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  • Please see the most recent updates in the "Where did the .com name go?" thread. Posts number 16 and 17.

    Post 16 Update

    Post 17 Warning

Should I stop downloading?

This Bf109 is not freeware. It is the A2A Bf109 which came with the WWII fighters CD for FS2004. When you can find a copy of this package, it is definitely worth its value. (More infoprmation here: http://www.a2asimulations.com/store/wwiifighters/ )

There are free updates available to make 4 of the 5 models on this CD FSX native and the 5th can be used as a good port over.

Cheers,
Huub

Definitely my favourite sea plane; Piglet's Kingfisher with a repaint by Steve "Stalin" Baldwin.
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Huub, I've always had a thing for the water craft. Problem is that I can't bring myself to fly them right now due to minimal (very minimal) settings of visuals. My computer just chokes when I get the slightest inclination of touching the sliders. So, anything that closely resembles water looks like a lifeless light blue flat spot in the terrain.
 
Think about it this way Huub.

Collectors of anything from glass jars to Ferarris all suffer the same problem. When and if to stop. Everybody does the same thing. The way I see it is that you are "collecting" aircraft, albeit virtual ones and if you think about it, what swells the collector's chest? The size of their collection. They then go on to catalogue and often write books about their chosen passion. You could too I guess.

So, there is no "sin" in any of it, it takes up no physical space so there is nothing to dust, as somebody said earlier, hard-drives are cheap these days and the bottom line: who cares?

Party on dude.
 
I have found a very simple solution to this kind of problem.
It's called "smoking power supply".
It's a special feature that forces you to buy an all new computer on which you will have to reinstall a fresh OS and a fresh FSX.
Upon reinstall, you really get to select the planes you want to put back in the hangar, a strict selection you would never do in normal time...

Yes, it has happened to me, and yes I'm just starting to reinstall my planes :/
 
...just reviving this old thread....

OK, I'll come clean. I have a disease, I'm a hoarder, download junkie, anything that is new on the market that I like...I'll buy it...and then the process of acquiring all of those repaints starts over for me and you talented folks around here ain't helping one little iddy biddy bit!

I want to know if there is a "limit" on the number of repaints?
Is it due to H.D. space?
Is it due to the amount of memory?
Is it due to some kind of limit imposed by the FSX SDK?
Is it due to all that stuff that is going on on the dark side of the moon?


View attachment 44129 I have 1,470 repaints !!!

It took me a couple of days to count that high. The answer is NO, I did not delete any of them to see if I could add the ones that I'm having trouble installing. What a crazy idea, who would ever think of deleting a repaint...pfft.
I might just need that one, one day. Look at how beautiful it is.

Anyway, I stand before you humbled and...

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No !!! Considered that myself from time to time and i am happy to see this Thread. As long as we are flying (not tweaking/complaining around) it´s such a nice hobby.
 
I reached 250Gb of FSX installed this month. With 700 planes in the "aircfraft" folder ... And it´s working fine till now ....
 
I download almost every new aircraft I come across. While I keep copies of all archived, I only keep those that I consider awesome, permanently installed in my sims. I also pare the liveries down to a favourite few for each aircraft. It is unusual for me to have more than a half dozen liveries for any plane.
 
Downloading has simply been a 'way of life' for me in FS since I began with FS5.

As above, it becomes and addiction. Sometimes I feel like I have a 'museum' of stuff rather than things I actually use.

Every time I tell myself I really don't need it, I download 'it' anyway just to sneak a peek....then install...then check it out....them fiddle...then check it out again...and heck, sometimes I even utilize what I download once in a while. :icon_lol:

Some things I pay for I use all the time, like UTX, GEX, Active Sky, FEX, etc. But my downfall has always been aircraft. Individual airport scenery also used to 'pile up', but not as much in FSX as the other versions. That said, I doubt I could convince myself I could do without my FTX NW scenery packages, or Tongass Fjords.

In an attempt for a 'rational' approach, I actually have my aircraft in an .xls format, complete with bar graph, which shows the hours I have in each. I check it out regularly, and will 'put aside' the aircraft I have 40-70 hours in, and begin to concentrate on the ones with only 1-10 hours, just to make sure I have given them some seat time, attempting, if at all possible, to even out my time in each.......then I download or purchase another one, and well, I can never get 'caught up', and wonder why I'm not flying my favorites with 40-70 hours anymore. It's nutty. It's insane. :icon_lol:
 
Rehab?

"They tried to make me go to rehab but I said 'no, no, no'
Yes I've been black but when I come back you'll know know know
I ain't got the time and if my daddy thinks I'm fine
He's tried to make me go to rehab but I won't go go go." (A. Winehouse)

Thanks God, i'm not the only one that sometimes still thinks is going mad.
Compulsion, always looking for something new, saying to myself "tomorrow i stop it, this is the last one, i'm not downloading anymore."

Then i remember i'm mortal, i feel myself happy when practicing my hobby. Everyone has his weakness, this is mine. Full stop.

I've found a solution, almost kidding to myself, maybe. I make videos of my flightsimming time. Trying to express myself as a painter or an artist would do.
For now it helps.
But do not ask me to go to rehab, I won't go, go ,go.

r.
 
This is why I stay away from the freeware download portions of sites. It took me forever to stop. :icon_lol: Unfortunately now I have gotten on a bit of a binge with scenery (and begun creating my own, ack!). I found though that have money attached to downloading stuff is the only thing that makes me think twice about it. So my FS install hasn't grown by too much as of late. I am up to somewhere around 90GB though. At some point going to need to get a bigger drive.
 
I've suffered from the same problem all my life with collecting reference materials and plastic model kits. The reference materials have continued to be used over the years though for FS development/repainting projects but the model kits are pretty much just stacked up occupying a big chunk of the garage.

At least with collecting FS aircraft they can all be saved to CD/DVDs and put in a shoe box and then placed on a shelf somewhere. I've even got a bunch of payware aircraft I bought and never installed.

Help, my name is Frank and I'm a flightsim addict and compulsive collector of beautifully packaged ones and zeros. (feel better already)
:ernae:
 
For me...i dunno i guess im not so addicted. I only have the aircraft that are used by the various VAs i fly for and then the ones that im coding....And as soon as I get a GOOD payware alternative the freeware one gets dumped....Ill go crazy if I dont have a reason to fly though. I just cant bring myself to aimlessly poke around the sky....I have to DO something.... like take on a challenge flight....or join a Fly-in on VATSIM with one of the VAs....Or rack up mission points at vUSAF....or bug-test a bird im coding....
 
Thanks Huub for this thread.....I know it's an older one, but I'm new to FSX (not a permanent resident of the Dark Side, just pass through the neighborhood from time to time). I too am a download junkie. I have 3 FS9 installs packed to the gills with planes, and have 4 DVDs packed with FS9 planes that I don't have installed currently. I can't remember how many CFS2 archive discs I have...but I have something like 1700 planes for CFS2 (some of which are FS2002 and FS2004 planes that I converted for use in CFS2 prior to getting FS9). FSX....may have 12 add ons, maybe 18.....

But thanks to this thread, I now have a freeware Bristol Beaufighter that is downloading as I type and it will get installed in FSX.

OBIO
 
Just another junkie, joining the support group. :icon_lol::guinness:

4ea 1 TB HDDs of FS stuff. 1 ea for FS9 downloads (461GBs presently) FSX downloads, (179GB presently) 1 for FSX only, (including programs, 184 GB presently) and 1 for FS9, four installs and all programs, (most of which I don't know how to use, but I got 'em, lol. 95.6GB, presently.) These DO NOT include my payware! That is kept on my 1.5TB main drive so it gets backed up automatically to Carbonite. That main folder is 205GB (158GB compressed.)
 
Do you have loading issues having all those aircraft installed, does it take significantly longer to bring up the thumbnail aircraft listing?
 
I did wonder if it was just my system, does FSX load up the aircraft on the fly via the aircraft folder or via a separate cfg file. Just wondering if it's on the fly if moving unused aircraft folders into a holding folder leaving just a few aircraft would speed it up, swapping back and forth with aircraft folders when you want to fly them.

Like many here I collect freeware aircraft try/fly when they are released I keep them installed and come back to them later but we can't fly everything at the same time so wondered if such a swap system would speed it up. Plus of course repaints, I like to use the "all aircraft" option rather than the 1 aircraft of each type on the thumbnail menu.
 
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