Why is my download so much larger?
Why is my download so much larger?
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Posted by: Illconceived Was Na.9781
The size of your gw2.dat varies with a number of things, including how your hard drive is formatted and which language options you have used. (I thought of practicing some Spanish, to better help a friend of mine who speaks it as a primary language) and I had to download all the relevant audio and text files. Wow. GW1 with multi-language support was a little bigger, but GW2 is…
Besides that, 120,000 files doesn’t mean much — a lot of those files are tiny.
tl;dr 25GB is big, but not crazy big. My own .DAT is up to nearly 22GB
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That doesn’t really help. It is the size of the total download that is the problem, not the .dat file. I’ve just passed 30 gigs downloaded and its still going with 51k files to go. My .dat file is only 17 gigs.
I’ve never seen a game download so much more than it installs. Normally it is the other way around as you download compressed files.
The google posts could be wrong, could be based on “I just installed with discs and now I have to download an installed another 15 gigs…”
Without knowing what posts you were looking at and if they were official words from Anet on the size of their game, if the download requires it, then you require those files.
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That doesn’t really help. It is the size of the total download that is the problem, not the .dat file. I’ve just passed 30 gigs downloaded and its still going with 51k files to go. My .dat file is only 17 gigs.
I’ve never seen a game download so much more than it installs. Normally it is the other way around as you download compressed files.
It is probably downloading patched files. The .dat file is likely to be around 20-24GB in total. Just because it is small now doesn’t mean it will stay small. The downloader is probably downloading temporary files that will then be unpacked into the .dat file.
You do have the option of playing the game while it installs (it downloads necessary files first), so you can probably play it already.
Mine is around 21GB but I have the English version installed. Localization of another language will certainly increase the size. Also, you cannot judge the final DB file size WHILE it’s downloading (GW2.DAT).
Please wait until the download completes before jumping to conclusions.
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Mine is around 21GB but I have the English version installed. Localization of another language will certainly increase the size. Also, you cannot judge the final DB file size WHILE it’s downloading (GW2.DAT).
Please wait until the download completes before jumping to conclusions.
So my download has finished. 33 GB downloaded, 21 GB total folder size.
That makes absolutely no sense. I’ve never seen a game download so much more than it installs.
Mine is around 21GB but I have the English version installed. Localization of another language will certainly increase the size. Also, you cannot judge the final DB file size WHILE it’s downloading (GW2.DAT).
Please wait until the download completes before jumping to conclusions.
So my download has finished. 33 GB downloaded, 21 GB total folder size.
That makes absolutely no sense. I’ve never seen a game download so much more than it installs.
Really? You’ve never had a game download the client and then continue to download patches? That’s most likely what it was doing. Can you image how difficult it would be to make it so that there was only ever one version of the .dat and still make sure that current players only had to download the most recent patch.
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So my download has finished. 33 GB downloaded, 21 GB total folder size.That makes absolutely no sense. I’ve never seen a game download so much more than it installs.
Where did you get the above numbers…especially the download number?
Even if what you are reporting as the downloaded value IS accurate or ONLY associated with the GW2 download, what difference does it make in the long run?
We go out in the world and take our chances
Fate is just the weight of circumstances
That’s the way that lady luck dances
Fate is just the weight of circumstances
That’s the way that lady luck dances
The downloaded components will be replacing files. After it is finished replacing those files, your total game folder size will be approximately 20 Gig.