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Gears 4 is almost 100gb and you can't play until it's all downloaded
- Thread starter MilesQ
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I wanted to replay the COD: IW campaign but didn't have the space to install the whole damn thing. I don't want that multiplayer bullshit, even if it's 5GB, segment it or something.
When I installed it the wait time seemed no different to any other game.
However I do set games to install overnight.
I found more aggravation last gen installing PS3 games because you could not do other stuff on the console.
This gen I just kill an hour easily on media apps, while the game installs.
However I do set games to install overnight.
I found more aggravation last gen installing PS3 games because you could not do other stuff on the console.
This gen I just kill an hour easily on media apps, while the game installs.
ya its the one reason i havent redownloaded it yet lol...i want to but 100gb...i did download ffxv 4 times though. so maybe.
I haven't had any major issues with download times on my OG XB1 or my XB1X, whether it be disc or digital. I typical full install for me is about 20-30 minutes. So for me personally, I don't see a problem with the product nor have I heard any complaints from my extensive list of Xbox friends. The only place I ever hear about it is here. Maybe the OP has bad internet? Maybe Op has a crap router? IDK but I'm going to go with my experience and the experiences of the people I know personally.
All that being said, I still stand by my original statement. You shouldn't complain about something you got for free. But hey, that's just my personal opinion.
That's not necessary though. How many PS4 games can you play while they're downloading? A LOT, almost all of them. And their whole size is half that Gears of War size anyway. But I cant speak on this issue by experience, because I only owned a X1 for a brief period of time between November 2013 and March 2014 and although it was a miserable time, I never got to experience that issue.
Get a better connection? lol Seriously though, at least my Xbox maxes out my network speed. Gears 4 was still a relatively fast download. Damn PS4 downloads so slow it doesn't matter at what % you can start playing. It's all the same.
But games are only going to get bigger and bigger, so have fun regardless of whatever platform you own.
But games are only going to get bigger and bigger, so have fun regardless of whatever platform you own.
I have a launch 500GB Xbox One and Gears 4 takes up over 20% of my entire storage (seeing as some storage is already reserved for the OS).
One game.....more than 20% of the console's storage. That's messed up.
Hell, the only reason I haven't uninstalled it to make more room is that it'd take me several days to re-download it if I ever want to play.
One game.....more than 20% of the console's storage. That's messed up.
Hell, the only reason I haven't uninstalled it to make more room is that it'd take me several days to re-download it if I ever want to play.
Switch's downloads aren't nearly as bad for obvious reasons, but we're getting there next generation probably.
This wouldn't be too much of an issue if we had a lot more bandwidth and down load speed collectively. Hopefully it works out in the end.
Consoles don't support this, so they can't do it.
On Steam CoDs have done this since Modern Warfare 2.
Sadly I think no one else has done anything like that.
(IW multiplayer being 11GB and Zombies 400MB savings if you prefer just SP)
Not everyone can afford better connection and not all areas have good connections available.
The hard drives on all the consoles are anemic. At least on the x1 you can install to external drives easily enough, I think ps4 got this as well (i move games im not playing but dont want to redownload to the external myself)
Wish MS would get on developing something like that, they have been doing good advances on their OS lately and at least it's not stupid backwards like having 90GB free but not having enough size to install like in PS4. Had to delete Uncharted 4 to install REmake.
Honestly, I'm good with today's graphics and whatnot, I'd really wish if this aspect gets more work in next gen. Doom is another big offender of this nonsense.
Maybe people like SP modes better like Doom rather than the MP mode?
Ever thought about that?
Isn't it just. It's truly shocking and very frustrating. Also, I'm not sure why it just randomly stops downloading one game and starts the next on the list. And that you can't download multiple items at once.
It's definitely the worst thing about the system and it actually puts me off wanting to buy anything on it. It's a mess.
I just had a queue of 5 updates and 5 games (3 from gamepass and the two new ones), and it seemed to complete them in download order. As for downloading more than one thing, whats the point when you're not going to get any extra bandwidth?
Yet, embarrassingly, people will be in here saying OP is a liar and that it's good when it plain sucks ass.
I don't know why it's doing it on mine. Just flip flops about whenever it feels like.
Because options are nice and smaller downloads you can download quicker then waiting for one to complete first.
I think that's a very specific use case where each Halo game has its own textures and audio, so can be isolated in this manner.
However in the case of something like Gears 4, the textures and audio is common between MP and SP meaning there probably isn't a massive gain either side.
Doom is the exception (I like its MP mode by the way and have spent well over 40 hours in it). Gears is the definition of a game with an SP that's just there because it's expected to be there with the real meat being the MP. Though this forum is so disproportionately skewed towards SP-only hardliners I can see why so many people here want to ignore the MP.
Yeah, everything to do with installing on X1 is a total trainwreck. The sizes on some games are a joke.
In my experience when I put in a disk in PS4, if a patch has not already been downloaded, it will ask to download it or take that game off-line and play it without patch. This has happened with brand new game that doesn't have any information on the hard drive as well. Granted I don't have a lot of physical disks for PS4, so this might not be true for all games; but for a disk based system PS4 is about as smooth as one can hope for this putting in a disk and playing a game.
I would love to know for which games this works and for which you have to wait.
You can have an option to download MP portion before SP portion or vice versa. I have seen this option on a lot of PS4 games and I am sure that is true for Xbox as well. That option should be standard at this point.
Edit: Sorry for double post.
first game with a second disc this gen?
Edit: new stock according to retailer
https://www.reddit.com/r/xboxone/comments/8gf6jr/gears_4_now_multi_disc_install/
You can manipulate the queue to prioritize anything you want, but its all single stream
I think the cutscenes are all in engine, so video compression wont do anything. 100Gb is with 4k textures, iirc
When you install on xb, it downloads anything you need when its installing from disc.
Also I am in the preview program, so ymmv (thought its been that way for a realllly long time)
I think its reasonable for a game to demand full download before playing. This whole concept of slice the software is still too wild to me.
However, its bizarre when a first party title dont use a promoted feature.
However, its bizarre when a first party title dont use a promoted feature.
They need to take it one step further and let you play offline as soon as necessary small chunk is installed but the patch keeps downloading in the background.
All assets are very compressed already - a lot of the time in loading levels is actually decompression and processing them into memory. This is why x1x (and to an extent ps4p) is so much faster at loading even though theres no difference in HD speed.
I don't get it. Why is Gears 4 so much bigger than other games? Uncharted 4? 50 something GB.
God of War 4? 50 something GB.
What justifies that size exactly?
Texture sizes are massive, models are pretty high poly, any of the free DLC is downloaded.
Full-fat 4k textures I assume. Halo5 is 99GB, Quantum Break is 84GB, Titanfall2 is 69GB, and so on.
This is really ridiculous. I feel like I am killing my hard drives installing these gigantic games. I tend to not play them even if I have access to them. (Game pass)
How much of this file size is due to uncompressed audio or 4K FMV?
How much of this file size is due to uncompressed audio or 4K FMV?
Games like gears 4, halo 5, doom need to add the option to install single player and multiplayer or just one or the other. Game sizes are out of control.
100gb to play some gears multiplayer must be having a significant effect on reducing that player population just because people don't want to chew up a good 20% of their hard drive space for one game.
If the multiplayer portion is 45gb even that would be preferable.
100gb to play some gears multiplayer must be having a significant effect on reducing that player population just because people don't want to chew up a good 20% of their hard drive space for one game.
If the multiplayer portion is 45gb even that would be preferable.
It does, but like not every game supports it to the same degree. I've found it's better to let every game install fully (Xbox and PS4) before launching it.