Witcher 3 install size

Seems odd that this huge beautiful game only requires 35GB of disk space. Though i've seen quite a few releases these passed years that had a big extra Hi-Res texture pack that came out alongside the release or shortly after. Even a small average game takes ~20GB these days.

Unless CDProjektRed has come up with some crazy new texture compression method, how could they make it so small?

Probably re-using numerous assets that will hopefully not make things look repetive.

It's entirely possible that 4k textures will be an optional download released later. Consoles can't do anything with em...might have been easier on them to go gold with a standardized 1080p set across all versions. Of course, CDProjekt is pretty strong on the tech side, so I wouldn't put it by them to have figured something out to minimize installs. Certainly would benefit their DD customers.

That is suprisingly small for a modern open world game.

Nice, just picked up another SSD and this will darn well be goin' on it! :D

I've preloaded on Steam before. How does it work for GOG? I downloaded seven files, one was a 20.5 MB setup, five were 4 (or 5) gig BIN files, and a final one which was 2.5 gigs.

So around 22-28 gigs total, compressed obviously. Tried to run the set up, told me needed files were missing which is expected on release with the patch containing the .exe. But Steam allows me to install the full game and have the icon on my desktop and everything.

Anyone who's preloaded and installed from GOG before tell me how this works, and it will just do a patch while installing, or will I have to download part eight?

@elessarGObonzo: Only? I've got the Witcher 2 Enhanced Edition on a single DVD, the Witcher 3 would be across 6 or 7 DVDs...

I expected it to be bigger than 35gb.

so you dont game on PC? the passed 2+ years a lot of big great games have been near 50GBs, some more. though some like Crysis 3 and Dying Light are less than 20GB. guess it all depends on how often they reuse the same textures.

and the DL DVDs are 8+Gbs, thats what games usually come on. but, that's still 5 discs if you still get physical copies.

@elessarGObonzo: No I don't buy AAA games on PC - had no idea the sizes were getting that out of control.

35 GB..... That's it?

That would take maybe less than a couple of hours to download with my middling Internet connection. GTA V was 59.1 GB and it took around 2 hours 45 minutes. Add another 10 minutes for setting up the Social Club since GTA V was my first R_* game.

I think the real question is how did developers make Titanfall 50 GB. It's been more than a year and it's still crazy.

35 GB seems fine for an 8th gen game.

took me 2 days to download the 24GB preload from GOG.com. very slow upload speeds from them with this one.