5.2 gigabyte for ?

[Eiernacken]

steam says i have to download 5.2gigabyte patch

[Niall]

Wtf is this ♥♥♥♥? I ain't got the HD space. Do I have to download this bloat?

[Eiernacken]

Originally posted by Necronaught:

Wtf is this ♥♥♥♥? I ain't got the HD space. Do I have to download this bloat?

the best think you can do if you have alot steamgames like me i have over 100 games buy a 3tb hard drive as second drive for downloads and games steam curently uses a big bunch of the hard drive i its still calculating the used space i answer in minute if its done

[Eiernacken]

oh its done steam folder is using 495 GB (531.627.660.210 Bytes) i dant have all installed just 30 games or so

[Wardiaper]

I don't understand it either. There is even a topic pinned here that "Rising Storm is released - Beta is closed."

Why are we automatically (I never installed the beta) installing a beta IN ADDITION to the fully released game? We have 2 accounts downloading this. If everyone is being forced to be beta testers - why not just patch the already installed game instead of installing another standalone beta?

At the very least please take your hands off my account and don't automatically install betas when I already have the fully released game. If I want the beta I will install it.

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Now I am pissed off. The download is 5.6 GB, but the beta reserved 17953 MB (nearly 18 GB) of hard drive space IN ADDITION to the already installed full game.

You DO NOT have my permission to install your beta on my computers.

This is the first time I've ever seen a game install itself without my permission. You just overstepped yourselves by quite a bit dummies.

[Moskeeto]

If you never deleted the beta from your hard drive, you will download the latest patch. Just uninstall it from your Steam library and don't bother with it. It is currently being used to test new content. It is not forcing the download on those that don't have any of the beta installed. That is not possible for Steam to do.

[Eiernacken]

Originally posted by RST Moskeeto:

If you never deleted the beta from your hard drive, you will download the latest patch. Just uninstall it from your Steam library and don't bother with it. It is currently being used to test new content. It is not forcing the download on those that don't have any of the beta installed. That is not possible for Steam to do.

thanks for info i was realy wondering coz other games hast named test or beta test i uninstalled it

[Wardiaper]

The beta has been uninstalled since the full game came out on both computers. Actually, it installed over 21 GB on the Win 7 computer and I stopped the download on the other computer when I saw it had started. Both computers have the full game installed.

The beta is only present in the games list on both computers because as far as I know there is no way to permanently remove the beta, but they were NOT installed. The beta decided to install itself. I've never seen an uninstalled game install itself before and it happened on both systems.

I keep an eye on free HD space on both computers. Noticed the Win 7 machine that had 120 GB of free space missing around 20 GB. Then I saw the other computer that has 2 hard drives with 60 GB free on each drive start downloading the beta and sure enough it reserved nearly 20 GB of one of those hard drives.

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So I would say to people that own the full game - check your game list and see if the beta installed itself because it is taking up 20 GB of space and even though the download is 5.6 GB, some people have download caps to consider when downloading games.

[Moskeeto]

If the download was only 5.6 GB for you, then you had the previous files still installed. Steam had disabled access to the game for a while, but kept the files on your hard drive. You had to manually delete the beta at that point. Now, the beta is open again for testing a new map. If you didn't have the game files installed at all, the download would have been the full 20 GB.

[Big Momma]

This is honestly straight up reterded

[Wardiaper]

Originally posted by RST Moskeeto:

If the download was only 5.6 GB for you, then you had the previous files still installed. Steam had disabled access to the game for a while, but kept the files on your hard drive. You had to manually delete the beta at that point. Now, the beta is open again for testing a new map. If you didn't have the game files installed at all, the download would have been the full 20 GB.

I swear to everything that is holy that the beta was not installed on either computer until today when it decided to install itself. I don't know if the compressed size is a 5.6 GB download and it unpacks to that 20+ GB and/or takes some files from the installed full version. The end result is a full game at 20 GB and now a beta at 20 GB where only the full game was installed before today.

The beta on both computers has been deleted since the full version released, but there is no way to remove the beta from the uninstalled games list.

[Moskeeto]

A fresh compressed download is 10 GB.

[BMB]

For what it's worth to anyone coming to this thread for answers as I did (and getting them, thanks chaps), it's the same for me, I didn't realise I still had RS beta data on my PC, I just assumed it got replaced by the RO2/RS stuff when it was released, but just now when I logged on and saw a separate Rising Storm Beta d/loading 5GB, I came here, read this thread, deleted RS Beta local content and yes, my HDD got 20+GB back.

I remember something kinda like this happening when Steam specific versions of all the Company of Heroes came out or something, I ended up with multiple d/loads of all the games/expansions etc.

[Moskeeto]

Originally posted by BMB:

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Thank for understanding exactly what I was saying.

[Wardiaper]

Well, maybe explain this - If the beta in my games list is not installed, where are these beta files we are supposed to delete so this doesn't happen again?

Two different computers and 2 different steam accounts. Neither had the beta installed since full release. Both full games I checked and they are both opted out of the beta. There is a beta entry in the games list (Rising Storm Beta), but again it was not installed on either computer (until today by itself) and it is impossible to remove a game (even an uninstalled beta game) from your games list.

The beta download today caused the allocation of 20 GB of brand new additional HD space on both computers even if the download was only 5.6 GB. I don't know how much was compressed and/or how much was taken from the install for the full game.

Maybe explain this phenomenon and create a sticky on how to avoid this in the future. Truly baffling and annoying especially for people like myself that have hundreds of games and can't have betas deciding to install themselves.

Even after right clicking the "Rising Storm Beta" and deleting local game content, the "Rising Storm Beta" is still in the games list like other uninstalled games.

My point is that the full game has a place to opt in/out of the beta in properties. Why do we even need a separate entry for the Rising Storm Beta that some people aren't even interested in?

[Moskeeto]

If you played the beta before the full release, those old beta files stayed in the hard drive. They didn't get magically updated into the full game. In your steamapps folder, the one labelled "Red Orchestra 2" is the full game and the one labelled "Rising Storm beta" is the old beta.