Nashanu Posted August 12, 2015 Share Posted August 12, 2015 I have recently upgraded my computer, everything except the case. I got an SSD 500GB, and after installing Oblivion plus patches; UOP, Wrye Bash, BOSS and OBSE. Have other mods to follow including COBL, then to my horror I saw that the SSD was already half full. Yes, I should have done my homework on SSD's beforehand, but I thought the 1TB HD I put in would take the mods and other stuff. Now, when trying to shift stuff over to HD Windows won't allow it, Some small programs I did manage to move causes Windows to ask me where the path is. Apart from removing the SSD, which I think may require a complete re-install, I'm now wondering what I CAN do. If just one game + patches does this, then there's not much hope of putting in any newer games. Which is what I upgraded in the first place for. Anyone out there with any help, info' or whatever, please help. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
forli Posted August 12, 2015 Share Posted August 12, 2015 (edited) Half 500Gb SSD with only Oblivion? I can't believe it!!I'm using a big installation folder with many heavy mods like: Cobl, Dragon Captions Resource Pack, Armamentarium, Better Cities, The Elder Council, Unique Landscape, Maskar's Oblivion Overhaul, Vilja, Children of Cyrodiil, Knights of the Nine Revelation, The Lost Spires, Tears of the fiend and other ones.... yet my Oblivion folder is just 21Gb! I don't know what you did, but I can't believe all that memory is occupied by Oblivion. Edited August 12, 2015 by forli Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bben46 Posted August 12, 2015 Share Posted August 12, 2015 Blame Microsoft - they expect everything to automatically go on your boot disk (usually your C:\ drive) and everything to be installed in the protected program files folder on that disk. Then make it difficult to put anything on a secondary disk. Part of this is their continued reliance of the long obsolete registry for windows to find things - If you look at portable apps, they cannot use the registry because they are not installed. Instead most use something like a built in ini file to keep track of where things are. One disadvantage is they will be slower to load. I ran Oblivion on an SSD for a while. It did start up a bit faster, but once running, the speed difference was negligible except for the faster loading screens. Now, I use my SSD as a boot device and have as few programs on it as I can get away with. All of my games, including steam are on my E: drive. But the registry still insists that some parts absolutely must be on the C: drive. :sad: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nashanu Posted August 12, 2015 Author Share Posted August 12, 2015 Half 500Gb SSD with only Oblivion? I can't believe it!!I'm using a big installation folder with many heavy mods like: Cobl, Dragon Captions Resource Pack, Armamentarium, Better Cities, The Elder Council, Unique Landscape, Maskar's Oblivion Overhaul, Vilja, Children of Cyrodiil, Knights of the Nine Revelation, The Lost Spires, Tears of the fiend and other ones.... yet my Oblivion folder is just 21Gb! I don't know what you did, but I can't believe all that memory is occupied by Oblivion.I couldn't believe it either. I installed, as usual into C\\Games outside of Program folder. I did not actually install the SSD, an IT techie friend did it. This Saturday I'm taking the PC to a local computer guru for him to see what's been done, or not done. He said he's got an SSD with just half the gigabytes than mine and he's got ten games installed, including EVE online. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nashanu Posted August 12, 2015 Author Share Posted August 12, 2015 Blame Microsoft - they expect everything to automatically go on your boot disk (usually your C:\ drive) and everything to be installed in the protected program files folder on that disk. Then make it difficult to put anything on a secondary disk. Part of this is their continued reliance of the long obsolete registry for windows to find things - If you look at portable apps, they cannot use the registry because they are not installed. Instead most use something like a built in ini file to keep track of where things are. One disadvantage is they will be slower to load. I ran Oblivion on an SSD for a while. It did start up a bit faster, but once running, the speed difference was negligible except for the faster loading screens. Now, I use my SSD as a boot device and have as few programs on it as I can get away with. All of my games, including steam are on my E: drive. But the registry still insists that some parts absolutely must be on the C: drive. :sad:Yes, I'm not that sure that the speed increase is all that amazing. The person who installed it for me phoned and said my PC was so fast now that he was jealous, but when I got the PC back, I wasn't that impressed. Have you seen the price of the 1TB SSD's? Very expensive. Thanks for your info', the PC's going to a shop Saturday to be looked at by someone who know's what he's doing. If he finds a solution I'll post it here, it may help someone else with a similar problem. If he does not solve the problem I'll return to the good old Hard drives, I did not have to worry about space everytime I install something.Adding to your list of Windows hogging the space, what about those seemingly hundreds of updates? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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