So recent months have thrown odyssey's technical issues into sharp relief, to say nothing of it's relatively thin content.
But during some general computer maintenance, I discovered a technical problem that has persisted since the very launch of elite dangerous.
See, like most of you, I run multiple drives in my computer. A smaller SSD for the system and programs, a larger ssd for games, and a mechanical hdd for older games not as reliant on load times, and everything else.
Well, I noticed my system SSD was a lot fuller than it should have been. I avoid having any extraneous files dumped there. Investigating further, I discovered elite, odyssey, and to my surprise the odyssey alpha files, were all just sitting there, wasting space. But not at some top level directory, or even in the program files or Frontier folder (in the program files.) Nooo, these were all sitting deep in my user directory, in the windows folders users generally can't even see.
Edit: A few notes on this issue for those skipping the thread. This issue only occurs if you install to the default install directory in program files on C. The LAUNCHER installs to program files, while the actual game files install to a sub directory of your user/appdata folder. If you install to a different drive than your system drive, (D: E: whatever) the game files reside in the launcher folder, where they should.
This is less of a problem then I first felt, but still an annoying issue, there doesn't seem to be a legitimate reason the game files can't install to your program files directory.
But during some general computer maintenance, I discovered a technical problem that has persisted since the very launch of elite dangerous.
See, like most of you, I run multiple drives in my computer. A smaller SSD for the system and programs, a larger ssd for games, and a mechanical hdd for older games not as reliant on load times, and everything else.
Well, I noticed my system SSD was a lot fuller than it should have been. I avoid having any extraneous files dumped there. Investigating further, I discovered elite, odyssey, and to my surprise the odyssey alpha files, were all just sitting there, wasting space. But not at some top level directory, or even in the program files or Frontier folder (in the program files.) Nooo, these were all sitting deep in my user directory, in the windows folders users generally can't even see.
Edit: A few notes on this issue for those skipping the thread. This issue only occurs if you install to the default install directory in program files on C. The LAUNCHER installs to program files, while the actual game files install to a sub directory of your user/appdata folder. If you install to a different drive than your system drive, (D: E: whatever) the game files reside in the launcher folder, where they should.
This is less of a problem then I first felt, but still an annoying issue, there doesn't seem to be a legitimate reason the game files can't install to your program files directory.
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the main game files are all there, but there's also a load of stuff installed to the C: Drive - specifically in AppData. A chunk of this appears to be from prior Beta's - we're talking files dated 2016 here - as well as other stuff. 20 or so GB in total. The funny thing is, this entire PC was built in November 2019 on fresh drives and while I did copy various game folders from my GAMES drive over to the new machine to save bandwidth - my internet was terrible at the time - I didn't copy anything anywhere else, other than my controller profile. Also, I don't do Beta's, other than the very first one (original backer here) so surprised to see the files here. Weird right?