Ok but the updates are like ~1GB-~5GB on average meanwhile something like DBD always goes beyond 10GB in update size for me. That’s crazy.
Why does Helldivers 2 have such a bloated install size on PC? Old hard drives, says dev
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thatradomguy@lemmy.world 2 days ago
Sylvartas@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 day ago
Not surprising for a UE4 game. Unreal engine’s pak files are notorious for not playing nice with steam’s update system, where making even really small changes to a game’s data can cause huge portions of the file to change (and thus have to be redownloaded). Especially when using pak file compression, which most games use because it drastically reduces loading times
artyom@piefed.social 2 days ago
Who is running Helldivers on a HDD?
BootLoop@sh.itjust.works 2 days ago
I’ve got a smallish SSD for operating systems and a 4tb HDD for all my games installed. Think there’s a tb or two of games. Not going to drop hundreds of dollars to upgrade.
artyom@piefed.social 2 days ago
A 1TB SSD is \~$60
lost_faith@lemmy.ca 2 days ago
gf had a 120gb nvme as c and a 1tb platter as d, no physical space for another drive
87Six@lemmy.zip 2 days ago
“Ew how can people be so poor”
artyom@piefed.social 2 days ago
That’s not even remotely what I said and I don’t appreciate the insinuation.
SSDs have been very inexpensive for many years now. Enough that the power bill alone can offset the additional cost.
TheWeirdestCunt@lemmy.today 2 days ago
People who still have working HDDs I suppose. I only upgraded my drives to SSDs when they started dying, if they were still working fine I wouldn’t have considered replacing them yet.