FSX Gone!

[falcon409]

Too many gliches and odd behavior to put up with it any more so it's been uninstalled. I saved my freeware addon aircraft, the gauges folder and flights, ran CCleaner and now I'm defragging. I'll restart, run CCleaner one more time just to be sure then do a manual check of the registry to dump any breadcrumbs left behind.

[downwind]

1-word-fix.....Steam.

I was sceptical too, and have first day editions of FSX and Acceleration that will never be used by me again. Added DX10 Fixer and the recommended Nvidia tweeks; and bobsyouruncle, I'm in business. Very few problems, and no starting over if there is one.

Sorry you have those problems. You contribute a lot to this forum and would be missed.

[Bjoern]

So it's all X-Plane now?

[dhasdell]

So it's all X-Plane now?

I was wondering that, too.

1-word-fix.....Steam

I'd agree - FSX-SE includes a lot of added stuff (remember that SP1 to get bridges?) and seems to give a better frame rate. I haven't found any incompatible addons either.

[falcon409]

So it's all X-Plane now?

No, I should have finished my original post by saying that after all of that I would be doing a fresh install. I haven't flown XPlane since April I guess.

[Naismith]

It's infectious. I awoke today and found my D Drive missing in Explorer. It contained FSXSE and P3D4 and XPlane. Tried everything, restores repairs. Finally had to accept the drive was dead. No fun for me for a while then.

[falcon409]

It's infectious. I awoke today and found my D Drive missing in Explorer. It contained FSXSE and P3D4 and XPlane. Tried everything, restores repairs. Finally had to accept the drive was dead. No fun for me for a while then.

Ouch, and you have a nice rig too. Any chance a computer geek might be able to "wake up" that drive long enough to salvage information? Don't know if that's possible really, but sorry to hear that.

[Ganter]

Too many gliches and odd behavior to put up with it any more so it's been uninstalled. I saved my freeware addon aircraft, the gauges folder and flights, ran CCleaner and now I'm defragging. I'll restart, run CCleaner one more time just to be sure then do a manual check of the registry to dump any breadcrumbs left behind.

Falcon, you're not running SSDs are you? In which case defragging them is sure way to render them dead in a very short time.

[Naismith]

Falcon, you're not running SSDs are you? In which case defragging them is sure way to render them dead in a very short time.

I wonder what the difference is between Trimming and Defragging with SSD's. Is it just semantics?

[Ganter]

I wonder what the difference is between Trimming and Defragging with SSD's. Is it just semantics?

Defragging physically moves the data on the platter so that large files are in one continuous (contiguous) area instead of parts here and there. TRIM is a whole different thing. For HDD's, when a file is deleted it is "marked" as deleted and that's all. The OS can overwrite those files at any time.

SSD's on the other hand handle deleted files differently. When the OS marks X file as deleted, it gets marked, but when the SSD wants to write on that area where X file used to be, it needs to read, mark, write, delete and free up space. This causes latency issues. In FSX we call these moments - "Micro-Stutters/ glitches/ freezes, etc)
TRIM forces the whole SSD to go through this process at once so that the SSD controller can do the job of reading/writing without having to deal with remarking the parts that need to be deleted and cleared before writing over old data.

Speed and efficiency are the result - and a longer lifetime for the SSD. One could argue it reduces the potential for file corruption too.

Defragging an SSD is not only unnecessary - due to the way an SSD has nothing physical to move to the Read/ Write position on the platter - and as a result needlessly puts the SSD through countless cycles of Read/ Write - but hastens it's journey towards it's end of lifespan.

Summary:
Defrag an HDD - to keep all the connected files on the same physical location of the surface of the platter and improve lifespan.
TRIM an SSD to minimise the Read/ Write counts and improve speed and efficiency and improve lifespan.

Or; just go to the half-way house which is; Fraggle Rock; where there are lovely Jim Henson creatures who chill out all day long and have no idea what we're talking about - and don't care anyway.


Don't worry about any of it and just sing along!