gordonbennett Posted January 14, 2022 Share Posted January 14, 2022 i am running MSFS on my laptop which is an AMD Ryzen 5 dual GPU (2gb Radeon Vega and 3gb Nvidia) low end gaming one with 8gb of ram and a 500GB SSD. No complaints speed wise with around the mid 20's FPS at Medium which suits me. But .... when I checked to see how much room I had this morning with a view to buying ORBX KSPS Palm Springs I noted that the installation is already at about 255 GB. My question is do you guys only enable the world updates for the areas you want to fly in or do you compress your SSD or put any data on external drives? I am eagerly waiting for the Australian World Update and I am sure that will be pretty big so I am concerned that I only have 55GB of free space. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
g7rta Posted January 14, 2022 Share Posted January 14, 2022 Sounds like something wrong to me. I’ve got all the world updates etc and my main MSFS folder is only 198gb (there will be addons included in that) This doesn’t include my community folder. Regards Steve Intel I9-13900K - Gigabyte Z790 Aorus Elite AX - 64Gb DDR5 5600Mhz - Asus RTX4090 ROG STRIX 24GB 3x 43” Panasonic 4k TVs - Corsair RMx 1200W PSU - 2 x 2TB M.2, 2 x 4TB SATA III and 1 x 4TB M.2 SSDs. Pico 4 VR Headset - Honeycomb Alpha Yoke - Honeycomb Bravo Throttle Unit Thrustmaster TPR Rudder Pedals - Saitek Throttles Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JSkorna Posted January 15, 2022 Share Posted January 15, 2022 Mine is 182GB including my Community folder. Are you using the Rolling Cache option in MSFS? You can also remove all the stuff that you will never use in MSFS such as the lessons, bush trips, tours, etc. Use the Content Manager for that. I would not remove any planes. http://www.air-source.us/images/sigs/000219_195_jimskorna.png Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gordonbennett Posted January 16, 2022 Author Share Posted January 16, 2022 Thanks for replies. Is the content manager part of MSFS or a 3rd party add on. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gordonbennett Posted January 16, 2022 Author Share Posted January 16, 2022 Found that and some vids on how to use it. Thanks Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
danbiosca Posted January 16, 2022 Share Posted January 16, 2022 (edited) Thanks for replies. Is the content manager part of MSFS or a 3rd party add on. It's part of MSFS and actually a very important one. You can delete from the Content Manager all the world updates, airports, challenges, lessons, aircraft, etc. you don't want to use, and you'll be safe, because it won't let you delete any mandatory content. Even if you delete all the planes you find there, you'll still have 16 planes which are mandatory (Premium Deluxe edition). In fact I wish I could delete even more, since I use almost exclusively third party aircraft and scenery!! That's the best way to keep MSFS hard disk occupancy as small as possible. Edited January 16, 2022 by danbiosca Windows 10 Home - Intel i7 9700 4.70GHz - 32Gb DDR4 RAM - GeForce GTX 1660 OC 6Gb - Kingston 512Gb SSD - Internet 1Gbps (test 600+ Mbps) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cobalt Posted January 17, 2022 Share Posted January 17, 2022 There is a persistent and seemingly widespread misunderstanding about the size of updates -- some people talk about 170, 200 Gb or more! From my experience, the net increase in disc space for updates is typically just a few Gb each time, because most of the update content overwrites existing files. So, the actual demand on disc space by updates is modest and gradual. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
daspinall Posted January 17, 2022 Share Posted January 17, 2022 the biggest update I had was around 4gig ASRock X570 TAICHI Mother Board AMD Ryzen 9 3900X 3.79 GHz *Overclocked* Corsair 240mm H100i ELITE CAPELLIX RGB Intel/AMD CPU Liquid Cooler Corsair DOMINATOR PLATINUM RGB 64GB 3600MHz *Overclocked* MSI NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3090 Ti 24GB SUPRIM X Ampere. 1000W PSU. Samsung 870 EVO 2TB SSD. HP Reverb G2 + Oculus Quest 2 Samsung Odyssey G9 C49G95TSSR - QLED monitor - curved - 49" - 5120 x 1440 Dual Quad HD @ 240 Hz Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gordonbennett Posted January 17, 2022 Author Share Posted January 17, 2022 There is a persistent and seemingly widespread misunderstanding about the size of updates -- some people talk about 170, 200 Gb or more! From my experience, the net increase in disc space for updates is typically just a few Gb each time, because most of the update content overwrites existing files. So, the actual demand on disc space by updates is modest and gradual. Well that is good to know. I have cleared up my HD and used the content manager and now have about 150 gb free so I am much happier. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
danbiosca Posted January 18, 2022 Share Posted January 18, 2022 There is a persistent and seemingly widespread misunderstanding about the size of updates -- some people talk about 170, 200 Gb or more! From my experience, the net increase in disc space for updates is typically just a few Gb each time, because most of the update content overwrites existing files. So, the actual demand on disc space by updates is modest and gradual. Absolutely true, thanks for making it clear. Even so, I think that keeping the Content Manager as clean as possible from unwanted items is worth it, and nobody should be afraid to do it. Windows 10 Home - Intel i7 9700 4.70GHz - 32Gb DDR4 RAM - GeForce GTX 1660 OC 6Gb - Kingston 512Gb SSD - Internet 1Gbps (test 600+ Mbps) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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