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Can FSX and FS2020 co-exist?

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Searched and got no hits on this topic.  Does anyone know if FSX and FS2020 can exist on the same computer or is it one or the other?

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Yes but why

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54 minutes ago, tilgazt said:

Searched and got no hits on this topic.  Does anyone know if FSX and FS2020 can exist on the same computer or is it one or the other?

Curious

Yes they can. In fact as long as you have space, you can have FSX, FSX SE, P3D V3 v4 & V5, XPlane, etc.

Enjoy them all!

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1 hour ago, tilgazt said:

Searched and got no hits on this topic.  Does anyone know if FSX and FS2020 can exist on the same computer or is it one or the other?

Curious

Probably yes, but they won't like each other very much. 😊

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1 hour ago, tilgazt said:

Searched and got no hits on this topic.  Does anyone know if FSX and FS2020 can exist on the same computer or is it one or the other?

Curious

It's sure, yes. MSFS is a completely new software and it has nothing to do with FSX. But I think, if you try MSFS, there will be not any way back to FSX 🙂

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1 hour ago, RamonB said:

Yes they can. In fact as long as you have space, you can have FSX, FSX SE, P3D V3 v4 & V5, XPlane, etc.

I'll vouch for that, I have FSX, P3Dv3, P3Dv4, P3Dv5, X-plane, Aerofly FS2 and the MFS beta all living together happily on a single drive.

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2 hours ago, toprob said:

I'll vouch for that, I have FSX, P3Dv3, P3Dv4, P3Dv5, X-plane, Aerofly FS2 and the MFS beta all living together happily on a single drive.

best of all solution !

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Thanks all.  It was not a question of why, just whether I could (just in case) 😄

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No, but FSX and MSFS can.


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49 minutes ago, Ianrivaldosmith said:

Of course they can. But why would you want to? 

Let's get back to that question next week. 😏

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If you have the space you can keep an old sim around for reference.  Say for trying to duplicate an old behavior in FS2020.

It won't be long before it becomes irrelevant but just leave it and do a full new install on a super-fast NV-ME drive.

Cheers

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1 hour ago, Ianrivaldosmith said:

Of course they can. But why would you want to? 

Actually, some of Rod's ground school material in FSX makes for good reference material.

Matt

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I'm actually thinking about reinstalling P3D 4 with some of my OrbX stuff, simply for screenshot comparisons of particular regions.

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2 hours ago, Der Zeitgeist said:

Let's get back to that question next week. 😏

I can get back to that question years ago. FSX is a relic. 

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