4.5 gigs of HD space?

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Does HL2 really take up 4.5 gigs of hard drive? That can't be right. I
don't have that much room. I already have steam will that matter?

Thanks

 

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I have HL2 downloaded via Steam and the folder is over 7gb in size :-o

"Don Moore" <willyworm_99@yahoo.com> wrote in message
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> Does HL2 really take up 4.5 gigs of hard drive? That can't be right. I
> don't have that much room. I already have steam will that matter?
>
> Thanks
>
>

 

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Don Moore wrote:
> Does HL2 really take up 4.5 gigs of hard drive? That can't be right. I
> don't have that much room. I already have steam will that matter?
>
> Thanks
>
>
>
>

The contents of my Valve directory sum up to 4.51 GB. This included
HL2, CS:S, HL2DM, and the dedicated server files

 

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"LoTekGuru" <lotekguru@NO.SPAM.insightbb.com> wrote in message
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> Don Moore wrote:
>> Does HL2 really take up 4.5 gigs of hard drive? That can't be right. I
>> don't have that much room. I already have steam will that matter?
>>
>> Thanks
>>
>>
>>
>>
>
> The contents of my Valve directory sum up to 4.51 GB. This included HL2,
> CS:S, HL2DM, and the dedicated server files
>
>

My Steam folder currently sits exactly on 10.0 Gb's.
4.5 for a game now is large but getting the norm specially for on-line games
for maps and mods etc.

 

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"General Panic" <boskofportkarMAPS@hotmail.com> wrote in message
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>
> "LoTekGuru" <lotekguru@NO.SPAM.insightbb.com> wrote in message
> news:z3AAd.300720$HA.12041@attbi_s01...
>> Don Moore wrote:
>>> Does HL2 really take up 4.5 gigs of hard drive? That can't be right. I
>>> don't have that much room. I already have steam will that matter?
>>>
>>> Thanks
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>
>> The contents of my Valve directory sum up to 4.51 GB. This included HL2,
>> CS:S, HL2DM, and the dedicated server files
>>
>>
>
> My Steam folder currently sits exactly on 10.0 Gb's.
> 4.5 for a game now is large but getting the norm specially for on-line
> games for maps and mods etc.

I'll add in that Z:\games\Steam for me is 5.91GB - 947 files 126 folders.
Thats got most of the Half-life games and variants in. (But no mods)

 

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Don Moore wrote:
> Does HL2 really take up 4.5 gigs of hard drive? That can't be right. I
> don't have that much room. I already have steam will that matter?
>
> Thanks
>
>
From my experience be sure that you have several gigs of free space,
defrag, etc. or the game will drag.

 

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"Don Moore" wrote

> Does HL2 really take up 4.5 gigs of hard drive? That can't be right. I
> don't have that much room. I already have steam will that matter?
>
7.6 gig on my laptop (including source sdk and various tools)
Add 610 MB for the XSI Mod Tool

I'll get the size for the others pc's later
But beware these installations is huuuuge due to countless hl1 mods

- Peter

 

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5.1 for HL2 retail with SDK

3.5 for Farcry
7.2 for Battlefield 1942 with the major mods.

Large, but middle of the road for most games in terms of size.

 

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"Peter Lykkegaard" wrote

> I'll get the size for the others pc's later
> But beware these installations is huuuuge due to countless hl1 mods
>
Hehe, just got the size of the steam folder for one of them
~ 20 Gig with ~ 50.000 files

OMG - Peter

 

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Don Moore wrote:
> Does HL2 really take up 4.5 gigs of hard drive? That can't be right. I
> don't have that much room. I already have steam will that matter?
>
> Thanks
>
>

5.6GB here. Just HL, HL2, OpFor, CS:S and SDK.

 

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jOhN wrote:

> Don Moore wrote:
>
>> Does HL2 really take up 4.5 gigs of hard drive? That can't be right. I
>> don't have that much room. I already have steam will that matter?
>>
>> Thanks
>>
>>
> From my experience be sure that you have several gigs of free space,
> defrag, etc. or the game will drag.

If you want those long loading-screens to get as short as possible, get
the Steam files onto a fast and emty drive after it is downloaded. It's
the only way to ensure fast and sequential access. Just update the
shortcuts and delete the clientregistry.blob-file, and Steam will adapt
to a new location.

Use some kind of benchmark-tool to measure your hard drives. Raptortest
is my favourite, as it simulates a regular application using the drive
as buffer. A modern SATA-drive should give 60 MB/s effective transfer
rate, and that should cut the loading time between maps down to seconds.

--
Robert Aksland

 

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1gig of hard drive space == 50 p (UK) = $1 (USA)

Free HD slots/cables arent a problem anymore either - just connected a 200gig HD via an external
USB connector/box to my rig. works a treat...

S


Don Moore wrote:
> Does HL2 really take up 4.5 gigs of hard drive? That can't be right.
> I don't have that much room. I already have steam will that matter?
>
> Thanks

 

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In article <41d37850$0$21397$afc38c87@auth.uk.news.easynet.net>, "Sham B" <replytothislist@nomail.com> wrote:
>1gig of hard drive space == 50 p (UK) = $1 (USA)
>
>Free HD slots/cables arent a problem anymore either - just connected a 200gig
> HD via an external
>USB connector/box to my rig. works a treat...
>
>S
>
>
>Don Moore wrote:
>> Does HL2 really take up 4.5 gigs of hard drive? That can't be right.
>> I don't have that much room. I already have steam will that matter?
>>
>> Thanks


Even less than that on sale. One of our local vendors just advertised a 60 Gb
Maxtor drive for a whopping $38 after instant rebate... >8^>

 

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"Mike" <noone@nowhere.net> wrote in message
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> In article <41d37850$0$21397$afc38c87@auth.uk.news.easynet.net>, "Sham B"
<replytothislist@nomail.com> wrote:
> >1gig of hard drive space == 50 p (UK) = $1 (USA)
> >
> >Free HD slots/cables arent a problem anymore either - just connected a
200gig
> > HD via an external
> >USB connector/box to my rig. works a treat...
> >
> >S
> >
> >
> >Don Moore wrote:
> >> Does HL2 really take up 4.5 gigs of hard drive? That can't be right.
> >> I don't have that much room. I already have steam will that matter?
> >>
> >> Thanks
>
>
> Even less than that on sale. One of our local vendors just advertised a
60 Gb
> Maxtor drive for a whopping $38 after instant rebate... >8^>


Thanks for the responses everyone. Looks like I'm off to get another hard
drive.

 

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Robert Aksland wrote:
> jOhN wrote:
>
>> Don Moore wrote:
>>
>>> Does HL2 really take up 4.5 gigs of hard drive? That can't be right. I
>>> don't have that much room. I already have steam will that matter?
>>>
>>> Thanks
>>>
>>>
>> From my experience be sure that you have several gigs of free space,
>> defrag, etc. or the game will drag.
>
>
> If you want those long loading-screens to get as short as possible, get
> the Steam files onto a fast and emty drive after it is downloaded. It's
> the only way to ensure fast and sequential access. Just update the
> shortcuts and delete the clientregistry.blob-file, and Steam will adapt
> to a new location.
>
> Use some kind of benchmark-tool to measure your hard drives. Raptortest
> is my favourite, as it simulates a regular application using the drive
> as buffer. A modern SATA-drive should give 60 MB/s effective transfer
> rate, and that should cut the loading time between maps down to seconds.
>

Yeah I've got most of my games sitting on an SATA drive (albeit 7200
RPM) As soon as I can afford it I'm going to try to get a couple 10K
Raptors and put them in a RAID-0 array... I hate waiting This
unfortunately won't happen till after I upgrade my RAM to 1GB and
upgrade my video card (currently a overclocked 9500 Pro) though.

 

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>> Don Moore wrote:
>>> Does HL2 really take up 4.5 gigs of hard drive? That can't be
>>> right. I don't have that much room. I already have steam will that
>>> matter?
>>>
>>> Thanks
>
>
> Even less than that on sale. One of our local vendors just
> advertised a 60 Gb
> Maxtor drive for a whopping $38 after instant rebate... >8^>

Make sure the HD has at least a 3 year warranty, especially if they seem to be sold for suspiciously
less than others. The one year warranty ones tend to last two years tops, or even less than one year
if you do a lot of overnight DLing (which you will be doing a lot of with that damn Steam
missapplication

Dont touch IBM/Hitachi deskstar (Ive had three fail within 6 months of purchase). they say they've
sorted em out, but I dont believe it looking at the forums.

S

 

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In the times of Yore, approximately 3 moons after Thu, 30 Dec 2004 15:52:30 -0000, there was a signal
from the heavens from where the angel "Sham B" <replytothislist@nomail.com> emblazoned these words across
the heavens:

>Dont touch IBM/Hitachi deskstar (Ive had three fail within 6 months of purchase). they say they've
>sorted em out, but I dont believe it looking at the forums.

I have 3 deskstars - one's 3 years old, one's 2 years and I have one in my MP3 player thats almost a year
old. No problems - highly recommended...

Civilian_Target
---
"The great thing about pessimism is that you are either 'right as usual' or 'pleasently surprised'

 

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On Thu, 30 Dec 2004 16:13:20 +0000, Civilian_Target
<tadhgpNOSPAM@bigfoot.com> wrote:

>>Dont touch IBM/Hitachi deskstar (Ive had three fail within 6 months of purchase). they say they've
>>sorted em out, but I dont believe it looking at the forums.
>
>I have 3 deskstars - one's 3 years old, one's 2 years and I have one in my MP3 player thats almost a year
>old. No problems - highly recommended...

I had two out of the three Deathstars I have owned break on me, the
only drives out of about eight drives from various manufacturers I
have had to do so.
--
Andrew, contact via interpleb.blogspot.com
Help make Usenet a better place: English is read downwards,
please don't top post. Trim replies to quote only relevant text.
Check groups.google.com before asking an obvious question.

 

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Andrew wrote:
> On Thu, 30 Dec 2004 16:13:20 +0000, Civilian_Target
> <tadhgpNOSPAM@bigfoot.com> wrote:
>
>
>>>Dont touch IBM/Hitachi deskstar (Ive had three fail within 6 months of purchase). they say they've
>>>sorted em out, but I dont believe it looking at the forums.
>>
>>I have 3 deskstars - one's 3 years old, one's 2 years and I have one in my MP3 player thats almost a year
>>old. No problems - highly recommended...
>
>
> I had two out of the three Deathstars I have owned break on me, the
> only drives out of about eight drives from various manufacturers I
> have had to do so.

I had one die on me also. I bought two at the same time from the same
vendor for a RAID array... damn fast drives, and quiet too... but after
losing everything in the array suddenly and having to low-level format
the working drive to get it usable as a stand-alone drive, I stick with
WD from now on.

 

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Civilian_Target wrote:
> In the times of Yore, approximately 3 moons after Thu, 30 Dec 2004 15:52:30 -0000, there was a signal
> from the heavens from where the angel "Sham B" <replytothislist@nomail.com> emblazoned these words across
> the heavens:
>
>
>>Dont touch IBM/Hitachi deskstar (Ive had three fail within 6 months of purchase). they say they've
>>sorted em out, but I dont believe it looking at the forums.
>
>
> I have 3 deskstars - one's 3 years old, one's 2 years and I have one in my MP3 player thats almost a year
> old. No problems - highly recommended...

I gotta say, after my experiences with 2 of the 75GXPs i'd be hesitant
to ever return to IBM/Hitachi HDs ever again.. The most annoying part of
it was that I deliberately bought IBM because I was only interested in
buying solid reliable stuff :-/


--
Ben Cottrell AKA Bench

 

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WD, WD, WD, all the way....

On Fri, 31 Dec 2004 00:42:18 +0000, Ben Cottrell
<bench@bench333.screaming.net> wrote:

>Civilian_Target wrote:
>> In the times of Yore, approximately 3 moons after Thu, 30 Dec 2004 15:52:30 -0000, there was a signal
>> from the heavens from where the angel "Sham B" <replytothislist@nomail.com> emblazoned these words across
>> the heavens:
>>
>>
>>>Dont touch IBM/Hitachi deskstar (Ive had three fail within 6 months of purchase). they say they've
>>>sorted em out, but I dont believe it looking at the forums.
>>
>>
>> I have 3 deskstars - one's 3 years old, one's 2 years and I have one in my MP3 player thats almost a year
>> old. No problems - highly recommended...
>
>I gotta say, after my experiences with 2 of the 75GXPs i'd be hesitant
>to ever return to IBM/Hitachi HDs ever again.. The most annoying part of
>it was that I deliberately bought IBM because I was only interested in
>buying solid reliable stuff :-/



"Life should NOT be a journey to the grave with
the intention of arriving safely in an attractive
and well preserved body, but rather to skid in
sideways, cigar in one hand, favorite beverage in
the other, body thoroughly used up, totally worn out,
and screaming WOO HOO - What a Ride!"

 

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Where did you get that great quote/statement? I am taking it! Best thing
I've read on this newsgroup in an age.

Scott in Austin MN

"Cannon Fodder" <gonfishn@airmail.net> wrote in message
>
> "Life should NOT be a journey to the grave with
> the intention of arriving safely in an attractive
> and well preserved body, but rather to skid in
> sideways, cigar in one hand, favorite beverage in
> the other, body thoroughly used up, totally worn out,
> and screaming WOO HOO - What a Ride!"

 

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"Scott Richardson" <srichard@charter.net> wrote in message
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> Where did you get that great quote/statement? I am taking it! Best
> thing I've read on this newsgroup in an age.
>
> Scott in Austin MN
>
> "Cannon Fodder" <gonfishn@airmail.net> wrote in message
>>
>> "Life should NOT be a journey to the grave with
>> the intention of arriving safely in an attractive
>> and well preserved body, but rather to skid in
>> sideways, cigar in one hand, favorite beverage in
>> the other, body thoroughly used up, totally worn out,
>> and screaming WOO HOO - What a Ride!"

I think the old fart...er...*CF* I mean....wrote it
McG.

 

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My sister-in-law E-mailed it to me sometime ago... Don't know the
origin even though I've searched high and low... Sure sounds like W.C.
Fields though....

On Fri, 31 Dec 2004 10:22:36 -0600, "Scott Richardson"
<srichard@charter.net> wrote:

>
>Where did you get that great quote/statement? I am taking it! Best thing
>I've read on this newsgroup in an age.
>
>Scott in Austin MN
>
>"Cannon Fodder" <gonfishn@airmail.net> wrote in message
>>
>> "Life should NOT be a journey to the grave with
>> the intention of arriving safely in an attractive
>> and well preserved body, but rather to skid in
>> sideways, cigar in one hand, favorite beverage in
>> the other, body thoroughly used up, totally worn out,
>> and screaming WOO HOO - What a Ride!"
>



"Life should NOT be a journey to the grave with
the intention of arriving safely in an attractive
and well preserved body, but rather to skid in
sideways, cigar in one hand, favorite beverage in
the other, body thoroughly used up, totally worn out,
and screaming WOO HOO - What a Ride!"

 

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Could be George Carlin, Rodney Dangerfield, Don Rickles, Jimmy Durante
or even more likely that OLD geezer that recently skidded into a coffin
with a Scotch on the rocks in one hand and a Havana in the other....
George Burns.

"Cannon Fodder" <gonfishn@airmail.net> wrote in message
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> My sister-in-law E-mailed it to me sometime ago... Don't know the
> origin even though I've searched high and low... Sure sounds like W.C.
> Fields though....
>
> On Fri, 31 Dec 2004 10:22:36 -0600, "Scott Richardson"
> <srichard@charter.net> wrote:
>
>>
>> Where did you get that great quote/statement? I am taking it! Best
>> thing I've read on this newsgroup in an age.
>>
>> Scott in Austin MN
>>
>> "Cannon Fodder" <gonfishn@airmail.net> wrote in message
>>>
>>> "Life should NOT be a journey to the grave with
>>> the intention of arriving safely in an attractive
>>> and well preserved body, but rather to skid in
>>> sideways, cigar in one hand, favorite beverage in
>>> the other, body thoroughly used up, totally worn out,
>>> and screaming WOO HOO - What a Ride!"
>>
>
>
>
> "Life should NOT be a journey to the grave with
> the intention of arriving safely in an attractive
> and well preserved body, but rather to skid in
> sideways, cigar in one hand, favorite beverage in
> the other, body thoroughly used up, totally worn out,
> and screaming WOO HOO - What a Ride!"