Is there a way to install terrain/map on a different drive? For example - DCS World on C: Normandy on D:, Vegas on E. Etc.
I can’t fit entire DCS World + maps on my SSD.
Is there a way to install terrain/map on a different drive? For example - DCS World on C: Normandy on D:, Vegas on E. Etc.
I can’t fit entire DCS World + maps on my SSD.
If using the DCS installer (not steam) there is. I don’t recall exactly how, as I did it on my server which now runs the dedicated server module without a UI.
There should be an install location option in the module manager.
If you can’t find a way in the DCS module manager for location, then it should be possible to use a hard link so that the per-terrain directory can be on a different drive to where DCS thinks it is - there’s no performance impact or anything:
It should be possible to use ovgme to load terrain as a MOD in a separate folder on a separate drive/s
I would advise against that, as the terrain is already managed by the DCS Updater. Would get difficult when an update changes something about the files.
Just like @fearlessfrog, I love the hardlink/symlink stuff. But then again - I am an X-Plane Ortho user (about 600GB of orthos downloaded, for about 1 flight hour per 10 GB I think (oops)).
I would recommend to only use OVGME for mods that aren’t managed by the DCS Updater, such as the A-4E Skyhawk.
Good point guess a new ssd is required
How quaint. M.2 only please.
I have just put all my orthos on my HDD, ad uses the symlink GUI thingy that is probably somewhere under fearlessfrog’s link above. Works wonders and saved me a few hundred.
So proposed solutions;
use external software A
use external software B
buy a bigger drive.
…sigh.
mklink is included in the OS.
Looks to be a useful tip but it is definitely too advanced for my limited computer knowledge… O_o
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