Hi All

does anyone know if you have to keep all those big/huge Patches in case you need to reinstall the game?
or is the latest patch the only one which makes the older ones obsolete

i am just asking because my DL is very slow and my HD not so big to keep all those 150gb patches as backup

1. The installers belong on your external backup drives, not on the harddisk of your computer.

2. If you have version X you obviously only need successor patches, not predecessor patches, to reinstall the game.

3. So for example if you have downloaded the current 8.0 then you will need the future patches 8.0 -> 8.1, 8.1 -> 8.2 etc, as they may occur, until you decide to download a new full version.

4. Obviously installation is faster if you just have the version you want as full installation and dont need to also install patches.

5. There is no patch 7.3 -> 8.0, so you need to download the full game if you want 8.0. You could also wait a bit until 8.1, 8.2 etc would be out.

My method at this point is to ignore the patches unless they are small. I keep a complete installer for the version I run. And delete anything older provided the current installed version runs ok. GOG is becoming increasingly haphazard in their support for offline files. There are many missing patches from the sequence anyway.

Thank you Gentlemen for the fast response :D

Do i understand it right,

with "installer" you mean the base game?

So, if i have e.g. a new computer and i download (fresh) the installer/base game , there is already the latest patch included?

or i install the game from my backup basegame/installer and update it with the patches which i also stored and let autoupdater do the rest?

So, i get it, the patch (8 atm) is basically the whole game? which explains the same huge size like the basegame

By installer, I mean the exe and the many bins that you download and then, by launching that exe, install the game on your PC. This should be true, but it never hurts to check the version number before going to the trouble of downloading. I thought we were talking about the offline files that you must download yourself. If you are talking about some kind of "autoupdater" then you must be using Galaxy. This downloads the correct version for you, and updates it as needed. Though if you use it (and especially if you use any mods or link up with others for multi-player) I would recommend that you turn off the autoupdate feature. The word "patch" in gaming circles means a fix for an application. You run it and it applies changes to your installed version. If you run it and you do not have the game installed, then the patch will fail. It will not install the game for you. It may be a bit confusing because this version of the program is called the "patch 8 version".