Any way to reduce file size?

[venomtail]

I'd love to install this game on my laptop and play it when I'm away, but I'm not prepared to use up 1/4th of all my storage just for 1 game. Is there any way to reduce file size? Makes no sense how much storage is taken up.

[Ochso]

Originally posted by venomtail:

I'd love to install this game on my laptop and play it when I'm away, but I'm not prepared to use up 1/4th of all my storage just for 1 game. Is there any way to reduce file size? Makes no sense how much storage is taken up.

You may well want to check first if your laptop will deliver an adequate game play experience. Then if not your point is somewhat moot.
It would of course mean installing the game onto the machine in the first place. or try running off an external drive just dont expect lighting fast loading times.

Removing locations and cars will save space - iirc ,an age ago, a poster mentioned you could remove all the RX stuff and save circa 20-30 Gb but as your laptop only has 500Gb of storage it its not a massive saving. ( and there were several patches following which would have really messed up their cunning plan)

However with file removal you may well end up painting yourself into a corner as if anything goes wrong then verification of the game files is always the first port of call which means "a cut down" copy wont verify. and if you do not have enough space to re download the complete game then ..... well enough said.

Still recommend trying it first.

[venomtail]

The laptop can run the game fine on all off/low 80+fps and can get some 58fps on custom optimised settings. Hopefully also with the launch of 'FidelityFX Super Resolution' at the end of the month, I can get even more FPS from the game.

Is there some video tutorial of this to guide me along?
Maybe a way to manually remove installed DLC? (such as removing German stages to reduce file size?) Then the game would still work in an optimal way.

I'll have a look at the RX stuff. Rarely play those tracks and those cars.

[jakerock]

Dirt Rally (1) is less than 40GB and will definitely run highter FPS on a laptop or any CPU/GPU.

Try taking some stuff out of the steamapps/common/DirtRally2/locations folder and restarting DR2, see what happens...

[FolkSong]

I think you need to first deactivate each piece DLC in Steam (under properties for the game) then find the corresponding file in the game folder and delete it. If you don't do the first step, the game will still try to load into events that require the missing files and it will probably crash.

The vast majority of the file size is due to the rally tracks, you should be able to save around 40GB by getting rid of all the DLC tracks. That's half the content of the game though, so it's a lot to give up. I think the size is actually reasonable given how huge the tracks are.

[Father Christmas]

just brought thee game was a bit shocked at the file size, it better be good :)

[miChi]

Originally posted by Father Christmas:

just brought thee game was a bit shocked at the file size, it better be good :)

yeah same, however what makes it that size is you're downloading all dlc content (even stuff you don't own) + VR + gorgeous graphic engine.

when you consider this is the same size as something like gta 5 with 2 generation old graphics it's honestly not that bad