Wayc00lio Posted February 20, 2017 Posted February 20, 2017 Just a quick one about the size of the I've got a 250 GB SSD as my main drive so as you can imagine, space is a premium. I have DCSW 1.5.6 installed as well as DCSW 2 open alpha. DCSW 2 is ~60GB of hard drive space whereas 1.5.6 is around 45GB. I have most of the modules bar a couple of trainers and the Viggen. Are these folder sizes correct? Seems a lot of space! Have I got legacy update files I can get rid of to shrink the size of the folder? Thanks :-) [sIGPIC][/sIGPIC] Asus ROG Rampage Extreme VI; i9 7900X (all 10 cores at 4.5GHz); 32 Gb Corsair Dominator DDR4; EVGA 1080Ti Hybrid; 1Tb Samsung 960 Evo M2; 2Tb Samsung 850 Pro secondary. Oculus Rift; TM Warthog; Saitek Combat Pros.
Rudel_chw Posted February 21, 2017 Posted February 21, 2017 My DCS 2.0 weights 58 GB, while 1.5.6 is 32 GB, but I dont have all the modules installed, so I'd say that your sizes are correct. For work: iMac mid-2010 of 27" - Core i7 870 - 6 GB DDR3 1333 MHz - ATI HD5670 - SSD 256 GB - HDD 2 TB - macOS High Sierra For Gaming: 34" Monitor - Ryzen 3600 - 32 GB DDR4 2400 - nVidia RTX2080 - SSD 1.25 TB - HDD 10 TB - Win10 Pro - TM HOTAS Cougar Mobile: iPad Pro 12.9" of 256 GB
Art-J Posted February 21, 2017 Posted February 21, 2017 These sizes sound legit, especially IF You have lots of aircraft skins and some terrain texture mods installed for 1.5.x. If not, well, You can always fire up dcs_updater.exe with -cleanup parameter, that should remove all the junk left after failed updating and modding. Make sure to disable Your "intended" mods first if You don't want to loose some stuff You want to keep. I recall seeing a thread somewhere here, in which SkateZilla explained how to create a "unified" custom skin directory, which could be use by numerous DCS installs (instead of separate folder for each one), but I can't find it now. Still, even if You do all of it, You probably won't save much space anyway. DCS is that disk-hungry indeed. i7 9700K @ stock speed, single GTX1070, 32 gigs of RAM, TH Warthog, MFG Crosswind, Win10.
Buzzles Posted February 21, 2017 Posted February 21, 2017 Just wait until Normandy comes along to 2.x, followed by new Caucausus... I wouldn't be surprised to see a single DCS install taking a lion's share of 100gb by the end of the year. Fancy trying Star Citizen? Click here!
Rudel_chw Posted February 21, 2017 Posted February 21, 2017 ... I recall seeing a thread somewhere here, in which SkateZilla explained how to create a "unified" custom skin directory, which could be use by numerous DCS installs (instead of separate folder for each one), but I can't find it now. This was the thread: https://forums.eagle.ru/showthread.php?t=174462 ... very useful :) For work: iMac mid-2010 of 27" - Core i7 870 - 6 GB DDR3 1333 MHz - ATI HD5670 - SSD 256 GB - HDD 2 TB - macOS High Sierra For Gaming: 34" Monitor - Ryzen 3600 - 32 GB DDR4 2400 - nVidia RTX2080 - SSD 1.25 TB - HDD 10 TB - Win10 Pro - TM HOTAS Cougar Mobile: iPad Pro 12.9" of 256 GB
Bill1949 Posted April 9, 2019 Posted April 9, 2019 Excuse my ignorance please... :| ... but my current DCS folder is over 88GB (on a 120GB SSD that also has IL2 on it.... :( - so only 16GB free space - & I think the SSD needs about 30% free space to run properly). I have DCS Open Beta with Normandy + Assets, Caucausus - & I only really fly the P51 & the Spit LF IX. I'm getting VERY long load times (& VERY (silly) long DCS CLOSE times after I click to exit), and occasional stuttering & mini-freezes during flight. What can I do (including safe deletion of non-required stuff...?) safely to reduce the size of the DCS folder & improve the situation? (Yes, I know that a larger SSD will do that, but at a cost that I don't need right now...) Anything I can safely dispose of...?
sMashPiranha Posted April 12, 2019 Posted April 12, 2019 I use junctions to move less frequently used folders to another hdd, easily done with this tool http://schinagl.priv.at/nt/hardlinkshellext/linkshellextension.html Sent from my Redmi Note 5A using Tapatalk
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