LooseSeal Posted July 18, 2023 Posted July 18, 2023 So due to studies haven't played for months - just tried to start with MT for the first time, but could not find the bin-mt folder. Until I discovered... there's an entire DCS Open Beta folder (amounting to 130GB) contained within the top DCS Open Beta folder. This can't be right, can it? What's going on here?? - i7-7700k - 32GB DDR4 2400Mhz - GTX 1080 8GB - Installed on SSD - TM Warthog DCS Modules - A-10C; M-2000C; AV8B; F/A-18C; Ka-50; FC-3; UH-1H; F-5E; Mi-8; F-14; Persian Gulf; NTTR
LooseSeal Posted July 18, 2023 Author Posted July 18, 2023 Oh, and when I actually started the .exe within the bin-mt folder, there are no modules installed. - i7-7700k - 32GB DDR4 2400Mhz - GTX 1080 8GB - Installed on SSD - TM Warthog DCS Modules - A-10C; M-2000C; AV8B; F/A-18C; Ka-50; FC-3; UH-1H; F-5E; Mi-8; F-14; Persian Gulf; NTTR
Art-J Posted July 19, 2023 Posted July 19, 2023 13 hours ago, LooseSeal said: What's going on here?? You tell us, we don't know . The game installer would never do such thing by itself. Must be result of some botched install/reinstall attempt of yours, with wrong folder pointed as destination. Did you try to create a second, separate DCS MT install back when it went live months ago? Looks like you might have. Anyway, this "internal" copy is small, 130 GB sound allright for a barebones DCSW with no payware modules in it, that's why you don't see them I suppose. What version number is displayed when you launch the "external" DCS and what when you launch the "internal" one? I'd hazard a guess the former is much older (that's why it doesn't even have a bin-mt in it) and it contains your modules, while the latter is newer, but, as I said, it's empty. Personally, I'd delete that "internal" copy. I'd also delete all these "_backup.0xx" folders created whenever the dcs_updater.exe detects any custom mods in the main game directory and moves them to the "_backup" folders to keep the main one clean. You've got quite a few of them and they don't serve any purpose now apart from using up disc space. I gather you install custom mods just by copying them into your DCS? I strongly recommend using popular mod managers instead to enable and disable custom mods at will when the patch day comes, and avoid creating such a mess. Then I'd do an update, plus slow repair & cleanup of the "external" copy again to bring it to the latest version number and tidy it up properly. i7 9700K @ stock speed, single GTX1070, 32 gigs of RAM, TH Warthog, MFG Crosswind, Win10.
LooseSeal Posted July 19, 2023 Author Posted July 19, 2023 Well that was a fairly patronising reply. Appreciate you took the time, but maybe don't talk to people like they're children? And I haven't "botched" anything. This is the first time I've started the game since about January. - i7-7700k - 32GB DDR4 2400Mhz - GTX 1080 8GB - Installed on SSD - TM Warthog DCS Modules - A-10C; M-2000C; AV8B; F/A-18C; Ka-50; FC-3; UH-1H; F-5E; Mi-8; F-14; Persian Gulf; NTTR
silverdevil Posted July 19, 2023 Posted July 19, 2023 (edited) On 7/18/2023 at 3:40 PM, LooseSeal said: So due to studies haven't played for months - just tried to start with MT for the first time, but could not find the bin-mt folder. Until I discovered... there's an entire DCS Open Beta folder (amounting to 130GB) contained within the top DCS Open Beta folder. This can't be right, can it? What's going on here?? hello. so generally speaking. lets try these things. check your shortcut for DCS and see where it points to. right click and then properties. then go to that location to see which folder of the two you have. please provide a path of what you have like mine below. "C:\Program Files\Eagle Dynamics\DCS World OpenBeta\bin\DCS_updater.exe" then a screen shot of that "open file location" null Edited July 19, 2023 by silverdevil AKA_SilverDevil Join AKA Wardogs Email Address My YouTube “The MIGS came up, the MIGS were aggressive, we tangled, they lost.” - Robin Olds - An American fighter pilot. He was a triple ace. The only man to ever record a confirmed kill while in glide mode.
Art-J Posted July 20, 2023 Posted July 20, 2023 (edited) @LooseSeal Sorry you took it this way and that I might have come across a bit blunt, but the fact is - the updater cannot and will not create a separate clean install of DCS inside existing copy, and neither will the game installer, unless told so by the user. So whatever happened in January, the game didn't do it by itself. Nobody can say what happened from these screenshots alone, but it's not important anymore really. They are helpful for figuring out how to clean up the game though. Again, It seems there's a duplicate OB copy (probably clean without modules judging from its size) inside another one, probably bigger, the one you used to play previously I'd guess. How big is it? Can you launch it successfully from its own bin folder? If you can, does it show your purchased modules? Then, as silverdevil suggested, let's narrow down which copy your desktop and start menu shortcuts point to now. You'll be able to adjust them as necessary and dump the duplicate copy then. Edited July 20, 2023 by Art-J i7 9700K @ stock speed, single GTX1070, 32 gigs of RAM, TH Warthog, MFG Crosswind, Win10.
MAXsenna Posted July 22, 2023 Posted July 22, 2023 @LooseSeal Hope you solve this. Personally, I would just drag the folder to it's correct place/root. Setup Skatezilla's GUI Updater/Launcher, and perform a full repair, then do an update. Pretty sure that will fix it. IF the Updater then throws and error, I would download the latest version of the Updater, and update again. Cheers!
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