If you participate in dev-server testing (see post here), you will receive a new structure in the first session of testing the update.

The new file structure will be applied to the installation directory of the War Thunder client in the next major update. There should be no change in the game's load speed: on SSD, the speed will stay the same, on HDD there may be a slight increase or slowdown in the speed of installing files, depending on the history of use and receipt of updates (due to fragmentation of data on a disk).

In fact, players will receive War Thunder updates faster - we save bandwidth for users with slow or unstable Internet connections on Steam, PlayStation and XBox versions, as well as speed up the installation of updates for all players. On a PC, for those who update through our launcher, a partial file update system has been available for a long time, but this file structure change will speed up the installation of updates. The goal of the restructuring is to break up a number of heavy game files into smaller ones so that when these files are changed, players on consoles and the Steam client will download smaller volumes. In short: the new file structure will speed up the installation of updates on your computers and consoles, as well as reduce the size of download files! Today we would like to tell you about the transition to the new file structure in the War Thunder game client that the development team has already planned for in the upcoming major update. We will soon move to a new game client file structure that will reduce the size of updates and speed up their installation.

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