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[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (4 children)

Doesn't that game require a massive amount of storage with all the expansions/add-ons installed? Doesn't seem very Deck friendly, IMO. Especially for base model Decks. It's one of the main reasons I don't bother playing BG3 on it, either.

Edit: I just looked and can't get a concise answer, seems like tons of players' install size differs by notable margins. Official site says it needs roughly ~95GB plus another ~30GB during the install process (guessing for temp install files during decompression/compression). Meanwhile, some players report folder sizes ranging from ~97GB all the way up to ~150GB. Regardless, seems ~95GB is the bare minimum which is still a lot for even the 500GB Deck models. And there's no way the game would run comfortably off an SD card.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 months ago (1 children)

It's definitely massive - I'd guess at the 90GB+ number, but I don't think it reached 150GB. I had it installed awhile back on an SD card and I didn't experience many problems in the game. Just takes a little longer to load new places, but the gaming experience was still smooth.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Yeah, from the comments I read, it looked like some people might have needed to clear their folders out and/or others had installed the PTS files as well. Regardless, ~95GB is still quite large. I'm surprised your loading speeds weren't that bad on the SD card. How fast were your load times, if you don't mind me asking?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago

I'm not sure to be honest, it's been awhile. Definitely slower than on my PC, but it was never long enough that I got frustrated. I was usually entering dungeons around the same time as other players. Not like it took long enough to load they already started running ahead without the healer.

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