Why is it downloading unowned cars and tracks? (120+ GB)

[BRKMS]

The website indicates ~60 GB as the disk space requirement, while Steam has downloaded 124 GB on my drive. Why this lack of transparency? I don't want to waste my disk space on cars and tracks I don't own. As it is iracing has a greedy subscription model, and this makes it worse.

[F*cky The Drunk-Clown]

Your main problem is playing through Steam. Transfer your account directly to iRacing. What exactly does greed have to do with hard drive space? Sounds more like you're too cheap to upgrade, considering how inexpensive SSd's are these days.

Not sure where you got your figures from. This is off of the iRacing website for system requirements.

Storage (Available HDD Space)
Minimum: 25GB
Recommended: 100GB (For all cars and tracks)

[bozont_svk]

cars are downloaded so you can see those in game when they show up in your race. for tracks if you want to see some aired live races.

[BRKMS]

Originally posted by F*cky The Drunk-Clown:

Your main problem is playing through Steam. Transfer your account directly to iRacing. What exactly does greed have to do with hard drive space? Sounds more like you're too cheap to upgrade, considering how inexpensive SSd's are these days.

Not sure where you got your figures from. This is off of the iRacing website for system requirements.

Storage (Available HDD Space)
Minimum: 25GB
Recommended: 100GB (For all cars and tracks)

Read my post again. Greed was in reference to their subscription model. I have 2 TB space in NVMes, don't worry about space on my system, which is neither the problem nor the point of my post.

My problem is with being forced to download 120 GB of crap that I am never going to buy or use when all I want is the basic cars and tracks with my monthly subscription. I should be able to download more content when I buy it, not beforehand.

Yes, I saw the storage space requirements on the website. So what is the 25 GB minimum space all about if players are expected to download 100+ GB by default?

Is there a way to do this from the iracing website?

[BRKMS]

Originally posted by bozont_svk:

cars are downloaded so you can see those in game when they show up in your race. for tracks if you want to see some aired live races.

Surely car thumbnails/images should do the trick if those locked cars are to show up in-game? Rather than all the car and track models, audio and other data.

[F*cky The Drunk-Clown]

My game only takes up 61.2 GB. Don't ever get into Microsoft Flight Sim, if you think this is big, the size MSFS will cause you to have a stroke.
First you make up a number about disk space, then complain about cost, when you're actual point is not clear.

Originally posted by BRKMS:

Is there a way to do this from the iracing website?

Yes, go there and do some digging, sorry I'm not one to hold peoples hand. Maybe Ancient Oldie will come along, he has better patience.

[Ancient Oldie]

Originally posted by F*cky The Drunk-Clown:

My game only takes up 61.2 GB. Don't ever get into Microsoft Flight Sim, if you think this is big, the size MSFS will cause you to have a stroke.
First you make up a number about disk space, then complain about cost, when you're actual point is not clear.

Originally posted by BRKMS:

Is there a way to do this from the iracing website?

Yes, go there and do some digging, sorry I'm not one to hold peoples hand. Maybe Ancient Oldie will come along, he has better patience.

I don't have diskspace limitations and blazing fast internet, so I haven't look into that. I think Steam installs all content, but when you download the client from their website and install it, it only installs the basic content and when you login you have to update to get your additional content.

* Every game is big nowadays.

[bozont_svk]

Originally posted by BRKMS:

Originally posted by bozont_svk:

cars are downloaded so you can see those in game when they show up in your race. for tracks if you want to see some aired live races.

Surely car thumbnails/images should do the trick if those locked cars are to show up in-game? Rather than all the car and track models, audio and other data.

its how its done(game engines work) from the first sims where custom skins and mods were allowed. you had to had all cars and skins that showed up in race otherwise there were ctd or invisible opponents....its how it works today. have to live with it.