Hi coolhewitt24
I was doing a clean reinstall yesterday so, out of curiosity, decided to take some notes to respond to your "Does anybody know the actually size of CTA3 software with all the updates included" question.
I'm on a Mac, but I doubt that equivalent Windows sizes will vary much, since most of the payload is media content: characters, props, motions, etc. I've got CTA 3 PRO. I think everyone will also have the Resource Pack and Bonus Pack. I've also got the G3 Power Tools 1 & 2.
I fully cleared out the previous install, downloaded fresh installers and began taking notes. The "installed space" value was the figure reported by the standard Apple installer. (I'm not certain, but I suspect that the "installed space" figure might be provided by the publisher as part of the installer payload. I didn't verify the accuracy after each install was completed.)
INSTALLER File size Installed space
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CTA3_PRO_Enu_mac 453 MB 1.36 GB
CTA3_Enu_resource_Pack_Mac 139 MB 645 MB
CrazyTalk_Animator3_Bonus_Pack 153 MB 554 MB
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Totals 745 MB 2.53 GB
I then went on to install the G3 Power Tools 1 & 2 packages. Unlike the previous installers, these are downloaded and installed in one go. Fortunately, I was able to use Little Snitch to measure the amount of data downloaded. This was then compared to the change in size of the content folders, which showed that there is little or no difference (indicating that no compression was involved).
Suite Approx size
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G3 Power Tools 1 171 MB
G3 Power Tools 2 141 MB
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Total 312 MB
That gives a total (for my particular selection of core Reallusion products) of approximately 2.84GB disk installation space required. The actual CTA3.11 PRO app itself only takes up 316 MB. While there will be a few support files scattered around various "hidden" locations, you can see where my earlier comment about the majority of the installation being media content came from.
Historical note… I still have a copy of my original CTA3 PRO installer lying in my downloads folder. This was downloaded at the end of November, so whatever v3.0x version… That core installer was only 397 MB, so the core installer has only increased by 56 MB - not a heck of a lot, considering that this now includes new functionality and not just bug fixes.
Hope you find that useful.
Reallusion must carefully consider releasing any updates in the future due to the size of the files.
Sorry, no, you've got that totally back to front. It's a user's responsibility to make sure that the computer on which they want to install a particular package meets the
minimum requirements.
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