Forum:A trivial question about the system requirement for PC

I've just recently brought Fallout NV however the first thing that I noticed that the system requirements about the storage space is wrong as it stated that 10GB was required...I brought the retail version and the disc itself it about 6.67GB and I was requred to download via steam about 1.9GB (including update), that adds up to a total of 8.57GB.

now when I view the properties of Fallout:NV folder within the steam folder, it views just about 6.99/6.98 GBGB (size on disk/size) soo really what happened to that 1.43/3GB of data? either somebody couldn't count or someone though it was a good idea to round to the nearest ten

Developers generally leave an abundance of wiggle room for patches and other things, since someone is bound to raise an issue if they say it will take 7 gigs, and then need to add a .03 GB patch.. --DragonJTSLeave me a message 03:37, November 12, 2010 (UTC)

You also often need extra room for the installing. Copying over files to the place they belong in and unpacking things completely before the packed up stuff can be deleted. For example you can't unpack 1 GB worth of files from a installation file of 800mb if you only have 1.5GB HDD space. So even though they require you to have 1.8GB for installing the game only needs 1GB. That is on top of the room they usually recommend you to have for patches and such. --PvtNiss 05:11, November 12, 2010 (UTC)