Ark taking up alot of disk space on all drives

[FrivolousClone]

So... the ark folder is taking up 106 gigabytes acording to steam but the folder takes up 112 and needs about 45 each time it needs to update which I guess is fine but its taking up an additional 85 gb on all drives.
Does anyone know why and if there is anyway this can be fixed?

[KitsuneShiro]

A complete reinstall might save a little space. But the game is big.

[FrivolousClone]

Originally posted by KitsuneShiro:

A complete reinstall might save a little space. But the game is big.

Yea I'll reinstall the game later but I dont think the game is supposed to take up about 282 gb in total.

[KitsuneShiro]

Are you a mod horder?

[FrivolousClone]

Originally posted by KitsuneShiro:

Are you a mod horder?

No I dont have any mods

[KitsuneShiro]

Do you have all the dlcs installed?

[FrivolousClone]

Originally posted by KitsuneShiro:

Do you have all the dlcs installed?

I have The Center and Ragnarok and I noticed they arent installed in the main folder. Instead they are installed under steamapps/downloading/346110 on all other drives then the one the game installed on.

[FrivolousClone]

Originally posted by FrivolousClone:

Originally posted by KitsuneShiro:

Do you have all the dlcs installed?

I have The Center and Ragnarok and I noticed they arent installed in the main folder. Instead they are installed under steamapps/downloading/346110 on all other drives then the one the game installed on.

Oh wait they are installed in the main folder aswell.

[crimsondrac]

The folders on the other drives may just be Steam temp folders used to unpack all the downloaded data. You should try renaming those folders to something else and see if it breaks the game. If not, it should be safe to delete them. If it does, rename them back to their original name.

[FrivolousClone]

Originally posted by crimsondrac:

The folders on the other drives may just be Steam temp folders used to unpack all the downloaded data. You should try renaming those folders to something else and see if it breaks the game. If not, it should be safe to delete them. If it does, rename them back to their original name.

I'll try that

[Cataclisto]

Arks base size is around 115 gb of data (with both expanshion packs)
If you do not have ragnarock or thecenter, ark would be around109 gb
If you dont have the expanshion packs it's under 100gb

When ark downloads large files (12gb+) you need your current ark folders file size worth of free space. The reason for this is your almost redownloading the entire game, for this you need the file space to unpack everything on your drive. Once the patch is downloaded all your ark files are replaced with the new versions as the compressed patch you just downloaded unpacks.

When new expanshion packs are released, and some tlcs, people needed around 120-130gb of free space to unpack the files, what this is doing is replacing your current game with a freshly downloaded game.

The two biggest work arounds for this if you lack filespace is to uninstall ark each time a major patch hits and just redownload entire game. Or pick and choose random large files in your ark folder to delete before you download patch (and the patch will update to properly replace everything) if you dont have enough space then most delete the "seekfreecontent" as thats mostly prerendered stuff & ragnaroks floor.

[mrorgonian]

just do a system clean on your c drive it works for me and freed up about a hundred g