How big a download?

[porina]

I just got Doom "free" with a mobo purchase and started the download on Steam. 46GB... 46GB!!! This is quite possibly the biggest game I've download yet...

[Almighty_Spoon]

bf4 - i think that was 56gb

[iCrushDreams]

GTA V 59GB lol

[RollinLower]

as graphics keep improving, games will only get bigger in terms of filesize. so maybe in a few years we'll break the 100GB barrier?

[Cryosec]

2 minutes ago, RollinLower said:

as graphics keep improving, games will only get bigger in terms of filesize. so maybe in a few years we'll break the 100GB barrier?

100GB but with multiple terabyte storage devices. thing is, with limited internet speed a lot of people will have quite a big problem

[ratheesh]

In a country like India where fair user policy is active. The data is overwhelming. I wont buy this game just because of the size of it. 

But normally many wont be knowing about the size of the game before buying it.

[Jack Longman]

10 minutes ago, porina said:

I just got Doom "free" with a mobo purchase and started the download on Steam. 46GB... 46GB!!! This is quite possibly the biggest game I've download yet...

just wait till you buy more games in the future, GTA V is about 65gb, even fallout 4 with not amazing graphics (not complaining) was 40 gb, i kinda miss the days of one disk/cartridge and all your game is ready

[ERSCreeper]

12 minutes ago, Almighty_Spoon said:

bf4 - i think that was 56gb

65GB

[mariushm]

@ratheesh

 

Ask a friend on Steam who has the game to create a backup of their Doom game and burn 10-15 DVDs with the backup (the backup tool in Steam should split the backup in 4.7 GB pieces ready to be burned on DVDs) and mail them to you.  He just has to right click on the game, and select Backup game files...   In about a week you get the game in the mail and it only costs about 3$ for the dvds and about 2$ for postage.

 

When the discs arrive to you, simply run to the installer from the first DVD and install their backup into your Steam installation, then go to the game entry and right click on it, hit Properties and in "Local Files" select "Verify integrity and game cache" and Steam should download only what's missing or invalid for your (because it's keyed for other users' copy).

 

[RollinLower]

12 minutes ago, Jack Longman said:

just wait till you buy more games in the future, GTA V is about 65gb, even fallout 4 with not amazing graphics (not complaining) was 40 gb, i kinda miss the days of one disk/cartridge and all your game is ready

i agree to some extend. true, just popping in a cartridge would be much easier, but that also severely limits what the developers can put in the game, since physical media has a limit in terms of maximum size.

maybe if they started selling games on USB thumb drives?

[iCrushDreams]

I wish you could choose what resolution to download a game at.

 

Dear game developers, can I PLEASE download a 1080p version of a game if I know 100% that I'm never going to play it in a higher resolution? Save me time waiting and space on my hard drive for something I'm never going to use!

[typographie]

38 minutes ago, ratheesh said:

But normally many wont be knowing about the size of the game before buying it.

It's in the system requirements:

 

 

Of course I know installed size isn't the same as download size (55 vs. 46 GB in this case I guess), but you can be sure a small download isn't going to expand to 55 GB.

[porina]

Over 2 hours in, I've got nearly 35GB downloaded (capped at 5MB/s so it doesn't cripple everything else on the network). I look forward to not playing like most of the other games in my steam library.

[Squirrel724]

The biggest PC game I have is BF4 at 60 something GB. The title for biggest game goes to Halo 5 on Xbox one which is over 86GB and rapidly approaching 90GB with additional content added with every update.

[ogretactics]

Battlefield 4 is 60+ and Battlefield Hardline is 66GB...DICE needs to get that shit under control.

[mariushm]

Lots of games these days are "optimized" to reduce game loading times by streaming resources into the game as you go through the level, when needed.

For this reason, some game files are often stored multiple times on the disk as a way to prevent game stuttering due to classic mechanical hard drive having to move their heads in several locations to read multiple files at same time.

 

So for example, for each level you may have a large single file with gigabytes of content which is sequentially loaded as you advance through the game level or as the game can dump content it knows it won't be seen again (for example like when player goes through a cutscene, after that voices for that cutscene can be dumped because you won't see cutscene again unless you reload checkpoint/level) but in those gigabytes of content you may have a few hundred megs of "critical"  sounds and textures they want to make sure they're always loaded and kept ready in memory. 

 

You also have to think of this as a consequence of porting games from consoles. Consoles like PS4 if I remember correctly have 8 GB of memory which is shared with the video card so console games have to load and dump content more often from memory. They optimize the games to constantly load the content from disk, and it makes sense then to prevent the disk from reading from multiple locations and just keep reading a single unfragmented file for each level instead.