I chose a custom location to install. A little triangle warning icon is displayed.
Mouseover tooltip states: Warning you have chosen a location that does not share data. Installation size my be significantly larger.
I have Blizzard launcher installed on one drive, Wow Retail on another, and I am installing WoW classic on another drive (getting this warning on wow classic install).
What is it trying to share data with? Launcher or WoW Retail.
How much larger is the install?
You’ll want to install classic and retail onto the same drive. Retail, classic, the ptr, etc, share nearly all of their data. Using a second drive for classic will result in like 50 gigs of unnecessary installation data.
Ok thanks, so the message is saying to group games not the launcher, good to know.
I went ahead and installed it on separate drives. The Retail install is 58 gigs. The Wow Classic install is 3.8 gigs. Launched it and it runs (no telling if it has all of what it needs) and 3.8 gigs sounds right based on reports.
Maybe that message is specifically for PTR and the launcher erroneously displays it for Classic as well.
EDIT: Makes sense if I think about it. Pretty sure on classic forums it states you don’t need retail to run classic client. The warning on launcher just had me questioning things.
3.8 gigs sounds right for the classic install, but as far as i know, that requires significant shared data that will be installed twice. If your wow folder on the second drive with classic is only 3.8 and the game runs then i guess you’re good.
Well it launches… no way currently for me to test if it loads what it needs. Have to wait for stress test. Thanks for replies.