Question Regarding ISO Files/1.0 Installer

[M_Striker]

I've used WinRAR to unzip the file that I downloaded, and extracted the contents into a folder. There are a number of different files and a folder named dependencies along with the setup.exe which I would run to install the game. My question is what are all these other files and dependencies folder? Can one run the setup application without them (delete all the other files except the setup application, and still install properly?). I assume this is due to the file originally being an ISO, but what is the difference between this kind of install method versus the ones used before? (such as simply downloading a setup application) This isn't a huge issue, I'm just curious.

[LITOralis.nMd]

You can not delete anything from the .iso archive until after you've installed the game.

In general, *.iso files allow a single file transfer, a single hash to check file integrity, and using various software can be burned to media or placed onto thumbdrives as a virtual DVD drive. Windows *.exe installers require compression also when dealing with such large installs, but the compression is less optimized.

I don't know exactly why we chose *.iso over other methods, might have come down to the simple fact someone on the team had competency in it over other methods.

[M_Striker]

Gotcha, thanks for the reply