Disk Space

[Shockal]

Currently, undermeshing is a hot problem that most ARK players are aware of. However, there's a second problem that isn't mentioned as much: disc space.

ARK takes up an unbelievable amount of Disc space, requiring a whopping 100 Gigabytes (and that's not even with DLC!). It can really irritate many people, and for me, it especially does since my computer can barely handle the disc size.

I'd really like it if people could also surface the problem of Disc Space to the community more often. Imo, it's just as important as undermeshing as it's currently prohibiting a LOT of players from even playing the game itself.

[Fryskar]

isn't it more like 160gb?
But yes its extremly large.

[Vesuvius]

200g in my Ark folder.... 40g of that is mods... and i have all 6 DLC.

Ark simply isnt going to get smaller.

And to be honest... 160g with ALL 6 dlc?... thats realy not even bad.

[stoneyoda]

Originally posted by Vesuvius:

200g in my Ark folder.... 40g of that is mods... and i have all 6 DLC.

Ark simply isnt going to get smaller.

And to be honest... 160g with ALL 6 dlc?... thats realy not even bad.

i have none of the dlc's and no mods and my game takes up 142.2 gb of space, thats out of control

[Shockal]

Originally posted by Vesuvius:

200g in my Ark folder.... 40g of that is mods... and i have all 6 DLC.

Ark simply isnt going to get smaller.

And to be honest... 160g with ALL 6 dlc?... thats realy not even bad.

Most of us don't have a robust computer

[Vesuvius]

Originally posted by Shockal:

Originally posted by Vesuvius:

200g in my Ark folder.... 40g of that is mods... and i have all 6 DLC.

Ark simply isnt going to get smaller.

And to be honest... 160g with ALL 6 dlc?... thats realy not even bad.

Most of us don't have a robust computer

Robust?.... a 2t hdd is cheap as chips. Most crappy pre-built pc's have a 2tb standard.

What you're saying is games should be smaller because you cant get a bigger drive.

[simon]

Originally posted by Shockal:

Currently, undermeshing is a hot problem that most ARK players are aware of. However, there's a second problem that isn't mentioned as much: disc space.

ARK takes up an unbelievable amount of Disc space, requiring a whopping 100 Gigabytes (and that's not even with DLC!). It can really irritate many people, and for me, it especially does since my computer can barely handle the disc size.

I'd really like it if people could also surface the problem of Disc Space to the community more often. Imo, it's just as important as undermeshing as it's currently prohibiting a LOT of players from even playing the game itself.

The only way to do that is to remove content. The size is due to all the assets in the game which is also one of its strong points. Its a large world with a lot of different flora and fauna and people like that.

Its also not likely that a PC that can run this game will have small hard drives. If you can afford the system to run this game then you can afford a 2TB drive.

[Fryskar]

Originally posted by simon:

Originally posted by Shockal:

Currently, undermeshing is a hot problem that most ARK players are aware of. However, there's a second problem that isn't mentioned as much: disc space.

ARK takes up an unbelievable amount of Disc space, requiring a whopping 100 Gigabytes (and that's not even with DLC!). It can really irritate many people, and for me, it especially does since my computer can barely handle the disc size.

I'd really like it if people could also surface the problem of Disc Space to the community more often. Imo, it's just as important as undermeshing as it's currently prohibiting a LOT of players from even playing the game itself.

The only way to do that is to remove content. The size is due to all the assets in the game which is also one of its strong points. Its a large world with a lot of different flora and fauna and people like that.

Its also not likely that a PC that can run this game will have small hard drives. If you can afford the system to run this game then you can afford a 2TB drive.

I'm pretty sure someone willing could massive reduce the storage needed by reworking their models (depending on how you model anything it can take a lot of space more, less dots =less space).
But that would be work for they won't earn more money.

[margalus]

Disk space isn't an issue when you can buy 4TB drives for $100.

[simon]

Originally posted by Fryskar:

Originally posted by simon:

The only way to do that is to remove content. The size is due to all the assets in the game which is also one of its strong points. Its a large world with a lot of different flora and fauna and people like that.

Its also not likely that a PC that can run this game will have small hard drives. If you can afford the system to run this game then you can afford a 2TB drive.

I'm pretty sure someone willing could massive reduce the storage needed by reworking their models (depending on how you model anything it can take a lot of space more, less dots =less space).
But that would be work for they won't earn more money.

The number of polygons in the models is not the reason the game is the size it is. Its all the different models and the associated assets. They are not even very high poly models to start with.

[Fryskar]

Originally posted by simon:

Originally posted by Fryskar:

I'm pretty sure someone willing could massive reduce the storage needed by reworking their models (depending on how you model anything it can take a lot of space more, less dots =less space).
But that would be work for they won't earn more money.

The number of polygons in the models is not the reason the game is the size it is. Its all the different models and the associated assets. They are not even very high poly models to start with.

Depending on how poor you do it, its enough.

Originally posted by Mufti:

Originally posted by simon:

The number of polygons in the models is not the reason the game is the size it is. Its all the different models and the associated assets. They are not even very high poly models to start with.

Meshes barely take up any space. It's textures and audio. Why bother posting just to blatantly lie?

Textures sure but audio taking a lot of space? nah.

WC isn't a quality seeking company, so i'll just dare to say they could optimise a lot.

[Filip]

well the only problem i see is with ssds, as a 1tb ssd can be quite expensive

[Shockal]

Originally posted by Filip:

well the only problem i see is with ssds, as a 1tb ssd can be quite expensive

I just bought one an hour ago

Gameplay demanded it, unfortunately

[Seftak]

And do any of you think crying about how poor you are will make it so companies stop making highly demanding and heavy games? It's your damn fault for not investing in better hardwares. Stop trying to blame other people for your failure.

[Shockal]

Originally posted by Seftak:

And do any of you think crying about how poor you are will make it so companies stop making highly demanding and heavy games? It's your damn fault for not investing in better hardwares. Stop trying to blame other people for you failure.

"It's your damn fault for not investing in better hardwares"

No it is not

[margalus]

Originally posted by Filip:

well the only problem i see is with ssds, as a 1tb ssd can be quite expensive

Nope. You can get them less than $150 now.