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Two FSX installations, two HD's

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Nick C

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Ok, I think this has been mentioned before and I can find a few threads, but not with the answers I'm looking for.

Has anybody installed FSX on the same PC, on two separate drives? Were registry tweaks needed? How was activation? Did you install the patches and Acceleration?

I need a bare bones install of FSX and am not prepared to un-install my present tweaked installation. I have a spare HD, but have a feeling that it's going to be a damn site harder than it was with FS9.
 
Nope I tried several different ways...I guess for all it lacks in content it makes up for in fooling me
Ted
 
Nick C said:
Is it possible to do without dual boot though?
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Not sure , but consider a dual boot as an option. Both (or 3 if triple boot) drives are still fully accessible from either operating system. So just because you've booted into Dsk1 doesn't mean you can't access the data on Disk2 and vice versa.
 
Nick C said:
Ok, I think this has been mentioned before and I can find a few threads, but not with the answers I'm looking for.

Has anybody installed FSX on the same PC, on two separate drives? Were registry tweaks needed? How was activation? Did you install the patches and Acceleration?

I need a bare bones install of FSX and am not prepared to un-install my present tweaked installation. I have a spare HD, but have a feeling that it's going to be a damn site harder than it was with FS9.
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I have FSX installed on 3 HD all on the same computer. I have no problems with it at all. All I did was copy FSX from the C: drive to the other drives. And made shortcuts for the FSX.exe on F: and G: drives. Was no big deal for me. Now if I want to install an addon only to say my test install I use the flight1 tool to set the reg as that being my FSX install.
 
Adding to the the above post, if you rename the fsx.exe file
to, say, fsx_2.exe, it will cretae a new cfg file named
fsx_2.cfg. Thus seperate installs would have their own cfg files.
They would, however, share the same scenery.cfg files, log
and the flightplan files.

I have several fsx_<some name>.exe files so that I can configure FSX for the
flight conditions I want simply by starting FSX with the desired copy of the fsx.exe.

I also have FSX-SP1 on my system but rarely use it. As to the activation of that
version, I resorted to the 'alternate dll' approach.

I also keep several tailored scenery.cfg files and swap them in for the various locations
that I fly...

Paul
 
Hey Nick,

If you wish to keep alot of your files, simply rename your FSX installation.

What I did when I uploaded my FSX install from one package to another was 'upload' it first to the new drive, then used TweakFS.com's FSX registry fixer to relocate the EXE file, etc, adn Voila, done... This also had gone from a vista to WinXP OS transplant.

Probably the best thing to do is rename the old FSX folder, install a new one, then drag over the existing folders from the old one to the new one. Then drag over the scenery and config files, etc, and restart.

Gypsy Baron's advice below is right on.

GypsyBaron said:
Adding to the the above post, if you rename the fsx.exe file
to, say, fsx_2.exe, it will cretae a new cfg file named
fsx_2.cfg. Thus seperate installs would have their own cfg files.
They would, however, share the same scenery.cfg files, log
and the flightplan files.



Paul
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