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02-01-10, 05:18 PM
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Commander
 Join Date: Dec 2001
Location: Newport Beach, CA
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Fancy that, Size on disk 10-15 Gb (merged)
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)
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02-01-10, 05:25 PM
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Eternal Patrol
 Join Date: Nov 2002
Location: High in the mountains of Utah
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It's not mainly an online game.
You just have to be online to play it. 
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02-01-10, 05:31 PM
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Sea Lord
 Join Date: Dec 2006
Location: Texas
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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.
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02-01-10, 05:32 PM
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Sea Lord
Join Date: Jun 2005
Location: Hamburg, Germany
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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 |
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02-01-10, 05:32 PM
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Navy Seal
 Join Date: Nov 2006
Location: Docked on a Russian pond
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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?
 My wallet is shut Moo!
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02-01-10, 05:33 PM
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Eternal Patrol
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Oh, Balz!
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02-01-10, 06:05 PM
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Silent Hunter
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Location: UK
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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. |
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02-01-10, 06:32 PM
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Rear Admiral
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Location: Skyri--oh who are we kidding, I'm probably at Lowe's. Again.
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02-01-10, 06:59 PM
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Machinist's Mate
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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.
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02-01-10, 11:02 PM
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Bosun
 Join Date: Nov 2009
Location: in the desert yo
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Fancy that, 10gb.
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.
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02-01-10, 11:06 PM
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Watch Officer
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Hard drives have gotten so cheap, it shouldn't be an issue.
I recently bought a 1TB WD Caviar for $100 and change.
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02-01-10, 11:07 PM
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The Old Man
 Join Date: Oct 2005
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My rFactor install is over 35gb... hell my SHIV has almost 20 of mods! 10 isn't bad.
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02-01-10, 11:11 PM
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Rear Admiral
Join Date: May 2005
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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.
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02-01-10, 11:12 PM
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Admiral
 Join Date: Oct 2004
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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.
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02-02-10, 12:26 AM
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Rear Admiral
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Location: Swindon, England
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DVD-ROM: DVD-ROM speed 4x, dual-layer drive
Hmmmm didnt notice that bit before |
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