Actual download size ?

[Γαῖα]

I was wondering considering ive had my NMS on my PC for a long time, how many gigs is the download if a person puts it on their PC today as surely it isn't the 15 GB advertised.

[Guyver8]

yep, it is, the gamefiles are highly compressed

[Γαῖα]

Originally posted by Guyver8:

yep, it is, the gamefiles are highly compressed

So yep, its still 15GB ?

If so then wouldn't it be advisable to uninstall and reinstall NMS rather than suffer the 10GB updates/downloads we are all treated to 3 to 4 times a year ?

[Cathulhu]

The install size is currently 14.1 GB.
Download would be less due to compression.

The updates while big, are still smaller than reinstalling the entire game.

[taniwhat]

There's a difference between download size and update size. Easy to confuse the two.
A 6M download may update 11G of files.

[Guyver8]

if download size AND frequency of patches is an issue for your internet usage, i'd advise you to set the update option for NMS to 'only update when you want to play', then whenever the game gets a new update STAY AWAY from the game for a couple of weeks (DON'T DOWNLOAD ANYTHING) then after the two weeks (usually the hotfix patches are done by then) you can open NMS and get the latest build in one update (i think)

[SavageDabRipz]

You are right, it is not 15GB. It is 14.1GB

[Γαῖα]

Thanks everyone for your input.

I asked as i noticed a 10gb update today despite already getting the echoes update a little while back. Im also considering as its been on my PC for quite a few years now doing a fresh install.

[maestro]

Originally posted by Γαῖα:

Thanks everyone for your input.

I asked as i noticed a 10gb update today despite already getting the echoes update a little while back. Im also considering as its been on my PC for quite a few years now doing a fresh install.

That's because it's replacing a lot of files, though I find it weird they didn't use a patching system.

What I suspect is happening is that all the assets are located in some archive file, say foo.zip (it's obviously not a .zip format, I'm only using that for ease of explanation) and for whatever reason, they didn't use a patching system like many games use, where the patcher can open foo.zip, add&replace only the files it needs to, and zip it back up.

But, NMS for whatever reason, downloads the entire foo.zip file which is why you are downloading 10GB to "patch" a 15GB game.

[maestro]

Originally posted by taniwhat:

There's a difference between download size and update size. Easy to confuse the two.
A 6M download may update 11G of files.

I watch the steam downloader when it updates NMS, a lot of these updates are indeed several gigs in size, and even some of the hotfixes will be 2GB or more even though no graphical assets were changed (or at least the update notes make it sound like nothing should have been changed).

It downloads 2, 3, sometimes upwards of 6GB and it says it's patching 10-15GB, it's just wild. You'd think that with modern patching technology that you see in many games, especially MMORPGs, that we'd have a more efficient way of doing that.

[umop-apisdn]

I installed it this morning, just to touch base and see if anything major has changed since I last played. 13.4 GB downloaded, 14.1 installed.

[maestro]

Originally posted by umop-apisdn:

I installed it this morning, just to touch base and see if anything major has changed since I last played. 13.4 GB downloaded, 14.1 installed.

Yeah, it's downloading the entire archive files lol. That's kind of wild for a game that is frequently updated, but maybe they'd have to re-do the entire engine to change how it handles its assets which would be a huge undertaking.