LcSummers Posted January 30, 2018 Share Posted January 30, 2018 Hi, i have a question. I didnt read the 48 pages, so i am sorry if the question has been asked. 1, Is it possible to install 2.5 on E: drive ( 1.5.8 and 2.2.0 are on D: drives) without having any troubles with the old installs? 2, Will the new 2.5 install on the E: drive take files from the D: drive to shorten load times? Thanks for any clarification. S! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Horns Posted January 30, 2018 Share Posted January 30, 2018 Why and for what reason was open beta install blocked? I am a paying customer and want unrestricted access to all the free installs of the game i support and not a first come first served basis. Please give back the 1.5.8 open beta install. As a “paying customer” you are entitled to a copy of the *release version” of the product. People who bought NTTR or Normandy were granted access to 2.x as a condition of sale. No one is entitled to the open beta. ED can make it available selectively or withdraw it altogether at any time. Modules: [A-10C] [AJS 37] [AV8B N/A] [F-5E] [F-14] [F/A-18C] [FC3] [Ka-50] [M-2000C] [Mig-21 bis] [NTTR] [PG] [SC] Intel i7-12700F, Nvidia GTX 3080, MSI MPG Z690 Carbon WiFi, 32GB DDR4 @ 1600 MHz, SteelSeries Apex Pro, Razer Basilisk 3 VKB Gunfighter 3 w/ F-14 grip, Thrustmaster Warthog throttle, Thrustmaster MFD Cougars x2, MFG Crosswind, DSD Flight Series button controller, XK-24, Oculus Rift (HM-A) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
boedha68 Posted January 30, 2018 Share Posted January 30, 2018 Hi, i have a question. I didnt read the 48 pages, so i am sorry if the question has been asked. 1, Is it possible to install 2.5 on E: drive ( 1.5.8 and 2.2.0 are on D: drives) without having any troubles with the old installs? 2, Will the new 2.5 install on the E: drive take files from the D: drive to shorten load times? Thanks for any clarification. S! Look to page 7. If you move things, you must mutate things in the registry to get the exact path. see Coff New system:I9-9900KS, Kingston 128 GB DDR4 3200Mhz, MSI RTX 4090, Corsair H150 Pro RGB, 2xSamsung 970 EVO 2Tb, 2xsamsung 970 EVO 1 TB, Scandisk m2 500 MB, 2 x Crucial 1 Tb, T16000M HOTAS, HP Reverb Professional 2, Corsair 750 Watt. Old system:I7-4770K(OC 4.5Ghz), Kingston 24 GB DDR3 1600 Mhz,MSI RTX 2080(OC 2070 Mhz), 2 * 500 GB SSD, 3,5 TB HDD, 55' Samsung 3d tv, Trackir 5, Logitech HD Cam, T16000M HOTAS. All DCS modules, maps and campaigns:pilotfly: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
QuiGon Posted January 30, 2018 Share Posted January 30, 2018 Hi, i have a question. I didnt read the 48 pages, so i am sorry if the question has been asked. 1, Is it possible to install 2.5 on E: drive ( 1.5.8 and 2.2.0 are on D: drives) without having any troubles with the old installs? 2, Will the new 2.5 install on the E: drive take files from the D: drive to shorten load times? Thanks for any clarification. S! I think it depends on the branches you have installed and want to install (Open Beta, Stable Release). So if you have the 1.5 OB branch installed on D and now want to install the 2.5 OB branch on E then it might cause 1.5 OB to stop working because it updates the registry paths of the OB to the new location of the 2.5 OB. Same thing if you have the 1.5 SR branch on D and want to install 2.5 SR on E. If you are using different branches (1.5 OB on D and want to install 2.5 SR on E or vice versa) then it should not cause any problems. Look to page 7. If you move things, you must mutate things in the registry to get the exact path. see Coff If I understand correctly he doesn't want to move things. He just wants to install 2.5 on a different drive than his other DCS installations are. 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! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Solid84 Posted January 30, 2018 Share Posted January 30, 2018 (edited) I've a question: i have my 1.5.8 OB in ssd drive C:, with 140gb of free space remaining. I've also 2.2 installed in another HDD drive, with plenty free space, called D:, only to reduce download size for Nevada map. Obviously i'd want to install 2.5 in my SSD drive C: I don't know if this 140gb are enough for the entire installation process of 2.5 (download, extraction and installation). If i move my 1.5.8OB to the D: drive, but making a symbolic link to drive C:, i will able to install 2.5 on SSD drive C:? Will the installer point to the symbolic link drive? Naturally the registry path for current 1.5.8 OB will remain on original drive c:. With this procedure i'm able to free another 34gb (size of my current OB) on drive C:, with a total free space of 174Gb. Could it works? Honestly i don't know... Edited January 30, 2018 by Solid84 I5-7600K@4,8Ghz - G Skill TridentZ 16Gb 3200 CL14 - Aorus GTX 1080TI - Samsung 950 PRO 512GB NVMe M.2 PCIe 3.0 x4 - Lenovo 24'' 1440p - Hotas Warthog - TrackIR 5 DCS 2.5 OB - M2000C - Mig21Bis - A10C - FC3 - AJS37 Viggen - F5E - AV8B N/A - F/A18 C - L 39 Albatros - Bf109 - Spitfire - P51D - Black Shark 2 - Nevada - Persian Gulf - Normandy Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dburne Posted January 30, 2018 Share Posted January 30, 2018 I've a question: i have my 1.5.8 OB in ssd drive C:, with 140gb of free space remaining. I've also 2.2 installed in another HDD drive, with plenty free space, called D:, only to reduce download size for Nevada map. Obviously i'd want to install 2.5 in my SSD drive C: I don't know if this 140gb are enough for the entire installation process of 2.5 (download, extraction and installation). I think you will be fine with that 140gb of space on C:, if you are going to delete 1.5.8 OB when the process is complete. Don B EVGA Z390 Dark MB | i9 9900k CPU @ 5.1 GHz | Gigabyte 4090 OC | 64 GB Corsair Vengeance 3200 MHz CL16 | Corsair H150i Pro Cooler |Virpil CM3 Stick w/ Alpha Prime Grip 200mm ext| Virpil CM3 Throttle | VPC Rotor TCS Base w/ Alpha-L Grip| Point Control V2|Varjo Aero| Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Solid84 Posted January 30, 2018 Share Posted January 30, 2018 I think you will be fine with that 140gb of space on C:, if you are going to delete 1.5.8 OB when the process is complete. Yes, i hope so. Naturally once finished the installation process of 2.5 i will move 1.5.8 on the other drive. taking them installed for a short period, just the time to test new 2.5 I hope 140gb will be enough. I5-7600K@4,8Ghz - G Skill TridentZ 16Gb 3200 CL14 - Aorus GTX 1080TI - Samsung 950 PRO 512GB NVMe M.2 PCIe 3.0 x4 - Lenovo 24'' 1440p - Hotas Warthog - TrackIR 5 DCS 2.5 OB - M2000C - Mig21Bis - A10C - FC3 - AJS37 Viggen - F5E - AV8B N/A - F/A18 C - L 39 Albatros - Bf109 - Spitfire - P51D - Black Shark 2 - Nevada - Persian Gulf - Normandy Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Madcop Posted January 30, 2018 Share Posted January 30, 2018 https://forums.eagle.ru/showthread.php?t=114030 Here you can switch from Branch to Open Beta and Vice Versa. Problem solved! :D If you have Open Beta, your on tomorrow. If you have Branch you must wait minimal a week for update or download 2.5 open beta on thursday. If you have all, you can do anything! :D The Current Release Version is : 1.5.8.12823 The Current Open Beta Version is 1.5.8.13716 Hello there... How do you manage that. I tried yesterday and just now but the answer is always the same "ERROR: Version 1.5.8.13716 is not available. === Log closed." Any help before the deadline. I have The Current Release Version is : 1.5.8.12823 and want to update to Current Open Beta Version is 1.5.8.13716 before this evening. Thank You Madcop Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
QuiGon Posted January 30, 2018 Share Posted January 30, 2018 (edited) Hello there... How do you manage that. I tried yesterday and just now but the answer is always the same "ERROR: Version 1.5.8.13716 is not available. === Log closed." Any help before the deadline. I have The Current Release Version is : 1.5.8.12823 and want to update to Current Open Beta Version is 1.5.8.13716 before this evening. Thank You Madcop Did you use DCS_updater.exe update @openbeta? If that doesn't work, then try DCS_Updater.exe update 1.5.8.13716@openbeta Edited January 30, 2018 by QuiGon 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! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dimitrischal Posted January 30, 2018 Share Posted January 30, 2018 Spreading the meltdown. :D You can update your Branche to open beta. Look here: https://forums.eagle.ru/showthread.php?t=114030 Do this before tomorrow, so otherwise you must wait till thursday. :D I don't want a workaround, i want the normal installer to be available again, this is unacceptable as we are paying customers and are being treated on a first come first served basis for crap bandwidth allocation reasons. Very poor behaviour on behalf of ED... It's not as if 24 hours will matter anyway. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
imacken Posted January 30, 2018 Share Posted January 30, 2018 I hope 140gb will be enough. Can't see there being a problem there. My 2.2 install is 79Gb with NTTR and Normandy plus around 10 modules and some other stuff. Surely the new Caucusus will be around 30Gb, so I would have thought that 110-120Gb will be more than enough. Intel i7 12700K · MSI Gaming X Trio RTX 4090 · ASUS ROG STRIX Z690-A Wi-Fi · MSI 32" MPG321UR QD · Samsung 970 500Gb M.2 NVMe · 2 x Samsung 850 Evo 1Tb · 2Tb HDD · 32Gb Corsair Vengance 3000MHz DDR4 · Windows 11 · Thrustmaster TPR Pedals · Tobii Eye Tracker 5 · Thrustmaster F/A-18 Hornet Grip · Virpil MongoosT-50CM3 Base · Virpil Throttle MT-50 CM3 · Virpil Alpha Prime Grip · Virpil Control Panel 2 · Thrustmaster F-16 MFDs · HTC Vive Pro 2 · Total Controls Multifunction Button Box Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
QuiGon Posted January 30, 2018 Share Posted January 30, 2018 I don't want a workaround, i want the normal installer to be available again, this is unacceptable as we are paying customers and are being treated on a first come first served basis for crap bandwidth allocation reasons. Very poor behaviour on behalf of ED... It's not as if 24 hours will matter anyway. Even a paying customer has no right to have to be given access to development builds... So, stop raging please. 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! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dudikoff Posted January 30, 2018 Share Posted January 30, 2018 Will the installer point to the symbolic link drive? Naturally the registry path for current 1.5.8 OB will remain on original drive c:. Could it works? Honestly i don't know... Good question as I was just wondering myself if symbolic links would work with e.g. maps; i.e. with the future stable and open beta 2.5 releases, all the maps would have two copies even though I presume they won't differ between these two installations. i386DX40@42 MHz w/i387 CP, 4 MB RAM (8*512 kB), Trident 8900C 1 MB w/16-bit RAMDAC ISA, Quantum 340 MB UDMA33, SB 16, DOS 6.22 w/QEMM + Win3.11CE, Quickshot 1btn 2axis, Numpad as hat. 2 FPH on a good day, 1 FPH avg. DISCLAIMER: My posts are still absolutely useless. Just finding excuses not to learn the F-14 (HB's Swansong?). Annoyed by my posts? Please consider donating. Once the target sum is reached, I'll be off to somewhere nice I promise not to post from. I'd buy that for a dollar! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sze5003 Posted January 30, 2018 Share Posted January 30, 2018 Well I'm ready..moved dcs 1.5.8 to an empty drive I cloned and also moved 2.2 there as well. Had to fix my boot record after I formatted the drive I cloned from and then edited registry. Repair and update worked and now both versions are on one drive so this will make it easy for tomorrow and the upcoming week when 2.2 gets moved over. Asus ROG Strix Z790-E | Core i9 13900K-NZXT Kraken X73 AIO | 32GB DDR5 G Skill Neo 6600mhz | 2TB Sk Hynix P41 Platinum nvme |1TB Evo 970 Plus nvme | OCZ Trion 150 960GB | 256GB Samsung 830 | 1TB Samsung 850 EVO | Gigabyte OC 4090 | Phanteks P600S | 1000W MSI MPG A1000G | LG C2 42 Evo 3840x2160 @ 120hz Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dhevans79 Posted January 30, 2018 Share Posted January 30, 2018 Well I'm ready..moved dcs 1.5.8 to an empty drive I cloned and also moved 2.2 there as well. Had to fix my boot record after I formatted the drive I cloned from and then edited registry. Repair and update worked and now both versions are on one drive so this will make it easy for tomorrow and the upcoming week when 2.2 gets moved over.Wow, that was a roller-coaster ride from start to finish.. Sent from my SM-N950F using Tapatalk i7-7700K 4.2 GHz, Gigabyte GTX 980 4Gb, Asus Prime z270k, 16GB Corsair Vengeance 3600MHz, Plextor PCIe SSD 256Gb, Samsung EVO 750 SSD 500Gb, 9.5TB SATA incl 4TB Mirrored. Saitek X52-Pro Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sze5003 Posted January 30, 2018 Share Posted January 30, 2018 I don't want a workaround, i want the normal installer to be available again, this is unacceptable as we are paying customers and are being treated on a first come first served basis for crap bandwidth allocation reasons. Very poor behaviour on behalf of ED... It's not as if 24 hours will matter anyway.If you've never had the open beta 1.5.8 and now you want the installer it is too late. This thread has been active a very long time. If anyone wanted the beta they could have had it by now. You can still convert your stable 1.5 release to beta by navigating to your dcs world install folder go inside the bin folder and hold shift + right click, open powershell here window here. Type dcs_updater.exe update @openbeta 'enter release number here' Put the release number without the quotes. There is a thread that shows all the release and beta latest versions. I think someone posted a beta release number somewhere in this thread. This will convert you to 1.5.8 beta without taking up additional space. Asus ROG Strix Z790-E | Core i9 13900K-NZXT Kraken X73 AIO | 32GB DDR5 G Skill Neo 6600mhz | 2TB Sk Hynix P41 Platinum nvme |1TB Evo 970 Plus nvme | OCZ Trion 150 960GB | 256GB Samsung 830 | 1TB Samsung 850 EVO | Gigabyte OC 4090 | Phanteks P600S | 1000W MSI MPG A1000G | LG C2 42 Evo 3840x2160 @ 120hz Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Solid84 Posted January 30, 2018 Share Posted January 30, 2018 Can't see there being a problem there. My 2.2 install is 79Gb with NTTR and Normandy plus around 10 modules and some other stuff. Surely the new Caucusus will be around 30Gb, so I would have thought that 110-120Gb will be more than enough. I don't have Normandy, and my 2.2 is about 64Gb... so my space should be enough... I5-7600K@4,8Ghz - G Skill TridentZ 16Gb 3200 CL14 - Aorus GTX 1080TI - Samsung 950 PRO 512GB NVMe M.2 PCIe 3.0 x4 - Lenovo 24'' 1440p - Hotas Warthog - TrackIR 5 DCS 2.5 OB - M2000C - Mig21Bis - A10C - FC3 - AJS37 Viggen - F5E - AV8B N/A - F/A18 C - L 39 Albatros - Bf109 - Spitfire - P51D - Black Shark 2 - Nevada - Persian Gulf - Normandy Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Solid84 Posted January 30, 2018 Share Posted January 30, 2018 Good question as I was just wondering myself if symbolic links would work with e.g. maps; i.e. with the future stable and open beta 2.5 releases, all the maps would have two copies even though I presume they won't differ between these two installations. I think only developers can answer this... I5-7600K@4,8Ghz - G Skill TridentZ 16Gb 3200 CL14 - Aorus GTX 1080TI - Samsung 950 PRO 512GB NVMe M.2 PCIe 3.0 x4 - Lenovo 24'' 1440p - Hotas Warthog - TrackIR 5 DCS 2.5 OB - M2000C - Mig21Bis - A10C - FC3 - AJS37 Viggen - F5E - AV8B N/A - F/A18 C - L 39 Albatros - Bf109 - Spitfire - P51D - Black Shark 2 - Nevada - Persian Gulf - Normandy Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Madcop Posted January 30, 2018 Share Posted January 30, 2018 Did you use DCS_updater.exe update @openbeta? If that doesn't work, then try DCS_Updater.exe update 1.5.8.13716@openbeta Hi QuiGon Thanks a lot. Just finished updating with use " DCS_updater.exe update @openbeta" Took 5 minutes. I am now ready for tomorrow. Thank you for your help. Madcop Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sze5003 Posted January 30, 2018 Share Posted January 30, 2018 Wow, that was a roller-coaster ride from start to finish.. Sent from my SM-N950F using TapatalkHaha yeah I almost shit my pants last night. I bought a new 1tb ssd a while ago and cloned my main drive to it. I had been using it without issues and never bothered to format the old drive that still had windows on it. My motherboard was told to boot from the new 1tb drive and it did without issues. Then when I finally formatted the old drive my PC refused to boot. Somehow I guess macrium reflect which I used to clone must have left an old boot record entry on the old drive. Luckily I had access to command prompt while booting off of a Windows USB installer and all it took was a simple command to rebuild the windows boot entry..booted right up again. I was almost going to cry when I saw that blue screen until a light went off in my head. Asus ROG Strix Z790-E | Core i9 13900K-NZXT Kraken X73 AIO | 32GB DDR5 G Skill Neo 6600mhz | 2TB Sk Hynix P41 Platinum nvme |1TB Evo 970 Plus nvme | OCZ Trion 150 960GB | 256GB Samsung 830 | 1TB Samsung 850 EVO | Gigabyte OC 4090 | Phanteks P600S | 1000W MSI MPG A1000G | LG C2 42 Evo 3840x2160 @ 120hz Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mhe Posted January 30, 2018 Share Posted January 30, 2018 The 2.5 changelog post is out! Is it early christmas? | i9 12900K | 64GB DDR5-6000 | STRIX RTX 4090 OC | LG 38GN950 38" | | Hanns-G HT225HPB | TIR 5 & Varjo Aero | Virpil Throttle & Stick | TM TPRs | You don't stop playing because you grow old, you grow old because you stop playing. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
QuiGon Posted January 30, 2018 Share Posted January 30, 2018 The changelog arrived: https://forums.eagle.ru/showthread.php?p=3371822#post3371822 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! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
grunf Posted January 30, 2018 Share Posted January 30, 2018 The 2.5 changelog post is out! Is it early christmas? Hope so. :D Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sze5003 Posted January 30, 2018 Share Posted January 30, 2018 Yay glad to see the advanced flight qualification was updated for the A10. Been having issues with it currently. Actually I'm almost done with it but now I may replay it in 2.5. Also, I wonder what that means under VR controllers. Can the occulus touch controllers now be used for something? Asus ROG Strix Z790-E | Core i9 13900K-NZXT Kraken X73 AIO | 32GB DDR5 G Skill Neo 6600mhz | 2TB Sk Hynix P41 Platinum nvme |1TB Evo 970 Plus nvme | OCZ Trion 150 960GB | 256GB Samsung 830 | 1TB Samsung 850 EVO | Gigabyte OC 4090 | Phanteks P600S | 1000W MSI MPG A1000G | LG C2 42 Evo 3840x2160 @ 120hz Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Steel Jaw Posted January 30, 2018 Share Posted January 30, 2018 So if I read correctly, the auto updater takes care of this? "You see, IronHand is my thing" My specs: W10 Pro, I5/11600K o/c to 4800 @1.32v, 64 GB 3200 XML RAM, ASUS RTX3060ti/8GB. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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