I17 - Almost 1GB in size?
By
Akaiku,
Posted on: 2010-03-02 19:13 in The Global Training Room Test Server
Quote:
True... Even with the extra patches, 2 or 3 at 10-40 MB a piece is better than 5 totalling over a GB.|
Originally Posted by Kheldarn
Go ahead and download it now. There's no reason not to. And this way, if/when you get into Closed Beta, you're good to go.
And if you don't make it into Closed Beta, well, you'll have more patches to download, too, since they usually have an additional 2-3 patches during Closed Beta. Even when I'm not in, I check daily for patches. That way, when I finally have access, either through being part of a wave of Closed Beta, or the Beta going Open, I'm all ready to go!!  |
If you never get into the beta, you can still update your test client anyway. Use BillZBubba's Test Guide to copy the test client as a backup, then copy it in place of your in-game install to speed up the process once UM goes live. http://boards.cityofheroes.com/showt...illzbubba+test
The only difference between the test client and live is that the test client gets more patches in a more fragmented state. If you download all of them and wait for the test client to go live with it's current version, there's no difference between the two.
My turn: One of the reasons you don't get all 1024 MB out of a hard drive gigabyte is the formatting. The File Access Table (in Windows... MAC and Linux use a different setup, but the purpose and end result is the same) uses up a small percentage of each and every GB of your HDD Space for it's index. Otherwise, a hard drive would have to spin from the inside out to find your data (Nerds, remember the days of the Commodore 64/TRS 80 and the cassette tape drive? They sucked as "state of the art", even then.) Mathematics aside, it doesn't matter what an exact GB is or isn't, you'll only enjoy 99% of it.