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Hello I'm beating Microsoft at there own game I only had a 120gig and 200gig
hard drives.
Tomarrow I will be retiring my hard drives for some New WD 320s that's Duel
320s I got alot to do now to get ready for a fast turn around reload of my
system.
 
Here's the deal It's clear to me now with just 72gigs free. Microsoft likes
to make it's users with New OS to get biggere hard drives. because vista
Ultimate takes up 13gigs PLus Microsoft flight sim X and Office 2007 it's
done blowed upMy 120gig. Thus I was forced to get new drives.
 
Yea, but wait until you get into FSX a bit more. Your 320GB drive will be
almost full of addon's, scenery, landclass, mesh, new planes...

It's not Microsoft's fault. If you want to use a little bit of hard drive
space, use MS-DOS and Windows 3.11. I had it running on a 210MB drive. :)

New games will take up more space, as will newer OS's. Otherwise, I'd still
have my 210MB drive with Vista, Office 2007, FSX, Quake 4, CoD2, Company of
Heroes, Oblivion... Wait... I do have all that, and more. On a 120GB hard
drive. I need a couple 500 GB drives. (Yes, I'm upgrading, too...)



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Dustin Harper
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http://www.vistarip.com

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This took me back to the last time I made a statement that "you'll never
need more" of something. I had just purchased a 110mb SCSI drive for my
smokin 486 server tower. At the time, there wasn't really anything but
document files and such to take up more space. No internet, no digicams,
mp3s. Anything you added would either be typed by hand, loaded from floppy,
or downloaded from CompuServe at 14.4kbps. Windows needed about 20mb so the
other 90mb was enough to store a lifetime's worth of source code and
document files.

How wrong I was and now I never assume you won't need more. On the contrary,
I always assume you will need more be it storage, cpu, gpu, network
bandwidth, etc.
 
MS's game is working well for you. Boost hardware suppliers (partners)
slumping sales.

Have fun.

Woody
 
A full install of Supreme Commander is 7.8GB. That's the same size as my
Vista Enterprise install on the laptop. I'm guessing that the game
developers are taking full advantage of the insanely cheap hard drives these
days. Can't wait to see the first game to ship on Dual DVD discs, or even
better Dual Dual layer discs, for Flights Sim XX
 
Lifetimes go by fast, especially when you are filling up a drive. (-:

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Regards,

Richard Urban MVP
Microsoft Windows Shell/User
 
I never thought I would see a 14 gig game, FSX. Then get a few add-ons.

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Regards,

Richard Urban MVP
Microsoft Windows Shell/User
 
A few addon's. When I upgraded from FS2004, the FS2004 folder was ~60 GB in
size.

A FEW addon's to an addictive game. Not to mention the hardware you are
required to have. Yoke, pedals, throttle quadrant. Can't fly without em!

FSX is awesome out of the box, and some of the third party stuff is amazing.
In another year or two, they will actually be using the FSX engine to it's
potential. It took a while for FS2004 (and earlier titles, also).

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Dustin Harper
(e-mail address removed)
http://www.vistarip.com

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My Xbox 360 controller works pretty good. I just can't control the plane on
the ground. I always crash when taxiing. Cant steer the damned things. They
say to use the keyboard but that doesn't work either.

So, I haven't played FSX for a month now. I get frustrated to have a good
take off, a good flight, a good landing and then crash going to the hanger.
(-:

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Regards,

Richard Urban MVP
Microsoft Windows Shell/User
 
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