Ts 2020 installs

[clarke]

My SSD dive is nearly full I have 20% left

Windows is on a separate HDD drive

Can I have TS 2020 on my HDD as well & move some routes eg German & US to this HDD

ie play uk routes only on SSD & German & US routes on HDD

Its mostly the new UK routes that stutter & need the SSD

I will eventually buy a bigger SSD but I want to see how much better the SSD I have is before I spend on an upgrade

Kelvin

[chrisonline]

I believe you can have two installation of TS2020, but only one "live" online at any time. I stand to be corrected.

But be aware, separating the installation of routes like that could cause you problems with "missing assets" with third party installations where, for instance, you have a third party UK route that requires German and/or US routes or assets. The Content>Routes installations won't matter as dependencies don't rely on them, but any missing related files in the Assets folders will matter.

[gptech]

What size is your SSD?

[tango4262]

I separated Windows and TS and it made a massive improvement

[clarke]

In the end I invested in another external SSD this time a 1TB for Railworks & now use my 500GB SSD for TSW & Eurofishing

I'm still interested in having Railworks on my 2nd internal HDD as well (Windows & programs are on the 1st) for the routes I'm modding. Reading up on SSD's I believe you should't write / delete too many times in you can avoid it.

How does the effect regular saving of edits to modded routes, clearing cache, Trainsimulator saving scenario database on loading, error reports being saved (like may I still get memory crashes, usually when cosing g4mb version) impact on an SSD

Is RW Tools still OK to use?

[Alicatt]

My first SSD I got in 2010, an Intel X25-M 160GB it is in my laptop which is used every day, it also has a dock with a 500GB HDD for mass storage etc. I'm thinking of replacing the HDD with an SSD so I can store larger maps on it for when I go off road driving rather than having to continually upload and download maps before trips.



In my desktop I have a Samsung Evo 970 NVMe M2 1TB for windows and another identical one which contains my Steam files with Railworks taking up the most room on it of about 300GB and Train Sim World taking up around 111GB.

RW tools still works just fine.

Before I built this PC 2 weeks ago I used a 500GB Samsung Evo 850 as the system drive on my previous build which I originally built in 2009 (not with a SSD back then!) later I put Steam/Railworks on a Samsung Evo 860 500GB, I just migrated the Steam folder from the SSD to the M2 drive. This PC I'm still getting it to run as I would like but everything is smooth in Train Simulator 2020 with no stutters.

Old PC: Asus PT6se MoBo, i7 965, 24GB RAM, 2x 500GB SSD, GTX760
New PC: Asus ROG Maximus XI Hero MoBo, i9 9900K, 64GB RAM, 2x Evo970 NVMe M2 1TB, 2x 500GB Evo SSD, RTX 2080 Super.

[mikesimpson]

With regard to RW_Tools, if you have multiple copies of TS2020 installed, then you will need to change the path to TS2020 in the Options menu of RW_Tools or it will be operating on whichever installation you last used it on.

Mike