DCS 2.1 is 59 Gigabytes?

I'm a total noob, having tried 1.57 in a Su 25 a few before, and recently decided to pay up, jump in with 2.1 and FC3.

I remember the files size was ~35Gb before, but now with Nevada and FC3 it's 59Gb? or did I forget to remove some temporary files? What's DCS' size on your PC?

my DCS 2.1 is 62.3GB latest patch

Cool, thanks, looks like it's right then.

81.3 GB here my 2.1 ;) (all modules)

there has to be a way to cleanup though, right? where are the installers stored? i see that when downloading the 'repair files' its a whopping 36GB torrent, so when its finished, for example. how can i clean that out ?

Enter "...\DCS World 2 OpenAlpha\_downloads" folder. They are there.

By the way, mine is 62,8 GB.

81 GB

Are these ones OK to get rid of?

Enter "...\DCS World 2 OpenAlpha\_downloads" folder. They are there.

 

By the way, mine is 62,8 GB.

Are these ones OK to get rid of?

I always wipe everything in the _downloads folder and all the backup folders after an update. Usually run a repair afterwards as well.

Yes. I think it's OK to delete them, but I always check the backup folders and not usually delete them. There may be some files of mods or some experimental files of mine. :D

I'm fairly sure these files are being used only during that very update they were created for, especially if connection was broken and the updater needs to pick the transfer up again where it left. However, they're useless during every next update, as different, new versions of files have to be downloaded anyway (or copied from the other updated DCS install on the same computer, and THIS is where they might be used as well, but I haven't investigated it closer yet).

As time moves on this is just the natural path things will go, some data is recurring so it takes a lot less space on disk, some of it is unique, and it leads to some functionalities taking a large portion of data, this is just the reality of physics and information, and it should not be considered as a big problem, unfortunately PCs and storage devices will simply have to get better to cope with the demand, to have all this information in HD and looking good, the underlying technology will have to increase, that's the proper way to do it.

In future, retail games might be sold as hard drives, as not everyone is going to have unlimited fiber-optic access to download 2TB games.

Remember, Rage (id software) was 1 or 2 TB on the server farm, they compressed it down to 50GB, which made the textures look like total crap imo. That game should be re-released on this generation consoles and upped to max for PC, but they might as well be already doing Rage 2, who knows. Shame John Carmack moved on so he wasn't much part of the new API and the new generation which is a lot better than the PS3X360Wii generation hardware-wise was a just bad, hope he comes back one day ... but it already has shown through Doom Vulkan patch, the programmers that JC tought and mentored have proven it.

So I had this idea, wouldn't it be cool if JC would join ED, hah, so he had games, VR, rocketry, and wouldn't it be nice to add even more diversity into the career by getting into serious simulator stuff, because physics simulation is such a joke other games, it would be nice to see him talk about how he enjoy a great challenge of having to deal with a totally new kind of magnitude of realism.