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I've got fed up with them now TBH, having software perform such a big update with no word whatsoever as to what it's doing is really annoying.<br />
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On top of that there's the fact that the cache folder finishes up at over 10GB in size, which is a pain in the arse on my main PC as it's a gaming PC so has a <b>128GB SSD as its system drive</b>, and losing 10GB of that to a casino install is a pain in the arse. There's no choice on where to install the cache to either, so I have no option to put that 10GB over on my data drive.<br />
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Taking a break from MG casinos, and have uninstalled them from all my PCs - (interestingly, uninstalling the last MG casino on a PC DOESN'T delete the cache folder, you have to do that yourself, assuming you even know it exists.....) - going to spend a bit of time (and money!) with 3Dice instead.<br />
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Call it beginner's luck but their slots are running a lot better for me than MG's slots have done in quite some time.
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That is something that worries me over my next major upgrade to a new PC. This cache folder suffers from TWO "SSD Killers", loads of tiny files, and loads of write activity. SSDs are suited to the OS and software that needs to be launched quickly, usually at boot time. It is NOT suited to "data" in any form, as write activity wears out the flash memory elements over time. One should also not defrag an SSD as one might a conventional drive.<br />
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Ideally, the MGS cache should go on a secondary drive, a conventional but fast one, such as the Velociraptor from WD. These are not that far behind SSD speeds, but are more tolerant of the repeated write activity one gets with the MGS updates.<br />
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MGS casinos did once offer a choice of where to install, but now they force this to it's own dedicated folder on the system drive. If it is possible to change these locations, it is not something MGS have given advice on.<br />
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I plan to look into this at some point, as it would be worth knowing if this was possible, and still have working MGS casinos.<br />
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I think I know where to start looking<img src="/forums/styles/default/casinomeister/smilies/wink.gif" class="smilie" loading="lazy" alt=";)" title="Wink ;)" data-shortname=";)" /><br />
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It would depend on how the install path is coded in the installer. If it is hard coded as "C:/microgaming/casino/" then we're screwed, but I suspect they have used Windows functions to get the default paths from the individual PC configurations so that the install will work on as wide a range of Windows OS versions and implementations as possible. If this is so, it just might be possible to force both the installs and the cache onto a secondary drive. Unfortunately, this would be a change for ALL software using these default locations, not just MGS.</div>