Yes to apply the 500mb patch we need essentially a second copy of this game, about 160GB of space essentially. I have a 250GB SSD as my only SSD i installed this on that for performance, i had to remove stuff from my core windows install to be able to get this patch to apply...this is happening on Steam and GOG.
Thanks for the explanation...just seems a bit strange...so this is merely a consolidation patch incorporating the previous patches into a new 57Â GB copy of the game then. The original patches did not require this, though...
Yes--just checked and although I am only 22GBs into the second installation of the game, the folder reads 156GBs...and climbing, of course...! Thanks again for the info...;) I'm actually running the game on a 7200 rpm HDD and I see nothing objectionable about load times except at the very beginning...after that they are very fast even from an HDD--My NVMe is 250GBs as well, but only used for boot drive & utilities.
Thanks again!