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modern software install file question

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SpongeBob

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So I'm curious about something. I was thinking that when you would download say a Nvidia driver it would install/unpack the driver somewhere then install it on your OS. Then you could go back into a folder and say the last 3 drivers you installed and you have the files doing nothing but taking up space. Do games do the same thing? I recently downloaded Smite and Heroes of the storm which are both large games but I cannot find the downloaded 3-5gb files only the installed files. So I guess my question is why does some software do one thing and others do another or am I just not finding the useless install file somewhere?

Windows even lets you remove the downloaded files from their latest drivers in windows cleanup right? So I guess I just assume these large install files are sitting somewhere?
 
Man about heroes of the storm, wow, diablo 3, starcraft and many other games that you download require no setup. You do not download a compressed file or an exe file that you make the instalation and the files remain somewhere in the disk. So what you download are the game files it sellf that need no installation.
To prove this, you can copy the folder of Heroes of the storm and copy it to another PC and play directly with out install. You can even run the game from a usb stick.
 
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