October 1, 20232 yr Steam / MSFS version 1.34.16.0 - SU13 update worked easily and sim works well with no apparent problems My confusion is that I installed the entire Sim on Drive I and I thought it had always been there. My 400GB AddOn source library and 135 GB ORBX library are on Drive D:. Both are SSDs and both drives work perfectly. Steam/Settings/Storage shows FlightSim is installed on Drive D - I am not sure when or how that happened MSFS user.cfg shows InstalledPackagesPath "I:\SteamLibrary\MicrosoftFlightSimulator" If I change the path to point at Drive D:\...MicrosoftFlightSimulator the sim loader tells me I have to do a Mandatory Update. When I look in the Drive D Packages folder I see all the expected stuff with a modification date/time of September 28, 2023 which is the date and time I installed SU13 and all the updated Content Manager stuff. The Drive I Packages folder contains the same folders and files as does the Drive D but the Drive I packages files are all modified prior to January 6, 2022. When I run the sim I see the following file system activity (I show lowest level folder name) for flightsim.exe: Drive D - all .dll files / cache / flightsim.exe / input / publishing groups / fs_base\UI / fs_base\onboarding Drive I - tutorials / POI / all working title stuff / all ASOBO stuff / all Microsoft stuff / all fs_base (except what comes off D) / Community Easy question: I have rolling cache turned off yet I see 64K file events involving Drive D cache - the cache is 253MB and was last updated on September 28 just before I installed SU13 - I have flown a lot (San Diego and Puget Sound) since then but see no new cache files. Can I just delete the cache? WHY is the sim loader reading 64K times from the cache if Options/General/Data says the cache is off? Harder question - how do I get all the sim stuff back to Drive I where it always was and should be? One More - how do I get the Installed PackagesPath working correctly? The sim Installation Manager shows I have installed everything I want and there are no pending updates. Thanks for any help you can offer - getting the sim entirely on one drive is most important. Edited October 1, 20232 yr by TacomaSailor details AMD Ryzen 7 9800X3D / MSI X870 Tomahawk Mobo / 64 GB DDR5 memory / RTX 4070 Super with 12 GB VRAM / AORUS FO48U 4k display NVMe for Drive C, an NVMe device dedicated to Flight Sim 2024 and a separate NVMe device for Flight Sim 2020 and an NVMe dedicated to 500GB of addons managed by AddonsLinker / 1 GB Comcast Xfinity Internet connection / HP Reverb G2 / Tobii 5 Head & Eye Tracking
October 2, 20232 yr No clue as to what happened to you, I use steam and it's still installed where I 1st installed it. Drive D. Intel(R) Core(TM) i7-10700F CPU @ 2.90GHz (8 cores) Hyper on, Evga RTX 3060 12 Gig, 32 GB ram, Windows 11, P3D v6, and MSFS 2020 and a couple of SSD's
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