Disk size warning on starting game

[Llenwyn]

<p>I am running the full-install launcher, but everytime I launch the game since LP4 was introduced I get a message along the following lines:</p><p>You need 14 Gb of diskspace for the streaming assets, if the disk fills up, Everquest 2 will exit</p><p>I take it this message is displayed because I have less than that amount of space on my EQ2 partition, but as I already have the full install there, there should be no complications. Anything I can do to get rid of the message?</p>

[Mistymorn]

<p>I get the same  message and then continue  with the warning eq disk will shut down if full, so far no shutdown, but I am not  using the streaming launcher so this puzzles me.</p>

[TSR-JoshuaM]

<p><cite>Llenwyn@Runnyeye wrote:</cite></p><blockquote><p>I am running the full-install launcher, but everytime I launch the game since LP4 was introduced I get a message along the following lines:</p><p>You need 14 Gb of diskspace for the streaming assets, if the disk fills up, Everquest 2 will exit</p><p>I take it this message is displayed because I have less than that amount of space on my EQ2 partition, but as I already have the full install there, there should be no complications. Anything I can do to get rid of the message?</p></blockquote><p>Do you have another disk you can install the LP to?  Once you have, just copy it right over your existing eQII folder and update the shortcut.  It might start patchign a file or two and overwriting that in your current install will cause a redownload, but it does 1 file at a time so it shouldnt be much of a redownload at all.</p>

[Llenwyn]

<p>I made a fresh install of the launchpad to a different disk with enough room. I copied everything in the folder (including subfolders) to my current EQ2 install, replacing the existing files.</p><p>When launching the game, I still get the message. It's a minor nuisance, but it's quite odd that the full install launcher checks if there is enough room for streaming assets.</p>

[TSR-JoshuaM]

<p>Our LP dev posted these steps to work around the issue so you can give it another shot.</p><p>After installing our LP4 to a drive with enough space, move just these files over to the disk where you had issues.</p><p><p style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; color: #d2c5a9; background-color: #221f1c;">  LaunchPad.exe</p><p style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; color: #d2c5a9; background-color: #221f1c;">  LaunchPad.dll</p><p style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; color: #d2c5a9; background-color: #221f1c;">  LaunchPad.ini</p><p style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; color: #d2c5a9; background-color: #221f1c;">Also copy the entire folder  /LaunchPad.libs/  over to the new location as well.</p></p>

[Llenwyn]

<p>Tried it again, made a clean install of the launchpad. Even went so far as to log in and let it make a start downloading a fresh copy to my new disk (didn't do that last time). Copied the files you mentioned to my EQ2 directory and... same warning.</p><p>Doesn't seem to be exactly the same issue the LP dev responded to though. Installation of LP was fine, but I get the warning after I hit play, and before I get to character screen. The game waits for me to hit "ok" on the warning before logging me in.</p>

[TSR-JoshuaM]

<p><cite>Llenwyn@Runnyeye wrote:</cite></p><blockquote><p>Tried it again, made a clean install of the launchpad. Even went so far as to log in and let it make a start downloading a fresh copy to my new disk (didn't do that last time). Copied the files you mentioned to my EQ2 directory and... same warning.</p><p>Doesn't seem to be exactly the same issue the LP dev responded to though. Installation of LP was fine, but I get the warning after I hit play, and before I get to character screen. The game waits for me to hit "ok" on the warning before logging me in.</p></blockquote><p>It may continue to warn you but I'll make the suggestion for a toggle or something to that effect.</p>

[resiler]

<p>I'm having the same issue, also with the "Full" launch pad.  The real problem is fundamental to the build; obviously the launchers share code, but just as obviously from this error the Full launcher (to some extent) thinks it's the streaming client and so is not properly comparing the size of the files on disk to disk space.  For non-streaming it should be checking total size of validated files (all of them) as part of the patching process and NOT checking at all when the game is launched.  Or, if it checks when the game is launched, it should know it's not going to be streaming anything so remaining space isn't relevant.  Or.  Or.  Or.  Lots of things to consider, like logs, but the point remains that this is a confused launcher.</p>

[Keikoku]

<p><cite>TSR-JoshuaM wrote:</cite></p><blockquote><p><cite>Llenwyn@Runnyeye wrote:</cite></p><blockquote><p>I am running the full-install launcher, but everytime I launch the game since LP4 was introduced I get a message along the following lines:</p><p>You need 14 Gb of diskspace for the streaming assets, if the disk fills up, Everquest 2 will exit</p><p>I take it this message is displayed because I have less than that amount of space on my EQ2 partition, but as I already have the full install there, there should be no complications. Anything I can do to get rid of the message?</p></blockquote><p>Do you have another disk you can install the LP to?  Once you have, just copy it right over your existing eQII folder and update the shortcut.  It might start patchign a file or two and overwriting that in your current install will cause a redownload, but it does 1 file at a time so it shouldnt be much of a redownload at all.</p></blockquote><p>The problem isn't having enough space.  I have 2 full installs of the game on my HDD.  The problem is getting this message even though I am fully patched.  As stated, it's a minor annoyance, but it's one that we, as full install users, shouldn't have to endure.  That check shouldn't even be in that version of LaunchPad.</p>