Out of curiosity: How much space do your games take up?

Cyber Akuma

Cyber Akuma

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This is mainly directed at those who tend to not uninstall games often, if at all.

Roughly how large are your game folders? I haven't gamed on the PC for a while and wanted to get a rough estimate of how much space having several or dozens of modern games installed at the same time would take up. I tend to hit install-all on steam and rarely uninstall. Plus with modern games breaking the 10GB mark nowadays, I don't want to have to re-download games I feel like playing again due to uninstalling them to free space.
 
It was around 200GB, but I uninstalled some older games I probably won't play any time soon.
I figure that as long as most of my games are on Steam, I can trim up my installs a bit more. For instance, I doubt I'll be playing Assassin's Creed Revelations now that AC3 is out.
 
300~400GB myself. If I were to install all games that I own, I'd probably need the brand new WD Black 4GB to be safe since I'd keep all games installed plus the installer backups.
 
About 300GB on SSD for desktop @ home, 2TB~ for steam stuff thats not on the ssd @ home.
100GB~ on laptop for games on the go.
 
Steam folder is 400GB (all games installed), non-steam stuff (WoW, BF3, Crysis 2, etc) is 80-90GB.
 
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Non-Steam SSD: 120 GB, ~70% full
Steam SSD: 256 GB, ~80% full

Total ~290 GB

I probably have a small fraction of my Steam library installed at any given time, maybe at most 15-20 games.
 
I am around 500GB on 2 SSDs, 512Gb main SSD and 180GB secondary, i keep almost all games installed on the HTPC so anyone can play anything at any time.
 
About 3TB and counting... Very large collection of older games (Hyperspin/mame/ps1&2/snes,ect...) makes up about half of it. All of it being backed up as well.
 
yourgrandma said:
About 3TB and counting... Very large collection of older games (Hyperspin/mame/ps1&2/snes,ect...) makes up about half of it. All of it being backed up as well.
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Oh, well, I meant installed PC games. Not disk images or roms.

Sorry that I wasn't clear about that.

Mainly, I want to see if it would be financially feasible to install the OS and my games on a RAID 0 SSD without spending a fortune on storage alone. Stuff like disk images or roms can go on a standard sized HDD, not like the faster read speeds of the SSD will help disk images much.
 
I have a 2TB drive just for Steam that is full and around another 100GB on another drive for games that I don't have on Steam.
 
1.3tb

yourgrandma said:
About 3TB and counting... Very large collection of older games (Hyperspin/mame/ps1&2/snes,ect...) makes up about half of it. All of it being backed up as well.
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Ok if were including emu stuff yeah probably another TB
 
1.2TB, I don't uninstall steam games, I just swap to a bigger HDD.

Also I symbolic link my most played games to my SSD for faster loading speeds. BF3 and Skyrim are currently on there.
 
I just picked up a Kingston 3K 120GB SSD for about 55 dollars and I am dedicating it solely for Steam at the moment. I think I have Red Orchestra, Skyrim, Sleeping Dogs, and Far Cry 2 installed and I have like 80 GB left (out of 111 GB total storage). I don't have a huge back log like some people so this is manageable. Once I finish a game I will uninstall it to free up more space.
 
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The entire 750GB hard drive on my laptop (it has 2 HD's). I had to delete a few games I never play (backed up first of course) in order to download Assassin's Creed 3. THe only non-steam game on there is Diablo 3.

My desktop has an entire terabyte for games bt I'd say only around 800GB of it is full. I'd need a 2TB at least to install every Steam game and a 3TB if it was every game I own pre-steam.
 
Cyber Akuma said:
Oh, well, I meant installed PC games. Not disk images or roms.

Sorry that I wasn't clear about that.

Mainly, I want to see if it would be financially feasible to install the OS and my games on a RAID 0 SSD without spending a fortune on storage alone. Stuff like disk images or roms can go on a standard sized HDD, not like the faster read speeds of the SSD will help disk images much.
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If your using steam, there is some programs out there that will seamlessly transfer games from a regular mechanical hard drive to ssd. From my understanding, you install all the games to mechanical and then when you pick to play one for a while, run the program and transfer that game to ssd. So you get basically the benefit of both.
 
About 200 GB.

My main HD is 500 GB, cut up into a 300GB and 200 GB drive. I have a secondary physical drive that is 2TB.

Unfortunately, because I already have my games downloaded via the 300GB drive, I haven't found it in me to uninstall all games and relocate Steam games directory to the 2TB G: drive. If only Steam allowed a secondary install folder.
 
Steam games: 177 GB

The entirety of my Games folder on my F drive: (Includes Steam, Origin, MMOs, and non-Steam games)
425 GB
 
let me see its a 1tb drive and other than OS and games not much on it.. and its at 600gigs.. just checked 639gigs..

sheesh time to get a 2tb drive for main drive
 
Steam takes up almost 300GB now. Apart from that, another partition holds BF3, Diablo 3 and GW2, which totals up to about 40GB

So in total, 340GB

I wish SSD would become affordable enough that I could put all of that into a 500GB SSD drive
 
0 GB. I always delete my games and download them only before I'm ready to play them. It seems I'm in a minority here. Or actually the only one like that :)
 
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150gb Steam. 30gb others

Just bought a 1tb WD hdd and moved Steam over to it.
Now that I have more space I am installing some games just to have ready if I get the urge.
For example I installed Burnout Paridise just to rip around on a bike.
 
almalino said:
0 GB. I always delete my games and download them only before I'm ready to play them. It seems I'm in a minority here. Or actually the only one like that :)
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Sounds like me, except I always have one or two games installed, so I'd say around 20-40GB of games, no more. I only have a 128gb SSD, so I don't have tons of extra space. I uninstall once I get bored, and download a new game when I want to play a new game. Internet is quick enough nowadays to where I don't have to wait too long for the game to finish downloading.
 
160GB. I delete games if I know I'm not going to play them anymore. I have a 250GB SSD that is just for games, a smaller SSD just for windows, and a couple hard drives for other stuff.
 
I have 4 games that I always keep installed on my HDD so that's about 40GB, and add about 1 or 2 others that i work my way through so that's about another 20GB... so 60GB at most.
 
usually between 30~60gb, i only leave stuff that im currently playing installed.
 
Probably only ever about 150GB worth of games installed at any given time, which is quiet a few large games, really.

Once I feel I'm done with something, I just uninstall it, and reinstall if I ever get the bug to go back to a particular game.

I've never installed games anywhere but on my main drive, with all other drives always just for storage. I've never really seen the advantage of installing games on another drive.
 
Tzzird said:
If only Steam allowed a secondary install folder.
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It does...

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It's a beta client feature right now, and you must launch with -dev then put some code into the console (which I can't remember!). There was a post somewhere explaining how to do it but it works fine (though some games seem a bit odd with it the first time you launch). :D

Found it!

Guide on how to do it

Though installing DoW2:R on a SSD turned out to be a waste of time. The loading is no faster...:eek:
 
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I try to keep it efficient... I remove stuff when Im done playing. Got about 20GB of games installed... save game backups and mod backups in case I ever want to reinstall is a different story. Got about 100GB of those on the secondary HDD.
 
Zohar78 said:
If your using steam, there is some programs out there that will seamlessly transfer games from a regular mechanical hard drive to ssd. From my understanding, you install all the games to mechanical and then when you pick to play one for a while, run the program and transfer that game to ssd. So you get basically the benefit of both.
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Hmm, interesting. Do you manually tell it what games to move or does it just do it automatically? And if automatically, how does it know when to clear a game from SSD to make room for others?
 
Cyber Akuma said:
Hmm, interesting. Do you manually tell it what games to move or does it just do it automatically? And if automatically, how does it know when to clear a game from SSD to make room for others?
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My apologies if i misled you. I personally dont have an ssd, but my cousin does and he was the one that told me about it. i'm working 2nd shift tonight so it might be hard to get a hold of him. Hopefully a fellow member can help or as soon as i find out more detail ill reply. I think from what he said while back, if you going to play a game, you manually tell it to move that game over and it updates the path.
 
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