Changing Temp folder path

[Breakshot]

Just out of curiosity, is it possible to somehow tell the game to dump Temp files into another location apart from the default "root/temp"... preferably to another HDD?

 

I think with DCS/FC2, much more is constantly written to the Temp folder as compared with FC1 when the game is running (auto-tracks, error logs, mission related files etc etc, the difference is quite massive!), thus there is a performance degradation in large missions, which usually comes through in the form of micro-stutters, and we all know how annoying those can be... :doh:

 

If this can be possible it will offload much write tasks on the HDD that is already getting all the texture and game files, meanwhile all the temp files can be routed to the other HDD...

 

This could also be beneficial even to SSD users who probably dont want constant write operations to be done on their drives...

 

Anyone knows a way to achieve this?

[Breakshot]

Bummer... i take it that its not possible?

 

anyone?

[Kuky]

You can specify location for OS Temp folder but these are used for OS only when you install/uninstall things, not when running a game... this is what Pagefile is for I think and you can disable that also if you have lots of system RAM (I did PC upgrade last weekend and got 12GB of RAM and did exactly this).

 

For the sim Temp folder, I don't know if you can change this, I think it's coded and can't be changed

Edited December 13, 2010 by Kuky

[Necroscope]

In W7 you can mount one folder to another from Home Prof and higher. AFAIR - look for "mounting point" or smthg like this.

[Breakshot]

For the sim Temp folder, I don't know if you can change this, I think it's coded and can't be changed

 

yes it is only the sim folder im concerned with....

 

@Necroscope - is it possible to do this in XP, with say some sort of 3rd party tool/program? To somehow fool FC2 to write to "Temp" in another drive...