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Before
Size: 27.1 GB
Size on Disk: 26.3 GB
After
Size: 22.5GB
Size on Disk: 21.8 GB
Pretty decent results =)
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2012-02-01, 12:38 AM #1Field Marshal
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WoW - 4.3.2 File Optimization Results
Last edited by TrainingKimpas; 2012-02-01 at 12:41 AM.
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2012-02-01, 12:42 AM #2I am Murloc!
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- Feb 2011
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before: 26.3GB
after: 21.5GB
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2012-02-01, 01:13 AM #3The Lightbringer
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- Jun 2009
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before 28.2
after 24.1
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2012-02-01, 05:07 AM #4The Patient
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- Jul 2011
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- 241
before: 26.3
after: 22.1
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2012-02-01, 05:11 AM #5Deleted
Before - 32.8
After - 26.7
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2012-02-01, 05:16 AM #6The Patient
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- Nov 2010
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- 235
before: 22.9
after: 19.9
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2012-02-01, 05:20 AM #7not good with computers
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- Oct 2007
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You can delete your Data/Cache folder to get it down to ~15GB. It will rebuild some over time, but so far mine isn't anywhere near as big.
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2012-02-01, 06:52 AM #8Pandaren Monk
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Great idea, I'd be willing to bet all the people who are bitching about having to download huge amounts after optimizing are the ones who deleted there cache.
Originally Posted by chaud
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2012-02-01, 08:35 AM #9Mechagnome
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- Jan 2010
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before: 30.3gb
after: 22.2gb
good news for my ssd!
only had to download a small amount, whole process of optimising and downloading was about 14 minutes.
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2012-02-01, 08:37 AM #10Field Marshal
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- Dec 2010
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Could anyone please tell me exactly what it is this optimizer is doing? Just deleting old patch content?
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2012-02-01, 08:40 AM #11The Patient
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- Mar 2010
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Before... 41GB
After..32GB
BUT... i have to redownload 1,2-1,3gb I guess it isn't the patch allone but some missing files?
It quite sucks with a 2k internet... bet i have to wait the whole day -.-
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2012-02-01, 08:41 AM #12Deletedim assuming it is like a disk defragmentation, but just on the wow files? but im just guessing:P Originally Posted by Cybbelajlaj
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2012-02-01, 08:47 AM #13Banned
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- Feb 2011
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Yeah, that's it exactly. Except no. Originally Posted by lockblock
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2012-02-01, 08:51 AM #14The Patient
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It has been stated in a blue post a while back. Originally Posted by Cybbelajlaj
The way WoW is being patch at the moment it needs to have the old file and the new file before the patching can be done. With some file optimizations you won't need double the space to update any more. At the same time the optimizer will delete old unused files and so forth.
I don't think it's doing any defragmentation though. There are better software out there for that sort of thing.
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2012-02-01, 09:00 AM #15High Overlord
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- Nov 2010
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Im sadly still waiting as its making me redownload 4.3gb - even though it works perfectly fine so god knows ?!
>.<
I used to have a signature, then a mod removed it ^^
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2012-02-01, 09:05 AM #16Deleted
Before: 49.2 GB
After: 27,6 GB
Pretty nice tbh
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2012-02-01, 10:07 AM #17Scarab Lord
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- May 2009
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Before
Size: 28.4 GB
Size on Disk: 27.9 GB
After
Size: 22.8GB
Size on Disk: 22.9 GB
(And a rediciously small gaming window :P - http://i.imgur.com/aNgh9.jpg )
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2012-02-01, 11:30 AM #18The Lightbringer
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- Aug 2008
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Sort of. It's purging the main MPQ file of old unused stuff, or things that were never used, duplicates, etc, and is splitting stuff up into different archives. As far as I can tell anyway. Originally Posted by Bjornkatt
red panda red panda red panda!
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2012-02-01, 12:28 PM #19not good with computers
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The cache was built from local files required to play the game, so no. Originally Posted by lockblock
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2012-02-01, 01:58 PM #20Warchief
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Before
Size: 26.4 GB
Size on Disk: 26.4 GB
After
Size: 22.4GB
Size on Disk: 22.4 GB
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