World of warcraft file size
WoW Download Size
If you've been pondering about venturing into the thrilling world of the World of Warcraft (WoW), you're likely wondering - just how bulky is this game? How much storage space will it gulp on my device? Equally important, will your system handle the game without any hitches? We're here to help you answer these questions.
Download Size of World of Warcraft
Before you start your grand adventure in Azeroth, you should know the size of the game you're about to download. And here it is:
Windows Platform
The download size for WoW on a Windows platform stands at
70 GB
.
Mac Platform
For Mac users, the game occupies an equal space of
70 GB
.
System Requirements
Now that you know how much room WoW will take on your device, let's delve into what your device needs to run this game smoothly.
Minimum System Requirements
An Operating System: Windows® 7 64-bit or newer versions / MacOS® 10.12 (latest version).
Processor: Intel® Core™ i5-760 or AMD FX™-8100 or better.
Memory: 4 GB RAM (8GB for integrated graphics such as Intel HD Graphics).
Graphics: NVIDIA® GeForce® GTX 560 2GB or AMD™ Radeon™ HD 7850 2GB or Intel® HD Graphics 530 (45W TDP).
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Size of data files?
If you check your current WOW BFA, fully updated installations data files (found here: \World of Warcraft\Data\data) how much space does it take up?
I was using windirstat as my C: is full (256gb ssd all it has really is OS and wow) and found that the data files mentioned above is taking up a total of 85.2GB (with the entire installation being 86.8GB).
Now this isnt necessary a massive amount, considering the size of the game etc, but an issue for me considering the C-ssd is very small and reinstalling wow on a different drive is a massive hassle (with addons, interface settings etc.)
I do have classic installed, and afaik some datafiles stored there are utilized for both real wow and classic? I'm also assuming that pre-loaded SL data is included in this.
I'd delete these data files run a repair rn, but considering the massive issues today with the b.net client authorizations I'll have to wait a bit.
World of Warcraft Game size
Izume-thunderlord1
Hi Blizz,
Long-time player here… Are there any plans to shrink the game size of World of Warcraft?
A friend who recently bought a new laptop downloaded the game onto it and told me that the game size was nearly 100GB of space!?! I find this a bit insane, considering the game engine, graphics, content etc. I vaguely recall that there was a shrink-down of the game file size in or around MoP-WoD days because many realized it became cumbersome. With the shrink-down came with it notable bug fixes and the game seemed to run smoothly for a while. My guess… though I don’t know for sure is that maybe some of the old code had been re-written/updated. Can we expect a code clean-up anytime soon?? The amount of bugs in each patch is getting really out of hand. Or can we expect a file size reduction soon?
As with the previous file size reduction, there was the removal of older content, which in all honestly I think most would be fine with. With the new catch-up system for alts, there is little to no way a single character can go through all of that content before being max level. There are some things I wouldn’t want to see gone though
Classic folder is 4GB, total size 49GB?
Thiella-golemagg1
I play only the classic and the game folder had the insane size of 49.2GB. I deleted it and reinstalled it and the total folder size is only 4GB. Come on 45GB of trash files on my SSD disc?
Make a garbage collector and run it from time to time to delete the useless files. Its really sad to increase the folder size with no reason at all.
Dottie-thunderhorn (Dottie) 2
I have always had problems installing on a SSD, it seems to double and sometimes triple the installation size. I once had to restart my machine 3 times to get it to install properly. Now I always install on a HDD then copy it across.
My total WoW folder is 67GB, you have to remember the Classic folder doesn’t hold the whole game.
Silmë-earthshaker3
This seems to be an issue on your local side.
Check that your Blizzard launcher ain’t installing Retail besides classic (Happens if you don’t notice that Retail is selected and click install)
The whole World of Warcraft folder shouldn’t be bigger than 4.6GB.
The only thing that could make it bigger is screenshots, since they get stored in game folder.
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