2 questions about installation for gta v

[Det. Dave Starsky]

I asked on gtv5 section but no answers yet...

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The store page says recommended 72 GB..

Does the install folder reach 72 GB on the ssd ?

and

Is the download compressed or does steam download 72 GB ?

Cheers

[Jinn-Gon Qui]

It downloads 72GB, and yes it will be 72 regardless if it's on an SSD or HDD. If your SSD is at least 500GB then it's not biggie installing the game on it.

[Det. Dave Starsky]

Thanks

[Bad 💀 Motha]

It's actually 74GB, yes that is the size it will be on-disk.

[xSOSxHawkens]

For what its worth there is little differnce (at least in my experiance) with having GTA-V on SSD vs on HDD.

Some games are different, for example never try running FO4 on a HDD unless you want unbearable load times...

But for GTA-V, the difference in loading into multiplayer from SSD vs HDD was about 15 seconds, and there is no difference at all in terms of in-world loading (like going into an apartment).

So long as your HDD is modern and decent (7200rpm+, high density, 125MB/s+ R/W, 30MB cache, all standard on most mid range drives down days) you will be fine playing GTA-V on a HDD without any pop-in or issues of the liks.

Do NOT put is on a 5400rpm drive, or any older HDD (think 2004-2011 drives, which are more likely to have 16MB caches, and despite spinning at 7200 RPM will strugle due to lower density disks that will only give ~100MB/s or less in speed).