What is current size of this game

[Surplus L Force]

system requirements say I need 60gbs of storage, is this game already that big? i am going to buy it as soon as M.E. is realesed and I am afraid i wont have enough space on my ssd :/

[Surplus L Force]

and by the way, has load time on HDD changed? In tww1 it took more than 2 minutes to load campaign and battle maps

[Overread]

38590GB is my current local file size according to Steam. However remember that the download size is smaller and then the file has to unpack itself. So you will need more storage space so that there's room for the downloaded files and the unpacked files at the same time.

I don't expect the ME update to be a vast increase in actual game size since the only big thing being added is the map - the units and skins and such are all already within the game. But the update could be several GB (depending how its deployed).


Load times, in my view, are improved over the original game and if you put it onto SSD they'd be a huge gain. That said 2 mins isn't horrendous in the great scheme of things (now if you want long load times the old Spellforce used to take forever on my old computer - ran perfectly fine at high settings but took AGES when it was released to load)

edit if you assume game is 40GB and download is probably in the 20-30 GB range then 60GB free at least sounds about right to download and install

[Kzarekh]

In my case, TW:W2 requires around 38.6 GB storage while the previous game required 35.6 GB. Loading times using a HDD are pretty similar (maybe even faster).

[Surplus L Force]

thanks a bunch, I guess 70 gb of free space on mys ssd is going to be enough for mortal empires

[Overread]

Yep as long as its not your main OS drive and thus also using space for other services. 70GB should be more than enough for it to download and install onto.

[Mogletmox]

Originally posted by Quasar:

thanks a bunch, I guess 70 gb of free space on mys ssd is going to be enough for mortal empires

no you will need 80gb to install ME
https://www.totalwar.com/blog/mortal-empires-patch-notes

[Surplus L Force]

Originally posted by Ba_alzy:

Originally posted by Quasar:

thanks a bunch, I guess 70 gb of free space on mys ssd is going to be enough for mortal empires

no you will need 80gb to install ME
https://www.totalwar.com/blog/mortal-empires-patch-notes

oh, that migh be a problem

[Surplus L Force]

this can be a solution for me though
"If you’ve limited space on your primary hard drive (for example, if you’re using an SSD with limited space as your primary drive, with a secondary mechanical drive for mass storage), a useful workaround we’ve found is to setup a secondary Steam Library folder on your storage drive. Provided you have enough space on your primary drive for the final installation (see ‘post-patch installation footprint’ above), Steam will automagically utilise any other registered Steam folders on other drives as a download location for the install process.
To set up a secondary Library folder in Steam, Click Steam->Settings->Downloads and click the Steam Library Folders button. From here you can create extra Library folders on any of your drives."

[Mogletmox]

Originally posted by Quasar:

this can be a solution for me though
"If you’ve limited space on your primary hard drive (for example, if you’re using an SSD with limited space as your primary drive, with a secondary mechanical drive for mass storage), a useful workaround we’ve found is to setup a secondary Steam Library folder on your storage drive. Provided you have enough space on your primary drive for the final installation (see ‘post-patch installation footprint’ above), Steam will automagically utilise any other registered Steam folders on other drives as a download location for the install process.
To set up a secondary Library folder in Steam, Click Steam->Settings->Downloads and click the Steam Library Folders button. From here you can create extra Library folders on any of your drives."

yeah i use exactly this I have 500gb ssd for steam games
a 2 tb mechanical folder for other games and various other crap

and have steam library on each just to ensure there is always space for the big installs that require + 40GB temporarily for installing

[DecayWolf]

Originally posted by Quasar:

this can be a solution for me though
"If you’ve limited space on your primary hard drive (for example, if you’re using an SSD with limited space as your primary drive, with a secondary mechanical drive for mass storage), a useful workaround we’ve found is to setup a secondary Steam Library folder on your storage drive. Provided you have enough space on your primary drive for the final installation (see ‘post-patch installation footprint’ above), Steam will automagically utilise any other registered Steam folders on other drives as a download location for the install process.
To set up a secondary Library folder in Steam, Click Steam->Settings->Downloads and click the Steam Library Folders button. From here you can create extra Library folders on any of your drives."

Do you mean you want to install this game in your HDD and start from your SSD? Doesn't work, loading time will be slow as hell.
You've to install it in your SSD.

You can install everything else directly into your HDD though. That would save space in your SSD.

[TVMAN]

Originally posted by DecayWolf:

Do you mean you want to install this game in your HDD and start from your SSD? Doesn't work, loading time will be slow as hell.
You've to install it in your SSD.

You can install everything else directly into your HDD though. That would save space in your SSD.

I'll have to test it, but I think that workaround is simply setting Steam to use the HDD as a download cache for unpacking the temporary files. The game should still run from the SSD.

[DecayWolf]

Originally posted by TVMAN:

Originally posted by DecayWolf:

Do you mean you want to install this game in your HDD and start from your SSD? Doesn't work, loading time will be slow as hell.
You've to install it in your SSD.

You can install everything else directly into your HDD though. That would save space in your SSD.

I'll have to test it, but I think that workaround is simply setting Steam to use the HDD as a download cache for unpacking the temporary files. The game should still run from the SSD.

Installing it on HDD and running it from the SSD is not the problem, it will work just fine, whoever it will be slow a f.

[TVMAN]

Originally posted by DecayWolf:

Installing it on HDD and running it from the SSD is not the problem, it will work just fine, whoever it will be slow a f.

I said download, not install. In other words, that workaround should download the game files to the HDD and unpack them there, and then actually install the update to the game folder on the SSD. Like I said, I'd need to test it to make sure, but that's what the description sounds like to me.

[DecayWolf]

Originally posted by TVMAN:

Originally posted by DecayWolf:

Installing it on HDD and running it from the SSD is not the problem, it will work just fine, whoever it will be slow a f.

I said download, not install. In other words, that workaround should download the game files to the HDD and unpack them there, and then actually install the update to the game folder on the SSD. Like I said, I'd need to test it to make sure, but that's what the description sounds like to me.

The description from what he said, was to set the instalation folder into somewhere else, in this case on his HDD, I do that with every other game that I own, except TW games.

"To set up a secondary Library folder in Steam, Click Steam->Settings->Downloads and click the Steam Library Folders button. From here you can create extra Library folders on any of your drives."

These steps will only create a new installed games folder somewhere else from your choice.

Steam games doesn't have an 'download' version, there's only a installed fully working version of the game. Also even if there was an downloaded version that would do nothing but waste space, it would be just as easy to manually remove it from the disk.

[TVMAN]

Originally posted by DecayWolf:

These steps will only create a new installed games folder somewhere else from your choice.

Ah, that's a shame. Steam should have a way to set up a download cache location that's separate from the install location, especially since most games these days have some kind of temp file bloat during unpacking/installation.