dougal Posted July 19, 2013 Share Posted July 19, 2013 I have an SSD drive but its not big enough for my FSX installation. Is it possible to have any of my FTX payware installed on the SSD and have my scenery.cfg point to it? Someone suggested it MIGHT cause FTX Central issues? Thanks Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
spirit_66 Posted July 19, 2013 Share Posted July 19, 2013 I don't think that this will work. How will you tell the FTX installer that it should install somewhere else then in the root directory of FSX? Spirit Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ian Routley Posted July 19, 2013 Share Posted July 19, 2013 ORBX Scenery need to be installed in the FSX folder for FTXCentral to work properly. There are workarounds using symbolic links, but they are not officially supported. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dougal Posted July 19, 2013 Author Share Posted July 19, 2013 Okay thanks. I might have a tinker as I have a couple 'junction' apps installed. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ronski Posted July 20, 2013 Share Posted July 20, 2013 Hi Dougal, Why not simply extend/expand your FSX drive, and use the ssd drive as an extension of that drive. Let windows do it for you. For example, if your FSX drive is E:, and you don't have enough room for add on sceneries. Go into Disk management, select extend/expand this partition (E:) , and then select your extra drive to do it. Windows will then see them as one drive, E: and you don't have to mess with junction points etc. Lots of tutorials out there if you search for; how to extend/expand partitions in win 7. Ron. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dougal Posted July 22, 2013 Author Share Posted July 22, 2013 Hi Dougal, Why not simply extend/expand your FSX drive, and use the ssd drive as an extension of that drive. Let windows do it for you. For example, if your FSX drive is E:, and you don't have enough room for add on sceneries. Go into Disk management, select extend/expand this partition (E:) , and then select your extra drive to do it. Windows will then see them as one drive, E: and you don't have to mess with junction points etc. Lots of tutorials out there if you search for; how to extend/expand partitions in win 7. Ron. Hi Ron and thanks for that. It's not that I don't have room. There's lots of space on my FSX drive. It's that I wanted to try putting large scenery files onto an SSD drive for faster access. I've just tried it with FTX EU only, and it works a treat;-) I just made one symbolic link. Not only faster loading, but SMOOTHER flying too. No stutters at all now while scenery loads. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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