Total Storage size?

[Primus]

I'm about to redownload, Total storage size needed shows as 250gb for ARK. It was like 100gb last year, is this a true number?

[Vesuvius]

It is 100g.... you are downloading all the DLC's as well. (6 extra maps)

[Uueerdo]

Keep in mind about double your install size is needed due to the update process.

[Primus]

Originally posted by Uueerdo:

Keep in mind about double your install size is needed due to the update process.

I had to delete the game because of a bug while updating. I've 2 harddisks, one SSD of 120gb and one 1tb HDD. The game was on HDD ofc, but the update ate from SSD and I had no space in it. Do you know how I can designate update bank to my HDD too?

[twitch.tv/TehEmoGurl]

Base game + all DLC with no mods = 211GB (Maybe a bit bigger i might be missing a couple now i think?)

Base game without DLC and no mods = 140GB

If you play modded servers (and allot of different ones using different mods) your game files can easily end up in the 300GB+ range, even more so you have the DLC packs installed.

Also, go to your main steam settings and go to the download section, make sure you haven't accidentaly made a steam library folder on your SSD. There is no other reason it should touch another drive.

Right click ark in your library list > properties > DLC > untick any you don't want to install to reduce the download/install size upto a minimum of approx 140GB

[Uueerdo]

Originally posted by Primus:

Originally posted by Uueerdo:

Keep in mind about double your install size is needed due to the update process.

I had to delete the game because of a bug while updating. I've 2 harddisks, one SSD of 120gb and one 1tb HDD. The game was on HDD ofc, but the update ate from SSD and I had no space in it. Do you know how I can designate update bank to my HDD too?

I'm not positive but I think the updates are handled under the Steam client's install, rather than the game's location; so you could try uninstalling Steam from the ssd and installing on the hdd, but you then may have to have it re-recognize your installed games (I've never had to reinstall Steam unless I was doing a full system reinstall.)

[Ferchi]

33gb ark from steam ->146gb unpacked in your hdd without mods maps (just base game)-> 250gb for future updates and +xtra gb when the update breaks your files and need to be fixed with the steam tool


Then you need atleast 250gb to play ar

Actually the game still having issues with the size bc sometimes no matter if you uncheck the maps or mods from your list, the game still downloading the stuff and you need to erase manually to clear the hdd or just erase all the ark again and dowload (just take 1 night).

The size in ark just can be up bc even if you don't have any dlc ark will download SE, Extintion and Aberration +new maps like valguero (creatures and stuff) and +in the future, bc all the others players might have those items or creatures which means you need to have the content installed to see them.

[Lunacy]

I'm currently running 215gb size on my ARK folder with a few modpacks for community servers