Digital Foundry: Flight Simulator PC Hands-On

[SvennoJ]

I jumped the gun, pre-purchased the ultimate version on Steam (CAD 160) while cleaning up my SSD, now 188 GB free.

Tips to make space (the game wants 150 GB disk space, preferably on a fast SSD)

Steam of course lets you move install folders, easy. Windows and Apple are more work and symbolic links are your friend.
First move all the desktop, documents and other fodder off the SSD. My desktop folder is 80 GB lol.

Then move all the data some games insist on putting in appData from the SSD to HDD and make a symbolic link. For example Elite Dangerous puts 20 GB in one of its appData folders. Move it all and put in a symbolic link from a powershell
cmd /C mklink /J "C:UsersSvenAppDataLocalFrontier_Developments" "D:UsersSvenAppDataLocalFrontier_Developments"
And it will work perfectly.

I also moved iTunes backups off the main drive
cmd /c mklink /J "C:UsersSvenAppleMobileSyncBackup" "D:iTunes Backup"
Stupid iTunes insists on backing up your iPhone on the main drive. (60 GB backup)

All ready, pre-download hasn't unlocked yet on Steam so it's just a stub for now. 19 days to go!

Edit: This site won't display the back slash , the correct commands use back slash in between D: Users etc.