Kosmo007 Posted June 5, 2013 Share Posted June 5, 2013 Hi all I checked FAQ but did not see this answered! I was wonderin'.....' I have 2 SSD drives (C:\ & D:\ and a 1T HD drive G:\ for storage. FSX resides on the D:\ drive, & the Win7 OS resides the C:// drive. I always download Orbx to the G:\ drive after purchase & Orbx always sees that FSX is installed on my D:\ drive. It seems to work fine! Here's the question! When flying around, must FSX "look" to my G:\ drive to load Orbx scenery or is the Orbx scenery actually installed on the D:\ drive? I'm thinking if FSX has to look to the G:\ drive as it loads Orbx then I may be ruining the performance of FSX because I've got FSX looking to the G:\ drive all the time for the Orbx scenery! Help! kosmo007 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stillwater Posted June 5, 2013 Share Posted June 5, 2013 Hi Kosmo, your ORBX list is already long, and I bet iw will grow further. So the space on your SSDs will shrink. I recommend to store the ORBX sceneries on your regular HDD. You can move them with a tool called Dirlinker. Having such a link in your FSX directory, all future installations will also follow the linked path, and the diskspace consumed will always be on the HDD. I do not see any performance loss, and the loading time I do not care about. See this post for more info: http://www.orbxsystems.com/forum/topic/55939-i-want-more-orbx-products-but-no-more-space/?hl=dirlinker#entry501161 Have fun! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kosmo007 Posted June 5, 2013 Author Share Posted June 5, 2013 HI Gerold, thanks for the input! I do "'store" all my Orbx on the HHD G:\drive but was just wondering if that wasn't slowing my SSD down performance wise. According to you it is not, and that is good news! kosmo007 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stillwater Posted June 5, 2013 Share Posted June 5, 2013 Hi Kosmo, just to point it out: I am not only storing copies of FTX on the HDD, I do install them only there. However, due to the directory link my FSX "thinks" they are still on the SSD... . Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kosmo007 Posted June 6, 2013 Author Share Posted June 6, 2013 Gerold I did the download of your Dirlinker directory program. Am I telling it Dirlinker the path to whee I want to put the Orbx scenery in both text boxes that open up and need my input when you start the program? I see no instrucitons anywhere. Do you have a link for help? Joe Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
spinker Posted June 8, 2013 Share Posted June 8, 2013 Hello, FSX is on my 480GB SSD called my E: drive, I am now down to 55.5GB. How much more use will I be able to use this SSD? My plans to gain more space: As well as FSX on my SSD I have a directory called "COMPLETED SCENERY FILES" which holds 15.4GB of scenery files. My plan is to move the "COMPLETED SCENERY FILES" to my 2TB hard drive called C: Since all the files in this directory "COMPLETED SCENERY FILES" are listed on my scenery.cfg file locating them on my E:drive. I plan to change all the entrys globaly showing the files located to my E: drive to now show the location to my C: drive. I have been seeing threads about moving files requiring special progams or methods to move the files. Will my plans to relocate this directory work? and should I see an increase in space on my SSD? Larry Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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