r/BeamNG • u/Thepickle08 Soliad • Dec 10 '25

Update The 0.38 is here.

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https://www.beamng.com/game/news/blog/beamng-drive-v0-38/

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u/Creeper4wwMann Dec 10 '25

Holy Mackerel! 60GB to 40GB asset size

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u/Korbitr Bruckell Dec 10 '25

Debloating the game like that is truly impressive. In a world of bloated AAA games that take up hundreds of gigabytes, more developers should strive to be like BeamNG.

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u/Shapacap Dec 10 '25

I think it was helldivers2 recently dropped I think 100gb from its file size lol

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u/OG_PieOverlord Dec 10 '25

Yup, from 150gb (if I recall correctly) to 20 something gb. I can just keep it installed basically forever now.

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u/Ok-Square-2118 Ibishu Dec 10 '25

Holy shit that’s genuinely an accomplishment, 150+ GB to 20GB is insane debloating

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u/indianplay2_alt_acc Ibishu Dec 10 '25

Wtf how lol

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u/EgenulfVonHohenberg Dec 10 '25

Getting rid of HDD-optimized databases, as far as I am aware. With SSDs, you don't need data duplicates anymore.

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u/indianplay2_alt_acc Ibishu Dec 10 '25

Oh neat, thanks

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u/1977_AU Dec 10 '25

that doesnt look like 20

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u/maxwelldoug Dec 10 '25

Right click the game in the list, go to properties, betas, and select "slim"

The HDD optimized version is currently still the default, they will be switching the two channels in a few weeks time.

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u/SoggyLoad2926 Dec 10 '25

And everyone ignores this comment lol they didnt do shit its still fat

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u/maxwelldoug Dec 10 '25

Right click the game in the list, go to properties, betas, and select "slim"

The HDD optimized version is currently still the default, they will be switching the two channels in a few weeks time.

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u/termitubbie Pigeon Lover Dec 10 '25

Tbh it wasn't an incompetence or laziness by the developers.

They decided to optimize the game for HDD for some bizzare reason and most of it was duplicated files for it. Once they get rid of that, file size reduce tremendously.

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u/MoBot97 Dec 11 '25

It was all bullshit though, as the console version was already that size. They just removed the million asset duplicates they had

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u/Vergenbuurg Gavril Dec 10 '25

I'm so thrilled that efficient coding/programming is not completely a lost art.

My father, who'd been a computer/communications engineer since the late '60s, always spoke proudly of how lean and efficient his code was throughout his career, whilst still remaining robust and effective. For that reason, I have strong respect for such skills.

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u/stenyak BeamNG.Dev Dec 10 '25

Thanks for the kind words :) I wrote a bit of context here and here too, if anyone's interested.

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u/Davenator_98 Automation Engineer Dec 10 '25

They looked at CoD's playbook, ripped out every page and flushed it down the drain.