TitanFall.... Geez...

[looper]

Just bought it a few days ago for the PC. I had no idea of it's size (@ 50 gig).... don't have that much room left on my SSD main drive.

Could I possibly install it on my external HD? (WD 3.0) without in-game lag issues?

 

[Clinkster]

35GB out of the 50GB is just audio files. Supposedly it's all the languages in .FLAC files, which makes it really freaking huge. Devs blame it's "how Origin works" but I'm skeptical.

Anyway, I've run games from external drives before, I don't think it'll be any issue. The game should not be queue-ing the hard drive for data after loading (though maybe someone with more insight can confirm this).

 

[Carfax83]

It really depends on the game. The game is 64 bit only, so most of what the game requires should be loaded into memory during launch and level loads. The game shouldn't be accessing the HDD/SSD frequently if it's designed well..

 

[Fire&Blood]

Just bought it a few days ago for the PC. I had no idea of it's size (@ 50 gig).... don't have that much room left on my SSD main drive.

Could I possibly install it on my external HD? (WD 3.0) without in-game lag issues?

Lag most likely won't be an issue. I ran BF4 for a while from my external without problems, only issue I had was maps loaded slow of course. Some games flat out refuse to run when installed on an external drive, like AC4 and most other Ubisoft games. Others like Thief are broken, before I moved it to my internal drive the sound didn't work properly and game progress was broken.

A friend installed COD Ghosts on the external drive and was stuck on first level since the cut scene couldn't be triggered. From my experience with external installs,t here is no pattern to figure it out in advance, you won't know til you try. Since it's multiplayer only you are less likely to encounter issues.

 

[norseamd]

how much ram can this game use?

 

[futurefields]

they want people to buy the console version, they arent going to optimize a damn thing for PC anymore. look at COD ghosts and BF4 and AC4 they all run far slower than they should, and COD ghosts also had that huge install size issue.

way of the industry unfortunately. consoles run the show but console hardware sucks so this is what we get.

 

[kyrax12]

Wow I always thought that people that main SSD have a secondary HDD. 0.0

 

[tygeezy]

Counterstrike go would have random bouts of stuttering on my girlfriends machine. It would be going along at 120+ fps and drop to 15 for a split second. It was installed on a slow 5400 rpm hard drive. I moved it to the ssd and the random stutter went away. This is the only game that did this other than diablo 3 which had known stuttering issues on hdds.

I can't speak for titan fall but I couldn't justify putting such a large game on an ssd. It does run on source though but I'm sure a different version than cs gos.

 

[Soundmanred]

how much ram can this game use?

All of it.

 

[RaulF]

Wow I always thought that people that main SSD have a secondary HDD. 0.0

What!


Yup i feel you OP, i brought up the same subject in the big TF thread. Some people care, and some dont. Like everything else.

I am in the same train as you, way too big for what it is.

 

[looper]

I was thinking about getting a big WD Black as a backup HD........... hmm....

 

[norseamd]

All of it.

up to 32 gb?

 

[looper]

So, can anyone else comment on whether I can run that game with no problems from my external backup HD?

 

[norseamd]

So, can anyone else comment on whether I can run that game with no problems from my external backup HD?

well games have been made to run off hard drives for decades so i would think so. but i would not know.

 

[Udgnim]

So, can anyone else comment on whether I can run that game with no problems from my external backup HD?

if your PC has 4 GB RAM, then you might run into issues

if your PC has 8 GB+ RAM, then it'll probably run fine on external

 

[xantub]

depends on the connection to the external HD... USB2? USB3? eSATA?

 

[looper]

Have 8GB of RAM, and I listed in OP that the WD external is 3.0.

Problem is that the folks at Game Stop told me if I install it on the external drive, and the game does not run right, I cannot return it. If I return it now they'll give me a store credit.

The point I tried to make w/ them is that I should have been told before purchase of the VERY UNUSUAL HUGE AMOUNT OF HD SPACE required for that game install, even though in small print on the box that info is listed.

 

[sweenish]

even though in small print on the box that info is listed.

The onus is completely on you. Don't try to pass the buck. Specs are always on the box, and if you can't be bothered to check them you have nobody to blame but yourself.

 

[xantub]

Have 8GB of RAM, and I listed in OP that the WD external is 3.0.

Problem is that the folks at Game Stop told me if I install it on the external drive, and the game does not run right, I cannot return it. If I return it now they'll give me a store credit.

The point I tried to make w/ them is that I should have been told before purchase of the VERY UNUSUAL HUGE AMOUNT OF HD SPACE required for that game install, even though in small print on the box that info is listed.

yes, if it's stated in the box, it's stated in the box. In any case I don't think it'll be an issue. It will take long to load the game to start it up, but after that shouldn't be a problem. FPSs like Titanfall are based on maps. You load a map before you join. Once you're in the map, HDD shouldn't be used for much.

 

[Arkaign]

Hopefully someone figures out a community patch to blank the non-essential audio to regain 20+GB of useless drive leeching. This really is inexcusably bad. My BF3 folder, which features an insanely superior engine, and every single expansion, a complete SP campaign, etc, is about half of Titanfall PC size. So 'Origin' my butt, it's just laziness.

 

[nurturedhate]

Have 8GB of RAM, and I listed in OP that the WD external is 3.0.

Problem is that the folks at Game Stop told me if I install it on the external drive, and the game does not run right, I cannot return it. If I return it now they'll give me a store credit.

The point I tried to make w/ them is that I should have been told before purchase of the VERY UNUSUAL HUGE AMOUNT OF HD SPACE required for that game install, even though in small print on the box that info is listed.

It has been known that for a least a month that the install size is rather large and it is so very rare that a high end system doesn't have some form of large mechanical internal storage especially considering a $300 cpu, a $500 gpu, $175 case, $100 headphones and a $600+ monitor. You can pick up a 1tb drive for $50.

My ssd is reserved for a select few games that I want to specifically load faster otherwise everything goes on the mechanical drive, mainly the massive steam collection that I have come to realize that I play more often if the games are actually installed.

Also, people keep saying that 50gb is a lot for a game install but it really isn't. Granted for this particular game that is a LOT of uncompressed audio and their reasons are kinda meh. But there have been plenty of games that have came close to the 50gb mark. BF3 and it's xpacs broke 40gb. WoW before the recent optimizations was close to 40gb. I even had over 60gb worth of L4D2 thanks to addons and maps. I've seen people with massive skyrim installs.

There's a lot of money sitting on my desk right now but I still feel that ssd space still commands a premium and the stuff that goes on it has to be weighed carefully and therefore I have a nice large hdd. 240gb ssd = 3-4tb hdd cost wise.

 

[sweenish]

Hopefully someone figures out a community patch to blank the non-essential audio to regain 20+GB of useless drive leeching. This really is inexcusably bad. My BF3 folder, which features an insanely superior engine, and every single expansion, a complete SP campaign, etc, is about half of Titanfall PC size. So 'Origin' my butt, it's just laziness.

BF3 alone is 30 GB. With expansions, it's more like 40 GB.

Not sure what voodoo you're using, but that's how big my folder was.

 

[Bateluer]

how much ram can this game use?

The XB1/PS4 have about 5 to 6GBs available to devs for games, so they're been optimized for that. May or may not use more on PC

Wow I always thought that people that main SSD have a secondary HDD. 0.0

Thats usually the preferred way. SSD for the C, mechanical for storage. SSDs are getting cheaper though, Amazon was just selling Samsung Evo 840 SSDs for about 50 cents a GB, 120/250/750/1TB sizes.

 

[pcslookout]

All of it.

Welcome back stalker.

 

[looper]

The onus is completely on you. Don't try to pass the buck. Specs are always on the box, and if you can't be bothered to check them you have nobody to blame but yourself.

Gee, well, ok. Feel better now? Tell me something I don't know.

I'll install on the external WD, and see if it works ok. If not, I may get a WD 'Black'.

Thanks for responses, guys...