World of Warcraft is is taking up 90% of my SSD/SDD. I have 250 GB of disk space and 16GB of ram. Right now WoW uses about 130GB of my disk space plus addons. I believe Windows 10 only uses 20-40 GB so I don’t know where all the data is being used up as I know I don’t have many apps that use up so much space other than WoW. Is there any way to trim down the data usage WoW uses or do I need more space such as a 1 TB upgrade to run the game more efficiently. I would think 16 GB of RAM is sufficient, I’m just trying to figure out if there’s any way I can save some disk space and run the game efficiently without resorting to upgrading. Is it possible WoW is creating duplicate files as I play each day and I need to remove these duplicate files? I am also looking for recommendations for more storage for the following Lap Top Model. MSI GP 73 Leopard 8RE. Specs listed below. When they say the game recommends 128 GB of available space, do they mean 128 available after the game and up-to-date expansions are downloaded and saved onto your disk drive?
Your Windows folder is probably only 40 GB, but how big is your Programs folder and the hidden memory-swap that Windows creates? Before you even install WoW, your SDD was likely at 40% free space because Windows is using more than just the .\Windows folder (my virtual page file is 5 GB; hidden space that Windows is taking up). You might also have Windows File History turned on, which will be burning backups onto your primary SSD (unlikely but you should check).
WoW is usually good about sharing files (rather than duplicating) across Live, PTR, and Beta, but if you have anything besides just the Live game installed, consider uninstalling those other variants.
You should likely just upgrade to a 1TB SSD minimum; 2TB would not be unreasonable given that any other modern game (Baldur’s Gate 3, Jedi Fallen Order, etc.) is going to take 150GB.
Thank you very much. The Program Files Folder is 135GB. I was wrong on the % wise so thank you for correcting me on that. the 90 was for something else. So it sounds to me a wise investment would be in a 1TB or 2 TB upgrade to run the game more efficiently.
I take it my processors Processor Intel(R) Core™ i7-8750H CPU @ 2.20GHz, 2201 Mhz, 6 Core(s), 12 Logical Processor(s) should be fine to run the game, the main thing is the amount of space it is taking up.
Right-click the Windows Start menu, Pick Run, then DxDiag; look at the Display tab to see how much Display Memory (VRAM) your video card has (hopefully it’s an Nvidia RTX with at least 8 GB VRAM or a comparable AMD card, not some older GTX or worse an Intel Iris Xe).