Tips and Tricks

4. Find DCS folder in "Saved games”

All user specific settings (like the joystick or graphics settings) are saved by DCS in a folder under "Saved Games". After the first start of DCS a whole directory structure is created there automatically.

The created folder is simply called DCS for the stable version and DCS.openbeta for the OpenBeta.

However, you can have any other name after the dot if you create the file dcs_variant.txt in the installation directory of DCS and customize the content. For example, if you write the word james in this file, DCS will create a folder DCS.james with all subfolders and files in "Saved games". The same behavior can be achieved by command line parameter -w <name>. This is interesting for servers if you want to run multiple instances with one installation.

The directory can be found here on the hard disk:

C:\Users\<username>\Saved Games\DCS(.openbeta)\

or by environment variable:

%USERPROFILE%\saved games\DCS(.openbeta)\