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Xercodo
Cruor Angelicus
#21 - 2015-03-24 21:38:28 UTC  |  Edited by: Xercodo
Pok Nibin wrote:
I got news for you. If your C: drive is too small to hold ALL of EVE, then your computer pretty much is in the 20th Century and nobody living in the 21st Century can be blamed for that. If you're trying to get OUR developers to torture OUR game into a form that can allow you to continue to avoid paying for a REAL COMPUTER, get a life.
Ain't gonna happen. Not in THIS century, anyway.


Apparently you're so far in the past you don't know that small boot SSDs are a thing.

The Drake is a Lie
Arnon Fix
Center for Advanced Studies
Gallente Federation
#22 - 2015-03-24 21:39:50 UTC
Commissar Kate wrote:
Arnon Fix wrote:
Hello all. Just checking - is it safe to move the file to my D drive (I am one of those with a small OS SSD - at least for the next week when an upgrade arrives) after it's installed?


Yes, it should work just fine.



Great! Thank you!
Logan Revelore
Symbiotic Systems
#23 - 2015-03-24 21:40:03 UTC
Pok Nibin wrote:
I got news for you. If your C: drive is too small to hold ALL of EVE, then your computer pretty much is in the 20th Century and nobody living in the 21st Century can be blamed for that. If you're trying to get OUR developers to torture OUR game into a form that can allow you to continue to avoid paying for a REAL COMPUTER, get a life.
Ain't gonna happen. Not in THIS century, anyway.


You clearly have no idea what you're talking about. Now send me your likes :)
Commissar Kate
Kesukka
#24 - 2015-03-24 21:46:08 UTC
Arnon Fix wrote:
Commissar Kate wrote:
Arnon Fix wrote:
Hello all. Just checking - is it safe to move the file to my D drive (I am one of those with a small OS SSD - at least for the next week when an upgrade arrives) after it's installed?


Yes, it should work just fine.



Great! Thank you!


Just make sure you point the launcher to where you put the the file.

-k8

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Arnon Fix
Center for Advanced Studies
Gallente Federation
#25 - 2015-03-24 21:48:14 UTC
Commissar Kate wrote:
Arnon Fix wrote:
Commissar Kate wrote:
Arnon Fix wrote:
Hello all. Just checking - is it safe to move the file to my D drive (I am one of those with a small OS SSD - at least for the next week when an upgrade arrives) after it's installed?


Yes, it should work just fine.



Great! Thank you!


Just make sure you point the launcher to where you put the the file.


Ahh okay. I was wondering if such an action was needed. Thank you for the heads up.
Deacon Abox
Black Eagle5
#26 - 2015-03-24 21:49:40 UTC  |  Edited by: Deacon Abox
I learned how to repartition my hard drive today. Thanks CCP Smile

For those like myself that are not very tech literate but willing to mess around I found these links to be the most helpful. https://askleo.com/can_i_make_my_c_partition_bigger_by_taking_space_from_d/ and
https://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/e7cc69df-f282-46d7-9e41-159847096eb8#BKMK_WINUI

So expanding your C drive and taking it from the unused space that the manufacturer or seller of your computer put in the D drive can be done without downloading any dodgy or not free software. The solution is right there in Windows 7 if you don't mind messing around a bit and waiting.

Also, yeah, some of us don't go out and buy the latest wizbang computer every 2 or 3 years. Sorry to the guy on page 1 that we are not also elite computer nerds. It happens.

CCP, there are off buttons for ship explosions, missile effects, turret effects, etc. "Immersion" does not seem to be harmed by those. So, [u]please[/u] give us a persisting off button for the jump gate and autoscan visuals.

Noriko Mai
#27 - 2015-03-24 21:57:01 UTC
Deacon Abox wrote:
I learned how to repartition my hard drive today. Thanks CCP Smile

For those like myself that are not very tech literate but willing to mess around I found these links to be the most helpful. https://askleo.com/can_i_make_my_c_partition_bigger_by_taking_space_from_d/ and
https://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/e7cc69df-f282-46d7-9e41-159847096eb8#BKMK_WINUI

So expanding your C drive and taking it from the unused space that the manufacturer or seller of your computer put in the D drive can be done without downloading any dodgy or not free software. The solution is right there in Windows 7 if you don't mind messing around a bit and waiting.

Also, yeah, some of us don't go out and buy the latest wizbang computer every 2 or 3 years. Sorry to the guy on page 1 that we are not also elite computer nerds. It happens.

But you could have used some of the awesome free- or shareware tools available for windows. They would even install some needed tweak tools and wonderfull protection against evil things from the internetz on your pc and "information" banners in your browser! And all that without you having to get headache about all this techy things.

Missed opportunity here. Totaly missed.. *shakes head*

"Meh.." - Albert Einstein
Yang Aurilen
State War Academy
Caldari State
#28 - 2015-03-24 22:01:03 UTC
Pok Nibin wrote:
I got news for you. If your C: drive is too small to hold ALL of EVE, then your computer pretty much is in the 20th Century and nobody living in the 21st Century can be blamed for that. If you're trying to get OUR developers to torture OUR game into a form that can allow you to continue to avoid paying for a REAL COMPUTER, get a life.
Ain't gonna happen. Not in THIS century, anyway.


SSD Drives. I heard they're so 20th century they're small compared to normal mechanical drives.

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Ito Eto
State War Academy
Caldari State
#29 - 2015-03-24 22:01:14 UTC
Deacon, you may be interested in GParted, a defacto Linux partition editing app that can be booted from CD/DVD even if you want to work with Windows or Mac drives. Its easy to use, been around for at least a decade and free, as much Linux software is.

Clonezilla is also nice for making disk images/moving windows installs to new HD.

"Themepark" "Sandbox", these do not mean what you think they mean, EvE is as on rails as a freight train, and has as many attractions as Disneyland, but soundbites are easy, thinking is not.
Mr M
Sebiestor Tribe
#30 - 2015-03-24 22:16:08 UTC
Just create a symlink and put it wherever you want. Windows have those these days doesn't it?

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Ito Eto
State War Academy
Caldari State
#31 - 2015-03-24 22:43:41 UTC
Mr M wrote:
Just create a symlink and put it wherever you want. Windows have those these days doesn't it?

Since Xp I believe, the mlink command.

"Themepark" "Sandbox", these do not mean what you think they mean, EvE is as on rails as a freight train, and has as many attractions as Disneyland, but soundbites are easy, thinking is not.
Can't Touch-This
Hedion University
Amarr Empire
#32 - 2015-03-24 22:47:46 UTC
Pok Nibin wrote:
I got news for you. If your C: drive is too small to hold ALL of EVE, then your computer pretty much is in the 20th Century and nobody living in the 21st Century can be blamed for that. If you're trying to get OUR developers to torture OUR game into a form that can allow you to continue to avoid paying for a REAL COMPUTER, get a life.
Ain't gonna happen. Not in THIS century, anyway.


Way to assume r-tard. It just so happens that I have a 120GB SSD for my main drive and a 2TB drive for data. My system boots in 15 seconds and runs really fast and smooth. Why should I have to install the game on my main drive when even in the 20th century you could have a main drive and data drive.
Dihi San
Lucky Few
#33 - 2015-03-24 22:53:52 UTC
Pok Nibin wrote:
I got news for you. If your C: drive is too small to hold ALL of EVE, then your computer pretty much is in the 20th Century and nobody living in the 21st Century can be blamed for that. If you're trying to get OUR developers to torture OUR game into a form that can allow you to continue to avoid paying for a REAL COMPUTER, get a life.
Ain't gonna happen. Not in THIS century, anyway.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oAKG-kbKeIo
NightmareX
Pandemic Horde Inc.
Pandemic Horde
#34 - 2015-03-25 00:05:26 UTC  |  Edited by: NightmareX
Vyl Vit wrote:
Partition a drive today? You're kidding, right? That's digital nailbiting.

I have a seperate partition for my Windows that is on my SSD alone, and i have installed games, videos, musics and one for miselaneous files partitioned seperately to that are on my 3 TB HDD. Welcome to the world of managing your files in a good way.

Not only that, but if one of your partitions goes boom, then you don't lose everything on your drive. So by having Windows on a seperate partition, you will only lose Windows and the apps that are installed, if that partition gets bad or anything.

Here is a list of my current EVE / PVP videos:

1: Asteroid Madness

2: Clash of the Empires

3: Suddenly Spaceships fighting in Tama
Steve Ronuken
Fuzzwork Enterprises
Vote Steve Ronuken for CSM
#35 - 2015-03-25 01:20:14 UTC
NightmareX wrote:
Vyl Vit wrote:
Partition a drive today? You're kidding, right? That's digital nailbiting.

I have a seperate partition for my Windows that is on my SSD alone, and i have installed games, videos, musics and one for miselaneous files partitioned seperately to that are on my 3 TB HDD. Welcome to the world of managing your files in a good way.

Not only that, but if one of your partitions goes boom, then you don't lose everything on your drive. So by having Windows on a seperate partition, you will only lose Windows and the apps that are installed, if that partition gets bad or anything.



While you're more likely to lose the entire disk, than a single partition, it does do a couple of things:

Manages fragmentation. (creates a number of divisions where fragmentation happens, rather than over the entire drive)

Stops a program from filling up your windows partition with log files. (and so on)

Smile

Far from pointless.

Woo! CSM XI!

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Steve Ronuken
Fuzzwork Enterprises
Vote Steve Ronuken for CSM
#36 - 2015-03-25 01:22:35 UTC
Vorll Minaaran wrote:
I put my shared folder to my D:\Games directory, so now I have 5 EVE related folders there:
EVE Online - for the main client, about 432 MB
EVE Online Buckingham - test server folder, currently empty
EVE Online Duality - test server folder, currently empty
EVE Online Shared Cache - this is the new cache folder, about 14,2 GB
EVE Online Singularity - test client, about 432 MB



One of the real benefits.

Along with the fact that you can get updated graphics faster. (patch Sisi, and when they're needed on TQ, you already have them)

Woo! CSM XI!

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Daniel Jackson
Universal Exos
#37 - 2015-03-25 02:22:49 UTC
Steve Ronuken wrote:
Vorll Minaaran wrote:
I put my shared folder to my D:\Games directory, so now I have 5 EVE related folders there:
EVE Online - for the main client, about 432 MB
EVE Online Buckingham - test server folder, currently empty
EVE Online Duality - test server folder, currently empty
EVE Online Shared Cache - this is the new cache folder, about 14,2 GB
EVE Online Singularity - test client, about 432 MB



One of the real benefits.

Along with the fact that you can get updated graphics faster. (patch Sisi, and when they're needed on TQ, you already have them)

speaking of sisi, is it ok to set the sisi sharedcache folder the same as the tq one now?

I Vote YES! for Downloadable HI-RES Textures!!!!
Ima Wreckyou
The Conference Elite
The Conference
#38 - 2015-03-25 02:28:29 UTC
I don't even have a C drive on linux and it seams to work fine anyway.

Evil RatKid
Steve Ronuken
Fuzzwork Enterprises
Vote Steve Ronuken for CSM
#39 - 2015-03-25 02:41:00 UTC
Daniel Jackson wrote:
Steve Ronuken wrote:
Vorll Minaaran wrote:
I put my shared folder to my D:\Games directory, so now I have 5 EVE related folders there:
EVE Online - for the main client, about 432 MB
EVE Online Buckingham - test server folder, currently empty
EVE Online Duality - test server folder, currently empty
EVE Online Shared Cache - this is the new cache folder, about 14,2 GB
EVE Online Singularity - test client, about 432 MB



One of the real benefits.

Along with the fact that you can get updated graphics faster. (patch Sisi, and when they're needed on TQ, you already have them)

speaking of sisi, is it ok to set the sisi sharedcache folder the same as the tq one now?



yes.

It uses versioned files, so new resources from sisi won't overwrite the old ones from TQ. But when they go live, you'll have a copy of them already (assuming you patch SiSi)

Woo! CSM XI!

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SmilingVagrant
Doomheim
#40 - 2015-03-25 02:41:50 UTC
yes. None of those clearly marked buttons on the launcher install thing actually do anything.