RNeves Posted April 17, 2016 Posted April 17, 2016 Why do we have to install the game twice in order to try the beta/alpha versions? It would be more inteligent from ED to do it like in Arma 3. There you just have to select the "allow beta builds" checkbox to try them... Having two different folders takes a huge ammount of space from the HDD... [sIGPIC][/sIGPIC] "Your eyes only see what your mind is ready to comprehend" ________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ Asus Z170 Pro Gaming - Intel I7-6700K - 16GB DDR4 @ 2400MHz HyperX Savage - Strix GTX 960 DC II 2GB OC Edition - Seagate 1TB
ED Team BIGNEWY Posted April 17, 2016 ED Team Posted April 17, 2016 (edited) Currently we have three different public installs DCS World - public release version DCS World Open beta - public test version DCS Open Alpha - public test version for the NTTR terrain. Eventually open alpha will be merged with open beta, however ED are currently working on the old terrain to make it compatible with the new graphics engine EDGE, once that is complete we will have the release version and the beta for public testing. http://www.digitalcombatsimulator.com/en/downloads/world/ Latest stable version is 1.5.3.52018.61 Current openbeta is 1.5.3.52018.61 Current openalpha is 2.0.1.50747.33 If you do not want to have multiple installs you can use the revert function described here for the public release and beta versions. However doing this for the alpha would be a huge download each time as it is very different from the 1.5. builds and contains the NTTR terrain. please note currently release and open beta are the same version number you can find current version info here http://updates.digitalcombatsimulator.com/ Edited April 17, 2016 by BIGNEWY Forum rules - DCS Crashing? Try this first - Cleanup and Repair - Discord BIGNEWY#8703 - Youtube - Patch Status Windows 11, NVIDIA MSI RTX 3090, Intel® i9-10900K 3.70GHz, 5.30GHz Turbo, Corsair Hydro Series H150i Pro, 64GB DDR @3200, ASUS ROG Strix Z490-F Gaming, PIMAX Crystal
RNeves Posted April 17, 2016 Author Posted April 17, 2016 The problem is exactly with open alpha... because I bought the NTTR and I didn't try it yet because I'm not in the mood to buy another HDD just for two DCS installs... IMO, it would be better to have the revert option in the game options. Even knowing that it means a huge download to revert back from open alpha. Please, take this into account. I didn't know about the revert app by skatezilla, going to give it a try... Thanks alot for the quick reply [sIGPIC][/sIGPIC] "Your eyes only see what your mind is ready to comprehend" ________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ Asus Z170 Pro Gaming - Intel I7-6700K - 16GB DDR4 @ 2400MHz HyperX Savage - Strix GTX 960 DC II 2GB OC Edition - Seagate 1TB
ED Team BIGNEWY Posted April 17, 2016 ED Team Posted April 17, 2016 No problem, just bare in mind the openalpha is for testing the terrain, and some features are not fully functioning currently. Forum rules - DCS Crashing? Try this first - Cleanup and Repair - Discord BIGNEWY#8703 - Youtube - Patch Status Windows 11, NVIDIA MSI RTX 3090, Intel® i9-10900K 3.70GHz, 5.30GHz Turbo, Corsair Hydro Series H150i Pro, 64GB DDR @3200, ASUS ROG Strix Z490-F Gaming, PIMAX Crystal
QuiGon Posted April 17, 2016 Posted April 17, 2016 The problem is exactly with open alpha... because I bought the NTTR and I didn't try it yet because I'm not in the mood to buy another HDD just for two DCS installs... IMO, it would be better to have the revert option in the game options. Even knowing that it means a huge download to revert back from open alpha. Please, take this into account. I didn't know about the revert app by skatezilla, going to give it a try... Thanks alot for the quick reply The "revert app" provides the exact functionality you want. Same like switching between builds in steam. But like BIGNEWY said it's not reasonable to switch between Alpha and Beta because of the big difference and the resulting size of download. But that's up to you of course. I bought NTTR last year and haven't played it yet, because I also don't want to have a second DCS installation, so I'll just wait for the merge. Intel i7-12700K @ 8x5GHz+4x3.8GHz + 32 GB DDR5 RAM + Nvidia Geforce RTX 2080 (8 GB VRAM) + M.2 SSD + Windows 10 64Bit DCS Panavia Tornado (IDS) really needs to be a thing!
RNeves Posted April 18, 2016 Author Posted April 18, 2016 I know that switching between builds isn't a thing that the user will do very often... but even so, I think that we should have that option in the menus. BTW, are we going to have an open alpha everytime a new map is released?? [sIGPIC][/sIGPIC] "Your eyes only see what your mind is ready to comprehend" ________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ Asus Z170 Pro Gaming - Intel I7-6700K - 16GB DDR4 @ 2400MHz HyperX Savage - Strix GTX 960 DC II 2GB OC Edition - Seagate 1TB
will- Posted April 18, 2016 Posted April 18, 2016 I know that switching between builds isn't a thing that the user will do very often... but even so, I think that we should have that option in the menus. BTW, are we going to have an open alpha everytime a new map is released?? No. Intel i9-9900K 32GB DDR4, RTX 2080tiftw3, Windows 10, 1tb 970 M2, TM Warthog, 4k 144hz HDR g-sync.
QuiGon Posted April 18, 2016 Posted April 18, 2016 I know that switching between builds isn't a thing that the user will do very often... but even so, I think that we should have that option in the menus. BTW, are we going to have an open alpha everytime a new map is released?? No, it was because of the new engine that came with it. The old Black Sea map still needs to get upgraded to the new engine. Intel i7-12700K @ 8x5GHz+4x3.8GHz + 32 GB DDR5 RAM + Nvidia Geforce RTX 2080 (8 GB VRAM) + M.2 SSD + Windows 10 64Bit DCS Panavia Tornado (IDS) really needs to be a thing!
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