sorry for noob question you download a 20gb game and you play for 3 days but when you...

[Gcobisa Tar Lagco Mbewu]

sorry for noob question
you download a 20gb game and you play for 3 days but when you check its properties again it is 31gb...where do the other GBs come from?

 

[Pasin Jo Chuthithanapong]

In-game content

 

[Harrison Montgomery]

The memory from the game

 

[Rick Maestas]

was that installed 20gb...or was that a 20gb installer?...

 

[Joe Scaletta]

Extraction

 

[Joe Scaletta]

Installation folder =20
Game folder will be more than 22 something like this

 

[Danny Smith]

Auto updates

 

[Gcobisa Tar Lagco Mbewu]

it happened with Assassins Creed Syndicade...also I didnt have internet connection in the last 3 days so I'm sure its not updates...if it keeps growing it wil it my little hard drive space left ;(

 

[James White]

The game install files are generally compressed for a smaller download. When the game is installed some of those files get uncompressed and then you end up with a larger game folder size.

Think of it like a Winzip archive, that's a single file that contains many more folders and files, the archive file is generally smaller than its total contents.

Also things like updates, saves, configs (although saves and configs are generally saved to your documents folder) and DLC for games add to the total folder size over time

 

[Justin Starick]

Save data?