Microsoft store just gave me a choice of which drive to use when I just finished ordering. Not exactly steam level of customization but good enough for me. 

How do we all feel about Drives and location to instal MSFS?

I was just going to bung it on the root of my primary SSD C/ drive where windows is.

I have two additional SSD's available though. . .

Edited August 17, 20205 yr by Will Fly For Cheese

Those lucky Kiribatians.

Just now, Will Fly For Cheese said:

How do we all feel about Drives and location to instal MSFS?

I was just going to bung it on the root of my C/ drive where windows is.

I have two additional SSD's available though. . .

I'm going for my fastest SSD which happens to be the C drive. 

1 minute ago, FlyingRoo said:

I'm going for my fastest SSD which happens to be the C drive. 

Well exactly - back in the day I researched putting FSX then P3D on a separate drive and deduced there was no real advantage to this in terms of 'quickness'.

Perhaps it's a space issue - I have 300 Gig free on the C drive so no need for that?

Answers please chaps - what do you know that we don't?

 

my main windows C drive is a 1TB nvme m2 SSD and my D is a 2TB SATA SSD. I plan to install mines on D. Do you think it would make any noticeable difference to have MFS2020 installed to my C drive instead?

My original plan was to keep C drive free from installing games and use D instead. and to purchase a 3rd dedicated SATA HDD for storage for the offline cache drive to hold all the data to places I fly frequently.

48 minutes ago, Andreas Stangenes said:

I didn't say universally. I said it was not optimal for launch specifically. I also added that after launch it doesn't matter. 

No you didn't ... but you did state, inexplicably, that MS Store is the better option, thereby generalising your own opinion as fact.

I just simply pointed out, that while you may think, that the MS Store purchase option is best, that doesn't mean, that it's necessary true as a general fact. It's highly subjective what's best for each individual. Now, Steam works best for me, as I have a huge amount of games on that platform already, and I really like the installation methods and the DRM.   

Personally, I disklike the Microsoft Store. It's (in my opinion) clunky and the installation methods are designed in a way, to leave every decision to the app itself - which means, that it restrict where to install files and put files in places, I don't think they should be. Again, this is my personal preference and experience with MS Store. 

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Edited August 17, 20205 yr by travelabroad

Steam or MS Store doesn't matter that much. It's only downloading the launcher. In fact if there are future updates to the launcher, I bet they will come a bit quicker to the MS Store.

33 minutes ago, Will Fly For Cheese said:

How do we all feel about Drives and location to instal MSFS?

I was just going to bung it on the root of my primary SSD C/ drive where windows is.

I have two additional SSD's available though. . .

I installed a dedicated brand new 450Gb SSD for it the other day. Might make no difference, but I figured I'd give it all the help it could get.

I bought the MS Game Pass yesterday.

When I tried to install the installer on the MSFS2020 standard it just gave me an error. Before that it tried to download a 22Mb file but gave error aswell.

I will try at midnight tonight again.

26 minutes ago, travelabroad said:

No you didn't ... but you did state, inexplicably, that MS Store is the better option, thereby generalising your own opinion as fact.

I just simply pointed out, that while you may think, that the MS Store purchase option is best, that doesn't mean, that it's necessary true as a general fact. It's highly subjective what's best for each individual. Now, Steam works best for me, as I have a huge amount of games on that platform already, and I really like the installation methods and the DRM.   

Personally, I disklike the Microsoft Store. It's (in my opinion) clunky and the installation methods are designed in a way, to leave every decision to the app itself - which means, that it restrict where to install files and put files in places, I don't think they should be. Again, this is my personal preference and experience with MS Store. 

Excuse me, but i most certainly DID point out that my point was for the release specifically, and after it doesnt matter. I edited my post with underline and bold, but didnt add any text to the main body of the post. I did add text in a separate edit part below afterwards. 

As of a couple of hours ago, Game Pass hadn’t started downloading anything, aside from the small (install?) app I got when I picked the game on the 13th. YMMV

 

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So it's out in Kiribati in 25 minutes!

Anyone here from Avsim's Kiribati chapter?

Edit: apart from me, I mean.

Edited August 17, 20205 yr by OzWhitey

14 minutes ago, OzWhitey said:

 

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10:00 UTC
Kiribati

11:00 UTC
American Samoa, The Marshall Islands, Mauru, Niue, Samoa, Tokelau, Tonga, Tuvalu, The United States Minor Outlying Islands, Wallis and Futuna

12:00 UTC
Antarctica, Fiji, New Zealand 

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So it's out in Kiribati in 25 minutes!

Anyone here from Avsim's Kiribati chapter?

Mine kicks off 2 hours after Kiribati, and a Digital rights install launcher just popped up on my screen, and it failed. I am on X Box Games pass, but have purchased on Steam.

Not sure what that was about, error did not give a reason, unless the engines are getting warmed up.

Edited August 17, 20205 yr by ZKOKQ