TF2 12.2 gb?

[Veske]

How come it makes me download 12.2 of it when its 4gb total when installed? Only happening on GNU/Linux

[Veske]

So much that a game like that suddenly requires me to download 12.2 gb? That does not seem right.

[Consume Tofu]

All those hats take space, bro.

[Veske]

Because it showed me that the game would be 4gb big when installed. And I remember when installing it on windows it took only like 2.4gb to download and the install was indeed 4gb.

[Col.Burke]

same deal in windows ,
i clicked install the tf2 beta and it said download 14.something GB disk space 4. something

[Tazza.sh]

it depends if you have other games that use that version of source, as it shares source data from the .gfc's previously mentioned (eg hl2 ep2, l4d2) so the reason it was quicker on windows was cause you had already downloaded the other 10gb for another game (or so i believe)

[Rain Shinobi]

Yep its all down to the shared Source files.

The game most likely actually is 12 or so GB in size in this case.

[Toquita]

Tried verifying game cache?
Tried re-downloading and then verifying game cache?
Sometimes after download it appears as 14GB but you gotta either enter the game or verify cache to fix that. Works with me

[matt]

İlk olarak Zirts tarafından gönderildi:

Because it showed me that the game would be 4gb big when installed. And I remember when installing it on windows it took only like 2.4gb to download and the install was indeed 4gb.

TF2 shares some data files with other Source Engine games, perhaps you had some other games already installed (at Windows). TF2 takes around 17GB at my drive atm (it creates around 2GB of cache files aswell I think plus some downloaded maps etc). And if you consider amount of hats and other items in game, that's pretty reasonable amount of space :)

[Wheelgun]

İlk olarak Tarron tarafından gönderildi:

it depends if you have other games that use that version of source, as it shares source data from the .gfc's previously mentioned (eg hl2 ep2, l4d2) so the reason it was quicker on windows was cause you had already downloaded the other 10gb for another game (or so i believe)

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Yep. This makes sense, as the backup I have for TF2 (Linux Version) is about 7 GiB, and that's compressed.