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[DESDICHATO]

G'Day All,

I've just finished putting a new computer together and I have installed 12 on a 14Gb partition, I'm wondering whether that is going to be big enough, also on this new computer I want to stay away from the net, as a result I am wondering if theres a trick to downloading and transferring data from one machine to the other???

TIA

P

 

[RRSignal]

The EASIEST thing to do is to have your gaming machine restrictively firewalled so it can only talk to one IP or a few IP addresses on earth i.e. the DLS servers and your DNS and DHCP servers. And there's any easy way around the DNS and DHCP so you only have to talk to the DLS i.e. you only need to talk to one IP address.

The second easiest is maintain a copy on your networked machine, download what you need, then transfer that in a CDP file to your non-networked machine via thumbdrive.

The least easy is to download via the Black Pages and save to a folder of your choosing on a thumbdrive.

The latter two eliminate the need for even basic networking to be installed on the gaming machine.

 

[Pladroid]

Hmm I doubt if 14G is big enough. I have 12 on a 60G partition and it is using 30G at the moment and I have only downloaded about 5 routes and some extra assets.

If I could afford it I would buy an 160G SSD and just use that for TS12 and nothing else.

 

[cascaderailroad]

Why partition a hard drive at all ?

Some have said that installing Trainz on an external hard drive works well ... unsure about the lag though via USB cable.

 

[Pladroid]

Why partition a hard drive at all ?

The best reason is so it doesn't take a few hours to de-frag a huge drive.

I actually have 3 sata 500G hard drives, 1 with the system, office, 3d and graphics software on it no partitions, 1 for storage no partitions and 1 for games which is partitioned into 3 with 1 for TS12, 1 for TS10 and the other for various games and testing purposes.

The partitioned drives de-frag a lot quicker than the unpartitioned ones.

 

[tomurban]

G'Day All,

I've just finished putting a new computer together and I have installed 12 on a 14Gb partition, I'm wondering whether that is going to be big enough, also on this new computer I want to stay away from the net, as a result I am wondering if theres a trick to downloading and transferring data from one machine to the other???

TIA

P

I would make it 40-50GB. To transfer your content from one drive to another copy your Userdata file to a large enough flash drive and then from the flash drive to it's destination drive.

tomurban

 

[gearhead2578]

Depends how much downloaded content you have - My TS2010 install lives in 150GB and is in danger of running out of room. My advice is go big now and save the grief of moving anything around later.