How do I uninstall the multiplayer and horde modes?

[Bogart]

There's no install manager in the options anymore?

[space]

why do you think you can do that

[Bogart]

Originally posted by space:

why do you think you can do that

I had it on Gamepass before and this was possible. Take a look:
https://www.purexbox.com/news/2020/12/gears_5_now_lets_you_pick_and_choose_what_you_want_to_install

I just want to play the campaign.

[Nathan]

If you're a brave man, try going to
Steam\steamapps\common\Gears5\GearGame\Content\B2
And deleting all the files that start with "MP_..." and "Versus_..." (possibly localized stuff for languages you don't use also?)
And please report back with if the game launched fine and you saw nothing missing/broken while playing, because I'd be curious to also delete those, 18 gigabytes is nothing to scoff at, I'd love to free up some space.

[Bogart]

Originally posted by Nathan:

If you're a brave man, try going to
Steam\steamapps\common\Gears5\GearGame\Content\B2
And deleting all the files that start with "MP_..." and "Versus_..." (possibly localized stuff for languages you don't use also?)
And please report back with if the game launched fine and you saw nothing missing/broken while playing, because I'd be curious to also delete those, 18 gigabytes is nothing to scoff at, I'd love to free up some space.

As the furniture salesman once said in an episode of Kenan & Kel. "I'm crazy, but I ain't that crazy."

Isn't this a known issue? I'm surprised to be the first to discuss it here. Why would they enable an option on the gamepass version that isn't here.

[Nathan]

Originally posted by Bogart Porter Bridges:

Isn't this a known issue? I'm surprised to be the first to discuss it here. Why would they enable an option on the gamepass version that isn't here. :FC5_Father:

I don't know, I just recently got this game and playing it for the first time so this is the first time I'm hearing about this, also looked in my steam properties DLC management section hoping that I could only install SP, luckily hi-res textures were optional.

I might try deleting one or two files, just putting them in the recycling bin, and see how that goes, if badly then just restore.

[Nathan]

I just moved every single "Versus_..." file from the Gears5\GearGame\Content\B2 folder away, and a couple of localized things, and it started well, and I ran the benchmark and loaded my last save (in act 2 currently) and it seemed fine.

I did also delete every single MP file on my first test, but that did cause issues, to be fair, many say "MP_Shared_..." so they probably share files with SP stuff and are vital, so you shouldn't delete those, but you'll still have a black background in the menu if you delete the other MP files, so I just restored the rest of the MP_... ones.

Still, you can theoretically free up to 10-11 gigabytes of space without any issues I think, I'm going to still keep the versus files in a separate folder just in case, to see how it goes, but initial impressions are that the versus files are modularly separate enough from the SP content that you can delete those consequence-free.

I think it's safe to delete the "Customization" files as well? At least, I just deleted the two big ones, "characterskins lores" and "weaponskins lores" which were like 12 gigabytes in total together or something, game started fine, banchmark seemed fine, going to try resuming my checkpoint.

[Bogart]

Originally posted by Nathan:

I just moved every single "Versus_..." file from the Gears5\GearGame\Content\B2 folder away, and a couple of localized things, and it started well, and I ran the benchmark and loaded my last save (in act 2 currently) and it seemed fine.

I did also delete every single MP file on my first test, but that did cause issues, to be fair, many say "MP_Shared_..." so they probably share files with SP stuff and are vital, so you shouldn't delete those, but you'll still have a black background in the menu if you delete the other MP files, so I just restored the rest of the MP_... ones.

Still, you can theoretically free up to 10-11 gigabytes of space without any issues I think, I'm going to still keep the versus files in a separate folder just in case, to see how it goes, but initial impressions are that the versus files are modularly separate enough from the SP content that you can delete those consequence-free.

I think it's safe to delete the "Customization" files as well? At least, I just deleted the two big ones, "characterskins lores" and "weaponskins lores" which were like 12 gigabytes in total together or something, game started fine, banchmark seemed fine, going to try resuming my checkpoint.

Wow dude, props to you.

[Nathan]

Just played an hour roughly (act 2, new hope section), with no issues, nothing appeared glitchy, all audio and visuals were fine.

So, it seems it's safe to delete all the versus files and perhaps even customization files, I deleted only the two big ones, character and weapon skins lores, all that together over a whopping 20 gigabytes of free space that so far seems to not impact SP at all.

[Bogart]

Originally posted by Nathan:

Just played an hour roughly (act 2, new hope section), with no issues, nothing appeared glitchy, all audio and visuals were fine.

So, it seems it's safe to delete all the versus files and perhaps even customization files, I deleted only the two big ones, character and weapon skins lores, all that together over a whopping 20 gigabytes of free space that so far seems to not impact SP at all.

Great work dude!

[GATTACA]

The most common question is: How to uninstall campaign?

[Bogart]

Originally posted by GATTACA:

The most common question is: How to uninstall campaign?

Is this even possible? lmao

[Nathan]

... I mean, it should be possible, just delete all the files starting with "SP_Act[1-4]..." and possibly the "SP_HopeA..." files instead, leaving the shared and sp_mp files left for compatibility.
That's 28 gigabytes in total you could theoretically free up if you only care about MP stuff and maybe horde is in one of those other files.

[Nathan]

Minor update BTW on my experience having deleted all the versus files + char & weaponskin files.
I have gotten a black menu background now twice still, it's just very rare (started the game up multiple times over the last 2 days and played in short sessions when I've had the time, almost done with act 2, final boss).
Seems that maybe some of the versus files carry maybe like a multiplayer map file that when you load up the game it tries to load up as a background? But I think it doesn't matter, also you can always close the game and relaunch if you want something to load up there, it'll randomly try to load something anyway, but that's about it, otherwise everything still seems to be fine.

[Bogart]

Originally posted by Nathan:

Minor update BTW on my experience having deleted all the versus files + char & weaponskin files.
I have gotten a black menu background now twice still, it's just very rare (started the game up multiple times over the last 2 days and played in short sessions when I've had the time, almost done with act 2, final boss).
Seems that maybe some of the versus files carry maybe like a multiplayer map file that when you load up the game it tries to load up as a background? But I think it doesn't matter, also you can always close the game and relaunch if you want something to load up there, it'll randomly try to load something anyway, but that's about it, otherwise everything still seems to be fine.

Lol, this is great dude. Good job and thanks for the update.

[Ghostvenger92]

you think this game uses alot of space? try gears 4 its like 150gb lol