swaps Posted February 22, 2022 Share Posted February 22, 2022 Hi all, Looks like I have vastly underestimated what is needed to play this sim. after downloading the game I only have around 100mb let on my ssd. I can remove the 2 free planes to another hard drive but not sure how much space that will get me back. Is there a competitive Jet that I can use that is not going to stall in dogfights like the free one does but is a small file size ? SSD's are not cheap and I see some jets are 1500MB. I want to dog fight but putting in a massive SSD for 1 plane is expensive. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rudel_chw Posted February 22, 2022 Share Posted February 22, 2022 11 minutes ago, swaps said: SSD's are not cheap and I see some jets are 1500MB. I want to dog fight but putting in a massive SSD for 1 plane is expensive. you have no option, as even if you manage to put a real fighter in the game (the free one is an attack aircraft, no dogfighter), too little space will make the game update process to fail (and DCs is updated monthly on average). 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 3600X - 32 GB DDR4 2400 - nVidia GTX1070ti - SSD 1.25 TB - HDD 10 TB - Win10 Pro - TM HOTAS Cougar - Oculus Rift CV1 Mobile: iPad Pro 12.9" of 256 GB Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
razo+r Posted February 22, 2022 Share Posted February 22, 2022 F86 is 200MB MIG-15 is 400MB F-5 is 500 MB L-39 is 600MB The other jets are 1GB and above And all of the props are below 900MB 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AstonMartinDBS Posted February 22, 2022 Share Posted February 22, 2022 (edited) For DCS and a few terrains and planes you should calculate around 250 GB. To have sufficient reserves for future updates I recommend to get a 500 GB SSD. My DCS (open beta) installation needs currently 297 GB disk space (installed aircrafts, maps and tech watch my singature). Here's a list of the needed space by planes: A-10C: 1,44 GB A-10C II: 1,76 GB AH-64D*: 1,40 GB F-14A/B*: 3,83 GB F-16C*: 1,12 GB F/A-18C*: 893 MB FC3: 1,39 GB Ka-50: 998 MB P-51D: 596 MB UH-1H: 630 MB * Early Access (required disk space is growing with each update) Edited March 18, 2022 by AstonMartinDBS 1 [Modules] A-10C, A-10C II, AH-64D, F-14A/B, F-16C, F/A-18C, FC3, Ka-50, P-51D, UH-1H, CA, SC [Maps] PG, NTTR, Normandy, Sinai, Syria, TC [OS] Windows 11 Pro [PC] MSI Pro Z790-A, i9-13900K, 64 GB DDR5-5200, RTX 4090 24 GB GDDR6X, 2 x SSD 990 PRO 2 TB (M.2), Corsair 5000D Airflow, HX1500i, H150i RGB Elite, Acer X28, TM HOTAS Warthog (Grip@WarBRD Base), MS SW FFB2, Thrustmaster TFRP, TrackIR 5 & TrackClip Pro [Checklists] A-10C, F-16C, F/A-18C, AH-64D, Ka-50, UH-1H Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
swaps Posted February 22, 2022 Author Share Posted February 22, 2022 1 hour ago, AstonMartinDBS said: For DCS and a few terrains and planes you should calculate around 250 GB. To have sufficient reserves for future updates I recommend to get a 500 GB SSD. My DCS (open beta) installation needs currently 297 GB disk space (installed aircrafts, maps and tech watch my singature). Here's a list of the needed space by planes: A-10C: 1,44 GB A-10C II: 1,76 GB F-14A/B*: 3,83 GB F-16C*: 1,12 GB F/A-18C*: 893 MB FC3: 1,39 GB Ka-50: 998 MB P-51D: 596 MB UH-1H: 630 MB * Early Access (required disk space is growing with each update) Can it be run across 2 SSD ? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
unlikely_spider Posted February 22, 2022 Share Posted February 22, 2022 3 minutes ago, swaps said: Can it be run across 2 SSD ? Maybe not from DCS's perspective. But you can always trick any application into being installed multiple places by using symbolic links in Windows. Also if it's your primary drive that has only 100mb free, then I think you're going to have bigger problems. Maybe run a disk cleanup and delete old copies of Windows update files. Modules: Wright Flyer, Spruce Goose, Voyager 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ramsay Posted February 22, 2022 Share Posted February 22, 2022 26 minutes ago, swaps said: Can it be run across 2 SSD ? Yes, using symbolic links, though aircraft are pretty small and maps take up the most space i.e. Caucasus=15GB, Mariana=13GB (with the largest Syria=60GB) Here I'm using symlinks to put most of DCS's maps on a second 1TB SSD so they don't fill up my 1TB NVMe root drive IIRC you want leave at least 10-25% free space on each drive for performance and longevity 1 i9 9900K @4.7GHz, 64GB DDR4, RTX4070 12GB, 1+2TB NVMe, 6+4TB HD, 4+1TB SSD, Winwing Orion 2 F-15EX Throttle + F-16EX Stick, TPR Pedals, TIR5, Win 10 Pro x64, 1920X1080 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
swaps Posted February 22, 2022 Author Share Posted February 22, 2022 Thanks, Just been looking at cheap 2TB sata ssd on ebay. Will try and find some reviews. if they are what they say they are I will order one. 1 hour ago, unlikely_spider said: Maybe not from DCS's perspective. But you can always trick any application into being installed multiple places by using symbolic links in Windows. Also if it's your primary drive that has only 100mb free, then I think you're going to have bigger problems. Maybe run a disk cleanup and delete old copies of Windows update files. Yes I only have one ssd and its 250mb, this holds my windows 10. can really clean up apart from remove 1 game and not sure who big that is. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
One Eyed Ross Posted March 18, 2022 Share Posted March 18, 2022 I have the game on one drive (D) but the saved games (user files) on C. Works ok. SSD drives are fairly cheap, a TB runs about what a plane runs (unless there is a sale on). It is WELL worth having the space on a TB drive to locate the game. It really does make a HUGE difference in game operation and play Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cthulhu68 Posted March 18, 2022 Share Posted March 18, 2022 Your SSD upgrade also becomes a RAM upgrade since you can use storage space to increase page file size. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
draconus Posted March 18, 2022 Share Posted March 18, 2022 (edited) 6 hours ago, cthulhu68 said: Your SSD upgrade also becomes a RAM upgrade since you can use storage space to increase page file size. While pagefile is needed and keep you trouble free sometimes, it is not at all replacement for RAM. It is slow and is not used in the same way system wise. Edited March 18, 2022 by draconus 1 Win10 i7-10700KF 32GB RTX3060 Rift S T16000M TWCS TFRP FC3 F-14A/B F-15E CA SC NTTR PG Syria Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
swaps Posted March 18, 2022 Author Share Posted March 18, 2022 I have 16 meg of ram loaded but I will extend this to 32 once I have sorted a new SSD. Its seems to run DCS quite well so far. Alan Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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