I have and use the original V1.0 Horizon scenery, many hours were spent downloading the updates for Mesh and Watermasks etc, these updates are too big to put on DVD unfortunately.
I also have the free Nightlight disc to go with them.I never took advantage to upgrade to V2.0, which locks me out of the V3.0. (more expense which I resisted) The photo scenery has been rendered to AIO format at a huge 65gb, and growing when scenery updates include trees. Takes an hour or more to copy to a spare drive for backup.
With shallow pockets, my expenditure on FS is only for FSC updates. If you have the V2.0s hang on to them.I have not had problems installing FS9 after FSX, done it several times. But there is a utility which restores the FS9 path if needed on the Justflight site.
I suspect the new Microsoft Flight may be the death knell for Vatsim/IVAO, the FSX gaming mode has had an effect by making newcomers think it is the only way to fly online, as Gerry says, us oldies are probably going to be the last of the true online flyers. A pity, as I am only just getting into my stride.
If installing FSX, do not forget to install the SP1 and 2, these essentially upgrade FSX to run in Vista/Win7 and 4 core, as well as clean out any bugs. The basic FSX was written initially for WinXP and single core.
Frank
