JT8D9A Posted January 30, 2019 Share Posted January 30, 2019 Hi, how much disk space do i need for TEGB North? I have 90GB free on my c drive and 110 GB on my D drive, where i did install XP. Thanks in advance! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Scott Harmes Posted January 30, 2019 Share Posted January 30, 2019 Hi, The TrueEarth Great Britain North download size is a compact 21.8GB to save on download time, but we are using a new installation system where we decompress the ortho textures using FTX Central. This expands the total installation to around 142GB of drive space. Unfortunately it seems you do not currently have enough free space. The answer to your question and a complete run through the installation procedure can be found in the following two topics. Cheers, Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Crom UK Posted January 30, 2019 Share Posted January 30, 2019 I can confirm that TE North is currently taking 142GB of drive space. TE South 125GB and TE Central 77GB. Time for me to invest in a bigger SSD me thinks with only 44GB of space remainig. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JT8D9A Posted January 30, 2019 Author Share Posted January 30, 2019 Many thanks for your reply, Scott and Crom! I did deinstall Battlefield V and now i have 160 GB on my D drive. Do i need the 142 GB also on drive C? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dadtom65 Posted January 30, 2019 Share Posted January 30, 2019 Hi Scot just read the post about FTX Central being used to decompress the textures In Xplane. Does that mean that Orbx are working on FTX Central to completely work with Xplane. That would be absolutely fantastic as it would mean no more moving scenery around in Xplane I hope. Thanks Derek. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Scott Harmes Posted January 30, 2019 Share Posted January 30, 2019 1 hour ago, JT8D9A said: Many thanks for your reply, Scott and Crom! I did deinstall Battlefield V and now i have 160 GB on my D drive. Do i need the 142 GB also on drive C? You should need roughly twice the download size temporarily, so your C drive should be OK. Cheers, Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BradB Posted January 30, 2019 Share Posted January 30, 2019 1 minute ago, Dadtom65 said: Hi Scot just read the post about FTX Central being used to decompress the textures In Xplane. Does that mean that Orbx are working on FTX Central to completely work with Xplane. That would be absolutely fantastic as it would mean no more moving scenery around in Xplane I hope. Thanks Derek. I think FTXC already works with XP11 , at least it does with my FTXC . John Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Scott Harmes Posted January 30, 2019 Share Posted January 30, 2019 1 minute ago, Dadtom65 said: Hi Scot just read the post about FTX Central being used to decompress the textures In Xplane. Does that mean that Orbx are working on FTX Central to completely work with Xplane. That would be absolutely fantastic as it would mean no more moving scenery around in Xplane I hope. Thanks Derek. Absolutely. Ben and others are constantly improving FTX Central to make it more user friendly and automated. It has just been updated again prior to this release. Cheers, Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dadtom65 Posted January 30, 2019 Share Posted January 30, 2019 Hi yes it’s me of course it works it’s downloading True Earth North now. I will put that down to my age. What I was meaning is will it in the future put everything in Xplane in the right order so we don’t have to muck about with the ini file any more. Sorry Derek. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Scott Harmes Posted January 30, 2019 Share Posted January 30, 2019 11 minutes ago, Dadtom65 said: Hi yes it’s me of course it works it’s downloading True Earth North now. I will put that down to my age. What I was meaning is will it in the future put everything in Xplane in the right order so we don’t have to muck about with the ini file any more. Sorry Derek. Yeah it is always been worked on and this feature isn't 100% yet, but it is getting there. The issue is that FTX Central can alter the order of the ini file, but so can X Plane and so can the user. As I say though Ben and co are improving on it day by day. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jack Sawyer Posted January 30, 2019 Share Posted January 30, 2019 With the way Orbx is going now VERY soon we're going to be entering into new storage territory where we'll need these: Petabyte, Exabyte, Zettabyte, or a Yottabyte. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Doc_Z Posted January 30, 2019 Share Posted January 30, 2019 Will the P3d sizes be comparable? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nick Cooper Posted January 30, 2019 Share Posted January 30, 2019 No, much smaller. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
g0emf Posted January 30, 2019 Share Posted January 30, 2019 So glad I got a 500gb M.2 drive for Xmas, still wont take long to fill it! I am amazed that TE North is the largest, lots of trees and flowers? Will download later. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Benny Posted January 30, 2019 Share Posted January 30, 2019 1 hour ago, Nick Cooper said: No, much smaller Could you elaborate Nick, just an example of size for the GB South coming soon for P3D Thanks Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nick Cooper Posted January 30, 2019 Share Posted January 30, 2019 It's not finished but so far, less than 60 GB. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
styckx Posted January 30, 2019 Share Posted January 30, 2019 2 hours ago, Nick Cooper said: No, much smaller. Good day Nick hope all is well. From a tech standpoint can you elaborate a bit why P3D versions will be so much smaller? I have my suspicions why but the tech geek in me is curious for an approximate answer here for no other reason except self education. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Scott Harmes Posted January 31, 2019 Share Posted January 31, 2019 18 hours ago, styckx said: Good day Nick hope all is well. From a tech standpoint can you elaborate a bit why P3D versions will be so much smaller? I have my suspicions why but the tech geek in me is curious for an approximate answer here for no other reason except self education. Hi, The brief, non technical answer is that it is due to the BGL file format used by FSX and it's subsequent iterations. A BGL file is very efficient and it contains all the data in a compressed state, hence the reduced size in comparison. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
orbmoke Posted January 31, 2019 Share Posted January 31, 2019 It would be great for us users if an option came up when one starts to download a large scenery file from OrbX asking us where would we like to download the file to without us having to move files around manually from one drive to the other. I don't know if it's possible, but could FTX Central create the necessary links etc. and move the appropriate files itself, say, when my 'C' drive is full and move any further scenery downloads automatically into, say, my 'D' drive where there is 3Tb of memory waiting to be filled up? I'm just very cagey about moving anything manually just in case I mess something up and I end up with a non working simulator (or computer). Thanks! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ben McClintock Posted January 31, 2019 Share Posted January 31, 2019 47 minutes ago, orbmoke said: It would be great for us users if an option came up when one starts to download a large scenery file from OrbX asking us where would we like to download the file to without us having to move files around manually from one drive to the other. I don't know if it's possible, but could FTX Central create the necessary links etc. and move the appropriate files itself, say, when my 'C' drive is full and move any further scenery downloads automatically into, say, my 'D' drive where there is 3Tb of memory waiting to be filled up? I'm just very cagey about moving anything manually just in case I mess something up and I end up with a non working simulator (or computer). Thanks! This is coming in Central 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
orbmoke Posted February 1, 2019 Share Posted February 1, 2019 2 hours ago, Ben McClintock said: This is coming in Central 4 Ben - brilliant - thanks for the info! I have now filled up just over half of my 1Tb SSD hard drive with all three TrueEarth Great Britain packages plus all enhanced UK airfields/airports. No doubt there will be many more enhanced airports to come and what's next with the scenery? TrueEarth Mainland Europe? Here's hoping! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ben McClintock Posted February 1, 2019 Share Posted February 1, 2019 John has posted here with the next planned TrueEarth regions: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ticker7 Posted February 1, 2019 Share Posted February 1, 2019 On 1/31/2019 at 2:10 AM, Nick Cooper said: It's not finished but so far, less than 60 GB. As much as I'm looking forward to TE for P3d I'm not looking forward to to two possibly three days to download it :-( due to the slow speed of the orbx servers and my internet connection speed, ah well I hope it'll be worth it . Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Benny Posted February 1, 2019 Share Posted February 1, 2019 3 hours ago, Ticker7 said: due to the slow speed of the orbx servers In my neck of the wood ORBX servers are lightning fast, at work at least, at home I have a slow connection so all my download are done at my shop. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
orbmoke Posted February 1, 2019 Share Posted February 1, 2019 3 hours ago, Ticker7 said: As much as I'm looking forward to TE for P3d I'm not looking forward to to two possibly three days to download it :-( due to the slow speed of the orbx servers and my internet connection speed, ah well I hope it'll be worth it . I don't think the slow speed is due to the OrbX servers as I've just downloaded the new UK Fairoaks airport at 20Mbytes/sec (or 160 MegaBits/sec) which is the maximum download speed that I have available with Virgin Media broadband. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ticker7 Posted February 2, 2019 Share Posted February 2, 2019 16 hours ago, orbmoke said: I don't think the slow speed is due to the OrbX servers as I've just downloaded the new UK Fairoaks airport at 20Mbytes/sec (or 160 MegaBits/sec) which is the maximum download speed that I have available with Virgin Media broadband. Not here in Australia (Perth) I on average take 1 day to download the lib file as I said it's a combination of the servers and my internet connection which is crap compared to the rest of the world it seems. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
orbmoke Posted February 2, 2019 Share Posted February 2, 2019 @Ticker7 - Sorry mate but I have to disagree with you, Your slow speed is totally down to your internet speed and not the OrbX servers, If it was the servers, then we would all have some restriction as well, and I haven't. The OrbX servers are the same speed wherever in the world they are being used. It's nothing to do with the location. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Christopher Low Posted February 2, 2019 Share Posted February 2, 2019 Quote As much as I'm looking forward to TE for P3d I'm not looking forward to to two possibly three days to download it :-( due to the slow speed of the orbx servers The maximum download speed of my internet connection is (theoretically) around 36Mbps, but I normally top out around 31Mbps these days (roughly equivalent to 1GB every four minutes). I recently downloaded TrueEarth Netherlands for P3D v4, and that speed of 31Mbps was maintained throughout the entire 5 hours 18 minutes that it took me to download the product. I can't ask for any more than that. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
orbmoke Posted February 2, 2019 Share Posted February 2, 2019 39 minutes ago, Christopher Low said: The maximum download speed of my internet connection is (theoretically) around 36Mbps, but I normally top out around 31Mbps these days (roughly equivalent to 1GB every four minutes). I recently downloaded TrueEarth Netherlands for P3D v4, and that speed of 31Mbps was maintained throughout the entire 5 hours 18 minutes that it took me to download the product. I can't ask for any more than that. Exactly - so you are also confirming that there are no restrictions with the OrbX servers. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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