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Why is ARK taking up 280 gigs of drive space?


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Why is ARK taking up 280 gigs of drive space?

With the coronavirus forcing companies to have their employees stay home, I began looking at how much drive space ARK is taking up since I will be using my game computer to work from. I have a 500 GB SSD that I have WIndows and Ark on. Nothing else is on it. Everything else is on a 3 TB HDD. Ark is taking up around 280 GB of space on the SSD. Only 4 GB is for Mods. The rest is for the official maps. Most of the space is taken up by two folders in the C:\SteamLibrary\steamapps\common\ARK\ShooterGame folder. The Content folder is 149 GB and the SeekFreeContent is 128 GB.

Yet when I look at the requirements the numbers dont add up. Here is what the System Requirements are for each of the maps according to their store pages on Steam:
Base Game: 60 GB
Scorched Earth: 10000 MB (10 GB)
The Center: 3000 MB (3 GB)
Ragnarok: 3000 MB (3 GB)
Aberration: 20 GB
Extinction: 20 GB
Valguero: 20 GB
Genesis: 40 GB

Thats 196 GB.

 

Where is the other 84 GB at? Thats a big amount to be off by according to the system requirements.

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I recommend scanning the file before opening.

http://www.aplusfreeware.com/categories/LFWV/SpaceMonger.html

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