ARK: Survival Evolved + the 4 free DLC's is 207GB's on my PC

[Grimminski]

207GB.
200,700MB.
222,787,215,360B.

It was a ~65GB download. How. How the hell did it more than triple in size?

There's a 137GB's of fragmentation on my hard drive.

 

[Deleted member 52442]

If you think the file is too big, wait till you get a taste of the investment.

I thought my total gametime would amount to something like 1-2 weeks. My gametime is 541 hours and im 200 hours behind someone that I played with.

 

[Terror-Billy]

It's not worth the space, tbh.

 

[Jamrock User]

its only 60gb. The Ark editor musut have auto installed. Thats way over 100gb.

 

[Grimminski]

its only 60gb. The Ark editor musut have auto installed. Thats way over 100gb.

Click to shrink...

The editor is listed as a separate entry in the EGS library. Browsing through the folder, it looks like it installed *all* of the DLC, despite me not owning the paid stuff.

Hate when games do that.

 

[EloKa]

a) the update routine is kinda "strange" which causes the game to create a full shadow copy of itself
b) you have all DLC installed even if you don't own them
c) the files are are stored umcompressed which increases its its size by another 50% or so

You should be "happy" that you own the EGS version because this version does not support any kind of modding (which is the reason why you can't join most community servers). A single ARK mod can easily reach 10gb in filesize. There are ARK installations that are larger than 500gb. So yeah .. it's big.

 

[Grimminski]

a) the update routine is kinda "strange" which causes the game to create a full shadow copy of itself
b) you have all DLC installed even if you don't own them
c) the files are are stored umcompressed which increases its its size by another 50% or so

You should be "happy" that you own the EGS version because this version does not support any kind of modding (which is the reason why you can't join most community servers). ARK mods can easily take up anything between an additional 10gb and 200gb. There are ARK installations that are larger than 500gb or 1tb.

Click to shrink...

I...

Think I'm just going to bail. There's no excuse for any of that.

 

[bing]

I read somewhere that the devs didn't do a great job with compression

 

[Derktron]

Welcome to next generation of gaming, where games will require half of your hard drive space to run. I won't be surprised if they start making games where it's at 200 GB of space required.

 

[Trace]

I...

Think I'm just going to bail. There's no excuse for any of that.

Click to shrink...

You probably should bail anyway. Awful game with awful developers with shitty monetization practices.

 

[Nabs]

I welcome the Stadia/Nvidia GeForce Now future for these types of games.

 

[Dyno]

I...

Think I'm just going to bail. There's no excuse for any of that.

Click to shrink...

You've saved yourself an incredibly horrible experience. ARK is by no small margin the worst piece of crap I've ever played. I ran a community server and waited years for fixes and updates that were pegged for the first month before finally giving up on anything being fixed.

 

[RoboPlato]

ARK is a technical tire fire in every way, in every platform

 

[Rizific]

I wanted to reinstall modern warfare today and bnet says the download size is 212 GB. I said OK bye.

 

[Mirk]

I bought a 512gb NMVe just for ark and wow >.<

 

[monketron]

If you have all the additional maps, they really do add up space wise. The worst part is it needs probably the same amount of space to patch with. I had a 14gb patch once and had over 100gb free on the SSD and it still said not enough space to install. I literally had to delete everything off a 500gb SSD and only leave Ark on there to get it to patch. Stupid.

Game's awesome though. I tend to alternate between Ark/Conan/7 Days to Die. Play each for 2-3 months then switch, by the time each game comes around again there's usually enough new content to keep it fresh.

 

[mils]

This game sucks shit. What a waste of space.