World of warcraft install size
Not enough disk space???
#102 - Oct. 12, 2010, 7:12 p.m.
Q u o t e:
Can we have this restated with more clarity please? This message reads as if it were hastily typed and I don't feel comfortable following these directions. Can you start at the beginning and state your directions in a way that everyone, not just the technically elite, can understand?
I'm not sure if I can make it more simple. It's already simple.
1. Delete your World of Warcraft folder. That's your 3.x copy that's holding anywhere from 17 GB to 21 GB, depending on what you have. That will free up that much.
2. Go to www.battle.net/account and download the client. It's called InstallWoW.exe.
3. Run it, then pick Wrath or whatever account level you have. If you have Burning Crusade, you just pick Burning Crusade.
4. Install. It takes you straight to 4.0.1. You will just have the installer files (up to maybe 10 GB, I don't have the exact sizes on me) and the 21 GB client. That's a decent size that is less than doubling your current folder.
Now I made it even longer with explanation :P
Game size has massively increased
Dødowls-turalyon1
I was wondering why all of a sudden my game was stuttering and disconnecting.
Turned out that it was due to my dedicated WoW SSD organism full. The game is now over 100GB (with only a few addons) which means i can no longer hold it on my dedicated SSD and have had to move it to a slower drive.
I record the SSD requirements on WoW system have now been changed to 128GB of needed cosmos. Can wow file sized see at being reduced before its the only thing i can have on my PC?
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Grelier-sporeggar (Grelier) 2
Cheapest ~500 GB SSDs are around 30 euros. I suggest you get one (or preferrably least 1 TB one for about 60 euros) as there is no way you are able to fit OS and WoW on a ~100 GB drive.
Deliria-aggramar3
Given we are now on the tenth expansion (counting WOW Vanilla as 1) it’s hard to see how you would reasonably expect the size of the game to be smaller.
Saneko-ragnaros (Saneko) 4
They sometimes enhance things over patches but its unlikely that it will earn smaller by much. Each spread will bring additional content and it will be unavoidable that it takes extra space.
Evokus-ravencrest5
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World of Warcraft Game size
Izume-thunderlord1
Hi Blizz,
Long-time player here… Are there any plans to shrink the game size of World of Warcraft?
A friend who recently bought a new laptop downloaded the game onto it and told me that the game size was nearly 100GB of space!?! I find this a bit insane, considering the game engine, graphics, content etc. I vaguely recall that there was a shrink-down of the game file size in or around MoP-WoD days because many realized it became cumbersome. With the shrink-down came with it notable bug fixes and the game seemed to run smoothly for a while. My guess… though I don’t know for sure is that maybe some of the old code had been re-written/updated. Can we expect a code clean-up anytime soon?? The amount of bugs in each patch is getting really out of hand. Or can we expect a file size reduction soon?
As with the previous file size reduction, there was the removal of older content, which in all honestly I think most would be fine with. With the new catch-up system for alts, there is little to no way a single character can go through all of that content before being max level. There are some things I wouldn’t want to see gone though
Classic folder is 4GB, total size 49GB?
Thiella-golemagg1
I play only the classic and the game folder had the insane size of 49.2GB. I deleted it and reinstalled it and the total folder size is only 4GB. Come on 45GB of trash files on my SSD disc?
Make a garbage collector and run it from time to time to delete the useless files. Its really sad to increase the folder size with no reason at all.
Dottie-thunderhorn (Dottie) 2
I have always had problems installing on a SSD, it seems to double and sometimes triple the installation size. I once had to restart my machine 3 times to get it to install properly. Now I always install on a HDD then copy it across.
My total WoW folder is 67GB, you have to remember the Classic folder doesn’t hold the whole game.
Silmë-earthshaker3
This seems to be an issue on your local side.
Check that your Blizzard launcher ain’t installing Retail besides classic (Happens if you don’t notice that Retail is selected and click install)
The whole World of Warcraft folder shouldn’t be bigger than 4.6GB.
The only thing that could make it bigger is screenshots, since they get stored in game folder.
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Valkia-mirage-raceway4
Wow retail Size In GB
Boddhidharma-silvermoon1
So yesteday i got myself a samsung 990 pro 4 tb, well actuall i pruchased 3 of them my motherboard is only gen 4 compatible.
So i decided to move world of warcraft retail from my c driver to d drive, i then checked the size before uninstalling it and it was somewhere between 131-135 Gb.
I then reinstalled it to my d drive, and it told me the size was to be 121 Gb, but it was only downloading 107,73 Gb and when it had finished it was only 104 Gb.
Is that normal for a fresh install without addons to be 104 Gb when the old one was almost 135 Gb?
Grelier-sporeggar (Grelier) 2
Yes, old installation likely had all kinds of cache files (some which can be deleted to reduce space use).
Boddhidharma-silvermoon3
Ok, so yours is also 104 when downloaded and installed fresh?
Also did you notive how much it said the game should be in size when going thought where it should be installed? like 121 Gb To be downloaded and when downloading down to 107.73 Gb?
Grelier-sporeggar (Grelier) 4
I have never paid that much attention to it. My installation is not fresh and I am not going to reinstall it to just find out that.