My WoW folder (before 8.1) is around 55 gb. Your problem is NOT that 8.1’s WoW is bigger than 150 gb. I do not believe that 8.1 will add MORE THAN 100 gb to your WoW folder.
Your problem is you are using more than half your SSD drive for other stuff.
Are you using retail WoW (55 gb) plus the 8.1 PTR (more than 55 gb)? How many versions of WoW are you using, that total more than 150 gb?
Or does Windows use 90gb of the 150, so you just have 60 left for WoW?
After the patch, 70GB is being used by WoW, (70.3 to be exact) 471mb by Battle. net, and another 7GB is still lingering in the Pagefile.sys even after the download was completed…
The patch is not ADDED to existing files. The path REPLACES existing files. The new directory size WILL NOT BE current size plus patch size.
Could they be keeping the old versions because of Classic?
If you don’t use Hibernate on your machine you can reclaim <YourAmountOfRAM> Run a search for disable hibernation windows 10/8/8.1
This should get you some GB back and it comes with no downside if you never use or plan to use Hibernation (which is different from sleep).
Um, what is the “fix”? I love fixes…
Will above work for 8.1? Still running on a legacy OS.
It works on any version of windows that supports hibernate.
Hibernate just stores your memory onto your drive then reloads it when it is turned back on.
Thanks. I’ll have to look into this a bit more.
System restart flushed the Pagefile.sys, and now I’m up to 11GB free (out of the red!). A welcome relief, putting off any sort of purchase decision until after the next major update.
It is rather huge at this point. Not sure if there is any solution though.
Im sorry your money is not as valuable.
The primary culprit for the “insufficient free space” problem is that even when merely patching, the BNet app requires that the free space be equal or greater to the full install size. So you could have 20 GB free and still get the error stating you don’t have enough space. Effectively this means you realistically need to keep enough space free as if you were installing a second copy of WoW. It has to do with how CASC updates and injects new data into its files. It requires the total install size as free space as “scratch space”.
Not intuitive, but that’s how it works unfortunately. For this reason, it is highly recommended that a SSD be of a minimum of 250 GB in size to maintain the ability to update the game properly.
not sure why its showing a different price for you maybe you arnt looking at the same drive here is a link
https://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16820147693
Y’all are focused on the OP’s SSD and I’m over here like “I get that he’s not willing to use Windows 10 cause I hate it too, but why is he using 8.1 when it was worse?” xD
I have two pc’s and have 8.1 on one and 10 on the other - guess which machine I use most times and the one with 10 is a better machine.
Cannot stress this enough. If you are trying to do all this on a drive that is too small you’re going to run into this problem again and again. 150gb is unbelievably small. Thumb drives are considerably bigger than that now.
Pretty sure the file size should shrink once the patch comes out. If you go download the PTR right now it’s basically the same size that it was before the preload and not 16gb bigger. You basically just have files sitting there that need to be unpacked.
I put Windows on one SSD, WoW on a second SSD and a storage hard drive. I suggest picking up a new SSD and moving WoW to it.
Or that they apparently don’t have enough RAM that they have a pagefile on their SSD… Eww. At least put it on your HDD if you really need it.
OP, Samsung has one of their “crappy” 500GB SSDs on newegg for $73. Well, it’s out of stock at the moment. The tech it uses may be terrible on sustained write speed and it has one of the shortest lifespans, but if it’s basically “storage” for games, it’ll be just fine. From what I’ve read, assuming it’s right and done by people smarter than me (the latter is definitely true), you’d have to write 10GB per day for 23 years before that storage type (TLC) fails. Sustained read speeds on just about any SATA SSD are roughly the same (530ish MBps average).
Look, I know it’s a “just buy a drive” response, but that’s the boat you’re in and there really are cheap reasonable options out there. If you want the best, well yeah you’re gonna pay through the nose for a M.2 PCIe x4 or a NVMe drive, but they’re really freakin’ fast and usually high endurance.
micro center has cheap sata ssds at regular price. about 35 bucks for 240g