Killing floor 2 folder size

[rokamas]

Steam recently did a 7gb update for killing floor (the killing floor folder was already 19gb). Now steam reports that Killing Floor 2 is using 26799MB of storage on my drive... Is this intentional? It seems like there must be duplicate data of some kind here, and I would appreciate knowing which directories contain data that isn't needed so I can remove it.

 

[Mental]

It's intentional, it seems. Map textures and meshes take a lot of space (nearly half of KF2 size), then we have 2nd texture set for versus zeds (not much, but still) and cosmetics folder taking 2-something whopping GB that will only grow further as zedconomy progresses.

 

[juliex011]

I'm super curious about this too. I uninstalled KF2 from my SSD to see if I could save some space, and it ran like total crappy crap on my HDD, so I reinstalled it. Steam downloaded ~14GB of game. But my hard drive space went from 82GB to 55 after install ...

 

[Mental]

Steam downloaded ~14GB of game. But my hard drive space went from 82GB to 55 after install ...

That's because of compression. If a game uses a lot of "lossless" resources like textures, music etc, then steam will work its magic and dl size will diminish greatly.

 

[juliex011]

That's because of compression. If a game uses a lot of "lossless" resources like textures, music etc, then steam will work its magic and dl size will diminish greatly.

I thought it was something like that but had to ask Thanks for the info.