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[Sordal]

I bought the Digital collector edition and Im just wondering does anyone know if there will be a preload for this game on Steam, The info will be great appreciated if they know the bioware has annouced anything. 

[Falmung]

You should probably ask that at Steam. I don't think its on BIoware's hands to do so. But people have already asked that at steam as well. No response. You'll just have to wait and find out. Bought Deluxe Edition too. Will be seeing you at the game after my massive download.....I wish it has preload as well. I only have 512 dsl so it would suck having to wait a week after release for it to download completely meanwhile everyone else play and beat the game.

[Sordal]

i get mbps a second so im hoping it wont be to bad =)

[Halfcab]

How many gigs is it supposed to be?

[jabels001]

20 gigs is what gamestop website says which is who im buying it with since I simply can't wait the 4 to 6 hrs that would take to download...

[MacMichael]

If the game is shipping on one DVD, the download shouldn't be anymore than 8.5GB.

[BelgusTradis]

Good call! Maybe the files are compressed.

[cyanrabbit]

from the devs, the install should be about 16-17 gig, end of line.

[Deckus]

the installer is 16-17 gig or the total install is 16-17 gig?

I'm hoping for approx 10 gig as Australian internet plans are crap

[cyanrabbit]

install 16-17 gig, which installs the 20 Gig monster of a game that is DAO

[Crunchyinmilk]

cyanrabbit wrote...

from the devs, the install should be about 16-17 gig, end of line.

Where is this posted?

--edit--

http://www.dragonage...ngle/1254849360

Derek French ~ Technical Producer
It's just RAR files, same as Mass Effect. The game is manufactured on DVD9s and my current English install is 15.2 GB (16,403,644,805 bytes).

I'm expecting a digital download of around 9 to 10 gigs. Crossing fingers no surprises or having to re-download corrupt files. Once will be enough under Australia's current internet pricing and plans.

Modifié par Crunchyinmilk, 20 octobre 2009 - 07:06 .

[MacMichael]

Crunchyinmilk wrote:

http://www.dragonagecentral.com/single/1254849360

Derek French ~ Technical Producer
It's just RAR files, same as Mass Effect. The game is manufactured on DVD9s and my current English install is 15.2 GB (16,403,644,805 bytes).

I'm expecting a digital download of around 9 to 10 gigs. Crossing fingers no surprises or having to re-download corrupt files. Once will be enough under Australia's current internet pricing and plans.

http://www.afterdawn...terms/dvd-9.cfm

DVD-9 can hold approximately 7.95 gigabytes of data, even though marketers like to use the 8.5GB value instead, but this is misleading and is calculated by using so-called "Japanese gigabytes" which means that gigabyte is calculated as 1,000 megabytes, but in real computer terminology, gigabyte is 1,024 megabytes.

So, we should be looking at about an 8GB download, not counting the DLC.

Modifié par MacMichael, 20 octobre 2009 - 07:46 .

[cyanrabbit]

Crunchyinmilk wrote...

cyanrabbit wrote...

from the devs, the install should be about 16-17 gig, end of line.

Where is this posted?

--edit--

http://www.dragonage...ngle/1254849360

Derek French ~ Technical Producer
It's just RAR files, same as Mass Effect. The game is manufactured on DVD9s and my current English install is 15.2 GB (16,403,644,805 bytes).

I'm expecting a digital download of around 9 to 10 gigs. Crossing fingers no surprises or having to re-download corrupt files. Once will be enough under Australia's current internet pricing and plans.

well, what I had was also from Derek, even though quiet a long time ago, I can not find the thread right now. But at that time he stated "something around 16 gig". Anyway, has it been confirmed that it was only one DVD9...? that would be low, baldur's gate 1+2+extension is already 8gig, considering the space textures take nowadays, I would feel it normal (considering an equal content) to get a 15+gig file.  This being said, time to wait and see...

[MacMichael]

cyanrabbit wrote...

well, what I had was also from Derek, even though quiet a long time ago, I can not find the thread right now. But at that time he stated "something around 16 gig". Anyway, has it been confirmed that it was only one DVD9...? that would be low, baldur's gate 1+2+extension is already 8gig, considering the space textures take nowadays, I would feel it normal (considering an equal content) to get a 15+gig file.  This being said, time to wait and see...

BG 1 and 2 plus the expansions is going to take up much more space than if they were a single game, like DA:O. You have overlapping game engines, sounds, and art assets that are being counted twice, since a lot of that gets reused between the two games. Even so, the space the game takes up installed is double the two BGs combined, going by the number given by Derek and your number for BG. But we aren't downloading the installed and unpacked game, we're downloading a compressed installation file. If you follow the link to the full reply by Derek, he's replying to someone that was surprised it was fitting on a single disc. Derek says it's the same as Mass Effect, which was a single DVD.

[Crunchyinmilk]

Where do you get the idea that Baldu'rs gate takes 8 gigs? Is that counting heavy use and duplication of data to the cache folder or something? I have BG2 and TOB in multiple CDs format. I hate reinstalling it from all those discs so I have another single layer DVD that I keep a completed installation on. It fits on that single layer DVD with gigs to spare. Single layer's hold like just over 4 gigs...



What surprises me about Derek's statement is the use of RAR compression, I would have thought it time to embrace the 7z compression format or some other modern equivalent.

[Holy Mortar]

Just asked the same to D2D. As soon as I got response [will I?], will post it here, too.

i get mbps a second so im hoping it wont be to bad =)

p.s. with 1mb/s it would take about five hours to download.[if about 16gigs]

Modifié par Holy Mortar, 20 octobre 2009 - 09:20 .