New Hard Drive

[John Galt]

I have an ssd for DCS only and it is full, so I am having a larger drive installed, so question is, do I need to delete all of the things I have purchased and reinstall in a new DCS download, or when I sign in with my user name and password, I can download my purchases to the new drive?

Thank you for any advice.

[Mr_sukebe]

To resolve:

- leave your saved games folder as is

- copy the folder for the game from its current installed location onto the new drive

- run a full repair from within the folder of the new location for the game

sorted!

[John Galt]

Thank you for your reply, but I am not doing the swap, this is being done by a computer repair shop and this person is not transferring anything from the old to the new. I will get my smaller drive back but it won't be in the computer. I figured I needed to install the game on the new drive and then load my purchases from the module manager, but do I need to delete those purchases from the old drive first or can I access them when I want to install?

[rob10]

11 minutes ago, John Galt said:

Thank you for your reply, but I am not doing the swap, this is being done by a computer repair shop and this person is not transferring anything from the old to the new. I will get my smaller drive back but it won't be in the computer. I figured I needed to install the game on the new drive and then load my purchases from the module manager, but do I need to delete those purchases from the old drive first or can I access them when I want to install?

No, you don't need to delete from the old.  You can reinstall from scratch without issues.  It's possible (and allowed) to have DCS installed on multiple computers, you just can't use more than one copy at a time.

[John Galt]

Excellent, thank you. 

[Rudel_chw]

8 hours ago, John Galt said:

Thank you for your reply, but I am not doing the swap, this is being done by a computer repair shop and this person is not transferring anything from the old to the new. I will get my smaller drive back but it won't be in the computer. 

 

Ask the Shop to place the old drive on an USB 3.0 enclosure, so that you can mount it as an external drive and then do the content copy yourself.

[TKhaos]

If you don't want to buy an enclosure, some can be a bit pricey just buy a SATA to USB lead, just plug the drive into a USB port and comes up as an external. I use them for cloning drives, saves me having to use my docking stations that I use for taking things off 3.5" HDD.

Something like this would do and you could use the drive then from time to time for backing up your DCS folders.

Edited August 25, 2024 by TKhaos

[John Galt]

Outstanding advice, thank you. As an old dude, and not very computer savvy, I had no idea any of that could be done. I am very grateful.

[John Galt]

Got the new hard drive installed and downloaded DCS World to the new drive, and I have 2 icons on my desk top, one is the normal DCS shortcut and the other is titled DCS MT.

What is the MT icon for and do I need both? Confused!

[Rudel_chw]

19 minutes ago, John Galt said:

What is the MT icon for and do I need both? Confused!

 

Originally, DCS was what's termed a Single Thread (ST) program, which could only make effective use of a single of the processing cores that your CPU has ... so it didn't matter if your CPU was a 4, 6 or 8 core unit, DCS would only fully use one of them (actually, the DCS sounds were processed on a separate core, but it still was a single-thread game).

 

But starting on March 2023, a big DCS core update brought a Multi-thread (MT) DCS version, which can split its processing loads on more than a single core. As it was new, it was bound to have bugs or incompatibilities so the older ST version has been kept around and you can choose between them at the moment of starting a DCS session. More info here:

 

 

[John Galt]

Thanks again for the quick response and explanation, I really apricate all the help.