Double Dutch Posted February 21 Share Posted February 21 (edited) Hello, I know we are going to 1 version soon, but I am afraid I will have issues. My DCS world directory is on D:, I have no DCS.openbeta directory. In my user\saved games I do have 2 folders for DCS, DCS and DCS.openbeta. My DCS folder has 16 subfolders (with liveries and such). My open beta directory has only 3. Should I just copy the 13 (not the ones I already have) from the regular DCS to the dcs.openbeta folder? Edited February 21 by Double Dutch ----- Don't practise till you got it right. Practise till you don't do it wrong Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
silverdevil Posted February 21 Share Posted February 21 (edited) 5 hours ago, Double Dutch said: Hello, I know we are going to 1 version soon, but I am afraid I will have issues. My DCS world directory is on D:, I have no DCS.openbeta directory. In my user\saved games I do have 2 folders for DCS, DCS and DCS.openbeta. My DCS folder has 16 subfolders (with liveries and such). My open beta directory has only 3. Should I just copy the 13 (not the ones I already have) from the regular DCS to the dcs.openbeta folder? when you are about to do the update, rename each saved games folder to .BAK. run the update and let it do what the updater wants to do. you really do not have much choice i suppose. you can always repair the DCS installation. when it is done, run DCS. a new Saved Games folder will be created. then copy all the old Saved Games folders you want over to new folder. before you start take note of the Saved Games folder that has the newest date on it. also open and examine the file dcs_variant.txt found in the install folder (where mine is) \Eagle Dynamics\DCS World OpenBeta. do a properties on your shortcut you use to start DCS. this will tell you exactly. Edited February 21 by silverdevil AKA_SilverDevil AKA Forums My YouTube “It is better to keep your mouth closed and let people think you are a fool than to open it and remove all doubt.” — Mark Twain Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ED Team BIGNEWY Posted February 21 ED Team Share Posted February 21 you can call your dcs saved games location whatever you like. In the old stable version it would be called DCS Open beta on the other hand has a file called dcs_variant.txt in the root folder and the first line of that file is what your saved games location would be called. Example line1 of the dcs_variant.txt openbeta Save Games folder is now called dcs.openbeta you can use this to name the folder whatever you wish to or remove it and dcs will default back to using dcs saved games folder. Forum rules - DCS Crashing? Try this first - Cleanup and Repair - Discord BIGNEWY#8703 - Youtube - Patch Status Windows 11, NVIDIA MSI RTX 3090, Intel® i9-10900K 3.70GHz, 5.30GHz Turbo, Corsair Hydro Series H150i Pro, 64GB DDR @3200, ASUS ROG Strix Z490-F Gaming, HP Reverb G2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Double Dutch Posted February 22 Author Share Posted February 22 19 hours ago, silverdevil said: when you are about to do the update, rename each saved games folder to .BAK. run the update and let it do what the updater wants to do. you really do not have much choice i suppose. you can always repair the DCS installation. when it is done, run DCS. a new Saved Games folder will be created. then copy all the old Saved Games folders you want over to new folder. before you start take note of the Saved Games folder that has the newest date on it. also open and examine the file dcs_variant.txt found in the install folder (where mine is) \Eagle Dynamics\DCS World OpenBeta. do a properties on your shortcut you use to start DCS. this will tell you exactly. Unfortunately, I don't have an openbeta folder. I searched for the file on the entire disk and didn't find dcs_variant.txt ----- Don't practise till you got it right. Practise till you don't do it wrong Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Double Dutch Posted February 22 Author Share Posted February 22 (edited) 19 hours ago, BIGNEWY said: you can call your dcs saved games location whatever you like. In the old stable version it would be called DCS Open beta on the other hand has a file called dcs_variant.txt in the root folder and the first line of that file is what your saved games location would be called. Example line1 of the dcs_variant.txt openbeta Save Games folder is now called dcs.openbeta you can use this to name the folder whatever you wish to or remove it and dcs will default back to using dcs saved games folder. I do not see that file, even a search on my entire PC doesn't give a result. If I do a repair it says my openbeta version is repaired. We talked before and it seems my version(s) works but is weird in the sense I have 2 directories in saved games but for the rest is conventional. Often when I get suggestion like this, I don't have a specific folder. I would really like to have a normal regular version, so support is easier. I'd like to do a clean install of DCS but don't want to go through all the settings of the software and Hotas. Is that possible? Edited February 22 by Double Dutch ----- Don't practise till you got it right. Practise till you don't do it wrong Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ED Team BIGNEWY Posted February 22 ED Team Share Posted February 22 8 minutes ago, Double Dutch said: Unfortunately, I don't have an openbeta folder. I searched for the file on the entire disk and didn't find dcs_variant.txt if you only have stable version installed delete the dcs.openbeta in saved games and do not worry. DCS will always use the correct folder, and if it doesn't see one will create one anyway. Forum rules - DCS Crashing? Try this first - Cleanup and Repair - Discord BIGNEWY#8703 - Youtube - Patch Status Windows 11, NVIDIA MSI RTX 3090, Intel® i9-10900K 3.70GHz, 5.30GHz Turbo, Corsair Hydro Series H150i Pro, 64GB DDR @3200, ASUS ROG Strix Z490-F Gaming, HP Reverb G2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MAXsenna Posted February 22 Share Posted February 22 Unfortunately, I don't have an openbeta folder. I searched for the file on the entire disk and didn't find dcs_variant.txtYou probably installed OpenBeta at one point or another, and have forgotten all about it after you uninstalled it. Else you wouldn't have the DCS.openbeta subfolder in Saved Games. Unless you manually created it, which I highly doubt. Cheers! Sent from my SM-A536B using Tapatalk Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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