Not enough disk spacec to install? 4.7GB Free?

[MAllen 0]

Got my nice new copy of ArmA in the post. Looked at the box and saw "3GB Disk space required".

Cleared out 4.7GB on my E: drive. Attempted to install, but get a message of "not enough disk space".

What is happening here? How much space is required for an installation? Do I also need lots of room on the C: drive? I only have 1.7GB free there.....

When I looked at the readme file, I notice that it says "4GB Required" there. So somthing inconsistent...

Can someone help me by checking the size of their installed ArmA folder?

[desertfox 2]

I have installed it to a 6 GB partition and it works fine.

Where's your problem ? lol You can't seriously tell me you can't free up some disk space. Try deleting dome pr0n

[MAllen 0]

I have installed it to a 6 GB partition and it works fine.

Where's your problem ? lol You can't seriously tell me you can't free up some disk space. Try deleting dome pr0n  

Yes... a problem.    I am trying to play this on my main PC.  Which is SCSI based.  So tight on space due to the cost of the disks.

I am trying to fit the "3GB" game into a "4.7GB" gap, so it should fit easily.

True - I can do some more rearranging, and kick a few more older games out.  (OR fight a few more EBay auctions)

I don't have any of the "dome pr0n" you refer to.  Something new an unusual there...

Actually, there are no big data / movie / download files on this PC as they have been kicked out onto the network on SATA drives.

If I can get some idea of how much space this game really needs, I can resize the partition to fit.  Just I don't want to have to throw out OFP just to be able to play ArmA.  

[desertfox 2]

In that case I recommend deleting some files from the partition, or resizing it to 6 GB at least.

I may be wrong but the game has some sort of pagefile and it de-packs pbo files while you play - thus needing space for that. Additionally, each time when you join a multiplayer game, the mission data is loaded onto your hard disk as well. Some maps have half a megabyte, and if you play a couple weekends ..

[psycosmos 0]

Also assure that you have about the same amount of free space on your main partition. If I remember correctly, my game gave me the same message when I had the space free on the destination drive, but not on C:\ too.

[MAllen 0]

Frustrating... looks like an EBay job for some more diskspace.

It's a shame that the requirements on the box are so far out.

And psycosmos - I really hope I don't need to clear another 6GB on the C drive as well. From the experience of being a programmer, I understand installers, so this was a concern to me that I'd need just as much room on C.

[psycosmos 0]

Frustrating... looks like an EBay job for some more diskspace.

It's a shame that the requirements on the box are so far out.

And psycosmos - I really hope I don't need to clear another 6GB on the C drive as well. From the experience of being a programmer, I understand installers, so this was a concern to me that I'd need just as much room on C.

Well, from my experience with Microsoft, you can forget every knowledge as a programmer anyway as soon as they get involved in something

Just trying to help

Edit: the size of my ArmA installation is 4,42 GiB (4,76 GB) with only a hand full of extra missions.

[MAllen 0]

Edit: the size of my ArmA installation is 4,42 GiB (4,76 GB) with only a hand full of extra missions.

LOL Bet I was just 100KB under the limits then.

Thanks for checking on the actual size... I'll try a bit more shuffling.

[Icekiller 0]

Hi ,

I acutally had to have 5.6G free before it would let me install 5.3 was not enough.

Wish the guy who make install program would write what the space he expect.:(

BR

Icekiller

[mjr_jon 0]

Consider yourself lucky if you're able to install it after freeing up a few more Gb. I currently have over 45 Gb free and I'm still told I don't have enough space  

I've heard of other people having similar problems with other games, but I don't know how to solve it. Anyone have any ideas?  

[MAllen 0]

Hi ,

I acutally had to have 5.6G free before it would let me install 5.3 was not enough.

Wish the guy who make install program would write what the space he expect.:(

BR

Icekiller

From personal experience, I bet what the guy did was build the installer and set the size with an earlier Beta version.... when the real size crept up, I guess he forgot to update.

[MAllen 0]

Consider yourself lucky if you're able to install it after freeing up a few more Gb. I currently have over 45 Gb free and I'm still told I don't have enough space  

I've heard of other people having similar problems with other games, but I don't know how to solve it. Anyone have any ideas?  

Are you, like me, trying to install on a partition that is not C? Could it be the size check is being done to C only? Could be nasty if it is..... I have seen some PCs were "C" is a card reader due to a bodged install....

[mjr_jon 0]

I reckon it's almost certainly a partition problem, but my C: is the one with 45 Gb free. My F: (the other partition) has 33 Gb free, so I don't know what ArmA's problem is.

I am able to install other games perfectly well on here, and I'm able to install ArmA on another computer that wouldn't be able to run it, so it just seems to be a problem with this game and this computer. Troubling to say the least...

[MAllen 0]

Mrj_jon - here is something to try. Clear out yout TEMP folder.

Press START

select Run...

type in %TEMP%

select everything

delete it all.

Now try agin. Some installers are a bit bad when TEMP is full.

As to my solution.... EBay means I have a new disk on the way. LOL.

[mjr_jon 0]

Thanks for the suggestion, but alas it didn't help my plight.

Right, here's what I'm doing:

I know it's not the ideal way of doing things, but I've installed the game on a computer downstairs and now I'm transferring all the files on to my computer over my network. I've kind of always known that doing something like that might be a bad idea, but I've never really known what would go wrong with it.

--- Firstly, will it actually work? i.e. will I be able to play ArmA on this computer after transferring all necessary files?

--- Secondly, what problems might it cause? My registry might not be pleased with me, but until I come to uninstall ArmA in the far distant future, will that cause any trouble?

As I said, I get the feeling my plan won't work perfectly well but I'm unsure what success (if any) I might expect.

Again, any help would be greatly appreciated  

[MAllen 0]

That method used to work perfectly with OFP.  Always quicker than an install and patch IMHO.

WRT the Registry.  Go and hunt for the branches conencted with the game.  Probally one in HKLM\Software and another in HKCU\Software.  Carefuly export the branches for the game to .reg files.  Then as long as you install in same location on new PC, you should just then need to import the .reg keys.

If you don't know how to "export the reg branch"... then I can give you more details step by step instructions.

(Actually, this was a useful trick for me and my mates as this allowed a quick swap of registration keys for easier network games without Fading....)

PLEASE NOTE: as I have not yet managed to install the game myself, I cannot tell you if this will work on ArmA as there is different anti-piracy code in use this time.  

I also don't know where the branches are in the registry this time.  Lasttime it was in a Codemasters branch.  So this time I guesss it will be 505games and/or Bohemia.  

[mjr_jon 0]

I tried my plan, and I almost persuaded ArmA to actually load, but it tells me I've entered a bad serial number at set-up before I get anywhere.

Thanks again for your ideas, but I'd really prefer not to go changing things in my registry that I don't understand. I'm going to try phoning 'Arma Tech Support' tomorrow, even if they do charge me about a million pounds for the call. If they're no help (and I'm not holding out a lot of hope) then I may find myself crawling back to ask for some step-by-step instructions on what registry fiddling I need to do.

Until then, wish me luck in my quest. And good luck to you also.

[MAllen 0]

This would not be "changing" the registry, just copying data out. A fiarly easy task. But I do understand your reluctance when the registry is such a delecate item that is easily broken.

[mjr_jon 0]

Well the people at 505 Games have no idea what the problem is. Great.

They're going to work on it just for me and tell me what's wrong once they know. Rest assured I'll be posting what they say, so if anyone else has had this problem: sit tight.

PS They did suggest I copy everything from the DVD on to my Desktop and try to install from there in Safe Mode. That didn't work for me, but it might for you.

[desertfox 2]

Mjr John:

- How much space is left on the Windows partition, and what drive letter does this partition have

- Is your Windows pagefile set to a fixed size ?

- Are your performance settings set to "Programs" ?

- Did your PC come with built-in card readers ( Such as SD or MM cards ), that come with an assigned drive letter ?