Downloading the entire game

[Marly]

Hi everyone,
I downloaded SWL yesterday on steam, and now I can plya but I have a problem. It seems that the game is still downloading while i'm playing and it makes the game lags a lot so I can't play. I downloaded it on steam it was 6GB. When I opened the game client it downloaded 2GB more. But I suppose the game is heavier, and it downloads while I am playing and can't find how much GB left need to be install. I have an arrow on my top right screen, dealing with the fact that something is downloading. But I can't see anything in the settings.
Thank in advance

[Dr.Abscondus]

This is what I've noticed. When you first play, everytime you enter a new area it will download data about that area. It will only do that once. When you go back to that area it will all be there. I have a very fast optic fibre internet connection so there is only lag for a minute or two but if you have a slow connection it will be quite annoying. You just have to wait until it's done. I've played through the entire game and it's taking up 36Gb on my drive so that gives you an idea about the actual size of the game.
Under "Options" on the patcher screen (the first thing you see when you press play) make sure the 'full client' box is checked off and background download rate is set high otherwise the game will constantly be downloading data as you move through the maps.

[Marly]

Thank for you fast answer Dr.Abscondus ! I was affraid of that possibility and it seems I was not wrong. I think I'll wait for a better connection to go further than the opening ^^
Thank you again!

[PraX]

Full game takes 48Gb on my hard drive.

[Forestt.]

Originally posted by PraX:

Full game takes 48Gb on my hard drive.

About the same here as well (full download, up-to-date version)

Not sure what the information on the storepage means and where they get the 13.7 GB from:
"Hard Disk Space: 6.4GB Download (13.7 on Disk)"

It wasn't that low at SWL release. I doubt the minimal client is as low as well. Might be the very, very minimal clientversion with only the first zone content required to start the game. If so, why not inform players what the full game needs, since that is currently more than 3x as stated on storepage. It might be a problem for players not having enough free disk space or download(speed) issues.

[redgold]

Originally posted by PraX:

Full game takes 48Gb on my hard drive.

that just killd the game for me

[johnny_m_j]

48 GB? Hmm... I've downloaded the full client, and this is the exact size of my SWL folder:

37,0 GB (39 747 415 449 byte)