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looping:
Hi,

Because of the protection/activation method I never purchased any cloud9 or FSDT products for FS9.
Now I migrated to FSX (W7 64) and would be open to purchase CYVR, KLAX, KLAS, KORD, KLLL, LSGG and cloud9 Florence and Bergen sceneries.

My situation :
FSX is on drive D: a 256GB SSD, rather full, probably no space left for the above sceneries
ALL my airport sceneries are on drive F: a 2TB HDD. This is working very well with all addons.

Questions:
-Can I install FSDT sceneries w/o any problem on drive F: ?
-If not: what is the estimated space needed for your airport sceneries (my priorities are with CYVR, KLAX, KLAS, KORD, Florence) ?

I hope to get your sceneries onto my system.

Ernst

virtuali:

--- Quote from: looping on June 22, 2013, 01:26:46 pm ----Can I install FSDT sceneries w/o any problem on drive F: ?
--- End quote ---

Only if FSX itself is installed there.

Basically ,they must be installed on the same drive as FSX which is something you'll have to do anyway sooner or later if your SSD is full, since many FSX add-ons have the same requirement. For example, an add-on that replaces default textures and/or autogen which larger/better quality version, will surely have to install into FSX too so, you better have FSX on the larger drive anyway, not just for the FSDT scenery.

looping:
Hi Umberto,

Your reply came fast! Great!

Only a crash will force me to replace my 256GB SSD D: drive with FSX installed on it!
I am quite complete for my way of using FSX.
No further addons planned except sceneries onto my F: HD and aircraft which are parked on this F: Drive as well and moved to D: when used.

But again: what is approx. installed size of my below listed FSDT airports?
Perhaps I can put them on my D: SSD.

On my search for a solution I just learnt some minutes ago of a link or junction link technique.
Do you have experienced problems with FSDT sceneries in combination with these methods?

Thanks in advance for your detailed reply.

Ernst

kozmicelly:
Hi Ernst,

My FSDT sceneries (all but Hawaiians), D:/FSX/fsdreamteam/ occupies 1.76 Gb.
And you should consider other files in other folders.

I hope this gives you some clue. ;)

Elly

virtuali:

--- Quote ---Perhaps I can put them on my D: SSD.
--- End quote ---

If you REALLY know what you are doing, you might be able to do it with most of them (but you are really unsupported on this, and any scenery update you risk having something that will not work), but some of the newer sceneries like CYVR and JFK V2 will have to stay on the C:\ProgramData\Virtuali folder, and it might be not be possible to move them, because some part of them are rewritten on the fly.

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