are you sure? - you just get a "move" option as far as I can see.
Game Discussions Microsoft Flight Simulator
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The 'game' is already installed - that's the initial 1GB download. The rest is DLC... because everything is delivered that way. There's about 70GB of textures, scenery mesh data, etc - and the rest is planes, tutorials, challenges, airports, POIs...
Thanks, I totally missed that and some of my axis are already "twitchy" at their centers.
Yes - I selected a different folder on the initial data install. Not sure about moving it later, not tried it.
That is just the download - a lot of decompression followed - my disc usage is 240 GB (but some of that is cache) - the minimum data on your disk is listed as 150GB.
I'd like to backup that 95GB download - are you sure you have it available to backup? It took me forever to find the actual installation on my machine - not a Steam install - it lives under the Appdata tree for my user.
Okay, so let me make sure I understand this - we get the scenery in a "low resolution" (geometrically speaking) fashion as part of this initial download, and then the streamed in scenery is the high-resolution version of the same assets and terrain?
If so, it seems to me that Microsoft could have offered us a much smaller download and just let me stream ALL the scenery on a as-needed basis. For all the places I plan to visit, there is 10x the number of places I do NOT plan to visit.
BTW - I don't think I will be uninstalling FSX for a while, Scotland seems very poorly served in MSFS2020 - they even didn't bother with Barra (though the terminal buildings are there) which as the only commercial beach airfield in the world should have made it well worth including.
Barra:
P.S. Terrain mesh also looks rubbish so far, not very rugged in Scotland at the moment - maybe I can tweak it.
P.P.S. Don't bother looking for the Forth Bridges either - just generic low-level autogen.
Barra:
P.S. Terrain mesh also looks rubbish so far, not very rugged in Scotland at the moment - maybe I can tweak it.
P.P.S. Don't bother looking for the Forth Bridges either - just generic low-level autogen.
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Sorry, I meant to answer this before...
There is a "Repair" button in the advanced options of the "app" (yes it is completely treated like an App)
Beware of the Reset button underneath that - I hit that yesterday and so had to go through the whole 95GB download, decompress and install all over again. (My fault entirely.)
I want to ask a clear question:
Does this need a constant online connection for terrain streaming?
Last thing I want to do is drop 50 sheets plus on a game I can't play whilst away from civilisation :/
Does this need a constant online connection for terrain streaming?
Last thing I want to do is drop 50 sheets plus on a game I can't play whilst away from civilisation :/
Unless you changed where it installed to, it goes into an obscure AppData directory. Look for a folder with two folders within it of 'Community' and 'Official'. The 'Official' folder contains the 92GB, and that's what you can back up. It's visible and available once you find it.
Clearest answer I can give: Yes... but also, no.
If you want good resolution, you need always-on internet streaming to download the data from Bing.
If you want the best resolution, you can pre-download areas you want to fly to and cache them. Then you can go completely dark if you wish.
Yeah, Scotland isn't great for me either so far. Took a trip along the coast from Arbroath to Dundee, and the road bridge is there - but the railway bridge (longest passenger carrying rail bridge in the world, you'd think they'd have thought a bit about it) is just absent. Not there at all.
Which is kinda funny, because the rail tracks are there on land...
Given how the Yanks feel about Scotland, you have to wonder if they're saving it all for a super-deluxe "Scotland DLC", a mere snip at $49.99.
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Reading all this, the boxed version looks quite appealing.
Did anybody use this variant?
Or am I mistaken and it is just the 1GB “Base Game” and all the heavy lifting (= downloading) has to be done nevertheless?
Did anybody use this variant?
Or am I mistaken and it is just the 1GB “Base Game” and all the heavy lifting (= downloading) has to be done nevertheless?
Welp...downloaded at last. Spent a good 20 minutes setting up rolling and manual caches just to realise I set them way too high at 200Gb...now I need to go through the pain of resetting them to something sensible
Apart from that, massively disappointed with Orkney scenery...looks like a badly stitched duvet cover even at Ultra settings. Perhaps if I moved to a city then flew over my house I'd be more impressed...right now with the way it looks, I'm tempted to uninstall it.
Apart from that, massively disappointed with Orkney scenery...looks like a badly stitched duvet cover even at Ultra settings. Perhaps if I moved to a city then flew over my house I'd be more impressed...right now with the way it looks, I'm tempted to uninstall it.
That would be a mistake I think. There's so much more to see.
Remember there is a world update coming in a couple of weeks. And don't forget that Scotland DLC!
And don't forget that Scotland DLC!
Pilot avatar Kilts or no buy!