A-10C II only, but it's almost 200 GB, can I delete files I don't think I'll ever use?

[bofhlusr]

My "CoreMods" folder under the DCS folder is 138 GB. Of these 107 are for aircraft I will NEVER own and I don't play campaign or multi-player.

Can I delete the folders for the F14, F-4E, Mirage-F1, SA342 etc....??

Thank you.

Edited December 25, 2024 by bofhlusr

[Rongor]

Of course you can.
Don't think you should though.

[fagulha]

6 hours ago, bofhlusr said:

My "CoreMods" folder under the DCS folder is 138 GB. Of these 107 are for aircraft I will NEVER own and I don't play campaign or multi-player.

Can I delete the folders for the F14, F-4E, Mirage-F1, SA342 etc....??

Thank you.

I only delete the liveries that aircraft/helis i won´t use in my missions. You´ll save a lot GB, it´s worthy for you to check the size of the F-4E liverie folder as example. But i never delete Core Mods.

[Yurgon]

On 12/25/2024 at 5:51 PM, bofhlusr said:

Can I delete the folders for the F14, F-4E, Mirage-F1, SA342 etc....??

You can try. If DCS doesn't crash, it (probably) works.

And if it does crash, you can always run a repair from the launcher and get everything back in working order.

Just be aware that any update might restore the missing files without notification, so there's a chance you might have to delete the files again and again and also download them over and over again. If you have a larger HDD, you could move the files over there and copy them back before an update to prevent the re-downloading.

Also, if your DCS starts acting up in weird ways, remember to always restore the deleted files, run a full repair (the files might have been updated in the meantime) and reproduce the issue in a good configuration before reporting DCS issues.

[shagrat]

Am 25.12.2024 um 17:51 schrieb bofhlusr:

My "CoreMods" folder under the DCS folder is 138 GB. Of these 107 are for aircraft I will NEVER own and I don't play campaign or multi-player.

Can I delete the folders for the F14, F-4E, Mirage-F1, SA342 etc....??

Thank you.

CoreMods contains all the AI modules to be available in any kind of mission, typically populating airports or acting as AI-aircraft flying in the sky around you.

Depending on what the Instant action, training mission, single player mission contains, it WILL cause issues. Only if you create ALL your misssions yourself and don't add any of these assets as AI or static objects, this may work.

As said by others, as this is part of the DCS core installation, every update will repair the missing files...

[BuzzU]

I just did a clean install. With nothing added to it that i've bought over the years it's 209GB. I'll have to buy an external SSD to install everything. I was thinking of just installing DCS on the new external SSD and leave everything else on the SSD in the machine. Good or bad idea?

The system was built by Maingear and I don't want to mess with it at all. It's still in warranty. That's why the external SSD.