How much hard disk space does MegaScenery use?
Because each individual tile is unique, MegaScenery takes up more hard disk space than FS2004 default scenery. That’s the tradeoff you make for visually spectacular scenery. A general formula to use is each square mile takes up 150 Kb of hard disk space. So if we advertise a title as being 14,000 square miles it will occupy about 2.1 Gigabytes when installed. If you are running low on hard disk space and are running Windows XP, you could always compress the folder, although you may then experience a slight reduction in performance depending upon your processor speed. With 200 Gigabyte hard disks becoming readily available we expect that upcoming PC’s will ship with these bigger hard drives and 2.1 Gigabytes is a small amount of disk space relatively speaking nowadays.
Because each individual tile is unique, MegaScenery takes up more hard disk space than FS2004 default scenery. That’s the tradeoff you make for visually spectacular scenery. A general formula to use is each square mile takes up 150 Kb of hard disk space. So if we advertise a title as being 14,000 square miles it will occupy about 2.1 Gigabytes when installed. If you are running low on hard disk space and are running Windows XP, Vista or Win 7, you could always compress the folder, although you may then experience a slight reduction in performance depending upon your processor speed. With 200 Gigabyte hard disks becoming readily available we expect that upcoming PC’s will ship with these bigger hard drives and 2.1 Gigabytes is a small amount of disk space relatively speaking nowadays.
Related Questions
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