Running out of storage space whenever game is running

[Fusion]

I tried looking this up, everywhere, to no avail, so I'm making a new thread..

TL;DR, I installed The Last of Us on my HDD (which has ~! TB of storage), but whenever the game is running, my SDD (which has ~240 GB of storage) runs out of space! This was especially true at the very beginning when the game was 'building shaders', as I noticed my free space getting lower and lower, up until there was only about 1 GB of storage left. Yesterday, however, when I was playing through Pittsburgh, I received a notification saying "You are running out of disc space", which was weird, because I haven't installed anything, or knowingly unpacked compressed files, and when I went to check, of course, it was my SDD that only had ~300 MB of storage left. As soon as I closed the game, I freed up 15 GB of storage

What causes this? Is there any way to prevent it? Anyone else experiencing the same issue?

[stage]

Probably the page file. But if you running out of space, means you have little to no space on your ssd. For SSDs is recommended to have around 20% of the capacity free, so it can swap files when needed, or you suffer for performance degradation. In your case that means around 50gb free.

[ChickenBalls]

wow HDD and 240GB ssd in 2023

[Fusion]

Originally posted by stage:

Probably the page file. But if you running out of space, means you have little to no space on your ssd. For SSDs is recommended to have around 20% of the capacity free, so it can swap files when needed, or you suffer for performance degradation. In your case that means around 50gb free.

Yeah, I figure it must have something to do with that. Haven't played many games that take shader caching this far, but I gotta admit, the graphics look gorgeous, so definitely worth temporarily sacrificing some storage :P

Originally posted by ChickenBalls:

wow HDD and 240GB ssd in 2023

IKR, but the funniest part is my PC is prebuilt, and it's only 3 years old, which almost makes you wonder why they haven't phased them out. Probably has to do with money though, I mean the simplest answer is that it's cheaper.

[Peh]

Check your paging file size in Windows.
Don't know what GPU you use, but on the Nvidia driver you can determine the file size for shader compilated files.

Nevertheless,reducing those sizes will cause heavy stuttering or crashes of applications. For a proper fix, you need a bigger storage device.