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Fuzz posted:It's 2024, people still care about a few extra gigs? i mean, the game itself is like 1gb, so if it quadruples in size with the egs version that seems fair to point out
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i love playing fallout tactics on egs
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The General posted:I'll stop caring about space when you start sending me bigger SSDs. As it is, I've only got 232gigs to work with. Currently sitting at a dire 23gigs free where do you live? Getting a 250gb ssd is the expensive option in most places, you can usually get a 500gb cheaper than the 250gb version
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I should probably clean some poo poo out.
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I live in the fabled Canadas.  I haven't priced out a new SSD, I just use whatever came with my machine. It's extremely low on my priority list of things to actually fix. The rest of my computer ain't up for running most 100+gb games either. But yeah, for some people space is at a premium and another extra couple of gigs here and there really adds up.
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Feb 16, 2024 19:48
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The General posted:I live in the fabled Canadas. You can pick up a new 1TB SSD for like $100 CAD.
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Feb 16, 2024 19:53
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Lemme check my bank account. $47.56. Don't got $100 kicking around ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ And if I did, I have other hobbies I'd rather put the extra cash towards. Regardless of my financials or current hobby spendings, just tacking on 5gigs to a game for no real reason isn't best practices. Just because something might be in abundance doesn't mean you should just waste it just because you can.
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Pretty sure my old disc copy full installs at 600 or so megs. God, remember when games had installers that let you pick various install sizes?
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Feb 16, 2024 20:41
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retvrn to installing the exe and running the rest off the cd
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The General posted:I'll stop caring about space when you start sending me bigger SSDs. As it is, I've only got 232gigs to work with. Currently sitting at a dire 23gigs free https://github.com/IridiumIO/CompactGUI
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Feb 16, 2024 21:03
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drat, how did I not know about this Thanks for linking!
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The General posted:Lemme check my bank account. $47.56. Don't got $100 kicking around ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ And if I did, I have other hobbies I'd rather put the extra cash towards. Windirstat is good for that, I have a tiny C drive and use it all the time to tidy it up
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Feb 16, 2024 21:27
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Wiztree is a good bit quicker than windirstat (in my experience at least) but yeah a visualisation tool so you can see what's eating up space is basically a must
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Feb 16, 2024 21:33
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Tarnop posted:drat, how did I not know about this It doesn't help with all games, but for some the results are impressive. For example Stellaris keeps loose uncompressed textures on disk so it compresses very well. And even on atom tablet with small emmc drive there was no noticeable performance difference.
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Hey y'all no stress but can we get back to discussing the games themselves? Cheers
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Theres been a change in plans https://twitter.com/Wario64/status/1758670030970196433
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Lol sucks
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I'm pretty sure that I still have both of my CD-ROMs for Fallout 1 & 2. Both games on full install were significantly less than 700mb. The install size for Fallout on Steam is 562mb and 564mb for Fallout 2. 3gbs for language packs?!?
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Depending on the compression used audio can take up a lot of space. The original Titanfall had like 35GB of audio when installed because it was completely uncompressed, and to add insult to injury it wasn't even better quality, it was just because the Xbox couldn't handle the ogg format used on the disc
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Feb 17, 2024 11:23
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Fuzz posted:It's 2024, people still care about a few extra gigs?
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Party Boat posted:Depending on the compression used audio can take up a lot of space. The original Titanfall had like 35GB of audio when installed because it was completely uncompressed, and to add insult to injury it wasn't even better quality, it was just because the Xbox couldn't handle the ogg format used on the disc Microsoft does not care for .ogg. I made one the other month and it completely seized my machine if I even tried to select it, let alone open it.
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LividLiquid posted:Hi. When people complain about a thing, you can just not do this.
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Rocket Baby Dolls posted:I'm pretty sure that I still have both of my CD-ROMs for Fallout 1 & 2. Both games on full install were significantly less than 700mb. Steam is the only game store that can reduce download & install size by selectively installing languages.
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pseudorandom name posted:Steam is the only game store that can reduce download & install size by selectively installing languages. Sadly doing so killed the entire portal 3 team in a tragic file compression accident
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Saoshyant posted:Uh, yes? Storage is not as cheap as you may believe for most of the world. Storage for the latest SSD standards even less so. Imagine thinking you need a PCIe4 drive to run Fallout 1 and 2, though. You can get a 4TB external drive that will run the game perfectly fine with zero load times because it's still 20x faster than the drives from 1998, and it will run you barely $100 USD.
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tokin opposition posted:Sadly doing so killed the entire portal 3 team in a tragic file compression accident _______/ 
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Fuzz posted:Imagine thinking you need a PCIe4 drive to run Fallout 1 and 2, though. You can get a 4TB external drive that will run the game perfectly fine with zero load times because it's still 20x faster than the drives from 1998, and it will run you barely $100 USD. You missed the point entirely, but okay. You do you.
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Fuzz posted:Imagine thinking you need a PCIe4 drive to run Fallout 1 and 2, though. You can get a 4TB external drive that will run the game perfectly fine with zero load times because it's still 20x faster than the drives from 1998, and it will run you barely $100 USD. But also? It's not my loving job to spend that hundred dollars because these assholes have decided that a game that fit on one CD should now be several gigs. Don't defend companies. Like, pretty much ever.
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Put me on team "Games that shipped on a CD shouldn't be gigabytes in size". I did a similar double take when I learned that the only way to play Warcraft 3 from the same CD key I've used since 2002 is a 30GB install. Apple charges $200 to upgrade from a 256GB disk to 512GB.
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https://store.steampowered.com/app/2570630/20_Small_Mazes/ this is a really fun, relatively short puzzle game
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I think games should be bigger. Let's get fallout to fifty gigs. fallout 2? more like fallout 2 terabytes!!! This is living in the future, baby!
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you can probably find some ai upscale pack that fits that requirement while also looking like poo poo
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Fuzz posted:Imagine thinking you need a PCIe4 drive to run Fallout 1 and 2, though. You can get a 4TB external drive that will run the game perfectly fine with zero load times because it's still 20x faster than the drives from 1998, and it will run you barely $100 USD. Can we not? $100 is a lot of money to a lot of people. If you have the games digitally then I dont think anyone will care if you download the disc images of the games and run them that way to save on space. Even if you dont own the games digitally I'm sure that no one will care if you download them.
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LividLiquid posted:Don't defend companies. Like, pretty much ever. Look at this jabroni who's clearly never heard of Corporate Social Responsibility
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Twerk from Home posted:
Lmao
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I agree that ballooning file sizes of games while sufficient SSD storage, which is becoming more and more necessary for modern games, is still somewhat hard to afford is an issue but How much gaming you doing on that Mac, bro
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Waffleman_ posted:
I actually used to play CS: GO on it regularly until they dropped Mac compatibility. I do wish that Valve would bring TF2 to Macs, seems like it should run well on just about anything. Maybe they could celebrate porting TF2 to Mac by giving out an in-game Apple Vision Pro or something?
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I like it when games are free, big games small games I'll take em all!! No downloads refused!
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i think the free games thread is probably the most acceptable place to post about being frugal without judgement
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Twerk from Home posted:Apple charges $200 to upgrade from a 256GB disk to 512GB. that's nearly $1/gigabyte lol, apple's hardware division is just criminal i recently paid 65 bux to add a second 1tb drive into an old laptop and just screwed it in myself without having to pay some dope at a "genius bar" to undo the special proprietary no-third-party-repairs-allowed glue that's literally 1/12 the price per gig as they're charging
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