to install FSX. Surely a 16X DVD will do fine but will be a tad slower.DougDell XPS Gen3 (3.6GHz/540FSB) | 2GB DDR SDRAM | 74GB SATA, 10k RPM (C: ) | 120GB SATA (D: ) | 512MB ATI Radeon X1900XTX (Catalyst 6.9) | Audigy 2 ZS Sound | MS Force Feedback 2 | WindowsXP Pro (SP2) | DirectX 9.0c

http://www.microsoft.com/communities/newsg...ef2ee3b679d&p=1 is where I saw it. System Requirementsa.. Microsoft

Looks like that's a misprint (especially since no such beast exists... I think the fastest DVD Rom drive I've ever seen was a 20X).Any DVD Rom drive will do, and you only need it for the installation... And considering you can get a DVD-Rom drive for $20 and a pretty darn good DVD-RW drive for $40, it's not exactly a killer to upgrade.But, yes, you DO need a DVD drive to be able to install. There is no CD version.--2002cbr600f4i

It's probably a leftover from "32X or faster CD-ROM drive" from some other product packaging.You all may be interested to know that because the density of data on DVD is much higher than CD, a 1X DVD is roughly as fast as a 13X CD drive. The X is relative to normal playback speed of each media type.

I read some people had installation problems after inserting dvd2 and the fix was to copy the contents of BOTH dvds into a temp folder on your hard disk..then run setup from there.If you done it this way, it wouldn't matter how fast your DVD-ROM drive is, because you would just be copying files as normal via windows.and the install would take place directly off your HDD.-tibbz