Downloading ?

[Tomcat388th]

I'm on a us cellular wireless internet  I live out in the sticks. What I would like to do is go to a free wifi spot in town download DCS setup to a laptop and transfer this to my gaming computer later on. Didn't know if this would work or not for the initial setup. I'm limited to 150gig highspeed with my cellular service. We use it for tv with amazon fire plus my wife works from home for her employer and I dont want to hit our cap on data. She does a lot of video conferencing (zoom)  Hope this makes sense.

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[Rudel_chw]

1 hour ago, Tomcat388th said:

I'm on a us cellular wireless internet  I live out in the sticks. What I would like to do is go to a free wifi spot in town download DCS setup to a laptop and transfer this to my gaming computer later on. Didn't know if this would work or not for the initial setup. 

 

Yes, it will work, but you have to install it completely on the Laptop .. the web installer is small, only when run will download the rest. If you have purchased DCS Modules you would need to run DCS on the notebook, so that the Module Manager can download the purchases. If the notebook does not meet the specs of DCS and does not start the game, you may need to install these Modules manually, using the DCS_Updater.exe utility on a Command Prompt.

Edited February 8, 2021 by Rudel_chw

[Worrazen]

Yeah it can certainly be done and I think is also explained in the official DCS FAQ and Maintenance, where a different method is also mentioned where the DCS updater uses an auxiliary source, but I never tried that one out in practice myself, I'll give you the other method.

 

Otherwise you would would:

 

• First clean up and uninstall to start from scratch and avoid issues on the main PC.

 

• Install DCS World setup on both PCs, but on the main PC, do not start it once installed, do not run the updater or the game at all. I'll only install the 20 Megs and that's enough.

 

• You let it fully update on the laptop, and if you have more maps which are the biggest you'd have to authenticate on the laptop, since the new system is tied to the account there shouldn't be any issue with back and forth logins, just don't try logging in with both machines at the same time I guess, probably won't let you anyway.

 

• You need enough space on the laptop unless you have an external HDD. You should have at least 100GB free space, except if you have many modules as much as 250GB roughly.

 

• Once it's fully downloaded on the laptop, you find and open the DCS main installation directory and copy these folders to a USB drive (you may need to do this several times depending on size of your USB stick, another method is to connect both PCs to LAN and use FTP such as filezilla server/client):

 

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• Bazar
• CoreMods
• Mods
• Sounds
• bin
• dxgui
• MissionEditor
• distr
• FUI

 

 

•  I wouldn't worry about other folders they're very small and I would avoid copying any other files because it may be specific to that installation / PC if I'm not mistaken.

 

• Paste these folders into the DCS installation directory on the main PC and open command prompt, once finished, navigate to the DCS installation directory bin folder inside command prompt using "cd" command, or go to the bin directory, point the mouse cursor at an empty space in that folder (very annoying and not easy with Win10 explorer with full row select enabled) and press right mouse button while holding down SHIFT, this should give you a context option "open command window here" and click that.

 

• Then while in bin directory in the command prompt, type: DCS_updater.exe repair

 

• Once the dialog is shown, select the slower more thorough repair to catch any corruption you may had during transfer but also to make sure things are really done right.

 

• It will download anything else that's missing, which in this case would be a minor amount, sparing you +90% of the downloading.

 

Edited February 11, 2021 by Worrazen