dcs maps on faster ssds vs mechanical drives

[oqvist]

Probably been asked a million times.

Apart from load times from hell is it still important to have the maps on faster harddrives? I will do jets for sure not just slow lawnmovers. I bought syria and kola so probably those maps I will use the most. 

[speed-of-heat]

No but you might get stuttering during terrain/object loading and or script activation.

[oqvist]

Thanks! Can you install on different harddrives? Probably should do the opposite but I have the aircraft modules now on a SSD but it´s full. I see no option in the launcher to choose where to install the modules. I am using eagle dynamics not the steam version.

[speed-of-heat]

not inside DCS... however.. you can do this in windows by creating a symbolic link between on one drive which connects to a physical folder on another drive , it's seamless to apps , so the just think they are using the "D:" drive even if you have a link to a folder on the F: drive 

Hard links and junctions - Win32 apps | Microsoft Learn

Create Soft and Hard Symbolic Links in Windows | Tutorials

Edited Saturday at 08:49 AM by speed-of-heat

[pegasus1]

You can pick up a 1TB Gen 4 NVMe drive for £50, thats less than the price of a module.

Just run all your DCS stuff from a single drive.

Silicon Power 1TB UD90 NVMe 4.0 Gen4 PCIe M.2 SSD R/W up to 5,000/4,800 MB/s (SP01KGBP44UD9005) : Amazon.co.uk: Computers & Accessories