Disk space question

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PoorOldSpike
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Disk space question

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My hard drive is nearly full (red line below) and when I open 'Programs and Features' with Control Panel to see how much disk space each program is taking up so that I can consider uninstalling some, the 'Size' column doesn't show game sizes!
So how can i find out what games are taking up what space?


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Re: Disk space question

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Do it... to find ' with "Task-Manager":
Once the 'Game' is loaded up and running... go bring up your 'Task Manager'. Once the 'Task Manager' pop-up screen is up on your desktop... you will then be able to see how much of your 'CPU'-in [%] is being used as well as how much 'Memory'-in [MB] is being used.
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Re: Disk space question

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I use Treesize which will show the folders that are using the space, which is a good starting point.

As always, this is a 3rd party software, no connection should be implied, etc etc :)

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Re: Disk space question

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Thanks guys, one more question-
Suppose I don't want to uninstall anything from my nearly-full hard drive, what shall I do if I want to install a new game on the PC?
Will I have to cart it down the shop for them to install an extra HD inside it, or could I simply buy an external hard drive to install new games on and plug it into a USB port?
Will games and sims run okay from an external, or will they run slower and jerky?
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Re: Disk space question

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PoorOldSpike wrote: Thu Jul 01, 2021 11:15 pm Thanks guys, one more question-
Suppose I don't want to uninstall anything from my nearly-full hard drive, what shall I do if I want to install a new game on the PC?
Will I have to cart it down the shop for them to install an extra HD inside it, or could I simply buy an external hard drive to install new games on and plug it into a USB port?
Will games and sims run okay from an external, or will they run slower and jerky?
That's what I did!!!. :D The external 'Hard-Drive' has 'No-Effect' on game-play quality!!! :D
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Re: Disk space question

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Retributarr wrote: Fri Jul 02, 2021 4:32 am That's what I did!!!. :D The external 'Hard-Drive' has 'No-Effect' on game-play quality!!! :D

Thanks, well I might as well get an external..:)
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Re: Disk space question

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You cannot compare the speed of a USB device (unless it's an SSD) with any internal SATA mechanical HD. The USB device is much slower.
If you compare with an internal SSD drive than the difference will be even bigger.

Besides USB drives can assume different letters drives (it will depend on some circumstances) and that will be enough for the game, or any software, not to run.

USB drives should only be used for archiving.
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