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13 years ago
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Battlefield 3 premium space requirements.

Hello,

According to your link: http://store.origin.com/store/eaemea/en_IE/pd/productID.249982800 (or http://store.origin.com/store/eaemea/en_IE/pd/productID.255751200/sac.true)

This game PREMIUM edition should use no more than 20Gb of disk space (minimum and recommended).

I'm currently running BF3 on Win7 ultimate edition and BF3 folder (\Origin\Battlefield 3) takes around 34.2Gb of space.

What files can I delete and keep this game running normally?

"Update" folder (\Origin\Battlefield 3\Update) alone takes roughly 23Gb.

My disk space is very limited as this is gaming PC and has only SSD disks, total of 180Gb.

If the box says this game PREMIUM edition takes 20Gb, and this exeeds by 75%, perhaps some update files are not deleted automatically?

This is a critical issue for me. I'd need to delete BF3 and install game B and uninstall the game B and re-install BF3 to be able to play both on same PC.

I can't afford to "lose" this extra 15Gb space. If I can save that 15Gb from somewhere, I would be able to have all my games installed at the same time.

Please advice. I really hope this is not falsely advertised "on the box".

-Perttu-

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  • EA_Sutii's avatar
    EA_Sutii
    13 years ago

    Hello there,

    Hopefully I can clear up the confusion here, I can certainly see how it has been caused.  BF3 Premium Edition, whilst including a Premium membership (which in turn provides access to all the expansions) is otherwise identical to the base BF3 game.  Therefore the system requirements listed are for the standard game itself, and not including those additional requirements (where applicable; such as hard drive space) of the expansions.

    This is why you are seeing your BF3 folder using approximately 35GB of space, as by the sounds of it you have all expansions installed.

    Hope that information helps, let me know if you need anything else.

    Sutii

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  • Carbonic's avatar
    Carbonic
    Hero+
    13 years ago

    You have a perfectly valid point. I however couldn't find any files to delete in my BF3 folder that would allow for more than ~120MB to be removed and that was ~35GB as well. Seems EA might have made a "boo boo".

    There's not much to do about it sadly. I have notified an admin about this topic, and my guess is that you are entitled a refund if you bought the game recently (Then you sadly wont be able to play BF3 though). I guess you could also try to contact an EA Advisor about this.

    You do that by going to https://help.ea.com/contact-us
    You will have to fill out product, category and platform first. If live chat does not appear, it might be closed in your area at the moment and you might consider changing it to "United States" in the language selector in the bottom for a better result.

    Also, welcome to Answers HQ, a place where users help fellow users. Since you are new, consider reading the welcome message at http://answers.ea.com/t5/Answer-HQ-Announcements/Welcome-to-Answer-HQ/m-p/350#U350 and familiarize yourself with the site.

    Please accept solutions if they are correct and press the XP button if somebody helped you.

    Cheers
    -Carbonic

  • EA_Sutii's avatar
    EA_Sutii
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    13 years ago

    Hello there,

    Hopefully I can clear up the confusion here, I can certainly see how it has been caused.  BF3 Premium Edition, whilst including a Premium membership (which in turn provides access to all the expansions) is otherwise identical to the base BF3 game.  Therefore the system requirements listed are for the standard game itself, and not including those additional requirements (where applicable; such as hard drive space) of the expansions.

    This is why you are seeing your BF3 folder using approximately 35GB of space, as by the sounds of it you have all expansions installed.

    Hope that information helps, let me know if you need anything else.

    Sutii

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