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No real mention of damage model there chaps though, is there? Remember this? Either way its been 3.5 years and we want a finished product, not, "The next step to improving the flight dynamics of DCS: Yak-52......" What are we getting? Lets have a breakdown of this proposed update then? For the umpteenth time Sort your customer feedback out. Seeing is believing and all that...... RDG

Yes the DCS Yak 52 is now a meme for Eagle Dynamics abandonware. They don't have anything to say anymore, except the usual stuff about "when the devs have time" (which they won't, don't and haven't because they're put to work on profitable new modules naturally), the community managers clearly can't do anything and are in an awkward spot so just resort to locking the multitude of mocking complaints threads . We've been mugged off with this module and ED decision makers apparantly dont care because we all keep buying the new profitable modules regardless. This is one of the issues with a trust based deal like Early Access and there isn't anything the customer can do when the firm pulls a fast one with a module like this that remains incomplete and silly in parts 3.5 years after launch. Lesson learned. EA works, when ED cares to finish the job. @NineLine Your last comment hasn't aged very well has it? Funny that. Would you please now explain the near 3 year year gap and lack of progress to your customers. It's time to stop the nonsense and give us a formal statement on the status of this module. Thanks RDG

Just to let you know it worked perfectly. DCS updated, repaired and working well. Hopefully someone in the same situation can read this thread and gain some insight from it. Thanks for your help. Much appreciated. Best regards, RDG

Yak52? There arent any pylons, armor or weapons. Is the smoke pod doing it?

All seems to be going well, I've run the repair, all it found was 22 files in ../openbeta/downloads that "shouldn't be there". Just downloading last Fridays update now, I couldnt fit it on the old SSD..... give me 2 hours.......... and I'll report back. Quick question: What defines where DCS downloads updates/modules to? Best regards, RDG

Great thanks Rudel, I've been through and formatted, allocated and labelled the new SSD as D drive, the old D drive is now labelled E drive and I have copied the entire program files folder across. Only has 2x folders in it "Eagle Dynamics" and "SRS". So as my DCS OB shortcut points to D:Program files/Eagle Dynamics/etc can I just expect DCS to "work as normal"? Thanks RDG

Hey guys, So much for Ebuyer Uk and their "next day" delivery option, the new SSD arrived today, 2 working days late. Anyway, the SSD is fitted and I've plugged it in as shown below: I haven't turned the PC back on yet, can I get some guidance on what to expect and how to proceed? Cheers RDG

Cool, thats a lot simpler than I expected to be honest! Does the order that the drives are placed along the daisychain make any difference, in terms of performance? I'll get the physical installation done and come back with an update, hopefully someone else can also benefit from this info going forward. I imagine a lot of people will also be upgrading drive sizes in the not too distance future, given the size of the updates these days and the maps......if Syria is anything to go by.... I had to strip all my other terrains out to make room for the Syria install to complete. That's what finally prompted me to get a bigger drive.

So looking inside the case I can see there are 3 cables that are free to move and end in an unused spare connector. 2 of them appear to power supplies of some sort, a single fat one with a square chunky connector and a messy one that has all sorts of connections coming from it. One very thin cable shoots off to the case fan. I figure that the important part is is the daisychained cables that have the SSDs sprouting from them? What a faff! I had to unscrew one of the SSDs to get enough slack in the cables to get a usable image. Pic attached. I've Labelled it: "A": Run from the PSU. "A1": Daisychain running on from first SSD, 200GB D drive in this case. Next along the chain is the spare connector? and then next along (off the left side off the image) is the C Drive SSD (OS) which is the end of the chain. "B": Sata Cable? Runs to Mobo Sata 6 Port. So am I right in thinking that I have one spare SSD power conector on that daisychain (The one middle left in the pic) and need one more sata cable to connet the new SSD to one of the spare Sata connections on the mobo? Then I can use the simpler "direct copy from one drive to another" method? Then relabel drives to suit? Cheers RDG

Thanks Rudel, for that info, I understand what goes on inside a PC but only in general terms, certainly not details of individual component groups. its always good to learn something new. My project for tommorow is to fit the SSD when it arrives and get DCS running, I've got all day if I need it so I will have a rummage around and see what is inside the PSU section of the chassis and report back. I've got a shiny new Hornet to fiddle with........ Cheers RDG

Thanks again chaps, Ive had a look and attached a picture: Seems like the C Drive (The one labelled MB in the pic, which has the OS on it) is plugged into a Sata3 slot and D drive is plugged into Sata 6 slot. Can you confirm I am correct on that? Would I be better off moving C drive (OS) to a Sata 6 slot as well as settling the new 1TB SSD into a Sata 6? There a no extra cables either. Thoughts? Cheers RDG

That's fantastic, thanks U.S. and Rudel I get what I need to do now, will take the side off the case and have a look at the mobo, see what is plugged where etc. If the two current drives are in the Sata 6 slots (#9 on the diagram?), how would I proceed? Put the new drive in one of the Sata 3 slots (#8 on diagram), copy the contents, remove the old SSD and then move the new SSD across to the now empty Sata 6 slot? Cheers RDG

Righto, thanks, mobo is an ASUS H81M-Plus: https://www.asus.com/SupportOnly/H81MPLUS/HelpDesk_Knowledge/ So I cant just copy the ED/DCS openbeta folder to the external SSD, remove the (old) SSD D drive, fit the (new) 1TB SSD and paste the ED/DCS Openbeta folder back from the external SSD? TYVM RDG

I think that's my point, I need to remove (old) SSD D drive and replace with a larger SSD, which is going to be (new) D drive.

Wow fast! Thanks chaps. Good question Rudel. I dont know tbh. I went on the Crucial.com website, used the checkertool to enter my Motherboard and it spat out a list of different sized SSDs, then I ordered the 1TB model number cheaper, on Amazon. Its a 2.5" Sata drive, there are 2x Sata SSD slots, I dont appear to have M2 but I've ordered the Sata drive now anyway. Cheers RDG