Approximate game's size in GB?

[TNZ]

How much GB will the game be? It's important for me because where I currently live there is a limit of 35GB per month. If that's breached we get smallband (15kb/s) until end of month...

[NdB]

I also have quite a limited quota (55g, not as bad as yours). My friends and I share the load by taking turns to download the game, then distributing the backup files.

Also, if you want a better idea what the actual download size of L4D2 is, then find out what the backup size is. The steam client tells you the unpacked size, even in the downloads window and the download speed. Remember that source games share files between them, so if you already have another source game installed (TF2, HL1 etc) then the download should be decently smaller than the backup files.

It may be that L4D2 is 'only' a 6-8g download, especially now with steampipe.

Finally, EU4 is mainly text files, and text files often have fantastic compression, sometimes going past 50% (as in the 2g on disk is a 1g download). A relevant example is EU3; it requires 700mb on disk but is a 320mb download.

[jamieoo2]

so how much gigs will it take to get of steam ???

[Xandurz]

1.2 gig to download off steam, how much space it takes up in total after downloading I don't know.

[jamieoo2]

thanks xandurz i was thinking it was going to be like 15-20 gig because of how complexes the game is im going to get it now XD thanks again

[Xandurz]

You're welcome.
After 23 Gigs that Shogun 2 requires I was surprised myself.

[jamieoo2]

ye i no it took me 2 days to download shogun 2 :(

[Relnor]

Honestly feel sorry for you guys in the UK with the old internet infrastructure.

I have no bandwith limits and regularly download at 3-4 MB/s, it's one of the very few things in my country that I can claim was done well =)

[luz]

I just got it with the Art of War, Common Sense, and Women in History DLCs, and the download size is 865.2 MB but you need 2 GB of hard disk space for the base game.

[Thrashead]

914.7 MB to download

[JBrown247]

Originally posted by Mountain Man:

I didn't realize these games were so small, but I guess it's not surprising when you consider the small number of assets in them. Of course I say "small", but I still remember the days when hard drives were only 2GB!

I remember when hard drives were floppy drives

[tonypa]

Originally posted by JBrown247:

Originally posted by Mountain Man:

I didn't realize these games were so small, but I guess it's not surprising when you consider the small number of assets in them. Of course I say "small", but I still remember the days when hard drives were only 2GB!

I remember when hard drives were floppy drives

I can do better - I have programmed a computer using Punched card.

[Minoris]

Y'all realise this thread is SIX years old, right?!

[Preacher]

Originally posted by tonypa:

Originally posted by JBrown247:

I remember when hard drives were floppy drives

I can do better - I have programmed a computer using Punched card.

I programmed a rock once

[Tulduil Iphukiir]

Originally posted by Minoris:

Y'all realise this thread is SIX years old, right?!

To their defence: The last reply before today/yesterday is only three years old :)