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Title: 42.3 Gigabytes of Hard Disk Space, taken by your game.
Post by: Reiel on June 12, 2006, 10:55:07 PM: This is Richard Hayes, a dedicated,(once was) player of your game, Aces High Two. But, a problem has arisen. During the time I was playing Day of Defeat: Source, your game managed to duplicate itself, becoming unbelievabley huge. I discovered this when I checked out photoshop, I was out of Scratch Disk space. So, not even going to accuse your 'lovely' game, I deleted my Steam, hoping it was the source... Garry's Mod, DoD, CS, everything. Thank you for the wonderful night your damn game has bestowed upon me, and please, please try and fix this weird glitch.

Sincerely,
Richard Hayes
Title: 42.3 Gigabytes of Hard Disk Space, taken by your game.
Post by: Chalenge on June 13, 2006, 12:06:30 AM: :huh Are you lost?:huh

After reading that I know I am.
Title: 42.3 Gigabytes of Hard Disk Space, taken by your game.
Post by: Reiel on June 13, 2006, 12:27:36 AM: See Rule #4
Title: 42.3 Gigabytes of Hard Disk Space, taken by your game.
Post by: OOZ662 on June 13, 2006, 12:38:44 AM: You have a right to be angry, but please refrain from taking it out on other board members.
Title: 42.3 Gigabytes of Hard Disk Space, taken by your game.
Post by: Reiel on June 13, 2006, 12:40:59 AM: Ok, I was out of line. But please try and understand, I lost fifteen gigabytes of models, modifications, and utilities trying to fic the problem before I realized what did it, I've been trying to look up information and cannot find much helpful.
Title: 42.3 Gigabytes of Hard Disk Space, taken by your game.
Post by: sharp8th on June 13, 2006, 01:25:53 AM: reformat
Title: 42.3 Gigabytes of Hard Disk Space, taken by your game.
Post by: Easyscor on June 13, 2006, 03:58:08 AM: Um, there's something wrong there Reiel. I just checked my Hard Drive and using properties, my entire htc folder takes up 2.06 Gig on disk and that's with the a bloated Terrain Editor folder, custom sking folders, an out of date Joystick Beta version, and a full backup copy to preserve my settings folders etc. At 43 Gig you definately have a problem but I can't see that it's Aces High.

Maybe it's time to post your system spec. etc.
Title: 42.3 Gigabytes of Hard Disk Space, taken by your game.
Post by: croduh on June 13, 2006, 05:51:53 AM: Mine is stable on 4,75 GB this month.How can a game duplicate itself??
Title: 42.3 Gigabytes of Hard Disk Space, taken by your game.
Post by: SunKing on June 13, 2006, 08:04:41 AM: Quote
Originally posted by duh
Mine is stable on 4,75 GB this month.How can a game duplicate itself??

I think I saw this in a Star Trek episode.
Title: 42.3 Gigabytes of Hard Disk Space, taken by your game.
Post by: Chalenge on June 13, 2006, 08:38:36 AM: No where near dumb but thanks for asking me to check.

My game is 1.05 Gigs and Ive never seen what you described but it seemed like you were saying DoD had done this. Like SunKing said it seemed like the episode in Star Trek where the man from a parallel universe wanted to destroy his duplicate. Maybe it was the "not going to accuse" and "your damn game" contrast that threw me but I think it was way before that.

I hope you have a better day today! :D
Title: 42.3 Gigabytes of Hard Disk Space, taken by your game.
Post by: Skuzzy on June 13, 2006, 09:08:11 AM: Our game does not have the ability to duplicate/replicate itself.
Title: 42.3 Gigabytes of Hard Disk Space, taken by your game.
Post by: icemaw on June 13, 2006, 10:42:30 AM: OMFG!! Skynet just became self aware. Judgement day is at hand
Title: 42.3 Gigabytes of Hard Disk Space, taken by your game.
Post by: Balsy on June 13, 2006, 10:59:56 AM: Man I cant wait to be ensconced in my warm wet cocoon, playing AH 24 7.

Wheres that pill Im supposed to take.

Bals
Title: 42.3 Gigabytes of Hard Disk Space, taken by your game.
Post by: 38ruk on June 13, 2006, 11:01:59 AM: Hmmm my game folder stopped growing at 6.66GB , now im worried .:D
Title: 42.3 Gigabytes of Hard Disk Space, taken by your game.
Post by: Swoop on June 13, 2006, 11:08:10 AM: Gigs?!

My AH2 folder takes up 800Mb.

(http://www.onpoi.net/ah/pics/users/209_1137109117_20029211530-0-swoop.gif)
Title: 42.3 Gigabytes of Hard Disk Space, taken by your game.
Post by: Krusty on June 13, 2006, 11:41:54 AM: Swoop, if you have 100MB of film files, it grows. If you have skins enabled, it grows a LOT. If you have high-res and skin packs installed, it grows a LOT MORE!

Then there's the maps. There's a bajillion crappy-arsed HTH maps that do nothing but take up HD space (that's why I think duh's total is so large, personally)

Mine tops out at 3.04GB, but that's because I do a lot of skins. I keep all the iterations of my skins, all the work files, all the archives, under subdirectories in the skins directory, so they're all added to this total, as well.

203MB main dir
~100mb terrains
770MB cache
32mb films
1.91GB skins (that's mostly my skin files)
40MB sounds (sound pack)

EDIT: My skins files/archives come out to about 1.7GB or so, I just checked
Title: 42.3 Gigabytes of Hard Disk Space, taken by your game.
Post by: Reiel on June 13, 2006, 01:42:02 PM: My point is, I was not paying or anything. I checked the size of it afterwards before I played DoD, considering I was putting in a modification for Gmod. It was fairly small. After DoD, it's expanded vastly.

Intel(R) Pentium(R) 4 CPU 3.00GHz
3006.8 MHz (Full)

DRAM Type DDR-SDRAM
DRAM Size 2048 MBytes

Module 0 Wintec Industries DDR PC3200 - 512 MBytes
Module 1 Wintec Industries DDR PC3200 - 512 MBytes
Module 2 Wintec Industries DDR PC3200 - 512 MBytes
Module 3 Wintec Industries DDR PC3200 - 512 MBytes
Title: 42.3 Gigabytes of Hard Disk Space, taken by your game.
Post by: croduh on June 13, 2006, 02:11:49 PM: Krusty,not only maps wich do take up alot of space, but sounds(i have more than 1 soundpack, 4 i think-frudas,waffles,eskimos wierd ones,mitsus-i mixed them all in my files), movies...

I will have to clean up mine HTC folder very soon.
Title: 42.3 Gigabytes of Hard Disk Space, taken by your game.
Post by: Krusty on June 13, 2006, 02:43:31 PM: Duh: you need to just keep the sounds you like, ditch the rest!

Reiel: You need to be more specific I guess. Something happened. Do you mean that something copied AH's directory so that there are two or more directories, all with the same contents? How has it "grown" to 40GB? Look inside the directory and look for 40GB of files, it shouldn't be hard. Tell us what the files are named, and in what sub directory they are included.

If you see 20+ copies of the same directory, that might be an indication. Things like "Copy of cache (1)", "Copy of cache (2)", etc...
Title: 42.3 Gigabytes of Hard Disk Space, taken by your game.
Post by: Reiel on June 13, 2006, 03:33:48 PM: Krusty, I did not take the time to inspect it. I deleted the game as soon as I saw how big it was, I needed to do a request. I do not have any specifics.... and I'm giving the game one more little chance.
Title: 42.3 Gigabytes of Hard Disk Space, taken by your game.
Post by: WMLute on June 13, 2006, 04:02:54 PM: AH under 1 gig here. 900something mb.

I have a Backup of everything, includin' old flims, mitsu sounds, etc. Even got a couple of AH.EXE's i've downloaded.
Total space used =just under 2 gigs, but w/o the backups, it would be 900mb ish.
Title: 42.3 Gigabytes of Hard Disk Space, taken by your game.
Post by: StarOfAfrica2 on June 13, 2006, 04:33:13 PM: Mine is almost 5 GB and thats insanely huge. I really need to clean it out, I've got all kinds of old .exe files in there and alot of films that I need to go through.
Title: 42.3 Gigabytes of Hard Disk Space, taken by your game.
Post by: TDeacon on June 13, 2006, 09:27:56 PM: I have 3 versions of AH installed at the moment, but none of them individually is over 1GB.
Title: Re: 42.3 Gigabytes of Hard Disk Space, taken by your game.
Post by: jpeg on June 13, 2006, 10:28:12 PM: Quote
Originally posted by Reiel
This is Richard Hayes, a dedicated,(once was) player of your game, Aces High Two. But, a problem has arisen. During the time I was playing Day of Defeat: Source, your game managed to duplicate itself, becoming unbelievabley huge. I discovered this when I checked out photoshop, I was out of Scratch Disk space. So, not even going to accuse your 'lovely' game, I deleted my Steam, hoping it was the source... Garry's Mod, DoD, CS, everything. Thank you for the wonderful night your damn game has bestowed upon me, and please, please try and fix this weird glitch.

Sincerely,
Richard Hayes

This should be in tech support section not in the bug report.

Anyways you need to do a chkdsk

chkdsk /f c:
Title: 42.3 Gigabytes of Hard Disk Space, taken by your game.
Post by: Roscoroo on June 13, 2006, 11:16:11 PM: ive got a total of 9 gb of AH from ah .049 thru the 500mb's of ah1 terrains/ films ---- thru all of ah2 .. i even lost 400 mbs of ah2 films over the yrs... and im not counting the user made Avi's/movies.

I'VE never seen this game replicate itself ... the only way anything on your pc will replicate is either in backups ... a nasty Worm/Virous .... or someone with sticky fingers .
Title: 42.3 Gigabytes of Hard Disk Space, taken by your game.
Post by: NHawk on June 14, 2006, 06:46:59 AM: Quote
Originally posted by Roscoroo
ive got a total of 9 gb of AH from ah .049 thru the 500mb's of ah1 terrains/ films ---- thru all of ah2 .. i even lost 400 mbs of ah2 films over the yrs... and im not counting the user made Avi's/movies.

Off topic, and sorry for hijacking this thread but...

Roscoroo... do you still have the pizza map on your system? If so, do you also have the install files for the version of AH that will run it?

I'm trying to do a recreation of the pizza map. But, certain details elude my fading 50 year old memory. ;)
Title: 42.3 Gigabytes of Hard Disk Space, taken by your game.
Post by: Roscoroo on June 14, 2006, 09:42:22 AM: start here Nhawk ..Roo's old stuff (http://s90945482.onlinehome.us/roosite/maps.html)

I'll either email ya pizza or load it up Friday when my hi-speed gets fixed

its only 3,652kb

Roscoroo@gmail.com
Title: 42.3 Gigabytes of Hard Disk Space, taken by your game.
Post by: Easyscor on June 14, 2006, 11:02:15 AM: You want AKDesert running on AH version 1.11 patch 4.

I'm happy to email either or both to you NHawk.

Edit: The old ah-terrains addy good? or you can PM me.
Title: 42.3 Gigabytes of Hard Disk Space, taken by your game.
Post by: Schutt on June 14, 2006, 02:18:40 PM: Mine is 1.6GB, but i have no high res textures installed. It would have to replicate about 24 times to get to 42 GB. I am real curious what made it so big in your case, may be you made avis from your ah2 films in the directory?
Or you simply used it as default dir for some other app.

BTW there is a nifty application called treesize that shows the sizes of the directorys with their subfolder in a browser, verry good to locate the real hogs.

EDIT: Schatzi just suggested you might have had a malware program that inflated files. Another thought, maybe you have a "safe install" program which enables you to undo any updates and which did savety copies of ah2 everytime you ran a patch. Some programs allow you to restore to old versions and therefor save all data before it gets overwritten or just save all data to be sure.
Title: 42.3 Gigabytes of Hard Disk Space, taken by your game.
Post by: NHawk on June 14, 2006, 03:36:45 PM: Roscoroo, got 111 thanks!

Easy..PM sent.
Title: 42.3 Gigabytes of Hard Disk Space, taken by your game.
Post by: zelo13 on June 14, 2006, 09:58:03 PM: If yer running WinXP you can use System Restore (Start>Programs>Accessories>SystemTools>SystemRestore) to return your PC to its pre-disaster state. It should pick-up all of the stuff you lost, return your AH2 folder to its nice gentle memory footprint as well as restoring all of those other apps you tossed over the side.
Title: 42.3 Gigabytes of Hard Disk Space, taken by your game.
Post by: Reiel on June 15, 2006, 01:08:30 AM: I have my System Restore disabled, considering some Trojans actual embed themselves into that program. All is well, but I'm staying aware of what the game is doing.
Title: 42.3 Gigabytes of Hard Disk Space, taken by your game.
Post by: Skuzzy on June 15, 2006, 06:45:31 AM: Again, the game has no way to do what you are suggesting. There is no need to even infer it can do it. It is impossible for the game to do it.

If there was a way for the game to do what you suggest, I think after over 6 years of shipping it, we would have had more than one complaint about it. Think about it.

I have no doubt you are having an issue, but you are looking in the wrong place for the problem.