Flight Simulator X: Acceleration releases to manufacturing
My second project at ACES Studio, the Flight Simulator X: Acceleration expansion pack, has gone gold. Well, 12.5 percent of it has: We sent the English release to manufacturing but we have seven more languages we’re shipping over the next couple of weeks. So while the extra-long days are a bit more normal now, the weekends are still fairly busy, coordinating builds and releases with our international folks in Dublin and Tokyo.
Acceleration was a “small” release, but only by the standards of a 14GB, two-DVD Flight Simulator X. Here are some mildly interesting statistics:
| Number of DVDs | 1 |
| Number of files | 7121 |
| Compressed byte count | 2,567,158,638 |
| Uncompressed byte count | 4,014,683,859 |
| WiX version used to build installer | 3.0.3304.0 |
| Visual C++ version used to build setup UI and custom actions | 8.0 |
| Number of new custom actions | 5 (plus rollback and scheduling CAs) |
| Number of new custom tables for data-driven deferred custom actions | 2 |
| Number of WiX custom actions consumed | 2 |
| Percentage of WiX custom action enhanced for Acceleration where nhancements were contributed back to WiX | 100 |
Seven more languages to go!