Game size

[Rhabarber Barbar]

Hi! i don't have that much space and i was wondering, why is this game so big?
fallout 4 is less than half as large if i am not mistaken. is this because of 16x the detail?
most of the largest games i got are like 40 gigs at most so what is this games deal?
couldn't they have made it smaller?

[Smurff-a-thon2k]

I imagine with a huge effort they could get the size down to like 60gb if they had their best people dedicated to compressing textures and fixing geometry etc etc.

But you need to have all the cosmetics on disc even though you cant use 90% of them, because everyone else might have every different item or cosmetic in their camps.
And they all have animations, textures, and all.

[Mystic Zinja]

When I checked the size. I had 86.84 gb downloaded it showed

[Catalyst]

no. come up on a hard drive bro you can get like ten terabytes for a hundred bucks on amazon

[Sirius]

Newer games won't get smaller either, so you should maybe invest in another drive, or don't hoard games on your current one (since you don't say what your system's overall size is or why you are short on space).

I have several games that break the 100GB mark, and sometimes you just have to uninstall one for the other.

I make do with 1000GB SSD currently, I do audio editing, recording and other music related things.
That's already a good chunk of drive space.

Just now I'm replaying Red Dead Redemption 2, that's huge. F76 is active. Star Trek Online. A number of smaller casual games (you sometimes just can't sit down for a 'proper' session).

I also still have GTA5 installed, and that will simply have to go next time something else sizable needs to be installed as I am barely launching that at all recently.

Needed to uninstall Elite Dangerous for RDR2 already. Gotta keep at least ~50GB free for temp space installing / unpacking ops and record editing, too.

Point is:
Deal with it and uninstall things you know you only sometimes fire up, yes even if it sucks to not have when you suddenly do want to play it.

Upgrade your space or properly juggle what you have, all there is to it.

Sorry, didn't mean to get all preachy - just, again, things are not going to get smaller.
Even pretty average, not huge games are often starting at 20-30 and going to ~60GBs nowadays, and if I'm any judge (and I am, being so old that I have lived through all of video gaming evolution), it's only going to get worse.

Edited: Words

Edit again: I lied. My SSD is 1000GB, not 500, corrected that.
Still, currently sitting at ~80GB free and that's cutting it uncomfortably close.

[nordmeyerx]

Originally posted by Rhabarber Barbar:

couldn't they have made it smaller?

That's what she said.

[BizarreMan]

Originally posted by nordmeyerx:

Originally posted by Rhabarber Barbar:

couldn't they have made it smaller?

That's what she said.

I’ll take things never said/heard for $1000 Ken.

[Dezktop]

over the years gtaV file size has went up and down ( on ps4 ) it was well over 100 gigs for years its currently 95.25gig it comes down to the devs and what they are allowed to spend time on at least it seems that way

[Boboscus]

Fallout 4 is legit about 8 GB bigger? xD

[jim]

Originally posted by BizarreMan:

Originally posted by nordmeyerx:

That's what she said.

I’ll take things never said/heard for $1000 Ken.

lol

[jim]

Originally posted by Boboscus:

Fallout 4 is legit about 8 GB bigger? xD

yeah,its because of the option to download the "HD texture pack" say 50/55gb?,did you download it? there was no difference at all with me and what i saw on screen.

[Dezktop]

Originally posted by jim:

Originally posted by Boboscus:

Fallout 4 is legit about 8 GB bigger? xD

yeah,its because of the option to download the "HD texture pack" say 50/55gb?,did you download it? there was no difference at all with me and what i saw on screen.

^^ this 34 gig without

[jim]

Originally posted by Dezktop:

Originally posted by jim:

yeah,its because of the option to download the "HD texture pack" say 50/55gb?,did you download it? there was no difference at all with me and what i saw on screen.

^^ this 34 gig without

iv a funny feeling that they force injected the "HD texture pack" in garfield and made it 125gb lol,that would be so funny.

[Dezktop]

Originally posted by jim:

Originally posted by Dezktop:

^^ this 34 gig without

iv a funny feeling that they force injected the "HD texture pack" in garfield and made it 125gb lol,that would be so funny.

well there is no choice to download it so you might be on to something lol not like it matter still on to something :D

[jim]

Originally posted by Dezktop:

Originally posted by jim:

iv a funny feeling that they force injected the "HD texture pack" in garfield and made it 125gb lol,that would be so funny.

well there is no choice to download it so you might be on to something lol not like it matter still on to something :D

it really would,it would be the icing on the cake.

[nordmeyerx]

Originally posted by BizarreMan:

Originally posted by nordmeyerx:

That's what she said.

I’ll take things never said/heard for $1000 Ken.

Well, at least not to you at any rate. :)