Fancy that, Size on disk 10-15 Gb (merged)

[Tigrone]

Is 15 Gigs the free space needed to play, or is this the install size? 15 Gigs seems a lot if it's mainly an online game?

I'm afraid my old desktop does not meet the minimum spec, and my laptop will just barely meet them. This is looking expensive to upgrade too, even without the continuous connection problem, for an old retired Army guy.

Recommended system configuration
CPU: Intel® Core2Duo® E6850 or AMD® Athlon™ 64 X2 5600+ or higher
Operating System: Windows® XP (with Service Pack 3) or Windows Vista® (with Service Pack 2) or Windows® 7
RAM: 2 GB (XP / Vista / Win7)
DVD-ROM: DVD-ROM speed 4x, dual-layer drive
Recommended Drive Space: 15 GB
Video Card: 512 MB DirectX® 9.0c-compliant video card (ATI® Radeon HD3000 series / GeForce® 9 Series or better)
Sound Card: DirectX® 9.0c-compliant sound card
DirectX Version: DirectX 9.0c (included on disc)

[Sailor Steve]

It's not mainly an online game.




You just have to be online to play it.:damn:

[Iron Budokan]

Yeah, it's really not an online game. World of Warcraft is an online game, and therefore you need to be online to play it. Kinda makes sense. This is a solo game...that you have to be online to play.

I know. :damn:

[Boris]

These kinds of system requirements is just where games are headed...it's just the natural progression of things. 15 gigs is pretty huge, but not unacceptable in this day and age. Hard drive space is cheap.

As for the internet requirement... yeah, that sucks

[Brag]

You have to be online because it is not an online game that you play online. Ypu must be online though you don't need to be online but Ubi wants you to be online even if you don't want to be online. Is that online clear? :haha::haha:

My wallet is shut

Moo!

[Sailor Steve]

Oh, Balz!:dead:

[JU_88]

These kinds of system requirements is just where games are headed...it's just the natural progression of things. 15 gigs is pretty huge, but not unacceptable in this day and age. Hard drive space is cheap.

As for the internet requirement... yeah, that sucks

HHDs are very cheap, but its a pain in the ass replacing the system disk
and shifting all my data around

Last year I replaced my aging 80GB c:\ system drive with my 300GB movie drive. and replaced that a with a new 500GB...
Now i need to replace my 160GB RAID 1 disks with a pair of 1TBs
I just used them for Data that I really dont want to lose - like 3d work, mp3s etc, but they are almost full.

[frau kaleun]

You have to be online because it is not an online game that you play online. Ypu must be online though you don't need to be online but Ubi wants you to be online even if you don't want to be online.

Mai head jus' esploded.

[Panser]

These kinds of system requirements is just where games are headed...it's just the natural progression of things. 15 gigs is pretty huge, but not unacceptable in this day and age. Hard drive space is cheap.


Consider also that if you go back a decade, typical games had a comparatively larger footprint on the HDD than they do now.

Figuring that, as long as you are buying or building more than a budget system, a mid-spec desktop system would likely come with a 1TB drive, maybe even larger. A 15GB game therefore takes 1.5-2% of your HDD space once overheads and the cheeky metric capacity system manufacturers use are considered. Wind back ten years and you would be looking at 400-500MB being a fairly typical large game install size, with larger multiple-CD games potentially taking more.

Consider that a typical hard disk in the year 2000 was about 10-20GB and factor in the same losses as above (file allocation tables and metric to binary capacity conversion), a typical game footprint would be nearer 2.5-3% of the total HDD capacity.

Sure 15GB is a huge amount of data, but as consumers demand tastier visuals those textures are only going to get bigger and more numerous.
However, if you compare the demands of games to a contemporaneous PC, if anything, requirements are falling.

[Kimmers]

Arent games getting bigger, eh. according to the Sh5 website sh5 will take up 10gb of space apparently.

this better be brilliant, looks like im gonna have to pull some stuff off my machine to make room.

[jerm138]

Hard drives have gotten so cheap, it shouldn't be an issue.

I recently bought a 1TB WD Caviar for $100 and change.

[Highbury]

My rFactor install is over 35gb... hell my SHIV has almost 20 of mods! 10 isn't bad.

[Ducimus]

Im guessing voices and dialog options, with some higher res texture files in DDS format. Audio files are the ones that are the least compresson friendly and take up the most drive space. Next runner up is texture files.

[TteFAboB]

Indeed, I was surprised by Mass Effect taking up 10gbs as well, but the first such monster I came across was Medieval: Total War 2 Kingdom's expasion, also taking up 10gbs.

My problem is mixing work stuff and fun stuff in this computer, which eats up all my gbs, so I'm getting an external "back-up" HDD to dump all the work stuff into, which will release about 20gbs I believe, enough to install Mass Effect 2 and Silent Hunter 5 if they ever remove the insidious online-DRM.

[bigboywooly]

DVD-ROM: DVD-ROM speed 4x, dual-layer drive

Hmmmm didnt notice that bit before

[Safe-Keeper]

:turns back time a number of years to trying to install X-Com UFO Defense:

Hmm, lemme see, 20 Megabytes, what files can I remove to free that much space...

[FIREWALL]

It's very simple.

You buy the car. Ubisoft keeps control of the keys. :haha:

[Platapus]

Figuring that, as long as you are buying or building more than a budget system, a mid-spec desktop system would likely come with a 1TB drive, maybe even larger.


Sigh, I remember when DEC came out with one of the first commercial hard drives (1981, I think). It held 5 MB and cost about $5,000. I remember thinking to myself 5 MB? There is no way an individual would ever need to save 5 MB of data. :D

[MercurySeven]

Indeed, I was surprised by Mass Effect taking up 10gbs as well, but the first such monster I came across was Medieval: Total War 2 Kingdom's expasion, also taking up 10gbs.

Lets just hope that SH5 will install without similar usability bugs. Medieval 2 would only let me choose the drive I wanted to install on AFTER it checked and confirmed that the preselected drive (C) had enough free space. So no 10 GB free space on C, no install (even though D might have 500 GB free). :damn:

I barely managed to make enough room on C to install Medieval 2 back then. I wonder what I would do to free aditional 5 Gig on my C drive if SH5 had similar jokes up its sleves. ... Maybe delete Office ... :doh:

Then again, I've got enough time to set up a new system before there will maybe be an Online-Fix for the game. And given current disk prices anything below 80 GB would be a waste of money. With just Windows and a few Office applications on there this should be fine for any installer ****up then. :rotfl2:

[BulSoldier]

Funny the only thing on my pc that is enough for this monster is the ram memory. Though i believe it should run ok with anti alaising off. Fingers cross :)

Though you are right that HDD arent expensive but add these to all other stuff that could use and update and you end up with quite a bill :)

[Letum]

I hope it is available on floppy disk(s).

[onelifecrisis]

DVD-ROM: DVD-ROM speed 4x, dual-layer drive

Hmmmm didnt notice that bit before

er...
How do I know if my DVD ROM drive is dual layer or not? :-?

[karamazovnew]

er...
How do I know if my DVD ROM drive is dual layer or not? :-?

Have you ever used a DVD with more than 5 gigs? If so, then it's a dual layer.
Or, just look at the DVD drive to see if it has a Super Multi icon (2 vertical disks) on the left:

http://www.krunker.com/wp-content/uploads/2007/07/GGC-H20LI_thumb.jpg

[Galanti]

Im guessing voices and dialog options, with some higher res texture files in DDS format. Audio files are the ones that are the least compresson friendly and take up the most drive space. Next runner up is texture files.

Especially if there is a special soup for each day of the week, and each soup's texture clocks in an eye-popping 4096x4096 pixels.

I suspect you're right Ducimus, the greatly expanded interaction with the crew probably means there will be arseloads of dialog files.

[fromhell]

DVD-ROM: DVD-ROM speed 4x, dual-layer drive

Hmmmm didnt notice that bit before


what is duel layer???

[fromhell]

what is duel layer???


sorry, just read rest of thread so answered my question.:up:

[onelifecrisis]

Have you ever used a DVD with more than 5 gigs? If so, then it's a dual layer.
Or, just look at the DVD drive to see if it has a Super Multi icon (2 vertical disks) on the left:

http://www.krunker.com/wp-content/uploads/2007/07/GGC-H20LI_thumb.jpg

Thanks.
Mine just says "DVD Multi Player" (like this (http://www.matthawkins.co.uk/media/media_logos/dvd_multiplayer_logo.gif)). No other markings. I've no idea whether any of my DVDs have more than 5Gb on them. Hmm... does anyone know whether SH5 will be released on Steam?

[onelifecrisis]

Hmm... does anyone know whether SH5 will be released on Steam?

Aha! Looks like it might be...
http://store.steampowered.com/app/5578/

[Platapus]

Aha! Looks like it might be...
http://store.steampowered.com/app/5578/

I wonder how this will affect the requirement for constant connection?

I just noticed the ESRB rating for SH5. Comic Mischief.

I always knew there was something missing from SH3 and know I know. :shifty:

[FIREWALL]

My SH4 UBM 1.5 vanilla is 7.07 GB if anyones interested.

[bigboywooly]

Aha! Looks like it might be...
http://store.steampowered.com/app/5578/

Well lets hope so
I can live with connecting once every 15 days

Esp as I dont have a dual layer DVD drive
:rotfl2:

Though I do have a dual layer external somewhere
somewhere :damn:

[Hartmann]

the problem is when dialogs are always the same, when in a 6 months of patrols, when you walk along the submarine you know all types of soups and what the same crew will say every time. again and again :hmmm: