I need some help with GTA 5 installing

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Yesterday i downloaded GTA and the game was stuck on Allocating disk space, stopped it, and now when i try to launch it it starts to re-download the whole 83 Gigs, I tried everything from the discussions but nothing seems to help.

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i copied the files, uninstalled the game from steam, moved them back, started to verify and the game failed to verify like 150+ files so it started downloading from scratch

[psykoteky]

Zzz...

https://steamcommunity.com/app/271590/discussions/0/1696049513764328740/#c1696049513764351873

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i did all of that and when i start to verify my files, my files failed to be verified and starts all over downloading from 0

[psykoteky]

Which makes 100% zero sense.

steam/steamapps/common/"Grand Theft Auto V" is the default install folder.
With steam closed, you copy in the listed appmanifest file and steam should see it all correctly when you restart steam.

For extra giggles you can be sure steam/steamapps/downloading and temp
don't contain a 271590 folder.

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i had some problem with your manifest file, so i grabbed my friends one, that one worked but when i tried to verify simply failed again, i tried the verify fix with leaving only the rpf files, but the verify only managed to verify like 2GBs. And i checked like 3 times the downloading folder is empty.

When i start to verify the files from the "Grand Theft Auto V" folder starts to move to the "downloading" folder and emptied the GTAV folder to 2Gigs and started downloading the rest of the 78ish gigs

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https://imgur.com/a/Q86wymt - this is the verify
https://imgur.com/a/Uwhgfbf - its starts all over again..

I Checked the temp and the downloading, they both contain the 271590 folder after the verify with all the files from the game, 83GBs - https://imgur.com/a/wAlf1r4

[psykoteky]

Lets start over here.

Your original post is - stuck on allocating disk space. If you close that window with the X - steam, deletes gtav. Hence the link telling you to force close steam / restart and it will correct it.

If you have NOT completely REDOWNLOADED the files....
It will continue to tell you to redownload them if they are not correct/exist.

What you see IN the temp and downloading folders are pre-allocation - they are basically empty until steam has completely redownloaded the files, and filled them up correctly.

Yes, it sucks - but it currently sounds like you don't have a complete download of gtav.

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Yikes, yes I canceled the Allocation with the X but the files remained in the downloading folder, so i thought it would work if i use some of your methods, to regain some of the files, but guess i should just re-download it am I right ?

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I re-downloaded the game, now the game i stuck at "Preparing GTAV for install" - https://imgur.com/a/iZkwrCC

[psykoteky]

To which, you force close steam in taskmanager.
(make sure there are no gtav exe's running in taskmanager)
Rightclick steam, run steam as admin. Try again.

Doesn't work? Close steam. Where do the 85+gb of files now reside?
IF - In steam/steamapps/downloading/271590? Rename 271590 to 271590-HOLD.
Move a copy of all the files in that hold folder to
steam/steamapps/common/Grand Theft Auto V (recreate this folder)
Grab and put in the appmanifest_271590 file from the link above.
Restart steam - try again.

IF - they already been moved to steam/steamapps/common/grand theft auto v?
Rename steam/steamapps/common/grand theft auto v to gtav-HOLD.
Uninstall gtav (it won't remove the files after you renamed the folder).
Once uninstalled, close steam.
Rename it back to "grand theft auto v". Put the above linked appmanifest in.
Start steam as admin - try again.

Other issues may also be arising from - vcredists/directx/social club installing.
They may also come from antivirus/security software (including windows defender).
Temp sleep/disable to test.

Restating - all appmanifest_271590 file replacements MUST be done with steam closed.

Shouldn't be having this many problems. More then happy to teamviewer it if you don't get it working - and slap it around. -.- Just friend req me - heading to dinner for a bit.

Edit -
Like seriously, don't waste time/bandwidth removing it / reinstalling for a 3rd time. -.-

[[LZ]Icy]

Either all of the above or u have not enough free disk space , steam will act like this if u dont have enough disk space free , great u got 85gb free , wont be enough , u need like 125+ for this not to be an issue since it "pre allocates" If this is not the issue just start over by now.. delete ALL data u got from gta5 manually , including reg keys and then try again

(Rare case this can also be a write permission issue , try make a custom folder called gta 5 where u want to install , right click folder , properties , allow write permissions , then go steam and chose this folder as ur installation folder)

[[-iD-]]

the only time you need 2x space is to unlock the game from pre-loading it.
not once have i needed double the space to download gtav. it doens't matter if it pre-alocates it as each file simply downloads directly to the correct directory

[[LZ]Icy]

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the only time you need 2x space is to unlock the game from pre-loading it.
not once have i needed double the space to download gtav. it doens't matter if it pre-alocates it as each file simply downloads directly to the correct directory

Try games such as ark , where an 1 gb update requires 100gb space to pre allocate , its a hell (its just terrible , the stuff of nightmares)

[[-iD-]]

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the only time you need 2x space is to unlock the game from pre-loading it.
not once have i needed double the space to download gtav. it doens't matter if it pre-alocates it as each file simply downloads directly to the correct directory

Try games such as ark , where an 1 gb update requires 100gb space to pre allocate , its a hell (its just terrible , the stuff of nightmares)

this game isn't ark.

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Yoooo, i managed it to work somehow, it wasn't the space required, I had like 500GBs free.

Psy thank you for the help, i guess the re-download was a must.