With todays update i ran into a serious problem which shouldn't be one in first place. Not only did the update require an absurd amount of space to download (6GB in total), the installation, or more precise the unpacking of the update, required a total of 19GB! This is combinded a total of 25GB for temporary files. I have the game installed on a SSD and the free space on the games partition is 12 GB. You can see that this is a huge problem. I though 12 GB should be enough to install the 6GB update but boy way i wrong. The GC aborted the installation because of the lack of drive space. I checked the folder sizes and the temporary update folder with the unpacked files was full, zero space left. So i had to temporarily move almost 15GB of other installed apps to free the space so WoWs could install its update. I checked the tmp folder where the client extract the update files and at its peak it was at 19.3GB. This is ridiculous! Even more so that i have about 1.5 TB free space on other drives in my computer.
The whole problem could be avoided by either (1) allow us to set our own temp folder/drive where downloads and temporary files should be stored or (2) simply respect the system temp folders like any other app on the computer. There is a reason why we as user can set system variables such as tmp folder and drives within Windows. This is exactly for the reason to avoid these unnecessary problems with having to move tons of data back and forth just so a game can install an update. Thanks!
@MrConway @Crysantos
Hey guys!
With todays update i ran into a serious problem which shouldn't be one in first place. Not only did the update require an absurd amount of space to download (6GB in total), the installation, or more precise the unpacking of the update, required a total of 19GB! This is combinded a total of 25GB for temporary files. I have the game installed on a SSD and the free space on the games partition is 12 GB. You can see that this is a huge problem. I though 12 GB should be enough to install the 6GB update but boy way i wrong. The GC aborted the installation because of the lack of drive space. I checked the folder sizes and the temporary update folder with the unpacked files was full, zero space left. So i had to temporarily move almost 15GB of other installed apps to free the space so WoWs could install its update. I checked the tmp folder where the client extract the update files and at its peak it was at 19.3GB. This is ridiculous! Even more so that i have about 1.5 TB free space on other drives in my computer.
The whole problem could be avoided by either (1) allow us to set our own temp folder/drive where downloads and temporary files should be stored or (2) simply respect the system temp folders like any other app on the computer. There is a reason why we as user can set system variables such as tmp folder and drives within Windows. This is exactly for the reason to avoid these unnecessary problems with having to move tons of data back and forth just so a game can install an update. Thanks!
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