DCS World - MAYBE THE #1 WAY TO MOVE YOUR DCS INSTALLATION FILES FOLDER - Any Tips - Leave a Comment
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Hey guys, so I recently uploaded an Air Warfare Group Community Post where I showed my new 1TB DCS SSD and a couple of you took me up on the offer to do a video on this. This may be one of the best ways to move your DCS files when needed...but it only covers one way to move installation run files and seems to be the simplest way I've found. But if you have any tips or suggestions, please tell us in the comments for the rest of the community.
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Thank you for the video. I have aircraft specific kneeboards in the saved games folder. Do they still work after moving everything or is there a shortcut that needs to be changed as well for them to still work? My SSD is getting so full that I need to move it sooner than later. Especially with the Afghanistan map and CH-47 coming out soon.
They should still work as long as you have the same games, target reference. I didn't notice any problems when I transferred mine over. The one thing is is you can always just copy your safe games folder from the old one and put it in the new one if it creates one.
@@AIRWARFAREGROUP Thanks for the quick reply! I suppose if it doesn't work I can always just move it back to the original folder. Last thing, I see some people online saying they had to change stuff in the registry. Going in there scares me and never saw you do it in the video. Glad it didn't require that!
Good luck and I honestly can't remember if it made a new safe game folder for me or not, but I remember being able to also reinstall my flight controls through the import function in the set up. Basically you have to do one input to create the category and then you just have to import from a file that you have saved.
@@AIRWARFAREGROUP It worked! Thank you again for all of your help. Awesome video and guidance!
Very helpful Juice. The information given in the video is greatly appreciated, as it's both helpful for DCS and general disk activation.
When I change drives, I will put the new drive on an unused drive letter, then copy your files to the new drive, after checking that everything is good, I change the old drive letter to another unused letter, and switch the new drive letter back to the original old drive letter (hope you were able to follow my directions), in the example the new drive would end up with the old drive letter. This means you don't have to mess around with chasing shortcuts and changing them to match a different drive letter. After ensuring everything is in working order, I then remove the old drive entirely (unless you have other plans for using it for something else.
I probably should’ve mentioned that one of the advantages of this technique is you don’t have to do a fresh install on DCS world and you’re modules which might use up one of your nine lives for each module key.
Great video, just wanted to clear up that DCS currently uses a "key-less" copy protection, which basically depends on your ED Username & Password and having an Internet connection so that DCS can "call-home" to ED Servers, which will validate that your installed modules are actually on your account. So, no more "nine lives" 👍
9 lives for each module key? What are you talking about? You do not own your product for life when you purchase it?
@@wyattvanloon6094 Bet you haven't used DCS for very long :)
Thank you for making this informative tutorial video for us.
I hope it is worthy!
Super useful video. I wanted to do this for a while - Thanks!!
Thanks Juice. This prompted me to move my installation of DCS from my windows drive to a new dedicated games SSD drive.Here’s what I did.
Here are the steps: (I moved from a C: drive installation to a new F: drive) both 1TB M.2 SSD.
1. Copy the Eagle Dynamics folder from its original location to the new location.
2. Update the shortcut Target path to point to the new location of the updater:
e.g "F:\Program Files\Eagle Dynamics\DCS World\bin\DCS_updater.exe"
3. Update the shortcut Target start in path to point to the new location
e.g "F:\Program Files\Eagle Dynamics\DCS World"
4. Update the registry key using regedit .exe to set path to the same location as in 3 above.
"Computer\HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Eagle Dynamics\DCS World\Path"
Note: Caution on step 4 if unfamiliar with regedit.exe
That’s cool about the way I did it is there is no regedit or changing of shortcut paths.
@@AIRWARFAREGROUP Indeed - you were already on a dedicated drive. The change in registry is needed when you are moving DCS from an original install location which is co-loated on the windows drive to a new drive with a different drive letter.
I am moving DCS from an original install location, which is co-located on the windows drive (C:), to a new drive with a different drive letter (N:). But with regedit.exe, i don't have this register key Computer\HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Eagle Dynamics\DCS World\Path". In despite of it my game seems to run good.
Juice - want to add to this. I installed 2 M.2 SSD drives, 1 TB and a 2 TB into my PC this week. I copied my D drive (500 GB SSD where DCS was housed) and pasted into the 2 TB SSD (V drive). Once complete I deleted the files from the D drive, renamed it to the K drive, and then assigned my 1TB drive as the D (DCS) drive. Tested DCS once complete, everything works, including my skatezilla updater, LOTAC, and TACVIEW - all of which were also in my original DCS drive. Never had to reboot.
Awesome. I’m going to pin this comment. Sharing is what makes this community awesome!
Thanks Juice, good way to do it!
Good video. I do t understand why I couldn’t just do a fresh download to my new drive. DCS never gave me an option to choose specific drive. It just automatically downloaded to my D drive and I wanted it on my new NVMe drive. No matter I will do it this way. Thanks for the video help.
If guys are on Steam version it might be different but Standalone it works when I do it. I don’t clean the old drive files off until I verify it’s working correctly with my new drive.
BTW, the disk management utility is on the start menu, when you right clicked on the start menu; it was called disk management. Otherwise, your video was excellent.
Thanks for the video. Would I do the same as above if I were to move my DCS folder to reformat the drive it was on, then move it back? I just wanted to reformat the drive as there are residual files from older games.
That's a good idea, and yes it will work...or should work in theory...your executable paths will search for the specific drive number. ~J
Thank you mate
Just upgraded to a dedicated DCS M.2 drive with 2TB. I need the beta and the stable and got lots of modules. This game is just an absolutely insane storage hog. Never seen anything like it before :D
It’s not a game… 😉
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Does it save all of your bindings and flight log info? This would be great as I'm about to go from 1 tb m.2 to 2tb as mine is almost full. - I have only Dcs stuff lol
When I did mine that way it saved because they’re not in the game files…they’re saved in your saved games folder, which isn’t affected when you move your game files.
Oh man. This is right on time. I have DCS on a 500g as well and I'm down to 117G's. Yes..I know it by heart. LOL This at least gives me some courage to possibly try and do it myself, but I'm stilling leaning to having someone who knows how because, I'm probably going to screw this up somehow. Decisions decisions...appreciate the video! question...was your old drive ALSO the drive you had your OS windows on??
Cool, hope it goes well, and hit us up if you have any questions or need help.
@@AIRWARFAREGROUP Will do...i had a question for you.....My DCS is on my C drive which of course the Windows 10 is installed. When I have a new SSD installed, will Windows need to be installed on it as well??
@@ghostrider1827 No. Windows is only installed on one drive.
@@daisydaddy windows is on my C drive along with DCS. If I get a new 2Tb ssd to replace it...windows would definitely have to be installed unless I can add the 2TB to the motherboard somehow. I'm not a techie so it's trying to figure it out.
yeah it didn't take long at all to fill it up did it? Same happened with me
So, the fact you have some elements, by default, installed on C:\Program files or Data does not matter? You can still just grab them and relocate as you described?
Yes. Your Saved Games Folder stays in C: usually, and for STEAM, I’d do some additional research before moving files. I haven’t used DCS through Steam in years.
@@AIRWARFAREGROUP I don’t use steam. I moved all the files from their default install folder to the same location but different drive and now it gets stuck at 10% when DCS starts up.
Same Drive Letter designation? Check your Repair DCS World shortcut and run that...
Fuck yes dude. Thanks for the video, my caveman brain couldn't figure out how to direct the repair to the new filepath.
Nice video but what I’m looking to do is move just the modules and mod files from my ssd to my hard drive while still having the game on the SAD for fast boot speeds. Is this possible or does it all need to be on one drive?
Sorry, that I wouldn't know...I think all your DCS has to be in one spot...any reason you don't want DCS on a dedicated 1TB or at least a 500GB?
@@AIRWARFAREGROUP I just want the big map files and assets that take up a lot of space to be on the bigger Hard drive while still running the game on the good one that works quick
Q: on the NEW drive are you required to have the complete file set up Program FIles>EagleDynamics>OpeneBeta etc etc?
Not sure what you mean. I just moved to a new drive and relabeled it to the same letter drive label.
@@AIRWARFAREGROUP so only needs “d>Eagle Dynamics>OpenBeta” not “Program files>Eagle Dynamics >openbeta”?
That's what I have...standalone only. We have a video too on restoring controls from your saved games but there are other good ones out there as well. J
Kevo, what's important is that your shortcut links for launching, updating, and repairing DCS World have to be set to the right path of the drive you have the program on. Contact me on Discord if you need help. J
Computer illiterate here, just bought a new PC, can I use this method to transfer my entire DCS to the new PC via a portable HD?
Should be able to do it.
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I just installed a new 1TB SSD that I was going to install DCS into. I have seen this video (and Grim Reapers) which both have you just cut (or copy and then later delete the original) and then paste into the new SSD. Both videos say no issues, but wouldn't it be simpler to just install DCS World 2.9 right from the website directly into the new SSD drive? That is what I planned to do, but nowhere during the download/installation process of DCS world did it ever give me a choice of which drive to install it to! It just went straight into the old HDD again - with no option to choose installation destination! Is that right? IF so, I guess the only way to get it to the new SSD now is to cut/paste. My concern is that there must be some other installation entries/processes that were written in the registry or who knows where that still reference the old HDD (original DCS location) that might bugger up the works? Hence my desire to simply just install the whole program right into the new SSD. Has anybody seen a choice of drive destination when downloading/installing from DCS website? Did I miss something? Thanks!
Maybe, let us know how it goes...The only thing I can think of that is crucial is to redesignate the letter drive paths on all the launch and repair, update, and such shortcuts. Are you using STEAM?
No, using standalone version. After trying this a few more times I notice that the installation process does in fact show the normal window that shows the installation path, but it is only a quick flash where I can see it keeps going to some C: drive destination. It doesn’t pause at that screen and let me input anything - it just zips by and proceeds. I also have already tried changing the default download destination in the registry from C: Program Files to my desired F: Program Files. Restarted the PC , doublechecked the registry where it confirms it updated it, and tried the download again. Same thing - just zips by that screen and I still see it going to C: Not sure what to do next
So when I did mine, I moved a copy of the whole folder into a different letter drive, then removed the old letter Drive that had the original DCS install and hooked up the new drive, and then installed it on there. Perhaps the reason is with the old drive still in DCS recognize this ad as your install path. Once you move it to another space remover just disconnect. That Drive SATA cable.
@@AIRWARFAREGROUPthat didn’t work…
After re-reading your first comment, yes, if you want, just install 1.9, this video is not about updating DCS, it's about moving your current install to a new PC or drive.
Hi everibody, a couple a weeks ago while loading the last DCS World update 2.12.0.97, the uploading stopped for crash, the DCS page began all white and on the center appear a window due a "Curt error (6) Coundn't resolve host name" I have seen a coulpe of tutor but since now can't be able to repair it and be back to fly. Please everybody and every help is apreciated, my experience with pc isn't very deep and my age is sixty. Thanks, waiting your return, sincerily Gianvito. Italy
Alberto, I will help search for a solution when I return home. Ciao
There are a million videos on how to move the game to another drive after it has already been downloaded, but nobody explains how to download the game to another drive for people that do not already have the whole game downloaded. I have installed the updater just fine, but it wants me to download the game to the C drive and does not anymore offer any option to download it to another storage drive like it use to do in the past. Does anybody know the work around for this problem?
I haven't heard of this problem before...hummmmm. Do you have it already installed on a different drive? Are you using Steam or Standalone?
i have one question...What happened to the "saved games" file that was on the original drive??
The Saved Games folder for me has always automatically set up in C:/Users/"MyPCName"/Saved Games folder You should have the same mate...Windows 10/11? If you don't see it, see about checking the box "Show Hidden Files and Folders" in browser properties.
@@AIRWARFAREGROUP Same here... I was just wondering did you have to transfer the saved games file separately. Since it falls under a different file outside of the Eagle Dunamics/open beta folder.
Not that I know of because the batch file command that grabs that stuff knows where the Saved Games is...but I could be wrong. As long as you label the new drive like the old drive, you don't have to change any paths for Update DCS World.exe or Repair DCS World.exe.
@@AIRWARFAREGROUP copy that.
hello! is posible move entire ssd of DCS installation, to a new pc? Thanks!
Hey, yes. Should be able to. Stand-alone or Steam DCS?
@@AIRWARFAREGROUP i have the stand-alon
Cool, you should try it and just map the exe shortcuts for launching, updating, and repairing DCS World. Should work, let me know. I’ve always been in upgrade mode for more SSD space myself.
Ok so here is why i am here.
I have two brand new gaming computers that i just bought an Hp Omen 45l i9 rtx 3080 ti desktop and a msi i7 rtx 3080 ti qhd raider 12th gen laptop. I have all of my il-2 sturmovick (pretty much everthing out) now installed and running on both systems. Also i got flight simulator 2010 super deluxe with all the free downloads and f-35 installed and running on both systems. I did all this by simply redownloading and reinstalling it all to the laptop. This laptop will be using the oculous quest 2 vr so not concerned about the smaller 17" screen on it. Both computers have c and d ssd drives with d drive on both sytems where all my sims are installed.
DCS really upset me as I can not download any dcs items except for the world view. Tbe website says i own a bunch of planes and maps and listed as bought. In dcs world it also says i bought all these but no way after hours of searching could i find any option to download them all to my laptop. I determined it can not be done.
So im going to try this method. It should be even easier than your method since all the flight sims on my desktop are on the d drive and i want to copy them to my d drive of my laptop. When i get some time this weekend i will try it.
On the laptop, have you opened DCS up and checked the Module Manager to see if you turned all your aircraft on (slide the switch right to green) and are you logged into your ED account on the laptop?
I assume you are on Standalone DCS and not STEAM?
@@AIRWARFAREGROUP i will have to check on that module manager. I dont have an Educational account and i dont have these ones on steam. Il2 i have on steam but not dcs. I just have the regular sims i bought directly from dcs when they were on sale. i have read that these can be installed on 2 computers but only played on one computer at a time. I can play all these on my desktop. They are all fully installed and working perfectly.on that.
I would have got these on steam but dcs had a sale so i got it all from them The download times with my gigabyte internet are incredredably slow on dcs like 20 mbps compared to steam 200 to 400 mbps.
I left STEAM and went DCS OpenBeta Standalone 6 years ago and love it!
Check to make sure you are logging into your ED account on the Laptop when you launch DCS World...that might be the untied connection.
J
@@AIRWARFAREGROUP i got all it working on my laptop this weekend. I copied the entire directory to the laptop. Since i am using the d drives for both desktop and laptop, i also copied the desktop shortcut to the laptop desktop and it worked without doing anything else.
I did link this with my steam games launcer but not sure how this will work. Steam is very important to me since there is a no internet button that i use on my night shift job. That place has no internet coverage even for my phone as its out in the middle of nowhere. They have wifi for my work desktop but dont allow wifi for personal laptops or phones I am not sure if dcs will work without internet but i will find out sunday night when i do a 12 hour night shift at my job. I do know that steam version of reddead redemption 2 works now with no internet on steam but not the none steam version that requires internet.