StaceyPowers Posted January 22, 2021 Share Posted January 22, 2021 How many games do you currently have installed on your console or computer? How often do you have to remove games to free up space? I have not had to do this yet, because I just don’t have that many games installed. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Blackangel Posted January 22, 2021 Share Posted January 22, 2021 At the moment I have 88 games downloaded on my Switch. Those are strictly DDL's. I'm not counting games that I have on cartridges, obviously. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Patrik Posted January 23, 2021 Share Posted January 23, 2021 Around 11-12, they are either unfinished (unfinished DLC's) or just don't fit my current mood, i also got less time to dedicate to gaming unlike before 😛 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kane99 Posted January 23, 2021 Share Posted January 23, 2021 My Xbox One, I have well over 20 installed. I try to keep it clean, but when you have COD taking up storage, you can't get much on there. It may even be less, as I recently downloaded the new COD a bit ago. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
m76 Posted January 23, 2021 Share Posted January 23, 2021 I don't know how many. They are spread among so many platforms and launchers that even counting it would take a while. I usually uninstall games when I finish them, but not always, there are plenty of leftover installed games that I'll probably never touch again. I'll probably wipe them when I run out of space. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
killamch89 Posted January 24, 2021 Share Posted January 24, 2021 I'm going to say about 350 give and take and the main launcher is Steam. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Syntax Posted February 3, 2021 Share Posted February 3, 2021 I think I have around 32 PS4 games, and only a small handful of games installed on my computer (Sims, Command and Conquer, etc.). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Heatman Posted August 18, 2021 Share Posted August 18, 2021 The last time I tried to take an inventory on that, it should be well above 318 games which I'm sure it's added a little bit of more as of late. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Razor1911 Posted August 18, 2021 Share Posted August 18, 2021 Well, on my PS4 I have like 15-16 games installed. While on my PC I have around 3 games installed. I initially had around 6 games, but my computer started to behave slow, so I had to uninstall some of them. 😅 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Heatman Posted August 18, 2021 Share Posted August 18, 2021 4 hours ago, Razor1911 said: Well, on my PS4 I have like 15-16 games installed. While on my PC I have around 3 games installed. I initially had around 6 games, but my computer started to behave slow, so I had to uninstall some of them. 😅 I played a lot more of my games using my Playstation 4 console than my PS1 to PS3. So, about 76% of all my games were on PS4. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
killamch89 Posted August 18, 2021 Share Posted August 18, 2021 8 hours ago, Razor1911 said: Well, on my PS4 I have like 15-16 games installed. While on my PC I have around 3 games installed. I initially had around 6 games, but my computer started to behave slow, so I had to uninstall some of them. 😅 What kind of PC do you have? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Heatman Posted August 18, 2021 Share Posted August 18, 2021 8 hours ago, Razor1911 said: Well, on my PS4 I have like 15-16 games installed. While on my PC I have around 3 games installed. I initially had around 6 games, but my computer started to behave slow, so I had to uninstall some of them. 😅 The memory capacity of your PC must really be very small for such thing to happen. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shagger Posted August 18, 2021 Share Posted August 18, 2021 (edited) 9 hours ago, Razor1911 said: Well, on my PS4 I have like 15-16 games installed. While on my PC I have around 3 games installed. I initially had around 6 games, but my computer started to behave slow, so I had to uninstall some of them. 😅 I'm no expert, but I don't think a storage diving nearing it's capacity would be a direct cause of slowdown on a modern PC. The games would have to be stored a rather slow HDD that also serves as the boot drive for the operating system for that to be possible. Having such problems after only installing a handful of games is also really odd. Can you give details on the PC you're using? Edited August 18, 2021 by Shagger Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Heatman Posted August 18, 2021 Share Posted August 18, 2021 37 minutes ago, Shagger said: Having such problems after only installing a handful of games is also really odd. Seriously, that's exactly what's really confusing me because ordinarily that shouldn't happen with the few games he said to have installed. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Crazycrab Posted August 18, 2021 Share Posted August 18, 2021 (edited) 1 hour ago, Shagger said: I'm no expert, but I don't think a storage diving nearing it's capacity would be direct cause of slowdown on a modern PC. Actually if it's a Hard Drive then it can, but there may be other contributing factors as well. When formatted the HDD is split is a large amount of sectors of a fixed size. A good metaphor for this is to think of HDD storage as giant car park with space being a block of data of 4kb or so. It will start filling at one end to the other until it's full. But data gets deleted so gaps start to show up, so by the time it reaches the end there are gaps everywhere. Then Call of Duty Warzone shows up with 1,000 coaches of it's uncompressed audio files and shit. There is enough space to fit them all but not together, so they get spread out. Unfortunately this means it takes longer for the OS to find them parts of it that it needs, slowing things down. You can address this issue with Defragmentation, a process that essentially moves things around and attempts to pair associated files together improving efficiency. I'll leave a link to an article listing some software options. https://www.lifewire.com/free-defrag-software-tools-2619172 Edited August 18, 2021 by Crazycrab Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
