To make matters worse, the Store won’t prevent you from attempting to install a game for which you don’t have room. That’s fine in most instances, but what if you want to install Rise of the Tomb Raider? That game is about 28 GB. The Windows Store doesn’t.īy default, whenever you install an app or game from the Windows Store it will install it to your C: drive. Steam, Origin, Uplay, and any standard Windows application installer offers the user a choice of where to install their games. To alleviate this, many gamers have secondary hard drives in their PCs to house their massive game libraries. While SSD storage has taken off for performance reasons, for most people it comes at the cost of disk space. They can easily range from a couple of gigabytes to more than 40 gigabytes.
There’s one aspect of AAA games that remains relatively constant across all genres, the games are almost always very large in terms of disk space requirements. That last bit though could trip up some PC gamers. The Xbox app on Windows 10 has a built-in game DVR and screenshot mechanism, the company is releasing more games on Windows, and they’ve even begun putting AAA titles into the Windows Store. Microsoft has been saying for the last year that they are going to increase their focus on gaming in Windows 10, and we’ve already started to see that play out.
