How many games do you have installed?

unknownsock · 25 Jul 2011 at 16:03

I have all my Steam folder installed and retail games. Pretty much almost 1TB

kylew · 25 Jul 2011 at 16:15

Mr Krugga said:
Why would you have spare ISOs on the HDD?

Possibly ripped? I do this with my now shrinking collection of hard copies, I'll rip or download an ISO and install it from that. I started it because I had my DVD drive unplugged for about a year.

Snakedoctor · 25 Jul 2011 at 16:17

90 steam games and 18 Origin, 2 others.

Klo · 25 Jul 2011 at 16:46

Not many, whenever I finish a singleplayer game I know I'm only going to play once, I'll uninstall it.

Mr Krugga · 25 Jul 2011 at 17:53

kylew said:
Possibly ripped? I do this with my now shrinking collection of hard copies, I'll rip or download an ISO and install it from that. I started it because I had my DVD drive unplugged for about a year.

I'm just thinking it's a waste of space.

Surely if you have the codes, you can just download the game if the need arises and use them codes to activate.

Curunen · 25 Jul 2011 at 18:03

A handful.
I have a few things permanently installed (mass effect 1 and 2, universe sandbox), one or two singleplayer things I am currently going through (bioshock, fallout 3), and two multiplayer things because other people want me to play with them (portal 2, MTW:II).

kylew · 25 Jul 2011 at 18:06

Mr Krugga said:
I'm just thinking it's a waste of space.

Surely if you have the codes, you can just download the game if the need arises and use them codes to activate.

In my case, I've got about 8TB of storage, so a few hundred GB for ISO rips isn't much.

Mr Krugga · 25 Jul 2011 at 18:07

kylew said:
In my case, I've got about 8TB of storage, so a few hundred GB for ISO rips isn't much.

Understood.

Wish I was as clever a few years ago when some of my gems were stolen, some got lost in traffic, etc.

johny dolan · 25 Jul 2011 at 20:11

Just one Iracing.

trigger-happy · 25 Jul 2011 at 20:17

roughly 50 games including steam.

chaparral · 25 Jul 2011 at 21:14

How many games do you have installed?

Far to many to ever have enough time to play

rosso5792 · 25 Jul 2011 at 22:14

I have about 4 games installed at the moment LOL. I only play like 2 of them (Company of heroes and San Andreas).

Ace Modder · 25 Jul 2011 at 22:17

This many

Mr.Mccoy · 8 Aug 2011 at 20:56

I have 40+ games on Steam but I dont have any installed.

HangTime · 8 Aug 2011 at 21:25

Mr Krugga said:
I'm just thinking it's a waste of space.

Surely if you have the codes, you can just download the game if the need arises and use them codes to activate.

A few issues with that approach:

1) The games may be retail copies that cannot be activated on legal digital distribution services
2) Empty disk space is wasted disk space (within reason) - why not make use of it!
3) He may have a slow internet connection - for example I have a 5.5mbit line which would take over 60 hours to download 122GB
4) He may have a capped internet connection - for example I can only transfer 15GB/month during peak hours
5) Installing off an ISO image is quicker than downloading

setter · 8 Aug 2011 at 21:28

Only 3 till i get another hdd.

BFBC2
Moh 2010
BF 2

Still cant get my steam account up and running till i can afford a new drive, several games on it that i played regularly.

barmyllama · 8 Aug 2011 at 21:32

AshenShugar1873 · 10 Aug 2011 at 11:59

I used to just keep installing and never remove games, but I have loads and that's just not an option now. The large size of game installs, music collections, DVD rips for viewing through the media centre and making sure you can backup all your data too means even the largest hard drives fill up quick. I generally uninstall the previous game in a series before installing the latest now. So Empire came off before Napoleon went on, Modern Warfare gone before Black Ops installed, etc. Still have dozens installed so no shortage of options.

laptop1967 · 10 Aug 2011 at 15:10

i've got 8 games installed at the minute