Aircraft on external drive

[Joenavy85]

i have FSX installed on my laptop and would like to put the aircraft on an external hard drive(since they take up a lot of room on my HD). how can i do this(if it can be done)?

[DeepSpace]

Open your fsx.cfg file (located at C:\Documents and Settings\USERNAME\Application Data\Microsoft\FSX) with notepad.

Press ctrl+f and search for "User Objects=Airplane". It should actually be at the top few lines.

The lines below User "Objects=Airplane" should look something like these:

SimObjectPaths.0=SimObjects\Airplanes
SimObjectPaths.1=SimObjects\Rotorcraft
SimObjectPaths.2=SimObjects\GroundVehicles
SimObjectPaths.3=SimObjects\Boats
SimObjectPaths.4=SimObjects\Animals
SimObjectPaths.5=SimObjects\Misc

Change the line "SimObjectPaths.0=SimObjects\Airplanes" to the location of your desired aircraft folder, like "SimObjectPaths.0=D:\Airplanes"

[Joenavy85]

thanks, all i knew was that i would have to make changes to the fsx.cfg file, now i know what changes and where to find it. thanks again

[DeepSpace]

No problem. Actually, I believe you could also add the line "SimObjectPaths.6=....." and FSX will actually look at both folders.

[Naja002]

Can this be done, and is there any benefit to doing this, with say, Addon scenery?

[DeepSpace]

It is very simple actually. All you have to do is to select the proper folder at the scenery manager that is built into FSX (after you click on "Add Area).

[Naja002]

Ok, that definitely makes sense. But is there any real benefit to having it on another HD?

[DeepSpace]

I don't know, never tried it... I'd guess though there might be a small performance improvement if that other physical (as in, not just another logical drive, like a different letter) HD  has a better reading speed. I hope that makes sense.

[Naja002]

Yes, makes sense and what I was thinking = another physical HD, but I'm thinking that the bottleneck is probably the Cpu in most cases.

Just looking for opportunities to enhance performance....

[Cessna172150]

Why dont you install your fsx on an external drive?  Thats what I did

[Joenavy85]

[quote]Why dont you install your fsx on an external drive?