Unnecessary Files and Where to Delete Them (DOOM Eternal)

This guide will tell you where to find files included with DOOM Eternal which can be removed, in order to save hard drive space. Categories are in descending order of space saved.

Did you know that DOOM Eternal installs the files for The Ancient Gods 1 and 2, regardless of whether the user has purchased the DLC? Surely, there's nothing you can do with these files that the publisher has forced onto you but delete them. Right?



Space saved: 5.31GB.

Space saved: 1.85GB

Space saved: 1.56GB.

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If you've left tutorials enabled, the game-stopping popups will have empty boxes where the videos would play.

Space saved: 723MB.

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Space saved: 132MB.

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Space saved: 55.6MB

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Space Saved: 34.4MB

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Space saved: 20.38MB
(Time saved: 20 seconds per launch.)

DOOM Eternal includes audio data for ten languages. Chances are, you aren't using all of them.

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Each language uses three files. The files, and how much space they take up, are listed below.



Deleting all but one language nets you, at minimum, 430MB of HDD space.

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Space saved: 25.8MB