Why does the game require SO MUCH free space for a 3.7GB patch?

[Fortus Victus]

I only get the weekends to play with my wife, so this is quite an unpleasant design choice. I understand now that I may COMPLETELY uninstall and REINSTALL the game and bypass this little game flaw. But will this be necessary every single patch?

[look at the clown]

patching process; unpacking, repacking, etc

[Asgo]

and storing some stuff less compressed than for download. patch 1 is 8.5GB on disk going by the file name.

[Fortus Victus]

I don't recall Cyberpunk 2077 requiring so much fluff space. And that game I also ran pretty close to HD capacity. I have more than a GB extra, but from what I understand need 85 GB to install the 3.7 GB patch. Any work around other than a 130 GB download?

[look at the clown]

Originally posted by Fortus Victus:

I don't recall Cyberpunk 2077 requiring so much fluff space.

i don't recall cyberpunk being on the same engine as this

[Degenerate]

how they not? I expect voices plus textures 200-300gb in a year

[Kodaxmax]

Unfortunately clearing some additional space or moving to a larger drive is your only option.

By compressing say 80GB down to 4GB they reduce the download form 80 to 4. Then once downloaded it needs to be decompressed back to 80 before it can be incorporated into the games local files. After which excess temporary files are deleted.

Windows does the same thing, which is why you will get alot of issues having your operating system on a drive thats nearly full. Alot of tech people will reccomend keeping 100GB empty on any drive for this kind of thing.

It's just not really a choice, this is just how the technology works and it standard for all programs.

[Asgo]

don't know any other workaround since you cannot really influence the patcher.
After the patch BG3 is 137GB on disk for me.
Patch 1 was a huge patch with lots of areas it touched. For any similar scoped patch I would expect a similar behavior.
Did it really tell you you need 85GB, because I don't have that much free on that drive and it did patch ( but it may have done some temp work somewhere else maybe ).

[Asgo]

Originally posted by Kodaxmax:

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By compressing say 80GB down to 4GB they reduce the download form 80 to 4...

doubt that :) very few things compress that well
it's more that unpacked ~80GB worth of existing pak files and integrate new/fixed stuff and repacked everything again. The 2-4x factor of compression they seemed to have reached is impressive enough (unless they stored textures uncompressed then it's easy ;) )

[Kodaxmax]

Originally posted by Asgo:

Originally posted by Kodaxmax:

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By compressing say 80GB down to 4GB they reduce the download form 80 to 4...

doubt that :) very few things compress that well
it's more that unpacked ~80GB worth of existing pak files and integrate new/fixed stuff and repacked everything again. The 2-4x factor of compression they seemed to have reached is impressive enough (unless they stored textures uncompressed then it's easy ;) )

it was just an example, you are correct

[Chad "The King" ThunderCuck]

remove some stuff from your hard drive if its that close to full.