Re: Condemned must be installed in a NTFS partition

On 21 Apr 2006 12:45:22 -0700, "pc games" <pcgamer23708@xxxxxxxxx>
wrote:

If you are trying to install Condemned and it aborts when it
reaches +- 80% with a no space available error message even
if you have plenty of space left in your HDD it is probably
cause you have the partition formatted in FAT32 and Condemned
can only be installed in a NTFS partition.
The reason being Condemned DATA is in a single file with a
massive size of 6GB when the limit in FAT32 for a single file
is 4GB making it impossible to install in a FAT32 partition.
This is a first for me in PC Games... I never saw a game with
a file over 4GB making it incompatible with FAT32...
Interesting to notice FEAR also from Monolith and also using
the same engine and with a very similar file content has a 5GB
DATA but it is divided between 16 different files with the
largest reaching 3.5 GB so this problem doesn't exist, and in
Condemned they decided to concentrate all DATA in a single
file... I don't see no reason to do it so but I also don't see
no reason to support FAT32... I guess this is another "legacy"
we must let go...

Thanks for the info. Does it say NTFS on the retail box? If not, you
have a justified reason for a return WITH REFUND.

Otherwise, what's the fuss?? Partition Magic8.01 does the
conversion from FAT32 to NTFS quite painlessly. Back up the
contents if you are paranoid, but I have never had a conversion
failure..

John Lewis
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