how much space will this game take up? including player save files?

[spike in the punch]

i already see this game is massive, like 100GB, but i saw the recent hot fix where it said

"personal ‘story’ databases (where your choices and actions are stored) got too big. We now made the size infinite (or at least as infinite as you have storage space), to account for the sheer amount of things you’re all doing on your journeys."

correct me if im wrong, but does this have to do with the player save file on the PC?? is our player file going to sit on our computer and just get.... bigger? ive got a lot of computer space but this idea concerns me. i have no plans to use steam's cloud saves/storage.

[Razamanaz]

I have 11 save files right now that are between 16 and 17 MB. So that's nearly 200 MB. You can have many more and the file size will increase as you gain new characters, explore new places, and store tons of junk in your camp storage box and on companions.

You can delete old saves from in-game or from windows or you can overwrite saves you already have to save space.

[spike in the punch]

thanks! the hotfix post saying it would allow an 'infinite amount' of space seemed kind of worrying at first so i wasnt sure how much data those would be taking up..

[Lashane The Simp of Mimi]

i imagine it's going to be super sized if you go with the 50/50 quick save option with auto saves and manual tradtional saves added in there. gotta be near 1GB on it's own. which ive never seen before from a save file folder in my entire life.

[Jaggid Edje]

My save folder is currently 1 GB in size total, for around 60 save files.

You can set a limit in options for how many quick saves and auto-saves the game will make before it starts overwriting the oldest ones if space is a concern, but the saves aren't crazy big.

[Lashane The Simp of Mimi]

Originally posted by Jaggid Edje:

My save folder is currently 1 GB in size total, for around 60 save files.

You can set a limit in options for how many quick saves and auto-saves the game will make before it starts overwriting the oldest ones if space is a concern, but the saves aren't crazy big.

yeah that was my guesstimate. not quite there yet myself but im getting near it. that's insanely large for just save files. never seen it ever before until now.

[Jaggid Edje]

Originally posted by Lashane The Phantom:

yeah that was my guesstimate. not quite there yet myself but im getting near it. that's insanely large for just save files. never seen it ever before until now.

It's not the largest space usage for a game's saves on my hard drive, but it's close.

Still, 1 GB isn't all that much in the grand scheme of hard drive space. Which was what I meant when I said it wasn't 'crazy big'. I mean, anyone who is concerned over the 1 more GB of space used has bigger fish to fry in terms of clearing some space.

[spike in the punch]

good to hear the extra detail on that. yeah, not as concerned about 1GB esp if that account for 60 save files and theres ways to limited/keep in mind so it doesnt get too big so fast. if it was way bigger for a single character file on top of the 100GB game i would be more concerned

[Jaggid Edje]

Originally posted by Morry:

good to hear the extra detail on that. yeah, not too concerned about 1GB esp if that account for 60 save files and theres ways to limited/keep in mind so it doesnt get too big so fast. if it was way bigger for a single character file on top of the 100GB game i would be more concerned

Just to make sure you are clear on it though, the game itself requires 126(ish) GB of drive space, not just 100. And some people have claimed they needed double that in order to actually download and install it in the first place (didn't notice that, personally, but I had 600 GB free on that drive, so it's not likely I'd have noticed even were it the case).

[spike in the punch]

i saw a little variation of 100-120 in some threads, so was mostly estimating there from what i saw so good to know that for sure. i do have a massive amount of space on my PC, so i prob wouldnt notice. but undoubtedly this would be the biggest game on any of my drives so i like to know for sure whether or not itll take up more and more in time-- mainly when the drive my steam games & all software reside on is getting more full...

[Jaggid Edje]

The save files don't go into the same drive as the game itself, necessarily, if you have more than one drive. Saves are stored in your appdata folder.

[Hobocop]

Roughly 130-ish on my system. Says the installation size is around 128GB, so I'll allow for a couple extra gigs depending on how large your want your save game history to be and how many campaigns you're running.

[Stix_09]

Originally posted by Morry:

i already see this game is massive, like 100GB, but i saw the recent hot fix where it said

"personal ‘story’ databases (where your choices and actions are stored) got too big. We now made the size infinite (or at least as infinite as you have storage space), to account for the sheer amount of things you’re all doing on your journeys."

correct me if im wrong, but does this have to do with the player save file on the PC?? is our player file going to sit on our computer and just get.... bigger? ive got a lot of computer space but this idea concerns me. i have no plans to use steam's cloud saves/storage.

i would also tone down the auto saves and quick saves , the default of 25 is prob too much , i set mine to 10
you can also delete saves in game, they reside on the windows drive
also if u really wanted to you could create symbolic links and change location to another drive

[rservello]

Originally posted by Razamanaz:

I have 11 save files right now that are between 16 and 17 MB. So that's nearly 200 MB. You can have many more and the file size will increase as you gain new characters, explore new places, and store tons of junk in your camp storage box and on companions.

You can delete old saves from in-game or from windows or you can overwrite saves you already have to save space.

16?? I think I'm up to 95...LOL

[spike in the punch]

Oh is there a way to not have the save files go to the app data? i try to redirect all game related stuff off of my C: drive and in turn the app data folder. does it have to be symbolic link?

[EmperorVolo]

Originally posted by Morry:

i already see this game is massive, like 100GB, but i saw the recent hot fix where it said

"personal ‘story’ databases (where your choices and actions are stored) got too big. We now made the size infinite (or at least as infinite as you have storage space), to account for the sheer amount of things you’re all doing on your journeys."

correct me if im wrong, but does this have to do with the player save file on the PC?? is our player file going to sit on our computer and just get.... bigger? ive got a lot of computer space but this idea concerns me. i have no plans to use steam's cloud saves/storage.

It has to do with how Steam runs it's cloud saves and how the default save system works which is defaults to certain size.

That's all.