BL3 "Not enough disc space"???

[TheHengeProphet]

Borderlands 3, the only thing on a 120GB solid state drive, and it claims it cannot update because there is "Not enough disc space"? What is this? How is this even an issue?

[matthew]

that is too small, 120 gig is quite tiny now. the base game is 75gig, and with DLC, its 101gig.

Now the problem is, while your SSD might seem big enough, steam would normally reserve more space to patch the game. as it will patch files in a separate folder. As there are a few ways that files can get patch. so really, you need to place the BL3 folder on a larger drive.

also, I assume that 120gig is your total size, with formating, that will drop a bit, as windows uses 1024 formating, instead of 1000,

I suggest you place the game on another drive.

[TheHengeProphet]

You're telling me that the game needed 30GB of free space to apply a 13GB update raising the size of the game from 87.xGB to 101GB? That is some of the poorest file management I've ever heard of.

And no, the post format size is 120GB, this is a weird industrial drive that was apparently not measured in GiB

[matthew]

The DLC adds to the space, I assume you have the season pass installed.

As for disk space usage. it depends on the way the game gets patched. also steam does download the DLC / patches to a separate folder, before it applies the patch / DLC on top.

Another reason, it depends if the total file is either replaced, or updated.

But regardless, 120gig SSD is tiny, and you really need something bigger.

Another thing, you should also leave about 25% free to help it remove unwanted files. (I think its about 25% but its generally a good idea to leave some space free. If you fill it to the top, the drive will wear down a bit quicker.

Again, my advice is, put the game on another drive.

[matthew]

Edit

Steam will use the master HD where you first installed steam, if you have another drive, you could set the download to another drive if you have one, but steam never downloads the patches / DLC to the location where the game is, only after its downloaded, dooes the content get applied.

if you have another library, you could set steam to use another drive,

settings / downloads / steam library, then right click on the steam library you want as default and click make default folder.

Still, that may or may not solve the problem.

edit 2

regarding keeping some space free

https://forums.macrumors.com/threads/should-leave-20-free-on-hd-what-leave-free-on-ssd.1065363/

I would say you will fill up the drive to the brim anyway with this game installed. this impacts a SSD drive performance as they don't delete files in the same manner as a standard HD.

[TheHengeProphet]

Thanks, this explains some things. Unfortunately, I don't have access to larger SSDs ($$), and the game performs terribly on rotating media, so I'll stuff this drive as full as it can go.