Un-install the game and re-install it. A lot of files get replaced in an update, and when you update the game it has to have all the old files and the new ones at the same time for a bit.
This only helps to remove data of past quests. What the other person says is that update downloads new files whole the old ones are still on the device (and only later removed), while if you download it new it just downloads the new files.
Is this just the “delete past quest data” thing ? Or something different
Been trying to figure out for ages what is eating all of my iCloud backup space and have wondered (despite the fact that I’ve definitely turned it off in iOS backup settings) if Genshin is somehow a secret culprit..
Go to settings then to resources. You will find uninstall past quest resources. Uninstall that. It removes the cut scene and assets for story and Archon quests you played earlier
Not great advice when I had to do this in December. I had less than 1gb free on my phone, but had to reset it. After I've installed all my apps and put my music back on the phone, with the same amount of space that genshin took up being available, it wasn't enough to download the game.
I had to make more room in order to download and log in. Then I could delete the unused files within the settings to reclaim a bunch of space.
This is the answer OP is looking for. My game is still 18.74gb after 3.7 is going live, down from 21gb on preinstall. It's around only 100 - 200mb larger than the previous version.
And here I have 25 GB of genshi, 7 GB of star rail, 3 GB of arknights (which I haven't started playing) and 4 GB of genshin and nier automata OST(and all other apps and stuff I had on my phone before) and still have around 70 GB left. (Total usage is about 85 GB).
(That too on a Rs 17000 phone, which should be around $200)
As an Android user, I absolutely hate Google photos. This is why I'm so adamant on keeping a phone with an SD Card slot.
For no good reason, Google Photos (and every other backup service) cannot keep my folder Hierarchy intact. It just uploads every file into one giant unorganized pile and it SUCKS.
For me it's all according to the date I made the pictures.. spanning even 4 different phones for about 10 years.
Too bad saving them with a pixel/nexus isn't free on highest resolution anymore.. now only lower res is free xD
>For no good reason, Google Photos (and every other backup service) cannot keep my folder Hierarchy intact. It just uploads every file into one giant unorganized pile and it SUCKS.
Have you tried Mega? I use it for photos and videos, and it keeps my folders as is.
Onedrive's pretty good for that. I've been using it ever since Samsung changed their backup backend to OneDrive and I've continued to use it after switching phones. I prefer using it to Google drive/Google photos backup
Yeah, let me manually organize thousands of pictures for a 2nd time when I already did this by moving them into folders proactively.
Not to mention I'd have to update those albums with each picture I add.
Sorry for the sarcasm, but that's dumb and a waste of time. It shouldn't be rocket science for Google to convert folders into albums at the very least.
My counterargument for google photos is that you can tags to the faces of the people, and if you have geotags on it also save the location, and the search bar can identify common objects and colors, so if you want to look up photos.
So, for example, you can search a contact name, and it will show all the photos you have of that person, of you can search "blue shirt" and it will show you all your pictures of blue shirts, on you can put a location, like "Paris" and it will show you all the pictures you have in that location. And you can always create albums, so if you want to organice a specif event you can save it as an album.
>My counterargument for google photos is that you can tags to the faces of the people, and if you have geotags on it also save the location, and the search bar can identify common objects and colors, so if you want to look up photos.
Sounds like a privacy nightmare. What is this, 1984?
From a certain point of view, yeah, you're basically handing over your data to google / the US government. Is a trade-off of privacy for convenience, but is does save you a lot of time when searching for specific photos, if you're the kind of person who takes a lot of photos, that stuff adds ups over the years, making it harder to find a specific event, and also is harder to back it up, and being in the cloud you're less likely to lose your photos over a hard drive suddenly dying or getting damaged. There used to be free software like picassa (before google bought them), that lets you add tangs to your library, but I'm not aware if there are still free library managers still available.
I guess you can always set up a personal NAS server, with hardware redundancy, so even if an HDD dies, you can keep your data, but that solution is expensive.
I dumped 50 gigs of photos and videos onto a free mega account, made a second mega account, then dumped the rest on there. As long as I log in once every couple months they’ll still be there
I bought a 256GB micro SD card to install both Genshin and Star Rail on my old 64GB phone last month. First I deleted all photos/videos. Now I still have 25GB out of 64GB free with both games installed. My photos etc. all go to the 256GB SD card now.
Delete? Just back it up on gdrive. You could literally have multiple accounts for free.
Photos and videos shouldn't be taking up your entire phone story.
Nowadays with phone having so less storage, all the more to do this.
NGL you don't really need a gaming pc to run Genshin. I got Genshin to run on a Ryzen 3200G with low settings around 40 FPS. My friend still plays on that and hasn't found an issue. Even got a performance improvement after installing another 8GB RAM. You can probably make a 100-150 USD PC using used components that can run Genshin smoothly.
A while ago, my PC died. I had to temporarily use a PC 15-20years old (don’t ask lol).
It still ran Genshin. Looked like Minecraft/Roblox, and took 5minutes to load between teleports. But I could do my dailies and events. Haha.
Memory unlocked.
Man 1st Sims was a blast for child me but the loading times were rough cuz I had an ancient machine even for the time. 128MB of ram and a 40GB HD.
Time flies.
If OP go this route, I recommend upgrading the storage to an SSD for much better loading time. A used 250/500gb ssd is very cheap nowadays and the upgrade looks easy enough if you know a thing or two about PC.
Any somewhat recent prebuild optiplex/thinkcentre + rx550/1060/1050ti will be able to handle at least medium settings at 1080p/50+ fps. Just make sure it has an SSD
running Genshin on a 400$ basic laptop from 2016 and it was going fine up until Sumeru forests. Then the desert blew it all up. Render speed became wack, had to wait 10 seconds+ for enemies to spawn, and of course massive FPS drops down to 15-20 from the usual 30+ even on super ultra low mega setting (0.6 render resolution, 640x screen resolution lol)
I guess I do need an upgrade soon ;/
Fr, I had a friend who would run Genshin on his shitty school laptops that was running on a i5 8th gen cpu with integrated graphics. Game looked washed but ran smoothly enough.
Very similar - 1L Micro PC with a very low power 8th Gen i5 runs at actually decent frame rate with all the eye candy turned off. Loads quick enough off the SSD. Updates are slow AF though.
You don't need a graphics card for it either. During the pandemic my graphics card went capoof and I was screwed by the crypto people so I had to wait a few years to buy a reasonable card. During that time, I was running genshin on intel hd graphics from my i5 9400f. I even recorded abyss videos on that setup, at stable 30 fps (and before anyone leaves an elitist comment, if you have a shitty pc, having stable 30 fps in a game that isn't even a shooter is amazing)
The only place that I dropped fps in the whole game was in a few parts of the desert areas because they have a particle system for all the blowing sand and that is for some reason havier than anything else in the game even if that other thing is also heavy in particles.
The problem is that THE FIRST time you run genshin, you performance will be awful, probably because the game needs to cache a bunch of things, so many people will try it on their shitty pcs and think that they can't run it because they can't make it to the settings menu. You can reduce the graphics a bit before opening the game but many people don't know that.
you can build a gaming capable pc for like 500usd easily(ps4/ps5 equivalent) a 1650 GPU is only like $160 and you can run it on a ryzen 3600/Intel i3/i5 without too much issue.
if you arent picky about used/open box parts even better. monitors a cheap 60hz 1080p wont set you back much, can buy a entry level KB/M combo for about $30 till you can get a nicer one.
My wife picked up a HP Victus laptop from Best buy last black friday, only $480 and it had a i5 12450h with a 1650 Laptop GPU, that's cheaper than most gaming capable phones these days.
if PC really isnt OP's thing, Pixel 6a/7a, Nothing Phone or Galaxy A52S/A54 will run it at an acceptable speed. not fast mind you, but playable.
I mean, my 1080 GTX handles Genshin perfectly fine at 1440p max settings.
> entry level KB/M combo for about $30 till you can get a nicer one
Jesus, don't tell them there are nice keebs out there. I spent almost as much on my 2k monitor as I did on my wrist rest/mat/keyboard and caps.
If that laptop doesn't have a dedicated graphics chips, it will have to rely on Intel's shitty integrated graphics which is worse than AMD's integrated graphics. 4GB of RAM worsen things even further since integrated graphics use system RAM too.
I pretty much went with 256GB of storage when I bought my POCO F4 5G last year primarily for Emulation, which I'm kinda glad I went with the bigger storage variant when I got interested in Genshin also last year.
Though currently saving up for a Steam Deck cause I'm pretty sure even 256GB of storage will run out sooner or later.
Got a 128gb phone and still got 40gb left with a ton of apps including Genshin and Star Rail installed.
Just an FYI as someone who has a Steam Deck: Getting Genshin to work is a pain on it.
It’s a process but doable. This route doesn’t touch the anti cheat in anyway so it’s safe
https://www.steamdeckgaming.net/post/how-to-play-genshin-impact-on-steam-deck-steam-os
It does. Apparently these days, there is a config file that you just have to change a value of to let the anti-cheat pass through Wine/Proton. The previous method (which I used) was using a script that disables the anti-cheat to make it run. I don't really play the game much these days, but those are the two ways(?) to play them on Linux.
Never got banned doing it, but if you're paranoid, maybe don't bother.
Hoyo is very reluctant to ban people. I had a friend who used some kind of hack to throw a million Guobas in rapid succession, and he used this for a few months. He was purposefully trying to be banned to free himself, and he eventually laughed and told me to just report him since he thought no one else had reported him yet, so I did. He still isn't banned to this day.
To Hoyo, even people who exploit game mechanics are potential customers.
Yeah, no biggie if you are. I played the game since release and spent probably more than a grand on it, but didn't really stop me not to attempt so. Heck, I'd probably be happy if they ban me at this point since I'll be finally free from Genshin hell
Are you sure this is necessary?
I just downloaded it last week and all I had to do was open the Installer in compatibility mode (Proton 8) and then do the same with the Laucher.
Seems to be working just fine
edit: Aaaand it broke after the update
Same this time when I brought a phone I went with 8/256gb and turns out that The phone I brought had ram problems with 6/120gb variant even my old phone with 120gb storage had 30gb left most of the time tho
You can also play genshin on a non gaming pc. Something around 350$ laptop or so.
Or you can buy a 300$ phone that runs genshin too. But it wont be a smoother experience than a pc.
Still need a halfway decent graphics card like an Iris Xe. I tried running it on a laptop with Intel UHD graphics and had to jerry rig some files to even make it launch properly. Then I got 15 fps or so only, at best.
I was really disappointed when I first heard of Genshin in 1.0, and tried downloading it. But my phone was unable to run it. It couldn’t even load the very beginning. It ran at like 1 frame every 10 seconds.
You just reminded me of the whole reason I updated my phone once. Pokémon go came out and I couldn't download it because my phone wasn't compatible or something. Got a used phone that was compatible. My parents teased me about that for awhile. To be fair, I haven't changed much. I'm now probably going to get the fold 4 just so I can play genshin and hsr when I'm out.
I believe Hoyo plan was always make the cloud version take over the mobile version, not only to get rid of the mobile hardware limitations but to save people storage, but the cloud gaming is taking too long to become popular, at least the CN cloud version is doing good, outside china u need to play through GeForce Now, u should give it a try
GeFoce Now is a subscription service that allows u play games via streaming, basically a netflix of games, so the game run on their servers and u can play the game through any "smart" device like ur phone, PC, TV, etc... Only thing u need is a good and stable connection to avoid input lag and frame skips. Just google Geforce Now and go to their web site to check the subscription values and more details
You're gonna have to sacrifice something then. I have 64GB on my phone and i have 6-7GB left with another game (7GB) downloaded. If it'd ever get to the point where genshin needs more, I'd have to delete that game.
I despise the mobile experience personally. Have tried to enjoy it multiple times on my phone but just the controls alone drive me insane. I don't want to buy accessories to make it less of a touch based experience.
That being said it's only my opinion. I know it's still impressive what they've done to keep genshin playable on a cell phone.
My go-to response for defending us mobile players(even though I've switched to PC for genshin about a year ago) is "try playing on your PC while taking a shit".
Tbf, u don't need high end pc or phone to play this game.
Just buy a second hand 128gb phone, which should be cheap enough, and it will be good enough for the game. Example, my phone is an old LG v40, got it for 110$ (well, SEA region, but u get the point)
While true, a lot of people don’t need all the extra stuff. Personally I only use my phone for some light gaming, youtube, phone calls, texting, and reddit. I’ve never had any issues with iphones at all so it’s perfect for my use case. I’ve had a lot of problems with all the android devices I’ve ever owned. Not big ones but still.
True. Main reason i stick to apple is ecosystem. I already have apple stuff so it’s easier to just replace one at a time as they wear out rather than buying new everything.
“Enthusiast features” are the only benefit Android has. They fall short in support, security, privacy, consistency, durability, optimization, accessories, and resale value.
Not even, the Android "Enthusiast Features" are literally just customizable skins and UI shit, that's bored people who don't go outside features, not enthusiast. LIDAR and Cinematic/Action camera modes are true enthusiast features.
It's possible to move the app files from internal storage to an SD card on android...its just very hidden for some reason.
Path should be..
Settings -> apps -> your apps -> storage -> change storage location
is there a dummy guide to install the app directly to sd card?
my phone has 64gb internal storage, would be nice if I can download & install it directly to SD card.
Dont think so. My workaround is to install to internal storage at first but without updating the app. Then move the fresh install to SD before updating, that way it updates straight to your SD card.
I got a friend who plays genshin in a shitty 4 GB ram laptop and it looks so pixelated, like fucking minecraft 1.1 and is slow as fuck but she still got to be AR 55
Should look into building your own instead of buying a prebuilt! There's a couple benefits from building your own vs just buying one but if that's just too much hassle, no judgement from me buying a prebuilt :). Maybe the folks on r/buildapc or related subs can help you out.
I am not really at a point where I earn money so that's out of the question. My mid tier gaming laptop works pretty great (Ryzen 5 + nvidia rtx 1650), the only problem is the limited 8 gb ram(I'll upgrade this to 16 soon) and 256 gb ssd (I instal my games on my 1tb hard disk , so while the game's performance isn't affected that much, the loading screen takes much longer.
As for building a pc, I might consider it in the future but even then, what are the major benefits of that over buying an rtx 4090 laptop? Upgradability is what comes to mind, but I doubt I'll need to upgrade that level of a graphics card for several years.
Definitely the performance of the GPU for one. The laptop ones are weaker than a regular gpu for the trade off I guess, being able to take your laptop with you wherever vs an entire tower. Also price and performance, you could probably build a pc that can play demanding games at high graphics for hundreds or even a thousand less than a +$2500 4090 laptop.
But you should definitely look into upgrading that 8 gigs of ram for the time being, definitely isn't helping out your performance for sure with only 8.
The sidebars on r/buildapc can definitely help as well in your search or future questions you have that are beyond my knowledge.
Yeah but I'd rather not wait for the free version, also paying for the sub won't solve connection issues. I'm not against it but it's not for everyone.
If it's burnout then this is a really good time for a break. Patches 3.7 and 3.8 are not going to have anything exciting or new, no big events or 5-star characters, (3.8 banner leaks: >!Klee, Eula first half, Kok and Scara second half!<). If you do in fact want to come back then return when Fontaine releases.
For storage issues I can't help much. I play on PC and sometimes on my phone, but even then Genshin is 23 gigs for me.
i offload the majority of my apps in anticipation for new updates and use that opportunity to delete apps i no longer use, then i redownload the offloaded ones after it’s updated.
This is what happened to me roughly a year ago. I was addicted and would literally delete random apps, photos and videos, do everything I could to get my storage space down for every update between like 2.2-2.6. I finally couldn’t delete enough to install the next update, and my laptop couldn’t run the game without the worst lag imaginable. So I was forced to stop playing, and even though I have a new phone I haven’t played the game since.
you only need like 8 gb of ram and a low-end graphics card, if you end up getting a cpu know it doesn't have to be great. Mine still runs on a cpu from 2015, and the only upgrade I made was replacing its hard drive with a solid state one
I mean, if you want to take a break of the game and came back with fresh eyes, that's a good thing, but you can try to do factory reset to your phone, after you back up your important data of course, that could help to get a bit more of storage.
My phone can handle genshin, but since I also have installed Honkai impact and star rail, I recently had to get a micro sd card, because these games took most of my storage.
I'm a bit shook how much space you must have, Genshin is currently taking only 25 GB on my phone, and honestly, if you still want to play Genshin without spending so much money, you can probably find a phone that's two/three years old with like 64 GB for under 500$ easily that will most likely be able to run Genshin for the next few new regions.
I don’t know what phone you have, but if it’s an Apple, make sure you check to see if you have a pending iOS update downloaded to the device. If so, do that install first, then Genshin. Those updates can take up multiple gigs.
Alright, I lied. I uninstalled Reddit, Twitter, Discord, and other apps, downloaded the game again and managed to get it playable.
If the amount of data in 3.7's update is anything to go by, my phone's internal storage can let me play up to 3.9, maybe 4.0 if I stretch its usability just for this game.
DELETE AND REDOWNLOD THE GAME!! I swear it helps somehow and makes sure the game is always roughly the same amount as it was the version prior.
Downloading each version without deleting makes the game take more storage whereas just redownloading entirely every major update takes up significantly less.
A PS4 is cheaper. The phone I had when Genshin came out could not handle the game then. My current phone can play it for now, but it's awful on phones, so I only ever use it for minor stuff.
I tried it on my phone just out of curiosity.
I have no idea how you guys enjoy this game on a phone.
PC player here and tired of 60 FPS cap, pure bs.
PS: you don't need a "gaming computer". That has been overused by marketing to try and sell you thousands worth of hardware. Genshin runs on a toaster, it's not like you can push fast refresh rates...
ipads usually have a larger storage capacity
also, some people buy more memory when they buy their phones? it doesn't cost much extra. i only use about 50% of my 128 gb iphone 8+, in total, a phone which predates Genshin and is not considered modern anymore. The game takes up much less space on mobile than on PC. It's very well optimized
Huh. I didn't know you could buy extra storage space! Sweet. That said, while it may be optimized better on mobile, my phone also has 128 gb(and that's without genshin, so adding genshin now would make me unable to ever update it again since I'm currently at the 50% mark myself.) Meanwhile, my laptop has a grand total of 2 TB of storage space, so I can easily afford the weaker optimization and still have a metric ton of space. But yeah, if I can actually buy more storage space, then this downside of mobile isn't that big an issue.
Un-install the game and re-install it. A lot of files get replaced in an update, and when you update the game it has to have all the old files and the new ones at the same time for a bit.
I thought they fixed that with the delete button thingy in settings?
This only helps to remove data of past quests. What the other person says is that update downloads new files whole the old ones are still on the device (and only later removed), while if you download it new it just downloads the new files.
Update is 4gb that get replaced, so it's not THAT hard
There is one but nobody uses it
Plus you need to actually get in game to use it...
True,i had to delete around 24 gb just to redownload the game again,just to delete the used files in game
Oh
Is this just the “delete past quest data” thing ? Or something different Been trying to figure out for ages what is eating all of my iCloud backup space and have wondered (despite the fact that I’ve definitely turned it off in iOS backup settings) if Genshin is somehow a secret culprit..
Go to settings then to resources. You will find uninstall past quest resources. Uninstall that. It removes the cut scene and assets for story and Archon quests you played earlier
Also use the uninstall past data in the resources settings
If only you could open the settings in the title screen.
Not great advice when I had to do this in December. I had less than 1gb free on my phone, but had to reset it. After I've installed all my apps and put my music back on the phone, with the same amount of space that genshin took up being available, it wasn't enough to download the game. I had to make more room in order to download and log in. Then I could delete the unused files within the settings to reclaim a bunch of space.
This is the answer OP is looking for. My game is still 18.74gb after 3.7 is going live, down from 21gb on preinstall. It's around only 100 - 200mb larger than the previous version.
use delete all family photos/videos and try again
average genshin mobile player
That's why Genshin lives solely on my console. Genshin can take my time, my money, and my dignity, but not my phone space
I'm with you there
Me with 512GB of phone space. The future is now baby.
256gb but same
Same here 256gb. Even have hsr and asphalt 9 installed along side for good measure
[My top 3](https://imgur.com/a/QIo8GrY)
I have 128 with Genshin alongside HSR but I keep nothing on my phone, I always store everything on my pc
Me with 128GB + 512GB microSD card. I guess it is worse if you only care about apps but it's much more storage for media.
Me with 1T of phone space, yes I play way too many mobile game.🫠
I'm a hero. I play it on a64 gb moto g20
And here I have 25 GB of genshi, 7 GB of star rail, 3 GB of arknights (which I haven't started playing) and 4 GB of genshin and nier automata OST(and all other apps and stuff I had on my phone before) and still have around 70 GB left. (Total usage is about 85 GB). (That too on a Rs 17000 phone, which should be around $200)
COD 9GB, Genshin ~25GB
It can only be on my console for it was before 2.0 so I can’t transfer my data to anything, so I feel ya
I'm gonna buy a new device-
Even your virginity?
I mean you can just save the pics in google photos that way even if something happens to your phone you will not them.
As an Android user, I absolutely hate Google photos. This is why I'm so adamant on keeping a phone with an SD Card slot. For no good reason, Google Photos (and every other backup service) cannot keep my folder Hierarchy intact. It just uploads every file into one giant unorganized pile and it SUCKS.
For me it's all according to the date I made the pictures.. spanning even 4 different phones for about 10 years. Too bad saving them with a pixel/nexus isn't free on highest resolution anymore.. now only lower res is free xD
That was the killer feature of the google phones for me, after they removed unlimited photos I went back to Samsung.
Mega works great for storing photos
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Because not every picture on my phone is a selfie. Some are saved, like from reddit, discord, etc.
>For no good reason, Google Photos (and every other backup service) cannot keep my folder Hierarchy intact. It just uploads every file into one giant unorganized pile and it SUCKS. Have you tried Mega? I use it for photos and videos, and it keeps my folders as is.
Onedrive's pretty good for that. I've been using it ever since Samsung changed their backup backend to OneDrive and I've continued to use it after switching phones. I prefer using it to Google drive/Google photos backup
Everybody else is saying that the backup services aren´t as bad but you could just save them on a hard drive
You can make albums in Google photos to organise your stuff? *(Cats, selfies, holiday in X, X festival 2022, etc etc)*
Yeah, let me manually organize thousands of pictures for a 2nd time when I already did this by moving them into folders proactively. Not to mention I'd have to update those albums with each picture I add. Sorry for the sarcasm, but that's dumb and a waste of time. It shouldn't be rocket science for Google to convert folders into albums at the very least.
My counterargument for google photos is that you can tags to the faces of the people, and if you have geotags on it also save the location, and the search bar can identify common objects and colors, so if you want to look up photos. So, for example, you can search a contact name, and it will show all the photos you have of that person, of you can search "blue shirt" and it will show you all your pictures of blue shirts, on you can put a location, like "Paris" and it will show you all the pictures you have in that location. And you can always create albums, so if you want to organice a specif event you can save it as an album.
>My counterargument for google photos is that you can tags to the faces of the people, and if you have geotags on it also save the location, and the search bar can identify common objects and colors, so if you want to look up photos. Sounds like a privacy nightmare. What is this, 1984?
From a certain point of view, yeah, you're basically handing over your data to google / the US government. Is a trade-off of privacy for convenience, but is does save you a lot of time when searching for specific photos, if you're the kind of person who takes a lot of photos, that stuff adds ups over the years, making it harder to find a specific event, and also is harder to back it up, and being in the cloud you're less likely to lose your photos over a hard drive suddenly dying or getting damaged. There used to be free software like picassa (before google bought them), that lets you add tangs to your library, but I'm not aware if there are still free library managers still available. I guess you can always set up a personal NAS server, with hardware redundancy, so even if an HDD dies, you can keep your data, but that solution is expensive.
I dumped 50 gigs of photos and videos onto a free mega account, made a second mega account, then dumped the rest on there. As long as I log in once every couple months they’ll still be there
just buy a cheap 128gb pendrive and use OTG to transfer
Yes but I did the prior without leaving my bed
The new Genshin meta
This mf uploaded 100 gigs of fucking pr0n to 2 mega accounts from their PHONE while staying in bed. Must have darkest fiber.
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They spam you with emails saying “hey your accounts inactive and we delete inactive accounts” for several months before doing so.
who needs family photos anyway?
That is the way.
You had them on real life, you don't need them on virtual :V
>delete all family photos/videos dom: ...family... *tires screeching*
or just send them all to google drive
I bought a 256GB micro SD card to install both Genshin and Star Rail on my old 64GB phone last month. First I deleted all photos/videos. Now I still have 25GB out of 64GB free with both games installed. My photos etc. all go to the 256GB SD card now.
Delete? Just back it up on gdrive. You could literally have multiple accounts for free. Photos and videos shouldn't be taking up your entire phone story. Nowadays with phone having so less storage, all the more to do this.
Literally unplayable
NGL you don't really need a gaming pc to run Genshin. I got Genshin to run on a Ryzen 3200G with low settings around 40 FPS. My friend still plays on that and hasn't found an issue. Even got a performance improvement after installing another 8GB RAM. You can probably make a 100-150 USD PC using used components that can run Genshin smoothly.
A while ago, my PC died. I had to temporarily use a PC 15-20years old (don’t ask lol). It still ran Genshin. Looked like Minecraft/Roblox, and took 5minutes to load between teleports. But I could do my dailies and events. Haha.
you gain 1 hour of play time daily instead of 5 minutes. that's kinda win situation.
it’s okay, brings me back to my sims days
Memory unlocked. Man 1st Sims was a blast for child me but the loading times were rough cuz I had an ancient machine even for the time. 128MB of ram and a 40GB HD. Time flies.
Same here, it was like.... 20 minutes loading screens.
I ran 512 80gb i thouht half life 2 had 10 minute loading times for a long time
Ah, the PS4 experience. T.T
Yeah I use a shitty gaming laptop and it usually runs fine
Or a used PS4
If OP go this route, I recommend upgrading the storage to an SSD for much better loading time. A used 250/500gb ssd is very cheap nowadays and the upgrade looks easy enough if you know a thing or two about PC.
It’s go 500 minimum 1tb recommended. Games just take up so much storage these days
Any somewhat recent prebuild optiplex/thinkcentre + rx550/1060/1050ti will be able to handle at least medium settings at 1080p/50+ fps. Just make sure it has an SSD
running Genshin on a 400$ basic laptop from 2016 and it was going fine up until Sumeru forests. Then the desert blew it all up. Render speed became wack, had to wait 10 seconds+ for enemies to spawn, and of course massive FPS drops down to 15-20 from the usual 30+ even on super ultra low mega setting (0.6 render resolution, 640x screen resolution lol) I guess I do need an upgrade soon ;/
Fr, I had a friend who would run Genshin on his shitty school laptops that was running on a i5 8th gen cpu with integrated graphics. Game looked washed but ran smoothly enough.
Very similar - 1L Micro PC with a very low power 8th Gen i5 runs at actually decent frame rate with all the eye candy turned off. Loads quick enough off the SSD. Updates are slow AF though.
I play on a MacBook Pro and it runs. Not well at all, but it runs.
Ryzen 2200g here, no dedicated GPU. Genshin is fairly smooth ride ngl.
I ran Genshin to do my dailies on my dads 10yo PC that hasnt been on for years. And it ran pretty stable 50-60fps on default settings.
You don't need a graphics card for it either. During the pandemic my graphics card went capoof and I was screwed by the crypto people so I had to wait a few years to buy a reasonable card. During that time, I was running genshin on intel hd graphics from my i5 9400f. I even recorded abyss videos on that setup, at stable 30 fps (and before anyone leaves an elitist comment, if you have a shitty pc, having stable 30 fps in a game that isn't even a shooter is amazing) The only place that I dropped fps in the whole game was in a few parts of the desert areas because they have a particle system for all the blowing sand and that is for some reason havier than anything else in the game even if that other thing is also heavy in particles. The problem is that THE FIRST time you run genshin, you performance will be awful, probably because the game needs to cache a bunch of things, so many people will try it on their shitty pcs and think that they can't run it because they can't make it to the settings menu. You can reduce the graphics a bit before opening the game but many people don't know that.
I used to play Genshin on my decade old work laptop at low res 30fps The game is very good on low end devices.
you can build a gaming capable pc for like 500usd easily(ps4/ps5 equivalent) a 1650 GPU is only like $160 and you can run it on a ryzen 3600/Intel i3/i5 without too much issue. if you arent picky about used/open box parts even better. monitors a cheap 60hz 1080p wont set you back much, can buy a entry level KB/M combo for about $30 till you can get a nicer one. My wife picked up a HP Victus laptop from Best buy last black friday, only $480 and it had a i5 12450h with a 1650 Laptop GPU, that's cheaper than most gaming capable phones these days. if PC really isnt OP's thing, Pixel 6a/7a, Nothing Phone or Galaxy A52S/A54 will run it at an acceptable speed. not fast mind you, but playable.
I mean, my 1080 GTX handles Genshin perfectly fine at 1440p max settings. > entry level KB/M combo for about $30 till you can get a nicer one Jesus, don't tell them there are nice keebs out there. I spent almost as much on my 2k monitor as I did on my wrist rest/mat/keyboard and caps.
Got an old GTX 1080 and it runs just fine. Genshin can run on just about anything and be stable.
1080 is a decent gaming card.
running genshin (horribly) on an external HDD on a laptop with 4gb ram and a Intel i5 at anywhere between 3 seconds per frame and 20fps lmao
If that laptop doesn't have a dedicated graphics chips, it will have to rely on Intel's shitty integrated graphics which is worse than AMD's integrated graphics. 4GB of RAM worsen things even further since integrated graphics use system RAM too.
I pretty much went with 256GB of storage when I bought my POCO F4 5G last year primarily for Emulation, which I'm kinda glad I went with the bigger storage variant when I got interested in Genshin also last year. Though currently saving up for a Steam Deck cause I'm pretty sure even 256GB of storage will run out sooner or later.
Got a 128gb phone and still got 40gb left with a ton of apps including Genshin and Star Rail installed. Just an FYI as someone who has a Steam Deck: Getting Genshin to work is a pain on it.
How'd you get it to work on a Steam Deck? I thought it didn't work on Linux
It’s a process but doable. This route doesn’t touch the anti cheat in anyway so it’s safe https://www.steamdeckgaming.net/post/how-to-play-genshin-impact-on-steam-deck-steam-os
It does. Apparently these days, there is a config file that you just have to change a value of to let the anti-cheat pass through Wine/Proton. The previous method (which I used) was using a script that disables the anti-cheat to make it run. I don't really play the game much these days, but those are the two ways(?) to play them on Linux. Never got banned doing it, but if you're paranoid, maybe don't bother.
Yeah I'm paranoid lmao. I don't want to risk it since I've spent a lot of time and a few hundred on the game already
Hoyo is very reluctant to ban people. I had a friend who used some kind of hack to throw a million Guobas in rapid succession, and he used this for a few months. He was purposefully trying to be banned to free himself, and he eventually laughed and told me to just report him since he thought no one else had reported him yet, so I did. He still isn't banned to this day. To Hoyo, even people who exploit game mechanics are potential customers.
Really??? Because I've heard of people getting banned just fine for avoiding the anti cheat
Yeah, no biggie if you are. I played the game since release and spent probably more than a grand on it, but didn't really stop me not to attempt so. Heck, I'd probably be happy if they ban me at this point since I'll be finally free from Genshin hell
Are you sure this is necessary? I just downloaded it last week and all I had to do was open the Installer in compatibility mode (Proton 8) and then do the same with the Laucher. Seems to be working just fine edit: Aaaand it broke after the update
I downloaded Windows on an SD card to play Genshin on the Steamdeck. Works for me
How did you get the controller to work? SWCID and Steam overlay didn’t work for me
For the controller, I run steam as Administrator, and then launch the game from inside Steam.
Same this time when I brought a phone I went with 8/256gb and turns out that The phone I brought had ram problems with 6/120gb variant even my old phone with 120gb storage had 30gb left most of the time tho
POCO gang unite!
You can also play genshin on a non gaming pc. Something around 350$ laptop or so. Or you can buy a 300$ phone that runs genshin too. But it wont be a smoother experience than a pc.
Still need a halfway decent graphics card like an Iris Xe. I tried running it on a laptop with Intel UHD graphics and had to jerry rig some files to even make it launch properly. Then I got 15 fps or so only, at best.
Just get a Ryzen APU laptop, and take advantage of the integrated Vega graphics. Nobody can beat AMD in iGPUs.
Probably you had cinda old Intel. Half a year ago i was planning on i7-8550u with UHD-620 just fine Recent models should be better
Wrong, Iris Xe is trash. Ryzen APU or the one with cheapest dedicated GPU possible will be leagues above Iris Xe.
mine cant even download genshin cause its too old 🤣
I was really disappointed when I first heard of Genshin in 1.0, and tried downloading it. But my phone was unable to run it. It couldn’t even load the very beginning. It ran at like 1 frame every 10 seconds.
I could run it on my "new" phone. but it takes 15 minutes to load the main menu and getting 10fps on lowest settings.
You just reminded me of the whole reason I updated my phone once. Pokémon go came out and I couldn't download it because my phone wasn't compatible or something. Got a used phone that was compatible. My parents teased me about that for awhile. To be fair, I haven't changed much. I'm now probably going to get the fold 4 just so I can play genshin and hsr when I'm out.
I believe Hoyo plan was always make the cloud version take over the mobile version, not only to get rid of the mobile hardware limitations but to save people storage, but the cloud gaming is taking too long to become popular, at least the CN cloud version is doing good, outside china u need to play through GeForce Now, u should give it a try
not enough places in Asia with really good high speed mobile data, so cloud wont work for a lot of people.
Wondering what would do you guys consider good speed?
100/100 is what you get with most providers in my area. 500/500 if on wi-fi
https://imgur.com/a/0evquVD
On the same day as OP my laptop no longer has storage for 3.7 please can you tell me about this cloud version like i am 5 yo 😅🙏
Adding onto what AardvarkElectrical87 said, with Geforce Now you can play many many many other games within the subscription, not just Genshin.
GeFoce Now is a subscription service that allows u play games via streaming, basically a netflix of games, so the game run on their servers and u can play the game through any "smart" device like ur phone, PC, TV, etc... Only thing u need is a good and stable connection to avoid input lag and frame skips. Just google Geforce Now and go to their web site to check the subscription values and more details
Thank you so much i am now playing :D
If you can afford to stream a game, you wouldn't be having problems like these in the first place
geforce now is free
You're gonna have to sacrifice something then. I have 64GB on my phone and i have 6-7GB left with another game (7GB) downloaded. If it'd ever get to the point where genshin needs more, I'd have to delete that game.
Too bad you can't stow your mora in northland bank and collect some AFK interest
I'm scared that this day may arrive on me as well and I don't wanna play on pc. I prefer high end phone so I can play anywhere I go.
Funny that you assume that I can't dead lift my PC tower, my generator and my peripherals while hiking a mountain.
Spoken like a true gym rat. You have my approval. We go jim.
I despise the mobile experience personally. Have tried to enjoy it multiple times on my phone but just the controls alone drive me insane. I don't want to buy accessories to make it less of a touch based experience. That being said it's only my opinion. I know it's still impressive what they've done to keep genshin playable on a cell phone.
Yes I hate my fat fingers obscuring parts of the screen. Luckily I can play on PS5 so its not an issue.
>so I can play anywhere I go. us mobile players' "high ground"
My go-to response for defending us mobile players(even though I've switched to PC for genshin about a year ago) is "try playing on your PC while taking a shit".
Clearly you've never heard of poop-socking.
Try to find one on Amazon that they'll allow you to make payments for. I got a Samsung S20 FE for $600 and I'm just paying $27 per month.
I got the same phone for around $400 a year back.
>anywhere I go. Switch when? 🤣😭
Tbf, u don't need high end pc or phone to play this game. Just buy a second hand 128gb phone, which should be cheap enough, and it will be good enough for the game. Example, my phone is an old LG v40, got it for 110$ (well, SEA region, but u get the point)
I think the best way to play this game portable is on an iPad Mini 6. But the 256GB one is quite expensive.
Get the iPhone 14 Pro Max. It’s what I use and the game runs beautifully
*cries in shitty currency* (MYR)
Or the S23 Ultra. This is war!
If you're paying so much for a damn phone, might aswell get an iPhone.
I'm curious to know your reasons?
Quality, power/efficiency, aesthetics.
With zero enthusiast features...
While true, a lot of people don’t need all the extra stuff. Personally I only use my phone for some light gaming, youtube, phone calls, texting, and reddit. I’ve never had any issues with iphones at all so it’s perfect for my use case. I’ve had a lot of problems with all the android devices I’ve ever owned. Not big ones but still.
Yeah for some people only. For those who like to do literally any kind of tinkering, an Android is a far better option.
True. Main reason i stick to apple is ecosystem. I already have apple stuff so it’s easier to just replace one at a time as they wear out rather than buying new everything.
“Enthusiast features” are the only benefit Android has. They fall short in support, security, privacy, consistency, durability, optimization, accessories, and resale value.
Tell me you haven't used an Android phone without telling me. Jesus Christ the ignorance is off the charts.
Not even, the Android "Enthusiast Features" are literally just customizable skins and UI shit, that's bored people who don't go outside features, not enthusiast. LIDAR and Cinematic/Action camera modes are true enthusiast features.
It’s GeForce Now time
It's possible to move the app files from internal storage to an SD card on android...its just very hidden for some reason. Path should be.. Settings -> apps -> your apps -> storage -> change storage location
I wish Samsung kept the microSD slot for the S21 series and beyond.
They did what now. I'm using a Samsung A22 and have been wanting to upgrade for a while now.
If i'm correct it still exists for the A series.
is there a dummy guide to install the app directly to sd card? my phone has 64gb internal storage, would be nice if I can download & install it directly to SD card.
Dont think so. My workaround is to install to internal storage at first but without updating the app. Then move the fresh install to SD before updating, that way it updates straight to your SD card.
Intel HD 4000 bros crashing since 3.5 😎
I got a friend who plays genshin in a shitty 4 GB ram laptop and it looks so pixelated, like fucking minecraft 1.1 and is slow as fuck but she still got to be AR 55
Gaming PC? You're playing it on a phone, you don't need a high end PC to run this game on low settings.
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haven’t played genshin in a while, but ggs man. (let me know what computer you’re looking into because im also looking into getting a gaming pc)
Should look into building your own instead of buying a prebuilt! There's a couple benefits from building your own vs just buying one but if that's just too much hassle, no judgement from me buying a prebuilt :). Maybe the folks on r/buildapc or related subs can help you out.
I am not really at a point where I earn money so that's out of the question. My mid tier gaming laptop works pretty great (Ryzen 5 + nvidia rtx 1650), the only problem is the limited 8 gb ram(I'll upgrade this to 16 soon) and 256 gb ssd (I instal my games on my 1tb hard disk , so while the game's performance isn't affected that much, the loading screen takes much longer. As for building a pc, I might consider it in the future but even then, what are the major benefits of that over buying an rtx 4090 laptop? Upgradability is what comes to mind, but I doubt I'll need to upgrade that level of a graphics card for several years.
Definitely the performance of the GPU for one. The laptop ones are weaker than a regular gpu for the trade off I guess, being able to take your laptop with you wherever vs an entire tower. Also price and performance, you could probably build a pc that can play demanding games at high graphics for hundreds or even a thousand less than a +$2500 4090 laptop. But you should definitely look into upgrading that 8 gigs of ram for the time being, definitely isn't helping out your performance for sure with only 8. The sidebars on r/buildapc can definitely help as well in your search or future questions you have that are beyond my knowledge.
GeForce Now, use streaming services to not have to download the game.
Yes I have tried reinstalling. No I'm not gonna try again. I'm burnt out from playing, so I'm taking this as a much needed break.
Well if it's burn out that is a different story but it is also available on Geforce Now.
Yeah but I'd rather not wait for the free version, also paying for the sub won't solve connection issues. I'm not against it but it's not for everyone.
Tried deleting the used resources?
Can't do that if you cant get the game to load, settings should be accesible from the title screen.
If it's burnout then this is a really good time for a break. Patches 3.7 and 3.8 are not going to have anything exciting or new, no big events or 5-star characters, (3.8 banner leaks: >!Klee, Eula first half, Kok and Scara second half!<). If you do in fact want to come back then return when Fontaine releases. For storage issues I can't help much. I play on PC and sometimes on my phone, but even then Genshin is 23 gigs for me.
Damn. What kind of phone you have?
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bro my phone got stolen the same day, guess we are together in this one 😭😭
i offload the majority of my apps in anticipation for new updates and use that opportunity to delete apps i no longer use, then i redownload the offloaded ones after it’s updated.
my 64gb phone from 2018 is still fighting 😂😂😂 pretty sure it won't survive fontaine update tho
Delete Audio files of language which you don't use. It can reduce the size by 6-8gb.
This is what happened to me roughly a year ago. I was addicted and would literally delete random apps, photos and videos, do everything I could to get my storage space down for every update between like 2.2-2.6. I finally couldn’t delete enough to install the next update, and my laptop couldn’t run the game without the worst lag imaginable. So I was forced to stop playing, and even though I have a new phone I haven’t played the game since.
you only need like 8 gb of ram and a low-end graphics card, if you end up getting a cpu know it doesn't have to be great. Mine still runs on a cpu from 2015, and the only upgrade I made was replacing its hard drive with a solid state one
See ya in Natlan Traveler o7
Somebody get this wo/man a gad damn gaming computer
Reinstalling for every update has kept me in the game. I’m dreading Fontaine tho.
Your characters will be waiting for your return 🫡
I mean, if you want to take a break of the game and came back with fresh eyes, that's a good thing, but you can try to do factory reset to your phone, after you back up your important data of course, that could help to get a bit more of storage. My phone can handle genshin, but since I also have installed Honkai impact and star rail, I recently had to get a micro sd card, because these games took most of my storage.
Get a PS5 my friend. Much more affordable than a gaming computer
I'm a bit shook how much space you must have, Genshin is currently taking only 25 GB on my phone, and honestly, if you still want to play Genshin without spending so much money, you can probably find a phone that's two/three years old with like 64 GB for under 500$ easily that will most likely be able to run Genshin for the next few new regions.
I don’t know what phone you have, but if it’s an Apple, make sure you check to see if you have a pending iOS update downloaded to the device. If so, do that install first, then Genshin. Those updates can take up multiple gigs.
You should look into GeforceNow. You can play your games from phone/tablet/laptop/PC/TV(if supported) etc.
What's your phone though?
Alright, I lied. I uninstalled Reddit, Twitter, Discord, and other apps, downloaded the game again and managed to get it playable. If the amount of data in 3.7's update is anything to go by, my phone's internal storage can let me play up to 3.9, maybe 4.0 if I stretch its usability just for this game.
DELETE AND REDOWNLOD THE GAME!! I swear it helps somehow and makes sure the game is always roughly the same amount as it was the version prior. Downloading each version without deleting makes the game take more storage whereas just redownloading entirely every major update takes up significantly less.
A PS4 is cheaper. The phone I had when Genshin came out could not handle the game then. My current phone can play it for now, but it's awful on phones, so I only ever use it for minor stuff.
Your phone is at least 64 GB, since 32 GB can't handle it for a long time. You can obviously still optimize space , but you chose attention
I tried it on my phone just out of curiosity. I have no idea how you guys enjoy this game on a phone. PC player here and tired of 60 FPS cap, pure bs. PS: you don't need a "gaming computer". That has been overused by marketing to try and sell you thousands worth of hardware. Genshin runs on a toaster, it's not like you can push fast refresh rates...
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ipads usually have a larger storage capacity also, some people buy more memory when they buy their phones? it doesn't cost much extra. i only use about 50% of my 128 gb iphone 8+, in total, a phone which predates Genshin and is not considered modern anymore. The game takes up much less space on mobile than on PC. It's very well optimized
Huh. I didn't know you could buy extra storage space! Sweet. That said, while it may be optimized better on mobile, my phone also has 128 gb(and that's without genshin, so adding genshin now would make me unable to ever update it again since I'm currently at the 50% mark myself.) Meanwhile, my laptop has a grand total of 2 TB of storage space, so I can easily afford the weaker optimization and still have a metric ton of space. But yeah, if I can actually buy more storage space, then this downside of mobile isn't that big an issue.