Should the beta be deleted before preloading final version?

[WilfordBrimley]

I looked around here and the steam forums for an answer but there's very little on this topic.

The properties tab of the beta says it's using over 5 gigs of space as well, so I also wonder if it could be deleted to save some space. Then again I don't want to delete anything that may be needed, so I'll ask first.

Thanks in advance!

 

[Nenjin]

They are located in two separate directories under Steam, and the release version is 3 gigs larger than Beta when fully pre-loaded. Pretty safe to assume you can uninstall the beta.

 

[WilfordBrimley]

They are located in two separate directories under Steam, and the release version is 3 gigs larger than Beta when fully pre-loaded. Pretty safe to assume you can uninstall the beta.

Thanks for the reply.

I also noticed two directories under MyDocuments/My Games: one is RedOrchestra2 and the other is UnrealEngine3. Typically when deleting games from Steam, folders in MyDocuments remain. I guess this will be the case if the beta is deleted and then the final version preloaded, though I'm not completely sure.

What are most of you guys doing? Keeping the beta or deleting it? I wonder if it will be like TF2 and CS:Source where the beta is still used for testing and whatnot.

Thanks again.

 

[The Beast (nl)]

My beta is 4.41gb and i get now achievements.
And i bought also another copy which i can`t use till now.

So i am also hesitating.

 

[Phoebus]

They are located in two separate directories under Steam, and the release version is 3 gigs larger than Beta when fully pre-loaded. Pretty safe to assume you can uninstall the beta.

And how do we uninstall now that RO2 beta doesn't appear in the library (although it still has a folder with 4.4G of files)???

 

[emrys]

And how do we uninstall now that RO2 beta doesn't appear in the library (although it still has a folder with 4.4G of files)???

It can be uninstalled using Windows "Uninstall or change a program". Some punkbuster files are left remaining so I deleted them manually.