[jhb] Re: Win7 and FSX

  • From: Peter Dodds <pdodds@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • To: jhb@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Tue, 23 Oct 2012 01:08:15 +0100

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I have always, since FS95, installed my sim directly off the root. C:\FSX, or, in the case of my present FS machine G:\FSX where G:\ is the second, non-OS HD. My 64bit Win7 laptop never gave me any trouble (my son has it now!) adopting the same policy.  In fact I have been free of the many issues that one sees reported, almost for ever. My present machine runs out of memory occasionally, but if I switch off a couple of resource-hungry apps (including dropbox) it remains OK.  Skype is a big resource hog, and I won't have it on my FS machine.  I have turned UAC off permanently.

Peter

23 October 2012 00:12
My W7x64 setup had FSX installed on a second drive which naturally took it outside of Programme Files.  UAC was not disabled and everything ran fine, including connecting to IVAO. I say had because a power surgesaw my mobo get fried so I'm now back to FS9 XP on my old PC.
 
Paul
22 October 2012 20:42
Hi all,

Could I get a bit of advice from all the FSX Win7-64bit users out there?

I'm moving to a Win7-64bit system in the next few weeks and have read various forum threads on how FSX should be installed/configured. My only FSX installations to date have been on XP-32bit so this is all new territory for me. Should I turn UAC off or install outside the "Program Files" folder? Do I need to delete the UIAutomation dll? Install FS/scenery/OS on separate HDDs? Lots of questions which I'm sure you guys will have gone through to set up your systems.

Any advice on installation and configuration would be appreciated.

Many thanks

Phil

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