ets2 temp file

[cw46774]

When i play ets2 it creates a massive file in my temp folder on my pc it is over 2gb most of the time and when i exit the game it revmoves the file, then when i play game again it makes another massiave file in my temp folder, why is that?

[Eagle Eye]

It will be the game caching it's files. At a guess, I'd say your system doesn't have a lot of ram, but I could be wrong..

I don't see a temp file appear in any of my temp folders, I have 16 gig of system ram and 11 gig on my video card..

Look at your game.log.txt file located in your documents / Euro Truck Simulator 2 folder, can you copy these lines and paste them in a reply?

Near the top, you will find these 4 lines..

00:00:00.000 : [mem] physical total: 16326M
00:00:00.000 : [mem] physical avail: 13025M
00:00:00.000 : [mem] virtual total: 8388607M
00:00:00.000 : [mem] virtual avail: 8388030M

Mine tells me I have 16 gig of ram, with 13 gig free and 838 gig of hard drive to cache too if needed.. My system usually won't use a temp file because I have 13 gig of free memory.

If the difference between the first too lines is huge, then you have a lot of memory being used by your system..

Lets say you have 8 gig of ram, but only 3 available, then that means your system is using a lot of RAM before it even tries to run the game, so it will use the virtual ram, and create a temp file..

[cw46774]

mine says

00:00:00.001 : [mem] physical total: 8145M
00:00:00.001 : [mem] physical avail: 5652M
00:00:00.001 : [mem] virtual total: 4095M
00:00:00.001 : [mem] virtual avail: 3504M

[Eagle Eye]

So you have 8 gig of Ram, and used 2.5 for system, 5.6 left for the game, that's ok.. not much running in backgorund but still uses a temp file/cache file..

You don't have much room left on the hard drive, if you have another drive, I would consider moving the temp to that drive, you can do that in windows settings..

A healthy system should have at least 15% free hard drive space on the C drive, if that's your default temp hard drive, or only drive on the PC, then you should consider a bigger drive or remove stuff you don't need, old not played games, photos etc to an external drive..

Cheers

[cw46774]

Thanks for advice, i have a solid state drive by the way so that why low on storage space, if i add more ram think thay might stop using the temp file for the game?

[Supernovae]

Originally posted by cw46774:

Thanks for advice, i have a solid state drive by the way so that why low on storage space, if i add more ram think thay might stop using the temp file for the game?

I would recommend a new SSD, or if money is an issue, a cheap 1 TB HDD.