How many GB to download?

[Storm's Foreshadow]

Anybody knows how many GB we will have to DOWNLOAD, not how many available space we need.

[Cope n' Catboys™]

surprised the thread ended.

[apatel18]

its actually gonna be 48.96 gb to download

[Cope n' Catboys™]

引用自 apatel18：

its actually gonna be 48.96 gb to download

thats... quite a number.

[Primus Palus]

引用自 Wildrabbit48：

引用自 D-Sec：

50gb is nothing these days. You have it in 1 hour with a PROPER connection.

Yes, I know, my internet is below average, but I paid good money for this game and I'm sure there are quite a few others who share my predicament. It is for this reason I hope that the developers will do their best to make the download as small as possible. How hard can it be?

Are you really asking that the devs intentionally tone down the file sizes for you? That it "can't be that hard"? You know nothing John Snow.

[Cope n' Catboys™]

引用自 Primus Palus：

引用自 Wildrabbit48：

Yes, I know, my internet is below average, but I paid good money for this game and I'm sure there are quite a few others who share my predicament. It is for this reason I hope that the developers will do their best to make the download as small as possible. How hard can it be?

Are you really asking that the devs intentionally tone down the file sizes for you? That it "can't be that hard"? You know nothing John Snow.

Lol Factor k15

[e.bkapalka]

引用自 (SLID)Sly Cooper：

引用自 apatel18：

its actually gonna be 48.96 gb to download

thats... quite a number.

A made up one I'm pretty sure. The devs wouldn't release a number that specific (down to the megabyte) this far from release. Optimizing and adding textures takes up space

[Cope n' Catboys™]

Wait wasn't 1 gb 10 billion mb?

[e.bkapalka]

引用自 (SLID)Sly Cooper：

Wait wasn't 1 gb 10 billion mb?

Nope. 10 gigabytes is 10 billion bytes. 1 gigabyte is 1024 megabytes. I implied that it was 100 megabytes in my comment, which was a mistake.

[Cope n' Catboys™]

引用自 e.bkapalka：

引用自 (SLID)Sly Cooper：

Wait wasn't 1 gb 10 billion mb?

Nope. 10 gigabytes is 10 billion bytes. 1 gigabyte is 1024 megabytes. I implied that it was 100 megabytes in my comment, which was a mistake.

nice having you here.

[Teo]

引用自 e.bkapalka：

引用自 (SLID)Sly Cooper：

Wait wasn't 1 gb 10 billion mb?

Nope. 10 gigabytes is 10 billion bytes. 1 gigabyte is 1024 megabytes. I implied that it was 100 megabytes in my comment, which was a mistake.

Actually it is 10,485,760 Kb and 10,737,418,240 bytes.
You got it all wrong.

[e.bkapalka]

引用自 D-Sec：

引用自 e.bkapalka：

Nope. 10 gigabytes is 10 billion bytes. 1 gigabyte is 1024 megabytes. I implied that it was 100 megabytes in my comment, which was a mistake.

Actually it is 10,485,760 Kb and 10,737,418,240 bytes.
You got it all wrong.

It's ambiguous. In every case except some fields of computer science and information technology, it's what I said. 1GB of hard drive space is 1,000,000,000 bytes, and 1GB of RAM is 1,073,741,824 bytes. To clear up confusion, there are two different units to denote this. GB (gigabyte, the SI Decimal definition) and GiB (gibibyte, the IEC Binary definition). Because of the relatively low importance of this distinction, both GB and GiB are written as GB in most cases.

Source 1[boulderapps.co]
Source 2[physics.nist.gov]
Wiki has a decent explanation[en.m.wikipedia.org]

[Teo]

引用自 e.bkapalka：

引用自 D-Sec：

Actually it is 10,485,760 Kb and 10,737,418,240 bytes.
You got it all wrong.

It's ambiguous. In every case except some fields of computer science and information technology, it's what I said. 1GB of hard drive space is 1,000,000,000 bytes, and 1GB of RAM is 1,073,741,824 bytes. To clear up confusion, there are two different units to denote this. GB (gigabyte, the SI Decimal definition) and GiB (gibibyte, the IEC Binary definition). Because of the relatively low importance of this distinction, both GB and GiB are written as GB in most cases.

Source 1[boulderapps.co]
Source 2[physics.nist.gov]
Wiki has a decent explanation[en.m.wikipedia.org]

Actually this is a really interesting topic.

1 byte has 8 bits. 1000bytes = 1kb which is also 8000 bits. 8000/8 = 1000 which is brings us back to 1kb

With IEC it is
1 byte = 8 bits, 1024 bytes = 1KiB which is also 8192 bits.
Simple as that.

But all the computer data is mesured in IEC because every bit is a square of two

1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 and each 1 is basically a square of 2
1 2 4 8 16 32 64 128
Which is value 256 which is 1 byte.


When you buy a 1TB HDD the manufacturer says it is 1000TB because simply it is. But the operating system says it is 931GB. Why? Because

1024 (2^10) KiB 1000(10^3)kB
1024^2(2^20)MiB 1000^2(10^6)MB
1024^3(2^30)GiB 1000^3(10^9)GB
See the difference between IEC And SI?


24 + 24 + 24 = 72
1000 / 1072 = 0.932TiB = 932GiB (My windows says 931 but I guess that is because it is rounding down).
(I hope you understood the math D:)

So in reality, the numbers your driver management options are GiB not GB.
Why is it so re*arded you ask?
The replacement terms of 'kibibyte', 'mebibyte' etc. do not appear to have gained widespread adoption. One can nostalgically appeal to the good old days in which a megabyte was a megabyte, and screw the Bureau International des Poids et Mesures, but those days are long gone.
The solution would be to standardise on binary prefixes.
The "hard drive maker conspiracy" story is driven by the fact that manufacturers have no real incentive to switch to binary prefixes, because that would make their drives look "smaller". When a person with basic computer knowledge sees that there is a 1000GB HDD instead of a 931GiB one, he is gonna buy the bigger one, not realizing they are basically the same size.

[Cope n' Catboys™]

I'm learning from this.

[Cope n' Catboys™]

引用自 ÃiÐen_：

引用自 (CDP)Sly Cooper：

I'm learning from this.

Go away Jontron

:C

[Teo]

引用自 Wildrabbit48：

引用自 Primus Palus：

Are you really asking that the devs intentionally tone down the file sizes for you? That it "can't be that hard"? You know nothing John Snow.

I'm not asking for anything, I'm merely hoping that the game will be a manageable size for me to download, and I didn't say "tone down" the files, just perhaps compress them. I'm interested as to what steps are taken in this process.

Compression can reduce size up to 20%. Not more.

What are the steps? Well, complex algorithms are applied on the data, which removes certain parts of it and makes a key which can recreate those parts during the decompression process.

I could be wrong however. I compression does not interest me that much.