How long will you take to download GTA V? Discover here.

[ghml]

Grand Theft Auto V will be about 65Gb in size, but as Steam compresses files, I considered a 50Gb file.

This table shows the avarage download time based on the most common connection types, with a realistic 50% overhead:

The connection speed is expressed in kilobits and megabits per second.


Connection Type...............Connection Speed...............Average Time

Modem..............................56,6 kbps............................124 days
ADSL................................256 kbps..............................27 days
ADSL................................512 kbps..............................14 days
ADSL/Cable......................01 Mbps...............................07 days
ADSL/Cable......................02 Mbps...............................3.4 days
ADSL/Cable/Fiber.............10 Mbps...............................16 hours 40 minutes
Cable/Fiber.......................25 Mbps...............................6 hours 30 minutes
Cable/Fiber.......................51 Mbps...............................3 hours 16 minutes
Cable/Fiber/LAN...............100 Mbps.............................01 hour 40 minutes
Cable/Fiber/LAN...............155 Mbps.............................01 hour 04 minutes

Statistics source: http://www.numion.com/calculators/time.html

[ghml]

โพสต์ดั้งเดิมโดย XxNick.10073_XxPsykraxX:

let me calm everybody down here, when dying light went to the pre load phase, it was compressed to about 15GB, and the specs on the page is 40 gb, im pretty sure that gta v will be compressed to a approx size too, im expecting about 20 gb more or less, it wont take us 100 days to download it, and it wont be 65 gb, even after dying ligh was installed its still taking about 15gb. so i hope i helped everyone out here a bit. pretty sure it wont be 65 gigs anyways..

It won't be 65, but it won't be 15 either. Something between both. I guess it will be around 40 Gb.

[afterliife.]

Around 17hours :3

[Jedi]

โพสต์ดั้งเดิมโดย XxNick.10073_XxPsykraxX:

let me calm everybody down here, when dying light went to the pre load phase, it was compressed to about 15GB, and the specs on the page is 40 gb, im pretty sure that gta v will be compressed to a approx size too, im expecting about 20 gb more or less, it wont take us 100 days to download it, and it wont be 65 gb, even after dying ligh was installed its still taking about 15gb. so i hope i helped everyone out here a bit. pretty sure it wont be 65 gigs anyways..

This;
Download maybe 25GB; then it uncompresses; installs etc

[Old Skool Raver]

โพสต์ดั้งเดิมโดย Jedi Masta Moses:

โพสต์ดั้งเดิมโดย XxNick.10073_XxPsykraxX:

let me calm everybody down here, when dying light went to the pre load phase, it was compressed to about 15GB, and the specs on the page is 40 gb, im pretty sure that gta v will be compressed to a approx size too, im expecting about 20 gb more or less, it wont take us 100 days to download it, and it wont be 65 gb, even after dying ligh was installed its still taking about 15gb. so i hope i helped everyone out here a bit. pretty sure it wont be 65 gigs anyways..

This;
Download maybe 25GB; then it uncompresses; installs etc

Nope. Sure Steampipe 'CAN' compress data however its up to the dev/pub (not sure which tbh) if they use it and seeing as compression is used to shrink down data I'd say its rather ironic that there's less chance of them using it precisely because of the size. You see the more data that's compressed the longer its gonna take to uncompress and to uncompress 15GB to 65GB would take days on slower systems. Its a little over a 4:1 compression ratio so its something along the lines of 4 times your system buses maximum data throughput to extract if it were extracting from one drive to another, if its going onto the same drive as its stored then it will take much longer still (minimum 8 times) and that's only takes into account writing the data back onto the drive, actual decompression time is still more time on top.

Plus there's the fact that lossless compression doesn't work at all with audio or video.

I am gonna stick my neck out and say R* 'might' compress GTA but on a 1:2 ratio at most, 65GB/2=32.5GB but even that will take hours to decompress.

[Cherry]

โพสต์ดั้งเดิมโดย kevinxu1175:

are you kidding me XD who would want to buy this game if it takes them up to 115 days XD

I have a weeaboo friend who spent 5 months (24 hours a day, his PC had to have aircon and fans pointed at it throughout the whole process) downloading 20 GB of anime.

[Pavol]

Your speed per second isn't your network speed..... I have 70mb internet and my mb/s is 5mb. So all of you thinking it will take over a month, you are inncorect.

[Peter Pan]

Can you preload the game if you pre-purchase it now?

[☢ GoldFish (SVK) ☢]

โพสต์ดั้งเดิมโดย Peter Pan:

Can you preload the game if you pre-purchase it now?

Nope, the preload will come later, just before the release itself. Maybe couple of days prior to the release. Maybe couple of hours (doubtfully but it's a possibility). Something like that.

[Eagle Owl]

It would take me 24 hrs thats usally for my internet

[RedYeet]

how long it will take if my connection speed is 21Mb/s

[Akti]

โพสต์ดั้งเดิมโดย Franklin Clinton:

how long it will take if my connection speed is 21Mb/s

around 7 hours

[SurfNinja92]

about 2-4hrs. Thank god for pre-loads.

[PRIMSZ]

27 days.

♥♥♥♥ -_-

Retail Copy I am Coming :D

[HoIxIoH]

3 days for me i think

[Sinotek]

Around 3 hours for me... Sigh I hope it gets released just before I goto work.