I purchased the DVD install Premium Deluxe package of FS 2020.  Looking at the requirements I saw that the disk space required was well within the spare 250GB SSD I have.  The SSD was clean and accepted the installation from the DVD;s perfectly.  When I ran FS it went to the "check for update" screen and eventually told me that I needed a further 116 GB of disk space to do the updates.  The SSD by this time only had 109GB free space. As I could proceed no further I chose to put the updates on another drive in my PC.  What I don't know is whether the 116GB requirement was only for installing the updates and then the actual requirement after installation is much lower ?  Can anyone advise ?

 

Thanks

 

Thermocline

Further to my last post - the update to the secondary drive seems to be taking forever.  Given the file size predicted of 116.3GB is it likely that the whole of FS2020 is being installed again on the secondary drive ?  If this is the case; would it be possible to clear my SSD and then MOVE the updated version of FS2020 from the secondary drive back onto the SSD ?

 

Thermocline

It's likely all the updates since launch in 2020. As your on dvd's there will be a hell of a lot to download since. all of the World Updates for one, plus sim updates on top of that.

10 hours ago, Thermocline said:

Looking at the requirements I saw that the disk space required was well within the spare 250GB SSD I have. 

250 GB is not going to cut it.. I have mine on a 500 GB SSD and the standard version takes up close to 200 GB.

Just let it do its thing.

16 hours ago, Car147 said:

As your on dvd's there will be a hell of a lot to download since. all of the World Updates for one, plus sim updates on top of that.

And that is surely the best argument for not buying the DVD version, though I appreciate some bought it just to have a physical copy do display and/or to add to older versions they have in their collection. Also, if MS ever switched off the servers, it would maybe be possible to install and run a base version of the sim offline (though MS would probably have to make some sort of patch available i should imagine).

6 hours ago, Bert Pieke said:

250 GB is not going to cut it.. I have mine on a 500 GB SSD and the standard version takes up close to 200 GB.

Just let it do its thing.

100%. Having just re-installed the sim (Premium Deluxe) and with no add-ons added back in as yet*, it takes up 191GB on my games-only SSD, and that doesn't include whatever related files are on my C drive.

 

*which go on another SSD.

I am fairly light on addons, but with third party aircraft, free stuff from Flightsim.to, and some Orbx stuff, which I keep all together on my F: drive, it was coming to 313Gb last night, and I don't even have all of the world updates installed yet.  I can see me going over the 1Tb mark within three years.  I hope they do cheap 2Tb NVMe drives by then! 

So basically, as already said above, 250Gb will be a tight squeeze and will limit you going forward.

Edited February 9, 20224 yr by bobcat999