How much space I need?

[Rivaldman]

I'm gonna buy the game and the DLCs required for the promod 2.5. Anyone know about the actual size I need for this together with the promod?

Thanks everyone!

[kaki_gamet]

For game itself 15+ GB, for ProMods I don't know but I guess it should take a tiny fraction of it. And then I have another GB into Documents for home folder and barely no mods.

[Underscore_101_3]

My install folder for ETS2 is 19,4 GB, this includes all map dlc and most other dlc.
My documents ets2 folder is 61 GB, of which Promods (incl. middle east) uses 9.09 GB
(really need to clean up that folder :-)

edit, you also need extra space for updates.

[kaki_gamet]

19 GB? ^^' Hope OP is not toasted by now ; )

[Silverbiker]

My mod folder is 25.4GB (inc Promods) + 15GB workshop mods.

[Underscore_101_3]

In the 19 GB are also a lot of dlc that are added by SCS because of Convoy, but I haven't bought and one of them is just over 2 gb, dlc_lunar_new_year, no idea what that is, but it's there.
Most of the others that I haven't bought, but are in there are country specific paint job dlc.

I doubt the 12gb minimum space as advertised is enough even if it's just the base game when SCS adds all those dlc for Convoy.

[kaki_gamet]

@Underscore - I have them me too but still get 103 files, 5 folders for 15.6 GB while missing Black Sea and Iberia DLC, but those two should not account for 4 more GB ^^' Maybe ProMods needs to add something there it too?

For a quick comparison, under the root folder I have :
- bin (12 files, 2 folders, 66.2 MB)
- EmptySteamDepot (0 files, 0 folders, 0 bytes)
- licenses (5 files, 0 folders, 9.23 KB)
- base.scs (8.66 GB)
- def.scs (12.1 MB)
- remaining 84 files, 6.91 GB

The Lunar New Year DLC are extra paintjobs related to the Chinese calendar. The Chinese Flags had some before but then SCS separated them in their own DLC.

[🦊 Hermit]

16.2 GB ETS2 folder in the Steam directory (with all released map dlc and 4 Workshop mods).
8.6 GB mods folder in My Documents, which consists of Promods alone.

[Rivaldman]

Wow, thanks everyone. Thought the map across such a gigantic area would need a whole HDD size.

One thing I was worried, the mods should be put into My Documents, of which the drive partition is limited. I will have to figure it out.

[Drive Safely]

You don't have to have the mods in the Documents folder if you change the home directory for the game with the -homedir launch option

[kaki_gamet]

@Hermit - that is much closer to what I have me too.

@Rivaldman - yes, the -homedir launch parameter will redirect the home folder from Documents to where do you want it. First create it, for example D:\SCS Software then copy the whole ETS2 folder into it. Lastly, from your Steam Library right click on ETS2 and there there is a field for launch parameters (like -nointro, etc.). Fill it with -homedir "D:\SCS Software" and try to launch it. If successfully, as you quit ETS2, the game.log.txt file with newest timestamp is into D and the one into Documents can be safely deleted together with the whole folder (unless you want to keep a backup of it).

[Rivaldman]

thanks again, I was planning to move the entire document folder to the game drive. and now it saves a lot of efforts.

[Underscore_101_3]

@kaki_gamet, had another look at the Steam ets2 folder and turns out I have one more folder, but that's only 1,5 mb, it's from somewhere in 2019 when I fiddled with map making :-)

Without that there are 3 folders, same as yours, except the bin folder which is about 2 mb smaller in size.
Next to that there are 87 official SCS files plus a readme file which i've never read..

Kinda guessed the lunar dlc is about that, I don't bother with extracting dlc I don't own, then again i assume the info is on the store page as well :-)

I doubt Promods adds something to that folder.

This is the folder (the base folder is the 1,5mb map fiddling folder):
https://flic.kr/p/2orPV9P

[kaki_gamet]

@Underscore - all files are matching, you have the dlc_balkan_e (Black Sea) and dlc_iberia (Iberia) more than me; wonder where are these 4 GB then : / As you, after the base.scs, the second bigger file is the dlc_lunar_new_year.scs (1.94 GB). Thinking of, you too are on v1.46 right?

[Underscore_101_3]

Ohw that's a good point, what you're seeing is 1.47 OB, forgot I had changed to that the other day to make templates for the new trailers and update a mod I have on the workshop.
Guess i'll start doing that right now :-)

[kaki_gamet]

*ops* ^^' Looks like soon we all will need more space for it then : D

@Rivaldman - as you will start to use ProMods you will need to get used to change game's version between beta branches as ProMods will need some time to keep up with patches. Nothing difficult anyway, you will get used to it in no time ; )