I saw a post of the Steam reviews that says this, is it true...or can we easily change the drive that fs2024 installs to? (Steam version, not the MS store)

From what I'm seeing so far still waiting in Queue, the game launcher/installer 11.6Gig is put in your choice of Steam location BUT the actual game 16.3Gig is installed on the C drive in a folder under Roaming.

Edited November 19, 20241 yr by VeryBumpy

19 minutes ago, VeryBumpy said:

From what I'm seeing so far still waiting in Queue, the game launcher/installer 11.6Gig is put in your choice of Steam location BUT the actual game 16.3Gig is installed on the C drive in a folder under Roaming.

Yes, that is exactly what I heard on Steam...this is not acceptable for me so I will wait to buy and hopefully they will fix this so that we can install the majority of game data on our drive of choice. If MS doesn't change this I will not buy into this version until I build a new pc at some point next year.

Edited November 19, 20241 yr by hangar

Steam appears to install on the drive that you chose but puts the community folder on C which I do not want.

 

Edited November 19, 20241 yr by ricka47

33 minutes ago, VeryBumpy said:

BUT the actual game 16.3Gig is installed on the C drive in a folder under Roaming.

Mine installed on the drive I told it to on steam.

Everything streams to the C drive though

You can change the community/official folder location by editing the config file.

Edited November 19, 20241 yr by Tuskin38

So there's no choice where to put the "packages" folder for 2024?  For 2020 you could absolutely choose where it went.  I still had it on C drive but c:\MS Flightsim Packages, instead of wherever the Steam version puts it by default or that ridiculously named one that the MS Store version puts in appdata.

9 minutes ago, ricka47 said:

Steam appears to install on the drive that you chose but puts the community folder on C which I do not want.

 

  

2 minutes ago, flyinion said:

So there's no choice where to put the "packages" folder for 2024?  For 2020 you could absolutely choose where it went.  I still had it on C drive but c:\MS Flightsim Packages, instead of wherever the Steam version puts it by default or that ridiculously named one that the MS Store version puts in appdata.

 

You can change the community/official folder location by editing the UserCfg.opt file in roaming using the text editor of your choice.

Edited November 19, 20241 yr by Tuskin38

1 minute ago, Tuskin38 said:

  

 

You can change the community/official folder location by editing the UserCfg.opt file in roaming.

That's disappointing that you need to edit a file.  So do you let it install everything, then move it, then edit the file?  Or how does that work?  For 2020 at first install it would literally let you edit the path that it was defaulting to.  Talk about a step backward.  I may definitely hold off for a week or two on picking 2024 up then to see if they add in a UI option to change the path at 1st install.

Just now, Tuskin38 said:

You can change the community/official folder location by editing the UserCfg.opt file in roaming.

Great - will try that. Thanks!

 

that!

4 minutes ago, flyinion said:

That's disappointing that you need to edit a file.  So do you let it install everything, then move it, then edit the file?  Or how does that work?  For 2020 at first install it would literally let you edit the path that it was defaulting to.  Talk about a step backward.  I may definitely hold off for a week or two on picking 2024 up then to see if they add in a UI option to change the path at 1st install.

Nothing installs into the Official folder, mine was empty after messing around a bit. I guessing it's just used for manual downloads from the Library.

Maybe changing the cache location in the sim options will move where stuff streams.

Edited November 19, 20241 yr by Tuskin38

47 minutes ago, Tuskin38 said:

Nothing installs into the Official folder, mine was empty after messing around a bit. I guessing it's just used for manual downloads from the Library.

Maybe changing the cache location in the sim options will move where stuff streams.

The default appears to be a 16 GB cache in appdata\Roaming

56 minutes ago, Tuskin38 said:

  

 

You can change the community/official folder location by editing the UserCfg.opt file in roaming using the text editor of your choice.

My UserCfg.opt file is actually located in appdata\local\packages..

51 minutes ago, Tuskin38 said:

Nothing installs into the Official folder, mine was empty after messing around a bit. I guessing it's just used for manual downloads from the Library.

There are multiple versions of empty Official folders in different locations... Check the UserCfg.opt file for the active location... Mine is:

InstalledPackagesPath "C:\Users\User\AppData\Local\Packages\Microsoft.Limitless_8wekyb3d8bbwe\LocalCache\Packages"

 

There is an option to change the community folder location, in the marketplace -> library, but it's not easy to find.

My C (Windows) drive is a small SSD.  I've worked hard over the last couple years getting all my user programs and data moved to BIG FAST NVMe drives.  There is not enough room on my C drive for the new 2024 cache and what ever else Steam wants to install there.

Has anyone found a way to install MSFS/Steam with nothing going to the C drive?

Is it anticipated that eventually we users will control the target drives for a Steam install?  I am very happy with 2020 and in no rush to proceed to 2024 if it continues as described above and elsewhere.