Saving Discspace by deleting FMs

[SeriousToni]

Darkmod saves one FM.pk4 in Doom3\darkmod\fms and one again in Doom3\FM - so can I delete one of them to save diskspace? Does the game even use the fms folder after extracting the pk4 to Doom3\FM ?

 

FM = name of the fan mission

 

I need to clean up my hard drive

[Obsttorte]

Since 1.08 this shouldn't happen anymore. At least it doesn't happen for me neither on Linux nor on Windows. Maybe they are leftovers from 1.07, so you can delete them me thinking.

[SeriousToni]

Which ones?

 

How do I clean my isntallation correctly?

Edited February 12, 2013 by SeriousToni

[Obsttorte]

Delete the FM folders in the doom3 directory.

[demagogue]

There's save games in the doom3 directory folders, but they're not playable on the new version anyway, and if they're from before a fix, they'll be a bloated size & worth deleting anyway.

[SeriousToni]

Thank you two for helping out - now my doom installation takes less memory

[STiFU]

Haha, I couldn't help but laugh a little when I read thread title. People complaining about lacking discspace in 2013, where a 2 TB hdd costs just around 80 €. ^^ I got 6.4 TB in my rig!

[SeriousToni]

Yes I know what you think, but that's not the case.

I was cleaning all my disks today and I had my Doom folder 4 times on them. I deleted two completely and the two left I cleaned - imagine how many gigabytes it safed now

Having many space doesn't mean you have to spoil it, you know? Because loading and search times are much faster if you only save the things you really need

[Tels]

Haha, I couldn't help but laugh a little when I read thread title. People complaining about lacking discspace in 2013, where a 2 TB hdd costs just around 80 €. ^^ I got 6.4 TB in my rig!

 

My mainboard supports up to 500 Gbyte - increasing the storage means an all-new PC.... Sometimes I'm a bit tired of "the solution to your problem is throwing money at it" responses one gets all the time from people with a lot more money. Sometimes it makes sense (when it is little money), but not all the time.

[STiFU]

Ok sorry, but you have to admit that your case is a pretty rare one. I mean, your PC must be at least 6 or 7 years old, if it only supports 500 Gb and who expects something like that from a game developer or a mod-player?

[Obsttorte]

Actually my PC isn't much newer, too. I only buy new hardware if it is really neccessary, and I don't know what I should do with several TB of memory.

@SeriousToni: May I ask you why you had four copies of doom 3 on your plate?

[SeriousToni]

That was accidently because I had one on my old laptop and it was in the backup, then I had one of my new laptop and it was in the backup too, and so on

[STiFU]

Actually my PC isn't much newer, too. I only buy new hardware if it is really neccessary

Cheap-ass Germans...

 

(I am german, too! ^^)

[Obsttorte]

I know