Still not enough space

[Arizona]

Okay, first of all, sorry for my english.
Second, I know this has been post by other people a million times and I will explain why I post it agian...



So I've got a mac, I know that all 'pro' gamers will propably think thats the worse gaming device but who cares :) I dont care about low fps and low resolution.. anyways. I got a macbook pro with 120gigbs, wich has about 102gb available.


When I download eso through steam it says it needs about 70gbs when there is 97gb available.. 97 available? Wth? Anyways it installs, yay! I can play. Now when I launch the shortcut on my desktop The elder scrolls want to install everything agian, but there is not enough disk space available, logical. If I launch ESO through my steam file, same problem. When I launch it through the file _exe wich is in _MAC it starts! IT even gets into the login screem, but then it says I have a out dated version. Wich is wierd cause I do see everthing about Morrowind. SO I have to patch the game... but where? Because if I open the launchers it says it cannot download because of not enough disk space, so I cannot get to the repair button since that is on the next page.

Am I still making sense?

I found out wich shortcut to use to actually open the game, but it says its outdated.. I cant figure out how to only PATCH the game rather then repair it through the shortcuts.


Now, years ago I did buy the game on zenimax it self... so I thought, lets try it through there.. but then, yeah believe it or not I'm 1.8gb short of diskspace >.> I tried the repair button, and still 1.8gb short of diskspace.. so that doesnt work.

Things ive tried?

-Reinstalling the game on steam aswell zenimax

-Chancing the folder to : Online EU

-Deleted EVERYTHING possible from my mac, there is nothing left to deinstall

-Search thousands of post, they come up with a solution wich either doesnt work or they just dont post their sollutions...

-cry? :P

-Repair button when installed through zenimax

And probably more..

Now I know there must be a solutin for this, because I saw one post with a guy who had the same issue as me on steam with the same amount of disk space not to long ago, so propably with a recent update.

Can anyone please advise me?

[Drake]

There is no real solution, you need about 160gb of free space to install because of the double check of steam and zos launcher. The thing tou could do is get an external drive of like 500 gb, cut steam folder on it, run it, install the game, and when everything is clean, cut steam folder back to your drive (which now has the game properly installed with 70gb).

We really need to put a pinned topic to warn people not to buy the game on steam but use the offcial site (the stand alone client doesn't have that issue).

[Wo1f]

o.O

thats what you get for buying a mac ya noob :P

but seriously, why buy a mac for gaming, you pay more money for worse performance and propriatary hardware which you can not upgrade freely

[Arizona]

Originally posted by Wo1f:

o.O

thats what you get for buying a mac ya noob :P

but seriously, why buy a mac for gaming, you pay more money for worse performance and propriatary hardware which you can not upgrade freely

Seriousley? Calling me noob? I didnt say I bought this macbook for gaming, now did I ?

[Yishaeyn]

Yeah, you Windows guys have to stop giving us Mac guys a hard time about buying Macs. I also did not buy my Mac strictly for gaming but that doesn't mean I don't want to play games on it,.

[Yishaeyn]

Now, as for the game, @Sajah, could you explain the procedure to do what your suggesting?

[Yishaeyn]

So, I found another approach that worked. It turned out that some of my "free space" was actually something called "purgeable", as in it wasn't actually free. I basically took a dummy file about 9 GB and copied it over and over again until it used all my free space. Then I deleted them all and had it all as actual free space. Now it is updating normally.

[dodecaphonix]

@Elienar
Thank you so much! You totally fixed my inability to install ESO!

For any techie types:
I ran something like this bash loop to make a 180 GB text file and it ate up my purgeable memory in no time.

$ echo foo > foo.txt
$ for i in {1..10}; do cat foo.txt >> foo.txt; done;