63.7GB and that's just the pre-load

[Drake Ravenwolf]

I don't think I've ever seen a larger disk footprint, can you think of one?

[CuddleBear]

Canas původně napsal:

Games are just going to get bigger from this point on, be on console or PC, thats why i say the 825 gb of the PS5 is just ridiculous small.

That is yet to be seen. Today all games are packaged in chunks so it loads smoothly and on time on slower drives of the older consoles.
They do this by duplicating data across each chunk instead of the needle of the drive needing to move back to where the small asset where stored.
If you have duplicate data across the whole file system and you remove those duplicate files. How much would you save? We dont know yet. It would contain placement data, the texture and the mesh of the asset itself.

For example a mailbox in a city block, that mailbox might be thousands of times across the world but with how fast it is required to load, it needs to be saved in hundreds of different places in the file system.

This goes for most assets in general, also here on PC sadly.

We don't know what the gains here would be in the end though.

The biggest thing they could start doing is having alternative languages as dlc packs instead.
Recall Battlefield or something on Origin only installed the language you requested aswell.
Witcher 3 has the Russian language as a DLC pack.
Hopefully that will be the norm going forward in cutting filesizes.

[jintoya]

ARK is 100GB
then a few GB/ map and DLC which is sizable...
this game isn't super large anymore, and hasn't been for some time.

[Dallon Avery]

63gb is the whole game, ain't it?

[LemonyNebula]

It will be my 9th biggest game in my Steam Library. Not including other platforms/launchers.

These sizes are relatively normal now.

Strangely, the biggest in my library is Hitman 2 at 150GB, which really seems large for that game.

[CuddleBear]

Dallon Avery původně napsal:

63gb is the whole game, ain't it?

Most of it prob, but its also compressed and encrypted. It needs to be extracted once it unlocks so you need atleast double the free space to extract/un-encrypt it once it unlocks.
That also depends on your drive speed and so on in the end.
For many, it might be more useful to download it on release cause it doesn't require this.

the 63GB SHOULD be most of the game though.

[kiteless 凧無し]

these download sizes have nothing on my hentai game collection

[Dallon Avery]

My experience with pre-downloading games was that on the release day, there's only a few extra kbs of data that needs to be downloaded. Probably to unlock the play button xD. I don't remember which game was that specifically, but it could have been the MGS V or Kingdome Come or something like that. Big games, I mean.

[jintoya]

ive been seeing allot of this automated content check system blocking comments.
is it really information theft, or is it some kind of new censorship bot?

[CuddleBear]

kiteless původně napsal:

these download sizes have nothing on my hentai game collection

F95Zone + GameList? Its the way to go.

[Im on EQOA Sandstorm Toons Below]

kiteless původně napsal:

these download sizes have nothing on my hentai game collection

your name wouldn't happen to be death marine would it? lol

[babehelit]

CuddleBear původně napsal:

Dallon Avery původně napsal:

63gb is the whole game, ain't it?

Most of it prob, but its also compressed and encrypted. It needs to be extracted once it unlocks so you need atleast double the free space to extract/un-encrypt it once it unlocks.
That also depends on your drive speed and so on in the end.
For many, it might be more useful to download it on release cause it doesn't require this.

the 63GB SHOULD be most of the game though.

is this really the case? i have 20 gb space left in my ssd so is it not going to be able to extract?

[CuddleBear]

dulciena původně napsal:

is this really the case? i have 20 gb space left in my ssd so is it not going to be able to extract?

Depends on their process. If they require all the Depot cache files to be extracted all at once then yes. If they do it in parts then you might be good. Those are only 1 gig each.

But knowing how this prob works. they contain multi-gig files and all need to be loaded at once as a single archive. Best to free up some space or delete and re-download when the game drops.

you COULD also move it to another drive to i guess. You could delete the current one then start a pre-load on another drive. Then just move that when its ready.
There is a newish move option in the game properties that moves the games between Steam locations.

EDIT: note, the current pre-load does not have the option to move location as its not an install game but rather placed in the depotcache. Only way to do this would be to delete and pre-load again if you really need to pre-load at all.

[Cor]

Red Dead Redemption 2.

115 GB

[Safran the 1st]

https://imgur.com/gallery/qEf86

[A!Drunk!]

Shadow of War, over 100 GB