My Brand New Steam Deck’s Storage is Full?

[arsonus300]

I recently bought a 64gb steam deck but after setting up my steam account, the internal storage is almost completely full.

[[?]legit]

How much free space do you have?

[Punkovich]

How full? I think mine had about 40gb available on first boot.

[Mahjik]

If you have an SD card: https://github.com/CryoByte33/steam-deck-utilities

[arsonus300]

Originally posted by ?legit:

How much free space do you have?

My internal drive says “49.4 MB FREE OF 46.5 GB”
“Games” take up 12.48 KB
“Updates” take up 11.99 MB
“Other” takes up 46.35 GB

[Admiral Bubbles]

I found this a problem with my wife's 64GB deck. The problem is that Proton caches the files it needs for each game on the internal storage only, even if the game's actual files are on the SD card. The 64GB is ok if you have only a few games at a time on it, but if you have a large amount it'll fill with Proton files in no time.

[arsonus300]

Originally posted by Admiral Bubbles:

I found this a problem with my wife's 64GB deck. The problem is that Proton caches the files it needs for each game on the internal storage only, even if the game's actual files are on the SD card. The 64GB is ok if you have only a few games at a time on it, but if you have a large amount it'll fill with Proton files in no time.

So deleting some of the games that are downloaded will free up space on the internal drive?

[Prezidentas]

other is no longer involving shader caches.

[Mahjik]

Originally posted by arsonus300:

Originally posted by Admiral Bubbles:

I found this a problem with my wife's 64GB deck. The problem is that Proton caches the files it needs for each game on the internal storage only, even if the game's actual files are on the SD card. The 64GB is ok if you have only a few games at a time on it, but if you have a large amount it'll fill with Proton files in no time.

So deleting some of the games that are downloaded will free up space on the internal drive?

Purchase a SD card, then use CyroUtilities that I linked above to have SteamOS put the compdata and shader cache on your SD card with your games.

[deaddoof]

Originally posted by Mahjik:

Originally posted by arsonus300:

So deleting some of the games that are downloaded will free up space on the internal drive?

Purchase a SD card, then use CyroUtilities that I linked above to have SteamOS put the compdata and shader cache on your SD card with your games.

I would recommend switching gpt shader pipeline in Steam OS 3.5.

https://steamcommunity.com/app/1675200/discussions/0/3806153359218856228/

Mesa 23.1.3 has this new shader pipeline called GPT. The compile is just plain fast. I believe Valve invested in it after realizing shader cache to be a giant pain. With gpt, you can compile them on the fly without much issue.

[WarnerCK]

Originally posted by deaddoof:

Mesa 23.1.3 has this new shader pipeline called GPT. The compile is just plain fast. I believe Valve invested in it after realizing shader cache to be a giant pain. With gpt, you can compile them on the fly without much issue.

GPL - Graphics Pipeline Library.

It's not from Mesa, it's from Vulkan.[registry.khronos.org]

It's not that new - it's been around for a couple of years; Nvidia had it at launch and Mesa got it a few months later.

What is new in Mesa is that it's no longer slow. So, yes, you can avoid downloading pre-compiled shaders and compile them on the fly without much of a performance penalty. You do miss out on the re-encoded videos that also come with the pre-compiled shaders, though.