=J18=FritzGerald Posted December 28, 2020 Posted December 28, 2020 I'm reinstalling IL 2 and it says that it is downloading the game client 27.89GBs but when I go into the folder it says IL 2 is 55.1GBs...before this last update I had plenty of room on my computer for the simulator...now...I have 5.77MB available... Any help would be greatly appreciated Salute -Gerald
1CGS LukeFF Posted December 29, 2020 1CGS Posted December 29, 2020 55 GB is about the correct size for the game, yes.
=J18=FritzGerald Posted December 29, 2020 Author Posted December 29, 2020 the game is only partially installed right now...it says it has 10 more GBs left
[CPT]Crunch Posted December 29, 2020 Posted December 29, 2020 If you need to stretch it across another drive, https://schinagl.priv.at/nt/hardlinkshellext/linkshellextension.html Easy to do and works fine, you can put all your skins on another drive and keep the file structure workable. 1
=J18=FritzGerald Posted December 29, 2020 Author Posted December 29, 2020 14 hours ago, [CPT]Crunch said: If you need to stretch it across another drive, https://schinagl.priv.at/nt/hardlinkshellext/linkshellextension.html Easy to do and works fine, you can put all your skins on another drive and keep the file structure workable. I'll try that...does it work with putting files besides the skins on another drive? Salute! -Gerald
Bostjan42 Posted January 1, 2021 Posted January 1, 2021 (edited) How does installation of Great Battles work? I only own Stalingrad, but the game has grown to an immense size. I'm guessing all the content is already in the game, just locked behind authorization. If I buy for example Flying Circus or Bodenplatte, will the install size increase or is everything already there? Will only new maps be added or also planes? Does anyone know this? What's your install size? For me with only vanilla Stalingrad owned, the game is about 70GB as of v4.505 Update: just bought Bodenplatte, no additional download. Edited January 5, 2021 by Bostjan42 Update
THERION Posted January 1, 2021 Posted January 1, 2021 (edited) 53 minutes ago, Bostjan42 said: How does installation of Great Battles work? I only own Stalingrad, but the game has grown to an immense size. I'm guessing all the content is already in the game, just locked behind authorization. If I buy for example Flying Circus or Bodenplatte, will the install size increase or is everything already there? Will only new maps be added or also planes? Does anyone know this? What's your install size? For me with only vanilla Stalingrad owned, the game is about 70GB as of v4.505 This is quite simple - when you install the game, you get an one-in-all installation. This means, all content available/published will be downloaded at once. With your purchase, you will only have access to what you actually bought - you actually unlock items you buy. That's why the installation seems so big. Edited January 1, 2021 by THERION
ST_Catchov Posted January 1, 2021 Posted January 1, 2021 1 hour ago, Bostjan42 said: What's your install size? Well, that's kind of a personal question .... but mine's only 44.7gb.
Bostjan42 Posted January 2, 2021 Posted January 2, 2021 21 hours ago, ST_Catchov said: Well, that's kind of a personal question .... but mine's only 44.7gb. Did you remove the updates folder?
ST_Catchov Posted January 2, 2021 Posted January 2, 2021 37 minutes ago, Bostjan42 said: Did you remove the updates folder? Nah. I don't mess with anything. Vanilla install, no mods and just update as they become available (I own FC only but that includes all content apparently, according to THERION, until unlocked by further purchases). I try to keep my system (W10) as lean and clean as possible though.
[CPT]Crunch Posted January 2, 2021 Posted January 2, 2021 On 12/29/2020 at 10:59 AM, Leftenant_Gerald said: I'll try that...does it work with putting files besides the skins on another drive? Salute! -Gerald Yes, I do the terrain folders with DCS and its fine, that games a monster in size. Going across sharing two similar SSD's can't tell any difference. The map folders and files still appear in the original game folder and updates are no problem, the system see's it as being in the original folder and on the original drive. It doesn't care which folder or what's in them. 1
WM_KMS Posted January 3, 2021 Posted January 3, 2021 1 TB solid state drives are pretty cheap and fast as hell 1 1
Mac_Messer Posted January 3, 2021 Posted January 3, 2021 If we`re talking SSDs, choose the M.2 NVmE drive if you have the M.2 slot on your mobo. They`re much faster drives for a few bucks more. 1
=J18=FritzGerald Posted January 8, 2021 Author Posted January 8, 2021 Finally got it onto another hard drive and got it working! Thank you all for your help and recomendations! Salute! -Gerald
Reggie_Mental Posted January 14, 2021 Posted January 14, 2021 (edited) Mine is 70.1 Gb! And I've still got to shoehorn in BoN! I have lots of skins and mods. I'm gonna need a bigger boat! Edited January 14, 2021 by Reggie_Mental
DougW Posted February 10, 2021 Posted February 10, 2021 I am reinstalling the game from scratch and after downloading for two days, I have the following showing on my Il-2 start window: "Downloading game client (476.29 GB/119.61 GB) 11.11 Mb/s" My game folder shows 2.21 GB size on disk. I own all of the flight modules minus Flying Circus and since the game client is still downloading, I'm unable to fly. So here I am with close to 500 GBs downloaded. 2 questions 1. What total amount of game client data should I expect to download before the game is ready? 2. Where does all of the data I have downloaded go? (approx. 500 GBs downloaded - game folder a just over 2 GB in size) thank you
ShamrockOneFive Posted February 10, 2021 Posted February 10, 2021 2 hours ago, DougW said: I am reinstalling the game from scratch and after downloading for two days, I have the following showing on my Il-2 start window: "Downloading game client (476.29 GB/119.61 GB) 11.11 Mb/s" My game folder shows 2.21 GB size on disk. I own all of the flight modules minus Flying Circus and since the game client is still downloading, I'm unable to fly. So here I am with close to 500 GBs downloaded. 2 questions 1. What total amount of game client data should I expect to download before the game is ready? 2. Where does all of the data I have downloaded go? (approx. 500 GBs downloaded - game folder a just over 2 GB in size) thank you What game folder are you looking at? IL-2: Great Battles is not 2.21 GB in size. My install is 116GB (that includes tracks, skins and screenshots, your mileage will vary). For comparison sake, and just so nobody thinks this size is unreasonable. My X-Plane 11 install is 69 GB (plus 150GB for scenery) and my DCS World install is 277 GB.
DougW Posted February 10, 2021 Posted February 10, 2021 Thanks for the reply, I am looking at my Il-2 Sturmovik Great Battles game folder and it reads 2.21 GB. I stopped the downloading when the game client download reached 540 GBs. Reboot the computer, re-launched the game, and been down loading "game client" which is now at 104 GBs. Is this a reload or addition to the 540 GB. If continued, then the game client has downloaded almost 650 GBs which goes not look right. I cannot find where the down loaded files are going, but Il-2 start window continues to download.
ShamrockOneFive Posted February 10, 2021 Posted February 10, 2021 Yeah, that's not a normal download. Maybe best to start something in the Tech Support forum.
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