jlbelard Posted June 15, 2021 Share Posted June 15, 2021 Like many of us, my C drive where FS2020 is installed is getting fuller... I am considering moving the packages folder from my C; (SSD) to my E (non SSD) which has much more available space. My question is: should I expect a loss in smoothness, frame rates moving the package folder out of an SSD drive to an old-fashioned HD? Or do you think the drive where the packages folder is has no impact on the overall performance of the simulator, since FS2020 is still located on the C drive. Thanks for your input J-Louis J-Louis Belard, 6 miles SW of KGAI Dell XPS,8930, I-7 9700, 32GB DD4, 512 SSD, 2TB HD, 6GB GeForce GTX 1660 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
marangog Posted June 17, 2021 Share Posted June 17, 2021 Like many of us, my C drive where FS2020 is installed is getting fuller... I am considering moving the packages folder from my C; (SSD) to my E (non SSD) which has much more available space. My question is: should I expect a loss in smoothness, frame rates moving the package folder out of an SSD drive to an old-fashioned HD? Or do you think the drive where the packages folder is has no impact on the overall performance of the simulator, since FS2020 is still located on the C drive. Thanks for your input J-Louis I can't speak for MSFS, but I had 200Gb of addons in FSX on my F drive and it didn't have any unwelcome effects. I think you're right that the important thing is the location of the program. When FSX started up, it created a database of scenery in the scenery.cfg file, then loaded it when the plane was in that part of the world. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wout123 Posted June 17, 2021 Share Posted June 17, 2021 i run completely form hd , so its possible, but starting up the sim will take longer, especially if you have addons, in that case use the addon linker. i do plan to get a 1 tb ssd later in the year, it has too much advantage obviously. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jlbelard Posted June 18, 2021 Author Share Posted June 18, 2021 Thank you both, I'll try to move packages from C to E this week end J-Louis J-Louis Belard, 6 miles SW of KGAI Dell XPS,8930, I-7 9700, 32GB DD4, 512 SSD, 2TB HD, 6GB GeForce GTX 1660 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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