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[Solved] Flash drive compression ratios

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Mikez   10-06-2009 at 04:38:34 PM

I have am 8 Gb flash drive, and I want to put GTA San Andres on it. GTA is about 4 Gigs by it's self. I was wondering what the compression ratios are for the driveis. I need about the game size in un-compressed drive space. I need to know it so i can write a program to compensate the slowness in the file.

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The compression ratio has nothing to do with the flash drive, it's determined by the compression algorithm and the data being compressed.
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ulysses35   10-06-2009 at 05:07:42 PM

Are you trying to run the game from the Flash Drive ? seriously flash drives are fine for storage - but to try and run the game would have severe performance issues

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Mikez   10-06-2009 at 06:10:42 PM

Well, yes and no. I would like to use it for both storage and gameplay. My friends have GTA 3 on the flashes and it runs fine. They also have AOE 2 on it, but that is an easy game, low usage. We try to do these things on school computers.

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Devastator_uk   10-06-2009 at 08:39:16 PM
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The compression ratio has nothing to do with the flash drive, it's determined by the compression algorithm and the data being compressed.

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Mikez   10-06-2009 at 08:50:09 PM

Okay. But how well would it work in a 2.0?

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