Why do I have to keep reinstalling the entire game?

[American Psycho]

Despite having 50 gigs free on the drive where the game is installed, every time this game is patched, I am informed by Steam that I don't have enough free space to download a patch indicating 11 gigs.

[brimstone]

cause it has to unpack all data, apply the changes, and repack

that requires at least 65gb free space

[American Psycho]

Well the drive is only 111 gigs, so that's the end of the good will I reserve for this game.

[Buttered Toast Crunch]

Originally posted by American Psycho:

Well the drive is only 111 gigs, so that's the end of the good will I reserve for this game.

where on earth did you find a drive that small?

[Wiesshund]

If that is all the space you have left entirely, i hate to be your harbinger of sorrows
but it is about to get much worse and you are about to lose the good will you might have to a great number of things.

Unless you are playing on a laptop, i would suggest picking up a 2nd drive.

If funds are tight, you can get a 2TB Seagate HDD, new, for less than $40 USD
and move your stream library to the HDD

If you are on a laptop, still get the HDD, but then get an external USB 3 drive enclosure for it.
You can find those for around $9 or $10 USD

bout the cheapest way to massively expand your storage

[American Psycho]

Originally posted by Buttered Toast Crunch:

Originally posted by American Psycho:

Well the drive is only 111 gigs, so that's the end of the good will I reserve for this game.

where on earth did you find a drive that small?

Got free SSD and 1080ti from liquidating a crypto mine. They didn't need larger than 125 gig drives for GPU mining at the time.

[Kaldaien]

Originally posted by Buttered Toast Crunch:

Originally posted by American Psycho:

Well the drive is only 111 gigs, so that's the end of the good will I reserve for this game.

where on earth did you find a drive that small?

I have a 120 MiB hard drive, came with my 486. They're quite common.

[Wiesshund]

Originally posted by Kaldaieℵ₀:

Originally posted by Buttered Toast Crunch:

where on earth did you find a drive that small?

I have a 120 MiB hard drive, came with my 486. They're quite common.

In 2022?
Only if you call a 486 common in 2022
(regarding a 120 MB HDD)
120 MB wont even load a modern OS except for a few tiny linux distros

[Doctor Hades]

It is annoying to have to reserve 100-150 GB of space for game updates on SSDs, especially given that these are expensive and typically only 2 TB at most. Of course, you can get 4 and 8 TB SSDs but the the price more than doubles that of the 2 TB drives, making them poor value for money.

It is bad enough that these updates can take ages to install without them failing part way through due to a lack of space. Steam should be checking that there is enough space for the update BEFORE starting the process; that way the user can move some games around to make space. This is how it works on consoles, .e.g. my PS5 will helpfully tell me how much additional space it requires for an update.

[Eze]

Originally posted by Buttered Toast Crunch:

Originally posted by American Psycho:

Well the drive is only 111 gigs, so that's the end of the good will I reserve for this game.

where on earth did you find a drive that small?

it's the cheapest SSD available. I use them with bays.

[Wiesshund]

Originally posted by Doctor Hades:

It is annoying to have to reserve 100-150 GB of space for game updates on SSDs, especially given that these are expensive and typically only 2 TB at most. Of course, you can get 4 and 8 TB SSDs but the the price more than doubles that of the 2 TB drives, making them poor value for money.

It is bad enough that these updates can take ages to install without them failing part way through due to a lack of space. Steam should be checking that there is enough space for the update BEFORE starting the process; that way the user can move some games around to make space. This is how it works on consoles, .e.g. my PS5 will helpfully tell me how much additional space it requires for an update.

I wouldnt even buy a 2TB SSD
the price is stupid
Not when i can buy 2TB HDD's all day long for peanuts

[Jawa]

you can get 1tb ssd for under 70 bucks m8.