Starcraft 2 Beta is taking way too much space!

[Cheesenium]

From what i remember, Starcraft 2 Beta Client starts with 1.5GB,then, on present day with 1.15 patch, the game has grown to a disgustingly huge game that takes 9.77GB.

My computer has limited space,and deleting other games isnt an option as im still playing them.

So,the question is, is it safe to delete some of the older versions of the game in the Starcraft 2 Beta/Base Versions to cut down the sizes?

I dont watch older replays,and those older versions arent needed.

[Sarov]

Moved to the StarCraft 2 Discussion forum because issues with the game do not belong in the Issues/Feedback forum. The latter forum is for issues and/or feedback regarding the site.

[Peanutbutter]

From what i remember, Starcraft 2 Beta Client starts with 1.5GB,then, on present day with 1.15 patch, the game has grown to a disgustingly huge game that takes 9.77GB.

My computer has limited space,and deleting other games isnt an option as im still playing them.

So,the question is, is it safe to delete some of the older versions of the game in the Starcraft 2 Beta/Base Versions to cut down the sizes?

I dont watch older replays,and those older versions arent needed.

Not sure.

But, you could try moving the folders of the older versions out of your Starcraft 2 folder, and see if it works

[Mandilorordo]

Well you know you can get a lot more memory for really cheap now. I'm fully updated and I only show as 8.88g. I forget but don't the replays take up a far amount of memory if you don't delete them?

[Creyendo]

I have the game taking up about 9.7g and I just installed it onto my new laptop 2 days ago.

If you are having a problem with space you could always pick up an external hard drive (for relatively cheap) to put some games on. My old laptop used to have 120g hard drive which was then partitioned into half for linux and half for windows. I didnt even have enough room to install a single game when all was said an done.

Picked up a 500 gb external and installed SC II beta straight on to it and it worked like a charm.

[Gt2slurp]

Putting game on an external drive is far from optimal, your loading time will be really long. I got raid 0 with 150mb/s and the first loading is somehow long. When you long the graphic on extreme you have to load 1.5G in ram, the data transfert on an external hard drive will be awful.

Consider buying another internal drive, if you don't have a portable.

[TheEconomist]

In the age of 500GB for 40$ it's hard to sympathize with you even though I had a 30GB HD up until 2007. Still, if you need to, just delete the versions of SC2 that you aren't using. You'll still be able to play Battle.net just without replays for past versions. The version folder is basically 16+ versions of the same core files.

[n00bonicPlague]

The only thing that's really annoying for me is that it puts files like the replays and maps in the My Documents folder, which is on my computer's system partition. I realize that it's meant to help people find their maps and replays easily, but I'd rather be able to choose where that stuff goes — anywhere but C:\

[Gt2slurp]

I must admit, keep the entire vore file of every version is not the cutest way to enable retrocompatibility of replays...

I hope they are working on something less demanding on space. Will it be 30G after 2 years and 10 patch + single player? And after expansion, 45G ? They need a way to make this work better.

[Tobit]

Well you know you can get a lot more memory for really cheap now. I'm fully updated and I only show as 8.88g. I forget but don't the replays take up a far amount of memory if you don't delete them?

The replays are pretty small. My biggest one is 500k, and most are around 200k. I suppose if you've played thousands of games, though, they'll add up.

I must admit, keep the entire vore file of every version is not the cutest way to enable retrocompatibility of replays...

I hope they are working on something less demanding on space. Will it be 30G after 2 years and 10 patch + single player? And after expansion, 45G ? They need a way to make this work better.

I agree. What others have said is true, hard drives are cheap these days. However, I don't think that gives license to every game company to throw a 1 GB file onto my hard drive every time they want to update 1 MB of game data.