Thinking of uninstalling DCS World and just Keep DCS Beta, do most people have both?

[SC86]

I think it is about high time that we had only one version of DCS WORLD, it shouldn't be a big problem to have only one. I almost never play DCS world as most of my favourite servers are on the Beta version and all the new planes come out on the beta version. Do you have both versions and use both, or am I crazy for clogging up my computer with two huge versions of the sim?

[Rudel_chw]

I used to have several versions of DCS, at one point having DCS 1.5, 2.5 stable, 2.5 Openbeta and Steam DCS .. but the Map boom of the last two years (3 maps: PG, The Channel and Syria) makes it impossible to sustain, so currently I have only 2.5 Openbeta installed.

[Emmy]

Used to have both but our vSquadron is 100% OB so I blew out Stable.

[SC86]

Thanks you guys who answered so far

[Tippis]

There's next to no reason to have stable installed. In large part because the name is… not very accurate. For the vast majority of the time, it is no more stable than the beta but trades those scant few instances for not having the latest bugfixes and improvements that actually make for a more stable and working experience.

[javelina1]

Had both stable and OB, and about a year ago just removed the stable...

[imacken]

I tend to keep both installed, just so I can check to see if behaviour is a new bug or just something I missed.

[OnlyforDCS]

Since you seem to spend a lot of time on the multiplayer servers, then by all means keep your OB installation and get rid of stable. Once in a while some new show-stopping bugs pop up on OB but there is really no reason to keep stable unless you absolutely must have a "relatively" bug free experience.

[Tom Kazansky]

I play stable bc I play with people that are not too experienced in dealing with OB issues. Since the stable version is just a OB version ED is satisfied enough with to call it stable or release version I'm hoping this will not change in the future. I respect your point though and have been thinking for myself similarly from time to time.

[nessuno0505]

I have both but I'm thinking to keep only stable; there are too many bugs in OB and they don't get addressed quickly, sometimes they even pass on stable. Fortunately some of them have community home made solutions, but the frequent updates of the open beta force me to recheck and redo fixes every week. The 3 months cycle of the stable Is, well, more stable, since you have to deal with bugs and fix only once until the next update and not every week. However I do not fly online. I think that the vast majority of servers being on open beta Is a weird thing and the main problem in dcs community. People can't wait and wants news as soon as possible, but the main reason of the open beta should be tests and to help the developers. Unfortunately this Is not the case, even if ED itself suggests to do so. Things being this way, maybe just one public version (hopefully with slower updates than OB) could be a solution.

Edited October 9, 2020 by nessuno0505