Uninstalling Odyssey

Old Duck

Old Duck
This is actually a question - can Odyssey be easily uninstalled from Horizons, returning Horizons to it's pre-Odyssey condition? In my case, I have just Horizons right now, and it runs fine and seems to be exempt from most of the patches and hotfixes needing to be downloaded for Odyssey. My thinking with Odyssey is that it's better to wait for a month or two until the majority of patches (some of which will be fixes to previous patches) are finished and part of the core download. But what if I were to download Odyssey today, just to try it, and then uninstall it until it's fixed? In theory this means l could resume playing Horizons like I can now, without constant hotfixes and patches being forced on me, and if my experience with other games applies to Odyssey, downloading it fresh with all the fixes "built in" would result in a more stable build than a dozen patches done "on the fly" on my system.

Has anyone taken this approach? I know plenty people have said, "I'm going back to Horizons until Odyssey is fixed," but does Odyssey continue to live on your computer, or did you remove it in order to avoid endless patch downloads and other side-effects?

A related question is, how separate is Odyssey from Horizons? For example, does it have its own keybind and graphics config file that needs to be backed up before uninstalling, or are these shared with Horizons, and if the latter, how would uninstalling Odyssey affect Horizons?

Oh, and I assume if I were to download Odyssey today, it would come pre-patched up to this point, correct?
 

Amy Pendergast

Amy Pendergast
Old Duck said:
This is actually a question - can Odyssey be easily uninstalled from Horizons, returning Horizons to it's pre-Odyssey condition? In my case, I have just Horizons right now, and it runs fine and seems to be exempt from most of the patches and hotfixes needing to be downloaded for Odyssey. My thinking with Odyssey is that it's better to wait for a month or two until the majority of patches (some of which will be fixes to previous patches) are finished and part of the core download. But what if I were to download Odyssey today, just to try it, and then uninstall it until it's fixed? In theory this means l could resume playing Horizons like I can now, without constant hotfixes and patches being forced on me, and if my experience with other games applies to Odyssey, downloading it fresh with all the fixes "built in" would result in a more stable build than a dozen patches done "on the fly" on my system.

Has anyone taken this approach? I know plenty people have said, "I'm going back to Horizons until Odyssey is fixed," but does Odyssey continue to live on your computer, or did you remove it in order to avoid endless patch downloads and other side-effects?

A related question is, how separate is Odyssey from Horizons? For example, does it have its own keybind and graphics config file that needs to be backed up before uninstalling, or are these shared with Horizons, and if the latter, how would uninstalling Odyssey affect Horizons?

Oh, and I assume if I were to download Odyssey today, it would come pre-patched up to this point, correct?
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Yes, they are two separate game folders in your Products folder in the ED dir. Kind of like before base and Horizons got merged
 

CMDR X

CMDR X
[VR] Amy Pendergast said:
Yes, they are two separate game folders in your Products folder in the ED dir. Kind of like before base and Horizons got merged
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Correct about the seperate install folders Amy, but Odyssey uses your original settings directorys at C:\Users\user\AppData\Local\Frontier Developments
and C:\Users\user\Saved Games\Frontier Developments.

Before I installed EDO I backed up these entire folders to my backups as "Users-Horizons". I suggest everyone do this before firing up Odyssey because it will
be overwritten!
 
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CMDR X

CMDR X
Old Duck said:
So each has their own key bindings files, GraphicsConfiguration.xml files, etc?
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GraphicsConfiguration.xml is separate in each ones install folder.
Keybindings and all other settings are shared in the users profile directory. (pretty stupid if you ask me). Back these up first!
 

Old Duck

Old Duck
Okay, on a related question, let's say I give Odyssey a try and say, "No, this is too unpolished for me" and then I just don't play Elite Dangerous at all for a month or two. I also turn off all auto-updates for Odyssey on Steam. When I eventually manually update Odyssey later on, will it be one nice big cumulative patch, or will it be a ton of mini-patches writing and rewriting the same code over and over?

I know this is probably a question only Frontier can answer, but maybe someone has experience from other games that can shed light on this process.
 

Amy Pendergast

Amy Pendergast
Old Duck said:
Okay, on a related question, let's say I give Odyssey a try and say, "No, this is too unpolished for me" and then I just don't play Elite Dangerous at all for a month or two. I also turn off all auto-updates for Odyssey on Steam. When I eventually manually update Odyssey later on, will it be once nice big cumulative patch, or will it literally be a ton of mini-patches writing and rewriting the same code over and over?

I know this is probably a question only Frontier can answer, but maybe someone has experience from other games that can shed light on this process.
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Depends - if you got it through steam l, steam will take care of the update, so it is one cumulative block normally.

If you install from Frontier via launcher, it should do the same, that's why the download bar sometimes shows a multiple of you internet connection speed while updating.
 

CMDR X

CMDR X
Old Duck said:
Okay, on a related question, let's say I give Odyssey a try and say, "No, this is too unpolished for me" and then I just don't play Elite Dangerous at all for a month or two. I also turn off all auto-updates for Odyssey on Steam. When I eventually manually update Odyssey later on, will it be once nice big cumulative patch, or will it literally be a ton of mini-patches writing and rewriting the same code over and over?

I know this is probably a question only Frontier can answer, but maybe someone has experience from other games that can shed light on this process.
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You will only get the fresh big bundle if you uninstall the odyseey game files in Steam. Otherwise most likely it will be all incrementally updated.
But yea, this one is for FDev to be sure.
 

DrinkyBird

DrinkyBird
Old Duck said:
Okay, on a related question, let's say I give Odyssey a try and say, "No, this is too unpolished for me" and then I just don't play Elite Dangerous at all for a month or two. I also turn off all auto-updates for Odyssey on Steam. When I eventually manually update Odyssey later on, will it be one nice big cumulative patch, or will it be a ton of mini-patches writing and rewriting the same code over and over?

I know this is probably a question only Frontier can answer, but maybe someone has experience from other games that can shed light on this process.
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Steam uses delta compression, it'll download the differences between the version on your computer and the latest version available.
I'm not sure how the Frontier launcher does it, I would assume it downloads the latest files whole (instead of just the differences like Steam does). I doubt they would update the files incrementally - that'd be a huge waste of bandwidth.
 

CMDR X

CMDR X
Old Duck said:
I would probably elect to do this when the day comes, despite it taking me multiple days to download such a huge file, just because it feels like this would be the more stable version.
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As much as I don't like Steam (or any of the others) it does a suprising good job of keeping games up-to-date. Using the official developers repositories and file by file hash comparisons. Never had a problem.
 

babelfisch

babelfisch
CMDR X said:
You will only get the fresh big bundle if you uninstall the odyseey game files in Steam. Otherwise most likely it will be all incrementally updated.
But yea, this one is for FDev to be sure.
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I believe you are wrong. You don't need to patch each update / hotfix individually. Steam / launcher simply checks which files are outdated and installs the newest version AFAIK. People who are more clever than me can probably give you a more detailed answer.
 

CMDR X

CMDR X
[MEOW] babelfisch said:
I believe you are wrong. You don't need to patch each update / hotfix individually. Steam / launcher simply checks which files are outdated and installs the newest version AFAIK. People who are more clever than me can probably give you a more detailed answer.
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Yes, that was an assumption by me, that's why I noted that this would be better answered by FDev.
 

dm06

dm06
I guess you should rename the post title to something like "How to uninstall Odyssey?", because currently it sounds like "shocked!" "journalist has been d by scientist!".
 
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