Mordant Posted March 18, 2021 Share Posted March 18, 2021 Hello all, I just got an NVMe SSD and want to use it for DCS. My previous version was on my Mechanical HDD and it resulted with crashes in really large missions. When I tried to download a new version of DCS(I put the installer on the fresh NVMe drive) it tried to download on the slow HDD again. I have tried to get around this by deleting my original DCS but the installer seems to like my Program Files just a bit too much. How can I force it to download on the NVMe Drive? If its possible... ASUS Tuf X570 Pro Wifi | Ryzen 7 5800X | 4x8gb 3200Mhz GSkill/Crucial | Gigabyte RTX 3060 TI | 1 500gb Samsung 860 EVO Boot SSD | 2 500gb HDD | 500gb Crucial NVMe (With DCS install) | EVGA 650BQ | Thrustmaster Warthog HOTAS + TM TF Rudder Pedals | TrackIr 5 | A handy dandy notepad ; ) F-5E | A-10CII | F-14 | FC3 | F-16 | F/A-18 | M2kC | MiG-19 | Sa342 | UH-1H | Ka-50 | L-39 | C-101 | P-51D | FW-190 D-9 | F-86 | Combined Arms | Mi-24P | Mi-8 | NS430 | Apache | "Christian" Eagle II | Mirage F1 Primary Aircraft = Strong Red | Secondary Aircraft = Orange | Rarely Used = Yellow | Dead Aircraft/Not Bound = Purple | Recent Spike of Use = Teal/Cyan/Aquamarine/Whatever you want to call this Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lange_666 Posted March 18, 2021 Share Posted March 18, 2021 Doesn't the installer give you the choice where to put it? It's been a few years since i installed DCS but as far as i can remember, it should/does. But, if it doesn't, just let it install to the C drive and then move it manually to whatever drive you want and then use DCS Updater GUI utility: It lets you update, repair, clean and launch DCS and gives you the option to work with more then one copy, like stable and beta side by side. Works superb!! Win11 Pro 64-bit, Ryzen 5800X3D, Corsair H115i, Gigabyte X570S UD, EVGA 3080Ti XC3 Ultra 12GB, 64 GB DDR4 G.Skill 3600. Monitors: LG 27GL850-B27 2560x1440 + Samsung SyncMaster 2443 1920x1200, HOTAS: Warthog with Virpil WarBRD base, MFG Crosswind combat pedals, TrackIR4, Rift-S. Personal Wish List: A6 Intruder, Vietnam theater, decent ATC module, better VR performance! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bailey Posted March 19, 2021 Share Posted March 19, 2021 11 hours ago, Vapor175 said: Hello all, I just got an NVMe SSD and want to use it for DCS. My previous version was on my Mechanical HDD and it resulted with crashes in really large missions. When I tried to download a new version of DCS(I put the installer on the fresh NVMe drive) it tried to download on the slow HDD again. I have tried to get around this by deleting my original DCS but the installer seems to like my Program Files just a bit too much. How can I force it to download on the NVMe Drive? If its possible... For some reason the Stable Installer does not let you chose the location, but the Openbeta Installer does. https://www.digitalcombatsimulator.com/en/downloads/world/ DCS VoiceAttack Profiles | My Mods and Utilities on ED User Files | DiCE: DCS Integrated Countermeasure Editor DCS Update Witching Utility | DCS-ExportScripts for Stream Deck Community Github Library Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lange_666 Posted March 19, 2021 Share Posted March 19, 2021 If you want a stable install, install the open beta where you want it to install and then use the updater tool mentioned above to turn the open beta into a stable version. Win11 Pro 64-bit, Ryzen 5800X3D, Corsair H115i, Gigabyte X570S UD, EVGA 3080Ti XC3 Ultra 12GB, 64 GB DDR4 G.Skill 3600. Monitors: LG 27GL850-B27 2560x1440 + Samsung SyncMaster 2443 1920x1200, HOTAS: Warthog with Virpil WarBRD base, MFG Crosswind combat pedals, TrackIR4, Rift-S. Personal Wish List: A6 Intruder, Vietnam theater, decent ATC module, better VR performance! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mordant Posted March 20, 2021 Author Share Posted March 20, 2021 On 3/19/2021 at 4:10 AM, Bailey said: For some reason the Stable Installer does not let you chose the location, but the Openbeta Installer does. https://www.digitalcombatsimulator.com/en/downloads/world/ This worked wonderfully, thank you! 1 ASUS Tuf X570 Pro Wifi | Ryzen 7 5800X | 4x8gb 3200Mhz GSkill/Crucial | Gigabyte RTX 3060 TI | 1 500gb Samsung 860 EVO Boot SSD | 2 500gb HDD | 500gb Crucial NVMe (With DCS install) | EVGA 650BQ | Thrustmaster Warthog HOTAS + TM TF Rudder Pedals | TrackIr 5 | A handy dandy notepad ; ) F-5E | A-10CII | F-14 | FC3 | F-16 | F/A-18 | M2kC | MiG-19 | Sa342 | UH-1H | Ka-50 | L-39 | C-101 | P-51D | FW-190 D-9 | F-86 | Combined Arms | Mi-24P | Mi-8 | NS430 | Apache | "Christian" Eagle II | Mirage F1 Primary Aircraft = Strong Red | Secondary Aircraft = Orange | Rarely Used = Yellow | Dead Aircraft/Not Bound = Purple | Recent Spike of Use = Teal/Cyan/Aquamarine/Whatever you want to call this Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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