Not enough free space despite having 30gb free space???

[Wabbajack]

I have 30GB free space while the update is just 2.5gb (for me) and i can't update it, is this Steam related problem or it comes from CB77 specifically?

[Bernard Henribéry]

If on Steam it works the same as Gog, you need at least 60Gb free.

It seams Cyberpunk don't patch in place, it download the patch, reconstructs the entire game, then paste it where the game is installed, i guess it works the same here if you're stuck.

[Glyn]

Just a hair over 50GB free I needed to update mine (62GB for game currently installed and 50GB free for a 2.3GB update, ~112GB total). I made a thread on the same subject titled "PLEASE FIX: Excessive storage consumption for updates".

[FlamingDeath]

I notice it moves data from one disk, and then moves it back, bit weird

[Glyn]

Originally posted by FlamingDeath:

I notice it moves data from one disk, and then moves it back, bit weird

It's all on the same disk for me. Only one drive in my computer.

[Phantom|Pain]

This is so stupid. I haven't even played the actual game much yet and I'm already dealing weird buggy activity, just by trying to download a 1GB patch wtf

[Raider Deci]

Its an install-thing. Some games does this. Total War-games are notorious for this

[Bernard Henribéry]

Yeah some games works like that, and i'm pretty sure it will stay the same so you should be prepared...
With future patches and dlcs the game will become bigger, so if updates need as much space as the game, do some maths, twice the space of the game + 10% of your drive as spare space.

I wanted to install a spare 160gb SSD but as the game is 65.6gb, 65.6*2 = 131.2
160-16= 144-131.2 =12.8 gb, so if if i add the hiden recovery partition that's already useless... at some point i guess i'll have to buy a bigger drive if i still want to update the game...

[Mansen]

Patching tool wants to patch game - Which means changing files.

Two approaches :

Make a backup.
The tool needs to take a backup of EVERY file it needs to change, so it can reverse the changes if something goes bad.

YOLO!
The tool doesn't take any backups and just assumes nothing goes bad. No space is reserved for duplicate files, Steam has to download files if something fails. (So many gigabytes)

Cyberpunk uses the former approach - And so do most games.