Has the game size increased after update?

UglyBunnyCu

"the launcher has detected you do not have enough hard drive space free to update the game"
how much more space do i need if its not 85gb anymore?

VexingArcanist

The Summerset expansion is ~9gb. Of course if you are getting Morrowind bundled with it that would go larger. Also when I went through the process the game went through an update process on ~53gb? I assumed it was my current game files being patched. How does ZOS handle this process? Do they make a dupilcate folder and run it through that? This I do not know.

Perhaps you need to make sure the directories involved have write permissions.

Chicharron

mine is 67.6 GB

Rosveen

You need more space for the installation process than the game will actually take on the hard drive.

zaria

Rosveen wrote: »

You need more space for the installation process than the game will actually take on the hard drive.

Yes, it need to keep the downloaded files, the extracted ones and the old ones at once.
You could do this gradually but this is harder to program and will ruin both your download and existing game if anything goes wrong. Now ruining the existing game for an MMO who require newest version is not an major issue but installation programs are something you buy and they are designed for other software to there you want update to roll back on previous version if fails.

Orange_fire_dragon

Chicharron wrote: »

mine is 67.6 GB

Mine is 79GB wut...

UglyBunnyCu

i have about 95 gb free space, that isn't enough?

Darlon

VexingArcanist wrote: »

The Summerset expansion is ~9gb. Of course if you are getting Morrowind bundled with it that would go larger. Also when I went through the process the game went through an update process on ~53gb? I assumed it was my current game files being patched. How does ZOS handle this process? Do they make a dupilcate folder and run it through that? This I do not know.

Perhaps you need to make sure the directories involved have write permissions.

Whether you get morrowind bundled or not does not matter, the client is the same regardless, and it will have all game assets downloaded, whether you have morrowind or not...

D0PAMINE

Piraja27 wrote: »

Chicharron wrote: »

mine is 67.6 GB

Mine is 79GB wut...

Addons and saved variables as well as screenshots and probably other things as well.

Odnoc

To answer your first question, yes, usually games do increase in size with updated. Your subsequent questions, you probably need space for temp files and such.

UglyBunnyCu

Odnoc wrote: »

To answer your first question, yes, usually games do increase in size with updated. Your subsequent questions, you probably need space for temp files and such.

i can't really afford anymore space? do i need to get new computer now

SBC

UglyBunnyCu wrote: »

Odnoc wrote: »

To answer your first question, yes, usually games do increase in size with updated. Your subsequent questions, you probably need space for temp files and such.

i can't really afford anymore space? do i need to get new computer now

Why would you get a new computer?

JaZ2091

UglyBunnyCu wrote: »

Odnoc wrote: »

To answer your first question, yes, usually games do increase in size with updated. Your subsequent questions, you probably need space for temp files and such.

i can't really afford anymore space? do i need to get new computer now

Just buy a harddrive. If you have a laptop get an external one.

UglyBunnyCu

JaZ2091 wrote: »

UglyBunnyCu wrote: »

Odnoc wrote: »

To answer your first question, yes, usually games do increase in size with updated. Your subsequent questions, you probably need space for temp files and such.

i can't really afford anymore space? do i need to get new computer now

Just buy a harddrive. If you have a laptop get an external one.

I have no idea how these things work, and yeah i have msi laptop

Slick_007

i use an external hard drive for my steam games. makes them portable between my desktop and laptop. though with the difference an ssd makes to eso, if you go external, id suggest an ssd.

kyle.wilson

Most gaming laptops have room for additional hard drives, so that would be an option.

or something like the Samsung T5 external SSD.
https://www.amazon.com/Samsung-T5-Portable-SSD-MU-PA500B/dp/B073GZBT36/ref=sr_1_3?ie=UTF8&qid=1527984180&sr=8-3&keywords=samsung+t5&dpID=318I0KrjRKL&preST=_SX300_QL70_&dpSrc=srch


This is the size if the PTS is also downloaded.

DanteYoda

Mines 67.6 GB wtf... It's probably double that when you install..

Also a heads up i'm on Win 7 not Win 10.

UglyBunnyCu

DanteYoda wrote: »

Mines 67.6 GB wtf... It's probably double that when you install..

Also a heads up i'm on Win 7 not Win 10.

If you're talking about the game wanting you to install twice i already fixed it, launcher just always gives small updates that i seemingly cannot afford anymore. I'm also using steam version.

-Store page says game requires 85 gb, so when i always play the game i have about 10 gb left and everything worked fine until summerset, so i assume you purchase dlc's or not the their data will still be installed in your computer

UglyBunnyCu

Is it possible to download eso here even i bought it on steam?

UglyBunnyCu

UglyBunnyCu wrote: »

Is it possible to download eso here even i bought it on steam?

bump, really wanna play the game

DanteYoda

UglyBunnyCu wrote: »

Is it possible to download eso here even i bought it on steam?

I do not believe so no..

UglyBunnyCu

so if this oversize issue only occurs in steam version are we getting fix for that as well?

UglyBunnyCu

can more people tell me what is their game size when bought from website? its crazy that i need over 95 gb it cant be

Gythral

Could easily use 135 GB when downloading it the first time - downland + install
as the install is now 67.6 GB (72,669,698,779 bytes)

UglyBunnyCu

Gythral wrote: »

Could easily use 135 GB when downloading it the first time - downland + install
as the install is now 67.6 GB (72,669,698,779 bytes)

But i was able to download and play it fine before summerset came out