Copy installed DCS to another PC

[xracer]

Hi, Ive been away from the community for a long time now, and im wondering if i do the regular download of 1.5 it seems to be installing at the same time...

 

I cant download to the computer im gonna run on cause wifi is too slow on it so i wonder if after i downloaded 1.5 to my laptop. can i copy installation over to the main PC and do the activations and all there and run as normal after?

[agentdarnell]

You can download the install file then install broken as far as I know. I have done it in the past. Heck there was even a torrent for the install so you could start and stop it at will.

[xracer]

Thw downloader does all automatically, so am left with a clean install ready to go, but the laptop has no chance even running this sim so before i start using it i wondered if i can copy the 22 Gigs over directly to main PC and start the process there...reason it may work is if all files needed is still in the DCS World directory?

[Kayos]

You should have no problem doing that. I've copied DCS from one drive to another multiple times before.

[xracer]

Allright, i'll give it a go...thanks for help...i only have 1.2.15 installed now...

[xracer]

Hmm...it didnt work cause i guess the DCS_Updater now is compiled with different DLL's...i get error on MSVCR120.DLL and MSVCP120. DLL and maybe more. I've tried the 32bits version of these files in System32 but get an error. Anyone who knows which files and versions are needed except Eagle Dynamics directory?

 

EDIT: Tried the 64bit versions of these files too...no go

Edited May 15, 2016 by xracer

[xracer]

Since the install of 1.5 release is about 22 GB is would like to avoid installing again to make it work. I have 1.2.5...running well and that means that my system is nicely capable, but when i run DCS_Updater update on 1.5 i get an error from DCS.EXE 0xc000007b even if the update report that all is fixed? I guess the registry entries are the same for 1.2.x and 1.5? I dont understand this problem. Its alot of work for me to reinstall cause of slow wifi connection. Anyone know what this could be?

[SkateZilla]

Run Windows Update and Update the Microsoft Visual Studio Runtimes.

[xracer]

Run Windows Update and Update the Microsoft Visual Studio Runtimes.

 

Thanks very much, i didnt manage to get MS update to do any useful, but i ran the file DCS World\Dist\vcredistr_x64.exe and it worked after so all fine :-)