This may be a bit of a noobish question, but...

...after having installed the DCS World 2.0 and finally downloaded Nevada after what felt like a week (actually it was 5 days).

Is it safe to uninstall the 1.5 beta and the 1.2?

As far as I can tell, all my modules have been correctly transfered to the 2.0 alpha. So, I guess I no longer need the other two?

If you want to use the Black Sea map then keep 1.5 at least.

You can remove it yes. But as mentioned above - The Black Sea terrain is not currently working in 2.0.

Ok, Super Noob here... Last time I flew it was "Flaming Cliffs" about 8 years back... My understanding is that 1.5 will be sucked into 2.0 anyway "soon"...

Starting with a totally clean machine...

It sounds like to start having fun I need to:

1) Download 2.0 basic files (seems like theres been confusion on additional files, etc...)

2) Get inside 2.0 to download all the modules from within 2.0.

3) Keep downloading 2.0 updates as they come about and in a month or a few get Black Sea as an integral part of the 2.0 update since they will be combined.

Is this right?

Also, How many Gig is a fresh install of 2.0? How many GB on average for each module?

Aah, right! Totally forgot about the Black Sea map. ;) Nevada is just too awesome. :D:thumbup:

Hey Cavey!

You have described pretty much the process i followed this week to download and install 2.0, and yes it took pretty much a week!

2.0 currently occupies 43.4 GB on my HD which includes modules:

DCS" 2.0

Nevada Terrain

A-10C

Flaming Cliffs 3

Black Shark 2

P-51D

Combined Arms

Definitely only download ALL the 2.0 modules and terrain via the module manager in the top left of the main 2.0 interface screen. Don't try copying anything in that you've downloaded previously or separately. I made that mistake and had to uninstall 2.0, Nevada and re-download and install from scratch (cost me an extra 24 hours!)

Good to see someone returning to the franchise after so long, my history dates back even further to Su-27 Flanker and LOMAC etc.

I can tell you that based on the 24-48 hours i've had of flying 2.0 so far and assuming you have no issues with your system running it etc. this is the sim you have been waiting for all your life! Lol!

It is AWESOME! I don't have a particularly fast machine but it runs great at around 30 fps with most settings at a decent level. Current GPU's and EDGE have made this sim what it should be!

Enjoy!

My installation of 2.0, containing every module, is nearly 50 gb.

And, although the Caucasus map will be rebuilt for EDGE, maybe during the update they can still fetch some stuff from the present installs ( 1.2 or 1.5.1 ), making the update softer...

I'm keeping 1.5.1 ( I had deleted 1.2 long ago ) and 2.0 together. I play mostly at ww2 online servers not yet available for 2.0 / Nevada...

47.9 GB for my instal:helpsmilie: There will come a time when I need a 3rd SSD:music_whistling:

47.9 GB for my instal:helpsmilie: There will come a time when I need a 3rd SSD:music_whistling:

69.6 GB....already need a 3rd SSD, had to uninstall arma 3 for this update

Back where it ALL began? Can't believe is was 20 years ago this year!!!

I was 29 then!!! Yikes!

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Su-27_Flanker_(video_game)

Even then it was a great sim, first one i flew on Windows 95 when it was released!

Lol!

And check out the staus bar at the bottom of the screen, look familiar?

Back where it ALL began? Can't believe is was 20 years ago this year!!!

 

I was 29 then!!! Yikes!

 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Su-27_Flanker_(video_game)

 

Even then it was a great sim, first one i flew on Windows 95 when it was released!

 

Lol!

 

And check out the staus bar at the bottom of the screen, look familiar?

 

Nice! I didn't even know ED has such a long tradition in making quality stuff! ;) 20 years ago I was being distracted by Quake and Duke Nukem lol. I was 19 back then. :music_whistling:

Speaking of noob questions: Is there an ETA on the Black Sea Map working in 2.0?

Nvm found the answer in the official updates.

"Why the need for a separate, stand-alone build you ask? Because at this time the Nevada map and the Black Sea map use two different evolutions of the terrain engine (T4 for Nevada and T3 for the Black Sea). We are still in the process of converting the Black Sea map to T4 which will allow both maps to co-exist in the same DCS version. In order to release Nevada this month, we needed to create a separate version."

Nice! I didn't even know ED has such a long tradition in making quality stuff! ;) 20 years ago I was being distracted by Quake and Duke Nukem lol. I was 19 back then. :music_whistling:

Yup I remember Flanker 1.0... It was state of the art then... Amazing how things have changed and I think the next 10 years will be even more dramatic...

i have a noobish question to, why do I torrent at 60kb/s upload and yet 30+ others cant get me above 0.8MB/s

Also, is 0.8MB/s downloading 1.6MB every second so nearly 100 megabytes every minute?

I hate KBs kBs bKs KBKs

WTF

Hey Cavey!

 

You have described pretty much the process i followed this week to download and install 2.0, and yes it took pretty much a week!

 

2.0 currently occupies 43.4 GB on my HD which includes modules:

 

DCS" 2.0

Nevada Terrain

A-10C

Flaming Cliffs 3

Black Shark 2

P-51D

Combined Arms

 

Definitely only download ALL the 2.0 modules and terrain via the module manager in the top left of the main 2.0 interface screen. Don't try copying anything in that you've downloaded previously or separately. I made that mistake and had to uninstall 2.0, Nevada and re-download and install from scratch (cost me an extra 24 hours!)

 

Good to see someone returning to the franchise after so long, my history dates back even further to Su-27 Flanker and LOMAC etc.

 

I can tell you that based on the 24-48 hours i've had of flying 2.0 so far and assuming you have no issues with your system running it etc. this is the sim you have been waiting for all your life! Lol!

 

It is AWESOME! I don't have a particularly fast machine but it runs great at around 30 fps with most settings at a decent level. Current GPU's and EDGE have made this sim what it should be!

 

Enjoy!

Ha! Oh, I definitely go further back further than 8 years ago... I played the original Flanker also... Starting simming in 1983 when I was 12...

Makes you wonder what it will be like 20 years from now.

My first sim was F-15 Strike Eagle 3 from Microprose!

20 years from now i guess it will be full VR type stuff with the way things are going with devices like Oculus Rift etc?

Exciting times considering they said the flight sim era had passed into history years ago?