Anyway to trim down the game size on HDD?

[Mister Father]

IIRC with MK11 there was a way to go into the files and delete the story cinematics and that freed up a lot of hard drive space.

Any way to do that with this game, since there's no option for a segmented download?

[Shoah Kahn]

In other NRS games, including MK11, you can easily delete the "Movies" folder, which is usually big... I believe it was nearly 20Gb in '11', and nearly that much in 'X'. I manually deleted SF6's "World Tour" .pak file, which was in its "DLC" folder -- saved me nearly 20Gb. If MK1's file structure is like previous games, you can just delete the "Movies" folder. Just make sure you didn't d/l the "4k textures" pack, before that's another 40Gb.

However, be aware that Steam might auto-re-download the folder / file/s if you let it auto-update. Pro tip: Don't delete -- CUT-PASTE the folder / file/s to an external storage device, then put it back before updating the game; and turn the game's updating process to "Only when I launch the game" (so that you can replace the the file/s before you update). Also, if you're an offline player, you can probably skip most updates until a DLC drops... Though, given MK games are now modeled all but a "games as a service", and need to be online a lot of the time as such, it might force you to update more frequently before allowing you to launch the game.

[Mister Father]

Yup, just found the movies folder. Only thing is, of these files I can't tell which ones specifically are the cinematic story mode files. Seems like there's other stuff here too.

But yeah the folder itself is about 22GB.

[Killjoy]

why do you have a hdd and not a ssd? this ain't 2001

[Mister Father]

Originally posted by Killjoy:

why do you have a hdd and not a ssd? this ain't 2001

Same reason why you ask irrelevant questions.

[Shoah Kahn]

Originally posted by Moneybagzzz:

Yup, just found the movies folder. Only thing is, of these files I can't tell which ones specifically are the cinematic story mode files. Seems like there's other stuff here too.

Rename the file that is biggest or seems most like a movie file > run the game > see what happens. Then, rinse-repeat on the next most likely file if it doesn't work the first time.

In the past, if you removed the movies (such as in MKX), the game simply skipped the movie cut-scenes and jumped right into the fight -- which was an excellent workaround incorporated by NRS. I'm not sure what this purported "new game engine" is for MK1, and whether or not the movies file is independent of the rest of the game... However, given that the 4K texture pack (40Gb) is optional, I'm guessing that the movies can still be removed.