Question about file size

**blodhemn** · February 15, 2013, 02:23 AM

I hope this is the right area.

So, I had a bootlegged copy of M2TW that a friend downloaded onto my computer, for the past year. It took up about 6GB, roughly. I went to download one of the patches, as I planned on trying one of the mods on here, but suddenly the game wouldn't work anymore. I assumed it had something to do with the fact that it was "stolen". Long story short, I purchased the download for M2TW: Gold + Kingdoms yesterday, from Amazon. Got everything installed, it works great. I only added the Teutonic and Britannia campaigns for kingdoms, since I had no interest in the other two. The download was supposed to be 9GB, as it said on the site, but it turned out being 12GB. This is now twice the size of the previous version that I had, of the same game. I'm looking at my programs folder and I notice that M2TW is taking up 19.5GB and each kingdom campaign is about 1GB each. This seems unreal. How can it all be so much larger than it was before? Forget kingdoms, the M2TW is like three times the size as it was before. Is there something I can do about this? Are there files that don't need to be saved anymore, now that the game is installed? Also, is there any possibility to delete the files associated with battle scenes, as I don't tend to manually fight the battles anyway? This just ate up a ton of space on my hard drive. Anyone got any suggestions, that don't involve having some removable storage device to put it on?

**blodhemn** · February 15, 2013, 02:26 AM

Sorry for the double post.

Also, I downloaded the Third Age mod and the files were a total of about 3GB I think. After I installed them, I'm looking at my programs and features window and EACH ONE is now taking up 30GB!!!!! How is this possible?? I played it for hours and it works fine, but there seems to be something wrong with the size. Did I do something wrong? Please help. I just wanted to play a game and now I've lost 100GB of disk space.

**Vissewalde rex de Gerzika** · February 15, 2013, 08:41 AM

Dont know how much the game is supposed to be taking up, but mine with SS installed in 7,5 GB. You probably have not properly uninstalled any of your previous installs.

**blodhemn** · February 15, 2013, 10:06 AM

It's bloody weird. The "programs and features' page is showing them as really huge. Yet when I go to the SEGA folder and check the size, it's around 29GB and that includes the Third Age mod as well. I can make screen shots if it makes any difference. I don't understand how it's telling me different things. Also, I did check the empty space on the disk and it was about 30GB less than before I reinstalled the game, supporting what the SEGA folder is saying, so maybe there is just some weirdness on the other page. Either way, that's still a huge amount for a simple game. I've somehow lost 2GB since turning my computer off last night and turning it on now. Does SOMEONE know anything?