42GB Update

[Rudel_chw]

Anything less than 500gb is a waste of time nowadays. I would strongly suggest 1Tb at least to be honest. Not cheap, but the reality is you can spend that money now, or you can buy something less and just have to replace it...Ultimately spending more money than you would have just buying it from the jump.

 

 

Not really ... as the price of SSD disks is going down over time, purchasing much more capacity than you actually need can be costlier than replacing your older smaller drives when needed.

[Gh0st007]

I'm sorry for being blunt, try not go get offended.

 

I am unsure why this needs a forum post when common sense would have come into play here, during a beta or even a fully released games still get small and large patches, there will be files added and removed during patches etc, updates like this one will only continue to get bigger as more modules become available also modules you have install on your SSD will take up a lot of room and also having maps on it also, so it comes down to whether you only fly certain aircraft leave them installed and removed the ones you are less likely too use or just bite the bullet and buy a better hard-drive you will future proof yourself buying a larger capacity SSD anyway.

[feefifofum]

This should all be a moot point.

 

If you have insufficient space on your main drive, the updater should prompt you for another location to download the update files. This can be on another hard drive.

 

The updater will download the files, patch the game, then delete the temporary files. I had to do this myself for this update, as others have mentioned, it's quite large when unpacked. With everything finished, my DCS installation is 174GB which includes every map and almost every module.

[Express0083]

same.....

[Weta43]

I am only allowed 50 gig per month in total usage. So I will have to close my hand, quit the game and move on. :(

At least I can play around offline.

 

1, I'm pretty sure the people saying it's 20GB that unpacks to 40GB are right, and

 

2/ try - On the last day of your billing period, start the download and at the point where you finish your quota, break the connection. Next day start again and it should just pick up where it left off

[Phantom453]

What a good week is was to get an NBN connection finally!!

 

Bye bye ADSL2+ and 1 MB/s downloads. :thumbup:

[mr_mojo97]

Well it turns out my download for 2.5.5 was only 2.5gb - what it unpacked to I don’t know. Which is odd as I have all the maps and most modules. So are lots of other people getting such large downloads I wonder

[E-Rock]

For me there were 2 downloads. 2.5gb first and then 12gb.

[51GRIZZLY]

As i mentioned in my tread starter its a 240GB SSD exclusively for DCS/Eagle Dynamics. If not for 3 Maps and 8 modules 42GB would not have been a big deal but sooner or later additional updates and new modules would choke up the drive for good.

 

So i went to my local hardware store and got myself a 480GB SSD by Gigabyte (Kingston was sold out) and am now transferring the whole Caboodle, hoping that i won't have to by a 1T for at least another year "Fingers crossed":doh::lookaround:

[LeCuvier]

I'm sorry for being blunt, try not go get offended.

 

I am unsure why this needs a forum post when common sense would have come into play here, during a beta or even a fully released games still get small and large patches, there will be files added and removed during patches etc, updates like this one will only continue to get bigger as more modules become available also modules you have install on your SSD will take up a lot of room and also having maps on it also, so it comes down to whether you only fly certain aircraft leave them installed and removed the ones you are less likely too use or just bite the bullet and buy a better hard-drive you will future proof yourself buying a larger capacity SSD anyway.

 

 

I will also be blunt:

Although I'm not a native English speaker, I take the liberty of telling you that you ought learn how to write understandable English. This is gibberish!

 

 

PS: try to not be offended!

[Gh0st007]

I will also be blunt:

Although I'm not a native English speaker, I take the liberty of telling you that you ought learn how to write understandable English. This is gibberish!

 

 

PS: try to not be offended!

 

It's Ok, it shows you're blunt, the grammar police are here. You think your petty comment would offend me? Lol

 

P.s would you like a tissue? :thumbup:

Edited June 7, 2019 by Gh0st007

[Worrazen]

I don't think so.

I started with a download which unpacked and installed and then the updater started to get a 40,797.6MB download which is taking FOREVER to finish downloading.

 

However, it is downloading faster using the Optional "HTTP" Method of downloading.

I'm sure I still have at least another hour of DL'ing before I'll be able to fly though.

 

The updater unpacks to a temporary location which needs an additional step to actually install, so 3 steps in total, I haven't yet figured out the technical reason for not unpack-installing directly.

 

1 download

2 unpack (same path as download dir)

3 install (move unpacked to DCS)

 

So every update takes ~30% longer than it could.

 

If this is needed, to speed it up, I suggested separating the download and unpack directory so you could specify a different storage device of equal specs or more which would double the speed or more for the unpacking process.

 

The unpack and install part are going half the speed they could if you don't specify another storage device in a config file, which is the default.

 

I didn't include hardlinks, because that external, has nothing to do with DCS, but you can probably do anything with that like I mentioned.

Edited June 7, 2019 by Worrazen

[BuzzU]

I will also be blunt:

Although I'm not a native English speaker, I take the liberty of telling you that you ought learn how to write understandable English. This is gibberish!

 

 

PS: try to not be offended!

 

There's nothing wrong with his post but there sure is with your attitude.

[Bobik2002]

The updater unpacks to a temporary location which needs an additional step to actually install, so 3 steps in total, I haven't yet figured out the technical reason for not unpack-installing directly.

 

1 download

2 unpack (same path as download dir)

3 install (move unpacked to DCS)

 

So every update takes ~30% longer than it could.

 

If this is needed, to speed it up, I suggested separating the download and unpack directory so you could specify a different storage device of equal specs or more which would double the speed or more for the unpacking process.

 

The unpack and install part are going half the speed they could if you don't specify another storage device in a config file, which is the default.

 

I didn't include hardlinks, because that external, has nothing to do with DCS, but you can probably do anything with that like I mentioned.

You can specify where you want download.

 

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[BitMaster]

As an alternative....

 

Get another cheap 250GB SSD and RAID them into a Raid-0, that will yield 465GB usable space.

 

Not as elegant as a 1TB 970Pro....but way way cheaper.

 

*see my sig, the Raid-0 is my game drive

 

:D

[Pikey]

Don't understand how there are 5 pages of this. Simply follow the prompts to download to a custom drive and there is no issue.

[51GRIZZLY]

Don't understand how there are 5 pages of this. Simply follow the prompts to download to a custom drive and there is no issue.

 

To be honest i am a bit flabbergasted myself :D:music_whistling:

[slicker55]

I know quite a few of us own multiple drives but those struggling with only one drive holding their OS and DCS should be aware they can recover quite a lot of free space by deleting previous versions of windows.

Edited June 7, 2019 by slicker55

[Mr_Burns]

Just bought a 1TB as I have been putting off the Gulf due to lack of space.

[BuzzU]

Ok, explain this. When I made my earlier post I had 62gb for my whole install of DCS. I was on the stable version then and couldn't get the 2.5.5 update. All I had installed in 2.5.4 was the Hornet and Hog. No terrains.

 

So, I deleted it and installed a fresh install of Open Beta. When done I was on 2.5.5. I installed the Hornet and Hog again like on 2.5.4. My total install now is 66GB.

 

That means I only have 4GB more to get the 2.5.5 update. That makes no sense if you guys are saying the 2.5.5 is 42GB.

 

All I can think of is when adding 2.5.5 over the top of 2.5.4 it keeps a lot of the old files that really aren't needed anymore. When doing a clean install of Open Beta you get 2.5.5 but without the extra files that aren't needed.

 

How else can this be explained?

[macedk]

Ed could look into cleaning their install up ....160 gigs is a tad much

[Feuerfalke]

My DCS install is only 62GB. If i'm not using a plane or terrain. I don't install it. I'm not buying a new SSD for DCS. I'll go fly another sim before I do that.

 

 

Looking at the current prices for SSDs in comparisson to what games + DLCs cost today, this might indeed be the more expensive alternative.

[BuzzU]

Looking at the current prices for SSDs in comparisson to what games + DLCs cost today, this might indeed be the more expensive alternative.

 

When I posted that I hadn't tried 2.5.5. Now that I have it installed it only added 4GB to my install of DCS. I still have 82GB left on my 240GB SSD. I'm good for a while.

[Manuel_108]

Does every update add a few gigabytes just on principle? I‘ve never noticed.

[Mars Exulte]

Does every update add a few gigabytes just on principle? I‘ve never noticed.

 

No, it's all entirely dependent on what modules you have and what got patched. If you don't own any extra maps, by default your install will be dozens of gb smaller. Each aircraft is only a few gb on its own in total, if that.

 

The downloads may be fairly large, but they'll generally overwrite pre-existing data in most cases. 42g dl may result in only very little, or possibly no increase, all depending on what changed.