Is there something wrong I'm doing with dowloading?

[Nyanime]

*UPDATE* The issue is now fixed. Turns out I had enough storage all along. Just that in the process of dowloading, there was some glitch (?) Where my disk file displays the wrong numbers, inaccurately stating I had 6GB left when I actually had more. All I had to do was wait for the game download process to pause (due to "low storage space"), restart my computer, check my files to see my 0 GB become 10GB. Repeat this process until the end (took me a whole day)
I appreciate everyone for giving in their input. Though the situation is still wierd, I have no clue why this glitch even works. If someone has any idea, would love to hear it.


I recently got the game, looking through the requirements it needs beforehand. It is stated that Baldur's Gate3 needs a heck ton of storage, 16gb ram and core i5 I believe. I do meet most of the requirements, minus the fact I only have 8gb of ram. Recently cleaned up my laptop to give me the minimum of 150gb (rn sitting at 151 gb in my disk space).

Problem: while installing it seems the game is taking MORE than it is stated.
First off, the game automatically reserves a certain amount of storage at the beginning of dowloading (about 100gb). Which would leave me at 51 gb left. HOWEVER, while I'm 30gb in dowloading the date, it says my disk only has 6gb left.

I thought the dowloading would only occur within the reserved storage space, but somehow they're taking MORE. Please help, I'm not sure how to logically tackle the problem as none of it makes sense to me. Really want to play this game, but the downloading stage sure is trippy.

[jonnin]

yes :)
your hard disk, if its your boot disk, should always try to keep 10% space free for the OS to breathe. Installing the game, you should have more than the requirements to install it, here again some (50% is a good idea) extra space is useful because these games download a compressed file and decompress it, then delete the compressed file. This saves time downloading, but it costs a little extra space as it installs.

your system needs more disk space. And, while it may run fine, 8gb needs addressing as well, that is what is on a graphics card, not a system, in today's gaming world.

some things you can do:
if you have not already, windows lets you compress large folders. just right click, advanced options, or see a how-to online. This can be hard to guess at for performance: on machines with a slow disk and fast cpu, its faster to compress everything, as it can decompress faster than it can read the disk chunks. If the disk is fast (SSD) and the cpu is slower, it can slow you down a little. Or have little to no performance effect at all. It depends.

also, just let it install, if it does not fail, it will clean up and you will have space back after it finishes.

[psychotron666]

Yeah the game takes up something like 140~gb of space

[アンジェル]

Originally posted by Nyanime:

Is there something wrong I'm doing with dowloading?
I recently got the game, looking through the requirements it needs beforehand. It is stated that Baldur's Gate3 needs a heck ton of storage, 16gb ram and core i5 I believe. I do meet most of the requirements, minus the fact I only have 8gb of ram. Recently cleaned up my laptop to give me the minimum of 150gb (rn sitting at 151 gb in my disk space).

Problem: while installing it seems the game is taking MORE than it is stated.
First off, the game automatically reserves a certain amount of storage at the beginning of dowloading (about 100gb). Which would leave me at 51 gb left. HOWEVER, while I'm 30gb in dowloading the date, it says my disk only has 6gb left.

I thought the dowloading would only occur within the reserved storage space, but somehow they're taking MORE. Please help, I'm not sure how to logically tackle the problem as none of it makes sense to me. Really want to play this game, but the downloading stage sure is trippy.

Based on what you wrote the best would be if you have a USB stick with 256 GB available to resolve your issue. 8GB RAM actually meets the minimum requirement, so you should be okay in that regards.

[Nyanime]

Originally posted by jonnin:

yes :)
your hard disk, if its your boot disk, should always try to keep 10% space free for the OS to breathe. Installing the game, you should have more than the requirements to install it, here again some (50% is a good idea) extra space is useful because these games download a compressed file and decompress it, then delete the compressed file. This saves time downloading, but it costs a little extra space as it installs.

your system needs more disk space. And, while it may run fine, 8gb needs addressing as well, that is what is on a graphics card, not a system, in today's gaming world.

If my system needs more disk space, how much in total exactly? My laptop currently has a total of 237gb offered on the start. Though it's been with me for a while.

Not familiar with the terms of disk, but I'm assuming this is the OS (C) disk? Cuz that is what the game automaticallly picks for me.

[Nyanime]

Originally posted by アンジェル:

Originally posted by Nyanime:

Is there something wrong I'm doing with dowloading?
I recently got the game, looking through the requirements it needs beforehand. It is stated that Baldur's Gate3 needs a heck ton of storage, 16gb ram and core i5 I believe. I do meet most of the requirements, minus the fact I only have 8gb of ram. Recently cleaned up my laptop to give me the minimum of 150gb (rn sitting at 151 gb in my disk space).

Problem: while installing it seems the game is taking MORE than it is stated.
First off, the game automatically reserves a certain amount of storage at the beginning of dowloading (about 100gb). Which would leave me at 51 gb left. HOWEVER, while I'm 30gb in dowloading the date, it says my disk only has 6gb left.

I thought the dowloading would only occur within the reserved storage space, but somehow they're taking MORE. Please help, I'm not sure how to logically tackle the problem as none of it makes sense to me. Really want to play this game, but the downloading stage sure is trippy.

Based on what you wrote the best would be if you have a USB stick with 256 GB available to resolve your issue. 8GB RAM actually meets the minimum requirement, so you should be okay in that regards.

Well not sure about the 256GB usb stick, but I do have a bunch of USBs. What should I do with them exactly? I'm assuming by removing my other files from my computer and have them saved onto them?

[jonnin]

Originally posted by Nyanime:

Originally posted by jonnin:

yes :)
your hard disk, if its your boot disk, should always try to keep 10% space free for the OS to breathe. Installing the game, you should have more than the requirements to install it, here again some (50% is a good idea) extra space is useful because these games download a compressed file and decompress it, then delete the compressed file. This saves time downloading, but it costs a little extra space as it installs.

your system needs more disk space. And, while it may run fine, 8gb needs addressing as well, that is what is on a graphics card, not a system, in today's gaming world.

If my system needs more disk space, how much in total exactly? My laptop currently has a total of 237gb offered on the start. Though it's been with me for a while.

Not familiar with the terms of disk, but I'm assuming this is the OS (C) disk? Cuz that is what the game automaticallly picks for me.

I edited my post a little more.

your disk needs space for everything you want to have on it + some 25 or so GB free for the operating system and software to update and temporary files etc. I said 10% and that works well, but if you can't get there, 25gb should be enough for most OS updates and other program updates. The internet says that windows specifically needs 15%+ free to defragment, and if you don't do that on HDD (not SSD) it will degrade performance pretty rapidly.

[アンジェル]

Originally posted by Nyanime:

Originally posted by アンジェル:

Based on what you wrote the best would be if you have a USB stick with 256 GB available to resolve your issue. 8GB RAM actually meets the minimum requirement, so you should be okay in that regards.

Well not sure about the 256GB usb stick, but I do have a bunch of USBs. What should I do with them exactly? I'm assuming by removing my other files from my computer and have them saved onto them?

Hm. Depends. Well, mainly if you are fine with downloading again or you want to salvage anything from the already downloaded stuff. I do not want you to be troubled with the technical stuff. So if you say "it does not take that long to download", you could go with this:

once the USB storage drive with enough space is recognised as a partition by Windows

go to Steam -> Settings -> Storage -> clock on the main drive -> select add drive -> select the USB Drive as new Library -> download Baldur's Gate 3 with the USB library as target location.

Once you are done and have the game successfully downloaded, you can right-click on the game in Steam Library -> Properties -> Installed Files -> move to your main drive back

That way you should be able to download the game. The process is similar to what is described here
https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3069720593

[jonnin]

oh, and compressing the drive will take a long time if you do the whole thing. Be prepared to let it sit overnight.

[Nyanime]

Originally posted by jonnin:

Originally posted by Nyanime:

If my system needs more disk space, how much in total exactly? My laptop currently has a total of 237gb offered on the start. Though it's been with me for a while.

Not familiar with the terms of disk, but I'm assuming this is the OS (C) disk? Cuz that is what the game automaticallly picks for me.

I edited my post a little more.

your disk needs space for everything you want to have on it + some 25 or so GB free for the operating system and software to update and temporary files etc. I said 10% and that works well, but if you can't get there, 25gb should be enough for most OS updates and other program updates.

I see, so regardless of the game's dowload, in the end there should be at least 25GB left? I read your post early about the decompression. The only one I did prior to all of this is right click the OS(C) disk>properties>compress>clean. Dunno if that is what I'm supposed to do

[アンジェル]

Originally posted by Nyanime:

Originally posted by jonnin:

I edited my post a little more.

your disk needs space for everything you want to have on it + some 25 or so GB free for the operating system and software to update and temporary files etc. I said 10% and that works well, but if you can't get there, 25gb should be enough for most OS updates and other program updates.

I see, so regardless of the game's dowload, in the end there should be at least 25GB left? I read your post early about the decompression. The only one I did prior to all of this is right click the OS(C) disk>properties>compress>clean. Dunno if that is what I'm supposed to do

25 GB is hardly enough.

[straw hat]

although steam may say it has only downloaded 30gb it may have actually taken up more space in the hard drive already, hence why you only have 6 GB left, you more than likely have ACTUALLY downloaded 100 GB+ but due to size of the hard drive I think the game is having hard time finishing installing with the limited space available although it is technically enough. My game states it is 137 gb. Even though you stated you have 150 GB available and it is enough to fit the game, I think the computer is starting to have trouble from being relatively full /: I also do not recommend playing the game with it being installed off a USB, as someone suggested earlier.. performance would not be great

[Nyanime]

Originally posted by jonnin:

oh, and compressing the drive will take a long time if you do the whole thing. Be prepared to let it sit overnight.

Btw when should I compress the drive? During the download? I don't think it's possible to compress my disk drive after Baldur's gate downloaded since that's the problem in the first place *sigh*

[Nyanime]

Originally posted by アンジェル:

Originally posted by Nyanime:

I see, so regardless of the game's dowload, in the end there should be at least 25GB left? I read your post early about the decompression. The only one I did prior to all of this is right click the OS(C) disk>properties>compress>clean. Dunno if that is what I'm supposed to do

25 GB is hardly enough.

How much in total would you say would be sufficient?

[Nyanime]

Originally posted by straw hat:

although steam may say it has only downloaded 30gb it may have actually taken up more space in the hard drive already, hence why you only have 6 GB left, you more than likely have ACTUALLY downloaded 100 GB+ but due to size of the hard drive I think the game is having hard time finishing installing with the limited space available although it is technically enough. My game states it is 137 gb. Even though you stated you have 150 GB available and it is enough to fit the game, I think the computer is starting to have trouble from being relatively full /: I also do not recommend playing the game with it being installed off a USB, as someone suggested earlier.. performance would not be great

Damn. How much storage did you already have prior to downloading BG3? If your game states its 137GB, and 150GB is technically enough, does that mean the game storage requirement was actually false?

If my computer is full, any recommendations of what can be still emptied? So far these few days my computer is only full of BG3 stuff

[Nyanime]

Originally posted by アンジェル:

Originally posted by Nyanime:

Well not sure about the 256GB usb stick, but I do have a bunch of USBs. What should I do with them exactly? I'm assuming by removing my other files from my computer and have them saved onto them?

Hm. Depends. Well, mainly if you are fine with downloading again or you want to salvage anything from the already downloaded stuff. I do not want you to be troubled with the technical stuff. So if you say "it does not take that long to download", you could go with this:

once the USB storage drive with enough space is recognised as a partition by Windows

go to Steam -> Settings -> Storage -> clock on the main drive -> select add drive -> select the USB Drive as new Library -> download Baldur's Gate 3 with the USB library as target location.

Once you are done and have the game successfully downloaded, you can right-click on the game in Steam Library -> Properties -> Installed Files -> move to your main drive back

That way you should be able to download the game. The process is similar to what is described here
https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3069720593

Thank you for your suggestion. If all comes to it I might get a loaded USB. Tho, what is your experience with this process? How did the game run?