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Reduce game size

By Storm-Atronach

How to reduce game's size from ~20GB to ~13GB

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9 Mar, 2014 @ 5:56pm

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Guide Index

Overview

1.0 Introduction

2.0 Changing game size

3.0 Undoing your changes

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1.0 Introduction

While The Incredible Adventures of Van Helsing might be a really fun to play, some might argue that it's not worth installing because of its big size. Even though digital space is cheap and 20GB doesn't seem too much compared with a hard disk of 1 or even 2TB, it is still a waste of space, even an unnecessary one as you will see.

This guide will show you a very easy way to reduce the game's size from roughly 20GB to just 13GB (or even less on slower computers).

Reason for size

The game's size might to questionable to anyone who played it yet or just took a look at it. While its graphics don't seem bad by any means, they are still nothing compared to modern AAA RPGs or first person shooters.

The simple reason for the game being that big anyway is that there are 3 versions for every map, one for each set of quaility. So basically you have every map three times packed into your game folder.

2.0 Changing game size

2.1 Finding the files

The files for the maps are stored in your steam's game folder. The path should look like this: C:\Program Files\Steam\steamapps\common\The Incredible Adventures of Van Helsing\Terrains
Path might vary, depending on where you installed steam to.

Insinde the "terrains" folder you will find a folder for every map and inside these folders you will see three subfolders labeled with "low", "medium" and "high".

2.2 Configuration

Second step (if not already done before) will be to start the game and configure graphic settings the way it suits your system's capacities best and maybe play a few minutes to check if everything runs as smooth as intended.

Ifthe game is running fine you need to check which choice you made for Texture detail.

2.3 Deleting unneeded files

Now you can delete every "low" and "medium" subfolders from the "terrains" folder, if you are running the game on "high" texture detail value, or of course delete any 2 of them that don't fit your configuration.

3.0 Undoing your changes

If any problems occur or you want to change the level of detail to a higher or lower value later on you will need to restore the files by either letting steam check the game's files integrity or fully reinstalling it.

You can check for missing or corrupted files by right clicking on the game -> propterties -> local files and click on "Verify Integrity of Game Cache"

18 Comments

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🐭 16 Mar, 2024 @ 9:27am

If you're on Linux, you can automatically perform this process by using the command:
find /path/to/game/Terrains/ -iname low -exec bash -c "rm {}" \;

Then perform the same command again, but for the medium textures or whichever you want to remove:
find /path/to/game/Terrains/ -iname medium -exec bash -c "rm {}" \;

If you're not comfortable with rm (and I can completely understand why) you can use "gio trash" instead and the files will instead be moved to your trash bin. Example:
find /path/to/game/Terrains/ -iname <texture size to trash here> -exec bash -c "gio trash {}" \;

You can also save yourself an additional ~150MiB in space if you go to /path/to/game/Strings/ and delete any folders for languages you don't intend to use. And go to /path/to/game/Videos/ENG/ and delete all VH_Logo, neocore_logo, and nvidia files.

Not only did this put my install size at 11.9GiB, but it also greatly sped up loading times.

HunterKiller 23 Mar, 2020 @ 7:46am

If this works for other games, it sure would speed up system scans for viruses & maleware.

HunterKiller 23 Mar, 2020 @ 7:43am

I checked this out and that's a lot of files to go to. lol

killstreak 31 Oct, 2018 @ 11:06pm

can this method potentially be done to other games?

Noob sai bot 29 Dec, 2016 @ 2:43pm

thank u

Ramadan Steve 24 Jul, 2016 @ 11:48am

You could actually free up the rest of that space by deleting this entire cash grab of a game!

party_steve 15 Jun, 2015 @ 3:09am

Thank you, just freed up 10gbs of unused textures :)

irish☘ 11 Apr, 2015 @ 8:13pm

thnx!

Razali Bin Rambli 22 Dec, 2014 @ 11:07pm

Thank you for this guide.

Here is what i do to simplified the step

1. Search Low, Medium or High folder inside Van Helsing directory (Search for what folder you wish to delete)
2. Select the folder and press Delete

Sideeffect 6 Dec, 2014 @ 5:50pm

Thankyou for this. Using your idea I was able to reduce the game even further for a tablet install with limited resources.

Deleted all High and Medium Textures in Common Textures, Terrains, Models folders.
Deleted all files inside Videos folder leaving just empty ENG folder.
Deleted _CommonRedist folder.
Deleted InstallUtils folder.

Install size = 5.86GB

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