External PC drive?

I have a laptop with 12GB of RAM and a total of 512GB. I would like to buy a game that requires 28GB of memory.

However, I'm now afraid that this will slow down the PC. Should I play the game using an external CD drive or can I install it on my computer with confidence?

With 28 GB, your PC will not run noticeably slower, unless it was already almost full anyway and is now reaching its limits with storage space

Have fun playing!

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It depends on how much space you have left.

It would be important to mention that if you have multiple hard drives that can be filled completely without the operating system ^^

Well when you are playing, the rest is slower. But do you really want to play this game and at the same time write a letter or ask a question here at Girlfriend? Certainly not.

The required storage space is definitely not the RAM that the game needs when playing (would certainly also work if you have activated the SWAP mechanism (RAM data is always swapped out to the hard disk and retrieved if necessary)
28GByte is definitely the space on the disk that is needed to install it.
This only takes time when installing, otherwise the data is "only there".

28 GB are quite a lot. Is it really that big? Check that again! You can't save them on a CD (0.7 GB) or a DVD (4.7 GB). There would only be a "thick" USB stick or an external hard drive.

Except when it was almost full anyway and is now reaching its limits with storage space

explain that!

Please what do you want
There's also no 28GB game running directly from the CD. It is installed normally on the PC in full size, which, by the way, will hardly notice anything.

With such games, the CD is only there as a verification that you also have the CD key. Unless the game runs on one of the big launcher anyway where the key has to be entered once.

And furthermore, 28GB are definitely the size for a BluRay, but I don't know of any game on BluRay for the PC so far, if they are on one or more DVDs and the rest have to be downloaded anyway.

What's great to explain? He has a laptop, most likely with a hard drive, and if he fills it, on which his operating system is installed, then of course performance will suffer. And if this hard drive was almost full anyway and he would install the game underneath it, the performance will drop even more.

A disk (Microsoft calls the drive) has a certain capacity. This does not change if more files and directories are added.
The places on a disk that are considered "free" also have data, sometimes with specific zeros, sometimes with something else or undefined. In the figurative sense, only those boxes are set up for formatting where meaningful data will be stored later. The "boxes" (sectors) are always there, even if only garbage is kept there.
What mechanism should a computer's performance slow down when a disk is full?

If it really is the absolute number of bytes stored that make a computer slow, then it would have to be faster with a 512 GB disk than with a larger one, which may have 1024 GB.

I wanted exactly this contradiction to be cleared from you.

I think it is clear to everyone that the capacity of a hard drive does not increase or decrease over time. Nevertheless, even if an operating system (for example Windows) is installed, it is exactly these "free boxes" that you are talking about that can still be used afterwards. This can be temporary process data or entire updates. I didn't say drive either, I spoke all the text about a hard drive. Well, thanks anyway for the answer.

OK. You have probably realized that the fill level of a partition does not affect the performance.

Of course not directly, but indirectly, especially for a long time, due to the reasons listed.

Yes, when creating a backup. But that was not the question.

A hard drive becomes slower the fuller it is.

This can be explained by the fact that the distances are longer with a full plate than with an empty plate.

In addition, data can no longer be stored contiguously if the disk is used for a long time.

I got this knowhow from the IBM laboratory, with numbers.

It has relatively little to do with it, but just how the whole installation could work in the long run.

Eggs around. All of these are not explanations. Whether RAM content has to be swapped out has to do with the RAM size, but nothing with the hard disk. Also, free space is not searched for with the flashlight, there are occupancy tables. Of course, if file systems are used that often have to be manually defragmented, there may be delays.