Largest video game - In terms of file size?

Just curious as to what would be the largest video game out there, in terms of file/install size.

 

Note sure; the largest I've installed was 10.5GB. The title was the Witcher: Enhanced Edition.

 

For me so far, it would be the PC version of GTA4 at around 14gb which came in two discs when the 360 version fits on a 8.5gb dual-layer DVD disc!

I believe one reason is because the PC version has higher resolution textures, at least what I heard.

 

Probably Age of Conan... lol 30GB

 

Rahul may have hit it on the head.

I know the biggest i have seen was 15gb, and i don't remember what game that was.

 

For me too,

Grand Theft Auto 4 ~ 14.9gb

 

^^This.

22GB ~ 30GB+ of poorly executed code. Albeit pretty graphics.

 

IIRC (already uninstall it) Empire Total War was 15 GB...

 

Sacred 2 weighs in at 12 gb

If you count all the Dawn of War games together, that also adds up to a lot

 

I remember my ut2004 folder got over 20GB with all the custom models/skins and maps.

 

Yeap biggest for me has been empire total war at over 15gb.

 

If I remember correctly, X-Plane 9 needs 60 or 70 GB.

 

Age of Conan 35 gigs after all the patches... ugh..

 

Well this could definitely be the winner then.

 

Metal gear solid 4 on ps3, fills a 50GB dual layer blu-ray.

 

My Stepmania folder uses 13.2GB of hard drive space.

But~

 

Flight Simullator X + FS global 2008 = 22GB But when its installed it will be 30+ GB of fun

 

Outright winner is probably X-plane 9 as already mentioned, a full install includes details like geographical topography or the like which takes up lots of HDD space.

Age of Conan is probably the winner for MMORPG HDD hog though.

 

If you get the full X-plane world textures, it's something like 80+ GB.

However, I never fully understood why texture files are so huge. Check out this technology called ".produkkt". They pack textures into a very tiny file. It takes a little more CPU power to process, but these days who cares since usually it's the GPU that's lacking not the CPU.

The game " .kkrieger " is only 96KB in size (yes KB), it is an old beta but it is really to show off the textures more than anything else. Unbelievable. Check out this screen shot (courtesy of their website).

 

well,if you wanna talk about small file sizes

4 KB video

youtube
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_YWMGuh15nE
download
http://pouet.net/prod.php?which=52938

 

The upcoming Dragon Age game is supposed to be 40 gigs worth of fun.

 

Biggest I have ever seen was x-plane 9. Like others have said, over 80 gigs for one game lol.

 

Besides the typical MMO, Oblivion and GTA4 can take up a ton of space. GTA naked weighs in at 15GB, and Oblivion is even worse when you add all-ecompassing mods like FCOM.

 

this is kinda like the time my friend asked me "what are some games without pause buttons?"

I spent 10 minutes listing some games, then I stopped and thought to myself, "wait, why the heck do you care?"

same question here.

 

For me its medal of Honor Airborne airborne.. 9.3 GB

 

My FSX takes up 43 gb on my hard drive. The more addons i get the larger it gets.

 

X-Plane 9 -.-, waste of my life.

AoC, waste of my money.

 

Holy COW (no offense to Mr. Moo)! Not to hijack this thread, but that is simply incredible. I hope these people get better jobs than creating demos like this.

 

.kkreiger is under 100 KB, but it takes quite a long time to load up that game, too. You'd be burning through an awful lot of CPU cycles to load up a top-notch-graphically flight simulator in realtime with that much compression, even if you only loaded the local scenery/etc. I'm not sure whether using that many CPU cycles is at all practical - and if you had to load more during the game, you might notice a considerably slowdown depending on how much the CPU was used during the game regularly (IIRC, Flight Sim X uses a lot of CPU, as do numerous strategy games, for instance). At least with loading from the hard disk, you rarely notice in-game slowdowns. With .kkrieger, I'm pretty sure it loads (or, perhaps, creates) everything it will need into memory right at the beginning - for a 100 KB program, it takes up an impressive 512 MB or so of RAM.

There's also the fact that hard drive space is cheap - you can buy a 1 TB drive for $100, maybe slightly above that. A CPU powerful enough to run such powerful decompression in real-time may well be a $200 quad-core - if even that would be powerful enough. If a twelve-core AMD Magny-Cours would be required (coming next year), the price ($1000+ most likely) would be far too prohibitive.

.kkrieger is impressive, though. It packs audio into that 100 KB, as well. I'm just not sure it would scale up quite as well to a top-of-the-class graphics game.

I think my largest game was somewhere in the 12 GB range - a good amount, but nothing compared to some of those. 6.5 GB is the largest I have installed right now (Call of Duty 4).

 

my Wow folder runs to 12gb with all the patches etc, aside from that Black Shark is about 15gb and Empire total war is about the same

 

Definately Age of Conan. After all the patches the client is in the region of 30GB. THEN on top of that there a whole myriad of small texture files etc that arent installed default by the client, and are downloaded from the servers while you play.
There are about 10-20GB of these as well! (Seriously the game would run better if they gave you the option to install these as well, rather than having to rely on 3rd party apps to download them as a cache for you).

So basically, Age of Conan, *can* occupy about 50GB by itself!

Have seen some of the demos like Kreiger before as well, although Id forgotten the names, they're very impressive it must be said!

 

What... the hell? I actually downloaded that.. it was actually 3.98KB and it ran in 1920x1080, had a full song, seemingly hundreds of miles of landscape, a flythrough, nice effects, bloom hdr, m blur, nice textures/water etc. Something like this looks like it should be like 400MB, how the... did they make it UNDER 4kb?! It doesn't even make sense unless that stuff was already on my PC to begin with.. I mean, I could take a SCREENSHOT of that, and it would be 800x the size of the entire file.

 

Magicians.

 

Very very clever compression and low level coding.

Unfortunately it wont let me view them on Vista64.

 

worked here on vista64. but it was taking up 400mb of ram. Also, it seems to be a single threaded app. (~53% average CPU use)

 

Could be all sorts of things going wrong then, all I ever get is a programme has stopped working errors.
Hell, could be my drivers for graphics or sound, an update windows has take, the DX11 beta platform update, dual monitors...anything.

 

if it doesn't start, try copying lz32.dll and opengl32.dll to its directory and/or closing ati tray tools... worked for me, but all i see is a bunch of pixels that get light effects applied to them and it looks like garbage, but the sound works. probably need the latest opengl

 

Thanks for adding invaluable insight to the topic.

(But I wholly agree w/ AoC...and I bought the CE).