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Modding, Mission Design, and Coding => The Modding Workshop => Topic started by: Silver_Scythe on April 06, 2002, 11:16:03 pm

Title: Freespace2: Computers Space Goes BYE BYE
Post by: Silver_Scythe on April 06, 2002, 11:16:03 pm

Why does Freespace 2 take up so much space by just adding PCX files and data tables?:confused:

Title: Freespace2: Computers Space Goes BYE BYE
Post by: Shrike on April 07, 2002, 12:47:20 am

What do you mean?  PCX files and .tbls are pretty small files, they shouldn't have a major impact on your HD space.

Title: Freespace2: Computers Space Goes BYE BYE
Post by: Bobboau on April 07, 2002, 12:49:02 am

but the fact that is has a friking **** load of them

Title: Freespace2: Computers Space Goes BYE BYE
Post by: Stryke 9 on April 07, 2002, 01:11:19 am

Try playing a game containing only one texture map or only a handful of ships and animations. It gets dull fast.

Delayed failure of the novelty effect, that's why, genius. Lots of stuff means lots of things to blow up and look at, which means you don't say "this sucks" and throw the CD away after 10 minutes.

Title: Freespace2: Computers Space Goes BYE BYE
Post by: Bobboau on April 07, 2002, 05:17:16 am

was that directed at me:wtf:

Title: Freespace2: Computers Space Goes BYE BYE
Post by: Galemp on April 07, 2002, 06:37:17 pm

Last I checked my FS2 folder took up 1.2 gb of space. :D That includes all the CBanims from both games, which is significant.

Title: Re: Freespace2: Computers Space Goes BYE BYE
Post by: karajorma on April 07, 2002, 06:43:36 pm

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Originally posted by Silver_Scythe
Why does Freespace 2 take up so much space by just adding PCX files and data tables?:confused:

Freespace doesn`t take up any space with either of those. Everything is in .vp files. If you`re seeing lots of pcx and table files either you`re installing tonnes of mods (you can`t blame FS2 for that)  or you`ve got something going very, very wrong. :)

Title: Freespace2: Computers Space Goes BYE BYE
Post by: Stryke 9 on April 07, 2002, 07:02:59 pm

That was directed at anyone who is asking why FreeSpace uses so many files. :p

I've found abuse goes a long way in getting people to read a post.:D

Title: Freespace2: Computers Space Goes BYE BYE
Post by: Stryke 9 on April 07, 2002, 07:04:23 pm

I should add that, compared to practically anything made recently, FreeSpace is tiny. As far as I can tell, all recent progs are a gig or more- FS is a fraction of that.

Title: Freespace2: Computers Space Goes BYE BYE
Post by: CP5670 on April 07, 2002, 08:34:33 pm

One thing that takes up a lot of space is the high resolution images. They should have made it so that the menu was always at 1024x768 or something but the ingame resolution could be switched to other stuff. ;)

Title: Freespace2: Computers Space Goes BYE BYE
Post by: Alikchi on April 07, 2002, 09:24:59 pm

1.61 gigs here. Of course, I have Inferno in there, which accounts for a lot.

Title: Freespace2: Computers Space Goes BYE BYE
Post by: EdrickV on April 08, 2002, 03:43:56 am

Freespace 1: 471 MB
Freespace 2: 435 MB
Freespace 2 with Robotech MOD: 1 GB

(Yes I have two seperate copies of FS2 installed.)

Title: Freespace2: Computers Space Goes BYE BYE
Post by: Kamikaze on April 08, 2002, 03:53:13 am

Quote

Originally posted by Stryke 9
I should add that, compared to practically anything made recently, FreeSpace is tiny. As far as I can tell, all recent progs are a gig or more- FS is a fraction of that.

Umm.. FS2 on full install takes roughly 1 gig for me.. (a bit more actually) :confused: (just checked 1.2 gigs)
(no mods BTW)

Title: Freespace2: Computers Space Goes BYE BYE
Post by: Ryx on April 08, 2002, 04:01:29 am

FS2 normal install is  <1Gb, IIRC. If space is an issue, then don't install hi-rez textures.

Perhaps it's time to consider upgrading your harddrive. ;)

Title: Freespace2: Computers Space Goes BYE BYE
Post by: CP5670 on April 08, 2002, 11:59:36 am

It is about 1.3GB for me with some extra mods and stuff dropped in.

Title: Freespace2: Computers Space Goes BYE BYE
Post by: Redfang on April 08, 2002, 12:39:10 pm

For me it's 456MB and I have installed tools to FS2 directory (like VPView, and much more), and I have also MODs. I didn't install much when I installed the game, not enough space.

Title: Freespace2: Computers Space Goes BYE BYE
Post by: Flipside on April 08, 2002, 12:56:05 pm

Well, mine takes up about 1.2 Gig, that's cos I only keep one MOD at a time, else they tend to start arguing with each other and overwriting each others tbl files
:rolleyes:

It was amassive game at the time, it's still a big game as they go now, but worth every damn byte :) hehehehehehe

Title: Freespace2: Computers Space Goes BYE BYE
Post by: LAW ENFORCER on April 08, 2002, 04:46:52 pm

You know what, I don't care what Freespace takes up! a 60 Gb and a 80Gb drive allow me to think this way...

But anyway get a new harddrive - then don't cost much - OEM anyway...