15th August 2023, 3:43 AM
(Damnit why is the reply and edit button so similar? Sorry!)
It's 108GB, which is still huge. It's almost the full capacity of a quad layer bluray. At that sheer size, it's no wonder they want an SSD. It's just math at that point. It takes forever to stream that much data off a magnetic disc. Also, I'd recommend not even bothering with a SATA SSD. Go with full NVME SSD. Basically, we're entering a new era.
I saw the same thing installing the recent remake of Dead Space. I've got a TB of NVME SSD storage in my PC, but it's not my primary storage. I set my swap file (both of them) to that drive, but it's not quite as good as just making the new drive my main. It's just... I've not reinstalled my OS from scratch in.... ever... since the Windows 3.11 days. I've got all these customizations spanning decades I'm worried to lose. (Also, I am NOT interested in upgrading to Windows 11 just yet...) That, plus I don't yet have a card that accelerates ray tracing. It's about time for my next major upgrade for sure.... still, even without all that the game's still running and working great on my PC.
It's 108GB, which is still huge. It's almost the full capacity of a quad layer bluray. At that sheer size, it's no wonder they want an SSD. It's just math at that point. It takes forever to stream that much data off a magnetic disc. Also, I'd recommend not even bothering with a SATA SSD. Go with full NVME SSD. Basically, we're entering a new era.
I saw the same thing installing the recent remake of Dead Space. I've got a TB of NVME SSD storage in my PC, but it's not my primary storage. I set my swap file (both of them) to that drive, but it's not quite as good as just making the new drive my main. It's just... I've not reinstalled my OS from scratch in.... ever... since the Windows 3.11 days. I've got all these customizations spanning decades I'm worried to lose. (Also, I am NOT interested in upgrading to Windows 11 just yet...) That, plus I don't yet have a card that accelerates ray tracing. It's about time for my next major upgrade for sure.... still, even without all that the game's still running and working great on my PC.
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