not enough free disk space

[jezy]

500mb update today and when i try downloading steam says i dont have enough disk space. i have around 200gb free on the drive i have the game installed on. cleared dl cache, verified game files, restarted pc and steam. anyone know of a fix without needing to uninstall the game?

[servantOfJESUS]

"no patch has took over 5 minutes on my pc"



as you try to correct my ignorance..


"no patch has took over 5 minutes on my pc"


NO PATCH HAS TAKEN OVER 5 MINUTES ON MY PC, YOU MEAN

let that sink in..


(huh?! wha??...?!!)

*crickets*

crickets in your brain man


also (@ earth) differentiate between ARE and IS

i cannot express how ignorant you ARE and your speech IS

[Streeltepeltje]

well this is the only game that gives me problems

[Captain Pansy]

you need deouble your ark game size as free space. because they made the new game so it is is a giant pak file, and not multiple small ones (they are blaming it on unreal engine but it is not true),
so you need the huge free space so they duplicate the big file when patching, and then to delete the old one.
it is a noob method, but it is what they have chosen.
and you need bigger and bigger free space as new dlcs appear.
when ark will reach 500GB you will need a 1 TB drive JUST FOR ARK and nothing else.

[Many-Named]

Originally posted by Caduryn:

Originally posted by Mayakashiii:

How much room?

I only have a 500GB drive and I want to keep some other games.

Always have 10-15% of the whole Drive free

For a 500gb Drive that would be 75gb needs to be always free to work properly.

Which isnt enough to reinstall yet another weekly incremental patch that changes 3 lines of codes but still requires you to reinstall the whole game, right?

[Hocane]

This is why I added 4 TB worth of SSD when I build my pc in February

[Caduryn]

Originally posted by Many-Named:

Originally posted by Caduryn:

Always have 10-15% of the whole Drive free

For a 500gb Drive that would be 75gb needs to be always free to work properly.

Which isnt enough to reinstall yet another weekly incremental patch that changes 3 lines of codes but still requires you to reinstall the whole game, right?

Blame Steam

[DrunkenOrca]

Separate NVME 1TB for Ark, another one for steam and games, 2 SSD for other things, 1 SSD for OS, and 8TB HDD for pictures and downloads, temp and so on. No porblems. Dont blame devs, buy modern hardware for modern tasks. And, actually, u need up to 40% free space on SSD for its full performance.

[Chowdeurz]

Just had this happened to me sick of uninstalling and reinstalling but if u click steam/settings go down to storage on that page there is 3 dots press that and repair Library lets u patch saves uninstalling reinstalling

[Samain]

I have the same issue. I have ark ascended on an m2 drive. Got 2 SSD, one of which has my OS, 2 m2 drives, and 2 mechanical drives. The drive ark is on has around 140gb of free space, yet it takes about one to two hours for it to patch. Have tons of other games but most don't take this long to patch, even with larger patches. Total I have around 6TB of free space across all my drives. The ones that are more full I try to leave at least 120gb free to play with if i need to. I don't get why it's so slow.

[Scooby Doo]

Originally posted by Samain:

I have the same issue. I have ark ascended on an m2 drive. Got 2 SSD, one of which has my OS, 2 m2 drives, and 2 mechanical drives. The drive ark is on has around 140gb of free space, yet it takes about one to two hours for it to patch. Have tons of other games but most don't take this long to patch, even with larger patches. Total I have around 6TB of free space across all my drives. The ones that are more full I try to leave at least 120gb free to play with if i need to. I don't get why it's so slow.

Has nothing to do with the game. Go to the Steam Forum for Icarus they have the same issue. Check out the original Ark, had the same issue. Think about it logically who is giving you the data? Steam or Wildcard? The real problem is Steam and Unreal Game Engine which happens to also be Epic Game Store. Not hard to guess that maybe things are done on purpose to Unreal games at least for Indie games. Steam is not going to try this with big AAA companies they would get buried.

[whiterspon]

Originally posted by jezy:

500mb update today and when i try downloading steam says i dont have enough disk space. i have around 200gb free on the drive i have the game installed on. cleared dl cache, verified game files, restarted pc and steam. anyone know of a fix without needing to uninstall the game?

200GB is Minimut on these days:D you need at Least 32 TB Raid 1 and you are fine :D

[Dracahil]

Originally posted by jezy:

Originally posted by wow:

I have the same problem, I love this game

i ended up uninstalling and reinstalling and it fixed it for me. that was the only thing that seemed to work :/

it woeked temporarlly then akesd for update again