Poster: Nagaina at 5/21/2006 1:52:26 AM PDT
Subject: 5 gigs??! |
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When I started up the blizz downloader for the new test realm, it was whirring away peacefully, telling me it was downloading a reasonable 90-somthing megabytes of data...
But when it finished up, my computer popped up with a little messege telling me that the downloaded program was trying to take up 5 gigabytes! Thats just plain ridiculous. NO game program needs to be that big, leading me to think that this is some sort of error.
Ontop of that, 5 gigs is already 4 more than I have left on my poor poor macintosh computer anyway, effectively stopping me from doing anything on the test servers untill this is sorted out.
So... I guess my question is, anyone else have this problem? How can I trouble shoot this?
More importantly: Since it seems to be copying everything all over, can I delete the copies?[ post edited by Nagaina ]
| | | http://forums.worldofwarcraft.com/thread.aspx?fn=wow-realm-test&t=229734&p=#post229734 | | | Poster: tigerclaw at 5/21/2006 9:01:42 AM PDT
Subject: Re: 5 gigs??! |
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Q u o t e:
lol... now that would be a feat, now wouldn't it?
Thing is, the music part is slightly irrelevant. I'm trying to find out if there's a version of the test patch that dosen't recopy everything all over again... that's just pointless in my opinian.
Then again, I'm no master at coding, and therefore I don't see the fine details that might go along with this new innovation.
The answer is presently no. As a testing vehicle, it is meant to meet a few criteria together:
a) easy to install without impacting your existing installation. i.e., trivial to just toss out WoWTest whenever you want with no impact to the retail installation.
b) able to run either WoWTest or WoW retail without any special steps to switch from one to the other.
c) represent a mode of execution that is as similar as possible to what the final retail patch will involve. i.e. files laid out the same way as retail.
d) allow us to revise it more quickly and frequently during the beta test cycle.
The combination of these goals leads us to a file layout that is self contained within the WoWTest folder. Now most computers are pretty obedient, and can do anything we ask, but if we did something differently in testing, there is the potential that it might not behave the same way at ship time, which would really invalidate the whole point of testing.
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