Latest update 220GB free on data drive not enough space

[DmitriKozlowsky]

Latest update 220GB free on data drive not enough space

Uhhmmm.. ED. Respectfully, your updates are getting excessively large.

After downloading, the updater quites with 'Insufficent space' error.

[MAXsenna]

Latest update 220GB free on data drive not enough space
Uhhmmm.. ED. Respectfully, your updates are getting excessively large.
After downloading, the updater quites with 'Insufficent space' error.

Six maps had updates. What do you expect?
Uninstall some of the maps, perform a full repair. Update. Then install the maps one by one.

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[CIWS]

What I would "expect" is to not keep creating downloads so large that folks have to uninstall other software just to update a game that isn't actually needing to update 120+ gigs worth of files.

[Tom Kazansky]

Would it be possible for ED not to update all of the files, especially maps, in one pass? It could be useful, if maps are updated one by one to reduce the total amount of free disk space needed, and the user would not have to do anything but waiting for the updater finishing the process like before.

Maybe as an option?

[Raven (Elysian Angel)]

11 minutes ago, Tom Kazansky said:

Would it be possible for ED not to update all of the files, especially maps, in one pass? It could be useful, if maps are updated one by one to reduce the total amount of free disk space needed, and the user would not have to do anything but waiting for the updater finishing the process like before.

Maybe as an option?

 

[Esac_mirmidon]

Buy a bigger SSD.

Its the best investment for any PC.

[Tom Kazansky]

14 minutes ago, Raven (Elysian Angel) said:

 

Thanks for the link.

Neither the "solution" of this thread does answer my question nor did ED (yet), though.

 

[Raven (Elysian Angel)]

19 minutes ago, Tom Kazansky said:

Neither the "solution" of this thread does answer my question nor did ED (yet), though.

It's the best you're going to get (for now). You have a few options:
- buy a larger drive;
- uninstall some maps
- use symbolic links

Bignewy said the team will look into options to make the process more efficient. But for now at least, there is no magical solution. Flight sims are demanding on hardware: we've known that since the '90s.

[Tom Kazansky]

23 minutes ago, Raven (Elysian Angel) said:

It's the best you're going to get (for now). You have a few options:
- buy a larger drive;
- uninstall some maps
- use symbolic links

Bignewy said the team will look into options to make the process more efficient. But for now at least, there is no magical solution. Flight sims are demanding on hardware: we've known that since the '90s.

If ED will not change the way the maps are updated, with the growing number of maps (and growing sizes of maps), more and more users will run into problems with free space needed for an update.

Is it really so hard to implement an option to update the maps one by one*? In this case, the free disk space needed would not grow with the amount of maps but only with the size of one(!) map.

* to clarify: one by one within an automatic update. i.e. the user does not select the maps, of course.

Edited October 25 by Tom Kazansky

[Raven (Elysian Angel)]

1 hour ago, Tom Kazansky said:

Is it really so hard to implement

I have no idea: you’d have to ask ED

But I have a sneaking suspicion it’s actually more complicated than you’d think.