since when is Gta 5: 80 GIGABYTES?

[Big]

i havent played gta in a while and its been off of my steam library because it used up alot of space on my hard drive. now i have an ssd and am excited to get back into online mode and... cant download it because of this... sucks

[Caped Crusader]

Each online DLC they put out adds something like 4 to 6gb and that happens a few times each year. There's really no way to avoid them because as I understand it Social Club checks to see if you're using the most current version each time you launch the game, at least when an internet connection is available. On the plus side, SSDs are getting very cheap.

[Big]

Originally posted by Caped Crusader:

Each online DLC they put out adds something like 4 to 6gb and that happens a few times each year. There's really no way to avoid them because as I understand it Social Club checks to see if you're using the most current version each time you launch the game, at least when an internet connection is available. On the plus side, SSDs are getting very cheap.

yeah but that means ill have to go get another SSD and that will set me back another 40-50$ which is a bit sad but i guess its worth it.

[Caped Crusader]

Yeah, I wish there was something I could think to suggest, but GTAV just doesn't offer install choices, like say excluding the top quality textures to save a bit of room. I have been hearing of some 1tb SSDs being sold for $100, so at least something like that (or a 500gb SSD) wouldn't be dedicated to only GTAV if/when you get one. It is certainly annoying though that there'll be a wait involved. Maybe for now use the HDD, then when you can move it to the SSD, package the game using Steam's back up feature so at least then you won't have to download it all again.

[-B.A.Frayd-™]

Originally posted by Big:

i havent played gta in a while and its been off of my steam library because it used up alot of space on my hard drive. now i have an ssd and am excited to get back into online mode and... cant download it because of this... sucks

How dare they make a huge game with tons of content!

[Big]

Originally posted by -B.A.Frayd-™:

Originally posted by Big:

i havent played gta in a while and its been off of my steam library because it used up alot of space on my hard drive. now i have an ssd and am excited to get back into online mode and... cant download it because of this... sucks

How dare they make a huge game with tons of content!

I’m trying not to complain but it’s getting a bit rediculous that a game like GTA 5 is almost 1/10 of a whole terabyte hard drive

[JG | Luxe]

They need to do what R6 recently did, The game was 100GB in size but they compressed it down to 50GB (Everyone had to redownload the full 50GB, but it freed up 50GB of space).

[Big]

I just wish that some servers only had certain DLC or only had properties from DLC you use like finance and felony or the heists or the doomsday and bikers and gun runners facilities. Would make server owning a lot less painful

[ShelLuser]

Originally posted by Big:

I’m trying not to complain but it’s getting a bit rediculous that a game like GTA 5 is almost 1/10 of a whole terabyte hard drive

That's why they invented 2TB drives ;)

A bit more seriously though: the main issue here is sound. There's a ton of voice acting in the game and even though they can compress audio files pretty well these days this kind of data will always gobble up quite a bit of storage space. Not to mention the required data for the whole map and the interiors of the houses & properties you can access.

I agree that it's a lot of data, but then again... GTA 5 is also a very big game where contents is concerned.

Although I definitely agree that it seems a bit much in comparison to other games. Still, in all fairness, those games (Sleeping Dogs, ECHO, Skyrim, Dragon Age) all have something in common: re-usage of locations. And not just one interior: whole areas to explore as well. That's something you also see a lot less in GTA 5.

[jorgrmcr]

Hey at least it is not like Gears of War 4, I bought it like 2 weeks ago and it was 133GB!!

But I understand the feeling, I have a 240GB SSD where I have OS and work software and a 2TB HDD where I have files, music and games...I only have 300GB free left in the HDD and like 20GB on the SSD. I could uninstall some games from Steam but idk...

[GamingWithSilvertail]

Originally posted by Big:

i havent played gta in a while and its been off of my steam library because it used up alot of space on my hard drive. now i have an ssd and am excited to get back into online mode and... cant download it because of this... sucks

I really wish GTA ONline was totally optinially installable. I dont play it so why is it installed for me? I think that alone is like a component of 40 gigs.

[SqueakyTweaky]

80 GB is nothing, for me it takes 40min to download.

[BigSilverHotdog]

Originally posted by 𝔽𝕀ℝ𝔼𝔽𝕃𝕐:

80 GB is nothing, for me it takes 40min to download.

gg irrelevant/10 would block again

[greenday]

Originally posted by JG | Luxe:

They need to do what R6 recently did, The game was 100GB in size but they compressed it down to 50GB (Everyone had to redownload the full 50GB, but it freed up 50GB of space).

yea but its 80 gb again

[SqueakyTweaky]

Originally posted by greenday:

Originally posted by JG | Luxe:

They need to do what R6 recently did, The game was 100GB in size but they compressed it down to 50GB (Everyone had to redownload the full 50GB, but it freed up 50GB of space).

yea but its 80 gb again

If they compress the game the game craphics will go to hell, you can't make something smaller and expect to have the same high res texture etc.

[feLoNy~]

since last update its more than 98GB. I have a whole partition of SSD 101GB with GTA only