henryat1140

Thanks for the info everyone. Henry

Hello Everyone, First post, so hope I get the etiquette correct. I bought and installed FSX on a large mechanical hard drive. I did it that way because I knew it would require a fair amount of space. The drive is part of a RAID array. The sim operates as it should, and I've not made any tweaks or changes - more or less virgin state. When I restart a flight or, say, change the time of day from day to dusk or night, it takes a long time to reload the scenery - maybe 20-30 seconds. To help this I plan on buying an SSD and moving FSX to the SSD. It's not the only one in my system, I have a 120g SSD system drive and about 500g RAID for data. Is it possible to copy the files over to the SSD and reset some pointers (directory locations etc.) to point to the new location? Or should I uninstall and re-install on the new drive? If it involves editing the registry I'm OK with that. Thanks for any suggestions Henry My system: Quad core, 8g ram, older Radeon video card, Windows 7 64bit. 120G SSD, 500G RAID 22" and 23" monitors FSX w/ service pack 1 Running minimum startup programs, and careful about unneeded processes P.S. I am planning on Processor/MOBO/video card upgrade in near future.