Yeah as games get bigger and bigger I can see the reason.
I have several games given to me which are 1 or 2 gb in size loaded
on my drive.
And I have the old silent steel which I loaded on drive and made the
cfg file run it all from the drive which is 2gb.
So having 20 gb of installed game on my drive um maybe not.
My friend that does play games often loads some games plays them and
has to delete and load others because of the size.
At 02:30 AM 11/9/2013, you wrote:
Hi Shaun,
Well, these days most newer games come on DVD not CD, and the really
high-end games for Play Station III etc come on blue ray discs. There
are many good reasons why companies do this. Besides being able to use
it as a type of copy protection, forcing people to physically own the
media, with the size of many games to day it is better that the
contents of the game remain on the DVD or blue ray disc than your hard
drive. Perhaps you don't realize this but many mainstream commercial
games are usually between 2 GB and 4 GB in size, and the really
high-end ones can be 20 GB or more. With that amount of data it would
easily fill up a good sized hard drive in no time at all.
To give you an idea of what kind of sizes we are talking about the
laptop I am using has a 300 GB drive in it. Now that drive is plenty
for most of my needs, but if I started installing commercial games on
it about 4 GB in size I'd quickly end up using most of that space on
games. If I had 25 games that is 100 GB spent on games alone. Plus the
more stuff a person stores on their boot drive the slower the
operating system will run, and as a performance fanatic I'd go nuts
having my OS dragging down to a snails crawl because I had x number of
games on it.
Cheers!
On 11/8/13, shaun everiss <sm.ever...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Dark sadly I know a lot of sighted games that still run from the cd
> or need the cd for varification when run so I think while a lot don't
> that this seems to be an industry practice rather than a minority one.
> I don't care for this either.
> it puts extra ware on the drive and disks, and for a lot of programs
> that do it, it is not usually needed unless some files are not
> installed on the system.
> Silent steel does this but you can get round it easily enough.
> I have known friends that have brought games.
> That they have cracked just to avoid running off the cd, because they
> hate it so much.
> I still know modern games that still need the cd.
> I do think this is being abused to much.
> In the old days 1995 and earlier I realise why that was but with all
> the power we have now we shouldn't need to run off a disk or
> anything like that at all, there is no real excuse.
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