Star Citizen’s director of game operations, Jeremy Masker, revealed that Star Citizen’s client size will be around 100GB and that patches may weight over 20GB. Crazy numbers for such a highly anticipated game, right?
As Jeremy Masker wrote on the game’s official forums when a fan suggested that the game’s client size would be around 30-40GB:
“As I have already said, I would not count on this. The game compression and asset removal is unlikely to yield such high gains that we will be able to reduce our client size to 30-40gb. The size and number of assets that are left to deliver means that our client size is much more likely to be 100gb.”
Jeremy then said that while Cloud Imperium is optimizing game patching, some of them may be well over 20GB in size.
“Also, yes we are optimizing game patching for speed and to only deliver diffs, but this is unlikely to reduce actual patch size. Again, each patch has 100s of assets, each of these assets are at times 200mb, this leads to 2-6gb patches, and if we end up doing a file type re-factor and have to re-download 30-40% of the assets on the hard-drive, then the patch will be 14-20gb.”
It will be interesting to see whether the game’s servers will be able to support such a big game, especially when there will be high traffic for such large packages.
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Lmao I feel bad for those who are on data cap and want to play this game
Feeling sorry for plebs? lol
How are they plebs? It’s not their fault that broadband providers can be real c*nts.
holy sheet, you need a separate 1TB disc for this game.
This will be the best Downloading Simulator on the market in the next few years.
They really do want no one to play this game.
their target is a limited market anyway 😛
Yes because in this market we dont have enough games tunned down to fit a larger audience. *Cough* Elite Dangerous *cough*
I’ll be able to play this… around the time when my grandchild’s fly over with their hoverboards to visit me in the nursing home.
WHHHHAAAAATTTT!!!!!!!!!
Downloading 100GB response to this article.
Download will resume in 3 days.
My country’s internet standards prohibit me from enjoying this game.
This is what happens when games are Built for low end all the way to Enthusiast hardware. Oh and the textures and detail are going to be TOP NOTCH! And why it’s only on PC
This game will still look great on a R7 260… But will look better on a R9 390X or 980 TI
Witcher 3 is going to be the next Crysis… But will be interesting to see if a 390/390X or even future Nvidia GPU’s will struggle with Ultra at 1080p
no Gameworks will have little to no real Effect on it. Since Project CD RED knows how to optimize for it. And it’s all based on DirectComput
Heck even Far Cry 4 has little to no Performance hit from Hairworks
PhysX, Gameworks, TressFX.
The game uses TressFX as well was a story on this site
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Wait!
How are they using both AMD and Nvidia technologies at the same time? Never saw a game that uses both TressFX and TXAA for example…what am I missing?
AMD = DX11.1 and so on to 11.3 a bridge to DX12.
And why nV Titles has only DX11_0 ? cuz rest is on AMD Hardware 😉
That’s true.
BF4 dx11.1
NFS Rivals dx11.1
Alien Isolation dx11.1
SC dx11.1 and so on…
nV:
Shadow of Mordor dx11_0
Dying Light dx11_0
FC4 dx11_0
even AC:U dx11_0 lol and so on…
I have a feeling SC will need DX12.
ummm I own the game… it’s been using hairworks for a while now
Witcher 3 wont be the next Crysis at all, this will.
Witcher 3 was dev’d for consoles and even downgraded for pc, f’ cd project.
I hardly doubt that since TW3 is a multiplat. The next crysis should be Star Citizen all the way.
yeah but did you remember Crysis 1 on 360 vs PC… eh eh… I am not gonna take anything from SC but Witcher 3 on Ultra is going to be insane.
uu I’m waiting for the ti so I can give my 980 g1
they have said they are gonna upgrade the graphics not just add contents
so the game will always be next gen
but when u say next gen, what u mean? graphics or features Both?
yeah 😀 me2
This was somewhat to be expected, Anyway time to finally upgrade from my 128GB SSD to a larger 512GB SSD.
MY BODY IS READY
Is your wallet ready?
lol, 10 days of download for me :)) if it has an offline single player, otherwise no thank you
100gb? That would take me about a week to download wtf?
Less than what I expected. Arena Commander alone is 32GB and console games like GTA5 take 65GB space. Won’t be surprised if final size of SC is 3x more than current estimated size. Want best looking game with huge scope? Yes, more disc space will be required. There is nothing you can do about it. Less space= low quality assets.
100GB is a rough estimate , the game is still a couple of years away.
Pff, that’s not even a 2 hour download. Must be made for internet illiterate nations, like the USA.
What does literacy have to do with Internet connection speeds? It’s ironic that you tried to paint the US in a negative light and ended up making yourself look stupid.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Computer_literacy
Nearly 88M people have wired Internet subscriptions in the US. And nearly 234.5M have cellular subscriptions. The only country with more Internet subscriptions is China. The vast majority of gaming news sites, online gaming communities, and sites like Reddit are visited by a large portion of US users (relatively speaking, in comparison to users from other countries). Your comment (“Must be made for internet illiterate nations, like the USA.”) is false.
When you call 25Mb/s “broadband”, that’s as internet illiterate is it gets.
2010 called, it wants its mid-tire internet connection back. Also, 2015 left a message, but you probably won’t get it.
It’s Gigabyte.
#burn #ActualCompetitionBetweenISPsRules #20+MBsDownloadSpeedOnSteam
When you spout nonsense like that, that’s as stupid as it gets.
You seem to lack knowledge about Internet service in the US. ISPs there offer connections up to 1000Gbps. Verizon, for example, has plans with 50, 75, 150, 300, and 500 Mbps (download and upload). And Google offers speeds up to 1000Gbps.
I’d ask you to stop making yourself look stupid and actually do some research but I can’t be bothered. And hashtags.. how embarrassing.
Oh, poor, poor USAir. Fret not. One day you too shall be liberated from the burden of paying more than 20 bucks a month for gigabit internet that has no data cap, because some countries actually have working capitalism.
Now, if you’ll excuse me, I’ll go stream something in 4K without it buffering.
Oh, the irony. I don’t live in the US. But go on, continue stroking your e-dong. I’m sure that’ll attract the ladies.
“Baby, I can download 100GB in 10 minutes.”
Oh, it does. Men too. It’s an omnisexual magnet of awesomeness wrapped in a low latency, high bandwidth, low price package that’s available in countries that are often considered by the “civilized” world to be the backwater of humanity, but not in the richer, more developed countries.
How does it feel to be wrong?
I’ll defer that to you, you have so much experience compared to me.
Stop deflecting and answer the question. I’ve proven you wrong more than once. Again, how does it feel to be wrong?
Proven? You have proven nothing but your lack of knowledge about how crappy the internet in North America is, and how amazing the internet everywhere else can be.
Excuse me? You were the one that started with incorrect assumptions. How is a 150, 300, 500 or even 1000 Mbps connection bad? And just because I know about the kind of Internet connections Americans can get doesn’t mean I’m American myself. You speak as if every other country is better than the US. Europe isn’t that far ahead (with the exception of Scandinavia). In fact, only some Asian countries leave North America in the dust.
I’ll let the facts speak for themselves:
27: United States – 33.54 Mbps
29: Israel – 30.23 Mbps
31: United Kingdom – 30.19 Mbps
32: Germany – 29.96 Mbps
37: Ireland – 27.30 Mbps
38: Austria – 27.15 Mbps
39: Canada – 26.98 Mbps
Source: OOKLA Net Index (average speedtest results)
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1: South Korea – 23.6 Mbps
2: Japan – 14.6 Mbps
3: Hong Kong – 13.3 Mbps
4: Switzerland – 12.7 Mbps
5: Netherlands – 12.4 Mbps
6: Latvia – 12.0 Mbps
7: Sweden – 11.6 Mbps
8: Czech Republic – 11.2 Mbps
9: Finland – 10.7 Mbps
10: Ireland – 10.7 Mbps
11: United States – 10.5 Mbps
12: Denmark – 10.5 Mbps
13: Norway – 10.1 Mbps
14: Belgium – 10.0 Mbps
15: United Kingdom – 9.9 Mbps
16: Canada – 9.7 Mbps
17: Romania – 9.5 Mbps
18: Austria – 9.4 Mbps
19: Taiwan – 8.9 Mbps
20: Israel – 8.9 Mbps
21: Russia – 8.6 Mbps
22: Singapore – 8.4 Mbps
23: Germany – 8.1 Mbps
24: Hungary – 7.5 Mbps
25: Poland – 7.5 Mbps
Source: Akamai 2014 rankings (average)
“[…] and how amazing the internet everywhere else can be.”
Oh, yes. I can totally see that. The second-highest country on the Akamai list has an average speed that’s a whopping 4.1 Mbps faster than the US.
Did you even know that the US is #1 on the planet in terms of Internet penetration? And how many other countries offer connections up to 1,000 Mbps?
Most of them. Since, well, you know, they don’t use copper any more as infrastructure, and don’t pretend DSL is broadband, because their internet companies actually compete to provide better services at prices that make sense. Like, if your mid level internet, 200mb/s cost more than a large pizza a month, you’re not in a country with developed internet.
As for leaving in the dust, yeah, in 27th place it sure leaves a lot of places in the dust.
But hey, sure, when you start counting up all the 52k connections around the world, it does eschew the results to make them seem less pitiful.
But hey, I’m not the one complaining I won’t be able to download Star Citizen. Because I can, and still patch it to the end of time. Because speeds are high, bandwidth is plentiful and data has no cap.
Peace out. Word!
The first list is user-submitted speedtest results. It isn’t as accurate as Akamai rankings but it shows higher-speed results. Regardless, the US still beats countries like the UK, Germany, Israel, Canada and Australia. These are “developed” countries. You made it seem like the US had one of the worst Internet connections in the world.
A lot of places still use copper for DSL and cable internet connections but only for wiring inside a house. In Canada, we have fibre connections in the neighbourhood and condos that have fibre connections instead of copper. I’m actually waiting on a new modem to get speeds up to 250 Mbps (with unlimited bandwidth, of course).
It seems as though you’re changing your argument to price now. First, it was available technology and now it’s “if your mid level internet, 200mb/s cost more than a large pizza a month, you’re not in a country with developed internet.” If you had started with that, then we wouldn’t have wasted time with back-and-forth arguing. I think pricing and lack of competition is a huge problem in North America. The technology is there to provide fast speeds but the companies are greedy. They’d rather gouge customers and provide slower speeds than offer fair and competitive pricing with amazing speeds. And in what world does 200 Mbps connections count as “mid level”? Only two countries on OOKLA’s list have average speedtest results that exceed 100 Mbps. The 3rd place country has ~85 Mbps. And below that, it’s 60 Mbps or less.
As for downloading Star Citizen, I wasn’t aware that anyone was complaining. If anything, I want more companies to release large games so that it puts pressure on Internet service providers.
Internet illiterate nation:
http://consumerist.com/2015/03/25/new-homeowner-has-to-sell-house-because-of-comcasts-incompetence-lack-of-competition/
Bam. Zam. Pay the man, wait, no need to, because he has awesome internet and you have to sell your house.
So instead of making an attempt at countering my points, you link an article that doesn’t apply to me at all. Have you forgotten the fact that I don’t live in the US?
You think all this time I was talking about you?
I was talking about the crappy internet in the US. You are not the centre of all conversations, you know.
And that article proves beyond the shadow of a doubt that your assertions that the US offers 1000mb/s connections everywhere, or anything remotely similar to broadband, as being false.
Choose your words more wisely next time. I’m beginning to think you’re a troll. It’s hard to imagine that someone would go to such lengths to stroke their e-dong. The Internet in the US doesn’t affect you in any way and the only reason you’re comparing it to what you “supposedly” have is to feel superior.
Perhaps you’re compensating for something. How is it with the ladies? I’m sure they’d marvel at the speed of your Internet connection. That’ll definitely make them moist. Actually, you’ll probably just be too afraid to approach them. Don’t worry, I hear women nowadays will overlook sad excuses of men with receding hairlines. Male pattern baldness isn’t the end of the world.
Oh, and know that I won’t read your response. I’ll take comfort in getting the last word. Your stupidity has reached critical mass and it hurts.
It’s OK. I get it, you need to constantly deflect and make assumptions about other people’s sexuality when proven wrong. You feel that need to try and assert yourself over others in a dominant way, society has moulded you that way and made you an unwilling victim. But fret not, it’s OK to be who you are and you are loved for it.
On the internet, we accept everyone.
Even the people in the US that have 10Mb/s wired connections in 2015 and pay more than 5 bucks a month for it and are still enslaved by the archaic concept of data caps for broadband. We are all united in one common purpose. We are all connected.
(Though some are connected at 200mb/s and are very smug about it. Oh, but don’t get me started on the 500mb/s snobs.)
Its Normal for tha content 😀
Its OK to me 😉 I got 4TB RAID 0 + SSD as cache + RAM cache 😀
So my Win and Games load fast and work like a charm.
Primocache and it’s Done right.
I dont need to install games on SSD, RAID + SSD cache is better solution
Torrent patches would be good
What?
can you admire one game without sh’g on the other? f’ u, d’ a’…
No censure allowed, this is not ign.
This is what I expected. Just the hangar and dogfighting module is 20GB. That’s 20GB for one room, without most of the ships, and without the rest of the galaxy.
I’m thinking this will be a 100GB download*, once it’s decompressed I wonder how large it will be!
It’d take me about 9 hours to download 100GB with my current connection. My only concern is hard drive space. My current SSD only has 240GB capacity. Maybe I’ll upgrade to a 1TB SSD by the time Star Citizen is released.
The gfx will be so amazing! However, this makes me a bit sad that we live in times where games are hitting 60 (gta 5) and 100 gigs already.
Untill last year, it was enough to have a 2/3/4 TB hard disk, and a 200-300 gigs SSD. Now that 300 gig SSD is a total trash, if you plan on gaming with it. The min now is 1 TB(thats super expensive), if you plan for the next 1-2 years at least. It might be enough if you never plan on getting any new games, but lets get real.. we all do.
Also 2 TB hard disk is totally not enough anymore aswell. Soon i might need to grab 1 or 2 more of those. I’m already full of amazing and fun games that i do not wish to remove, because i still play every each of them.
After reading this article i decided that, instead of buying this game at launch, i will wait.
“Wait until a 75% discount offer on Steam?” No, wait until 1 TB SSD prices lower.
very good