Dota 2 is getting HUGE! the gameplay and the SIZE!!!!!!

[Mungerilaal™]

I realize that Dota 2 is an awesome game. But my dota 2 is hogging up around 23GB of my disk space!!!!! I mean...what the hell. I understand its a big game and all. But 23GB is way way too much. And there is atleast a 300-500MB update every time an "update" is actually released. With this..I cannot help but fear how long can any hard disk keep up with the increasing size.


Steam...Valve...Or a Third party..PLEASE PLEASE devise a solution for this. Some kind of a tool or patch or something which helps us clean up the unnecessary files. Even a simple manual "dota 2 clean up" guide will help a lot. I hope I get a proper response for this.

[Novaflare]

Do you download a lot of replays?

[Roohee]

To people who say "get a new hdd", not everyone is living in rich countries, not everones money is worth more than dollar so when they buy something from outside of their country, it's EXTREMELY expensive. So that's that. For example I can buy a PC like every 3-4 years.


In here for exmple, every piece of tech hardware costs like more than twice as much as it would in USA. And average income is much lover.

[Mike]

You have the workshop toolkit and custom games downloaded. That's the only way your Dota 2 is that big now. Mine is 21GB and I only have one custom game installed, so you must have a few of them.

Reinstall it without the workshop toolkit.

[ChewMyFudge]

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eternity eredeti hozzászólása:

titanfall 45 GB, battlefield 35 GB... Pls kiddo

Not everyone has all the disk space in the world. You have it...very good. Like, very VERY good. want a candy for it now?
Please, if you dont have anything good to say or support..stay away from the post. No one asked you to comment. :)

Delete some of your porn.. I hear it helps

[White Jam of Terror]

One Hard disk with right capacity is not that expensive.

Stop complaining about 10 GB game.

This is pointless.

[PieNicePenguinSalad]

Event x is over, removing Diretide / Year of the beast. + 30000 mb

[Walf]

You might have the modding tools downloaded? those add on another 10 gbs.

[Nom<GG>]

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I realize that Dota 2 is an awesome game. But my dota 2 is hogging up around 23GB of my disk space!!!!! I mean...what the hell. I understand its a big game and all. But 23GB is way way too much. And there is atleast a 300-500MB update every time an "update" is actually released. With this..I cannot help but fear how long can any hard disk keep up with the increasing size.


Steam...Valve...Or a Third party..PLEASE PLEASE devise a solution for this. Some kind of a tool or patch or something which helps us clean up the unnecessary files. Even a simple manual "dota 2 clean up" guide will help a lot. I hope I get a proper response for this.

Hi DANDA and all others who are affected by this dilemma,
No need to worry as I am here to help.

Dota 2 uses DLC for Workshop tools and custom games. I had two services installed in my PC which caused my SteamApps folder to be as high as 30 GB. These were

1. Dota2 Premium DLC
2. Dota2 Workshop Tools DLC.

You need to disable these services if unnecessary/not needed. These services use a folder (named as dota_ugc) in the SteamApps (path => Steam\SteamApps\common\dota 2 beta\). This folder was using as much disk space as Dota 2 game. It occupied 11 GB of space in my PC. Please follow these steps to disable these features and after that these folders will be automatically deleted.

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Process # 1
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Step 1: Login to Steam.
Step 2: Goto "Games" Tab and click on "View Games Library".
Step3: Right click "Dota 2" which is located below the Search text field.
Step 4: Click on "Properties".
Step 5: Click on "DLC" Tab which was the fifth Tab in my case.
Step 6: This Tab will list all the services/items/tools which are installed for Dota 2.
Step 7: Un-Check unnecessary items. In my case I un-checked both items.
Step 8: Click on "Close" button to close and apply the changes.

Now check the Steam folder size and you may also check dota_ugc folder size but dont delete this folder. Now you have saved yourself a Hugh amount of (11 GB in my case) space.

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Process # 2
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Only do this step if your Dota 2 is already up-to date mean to say you have just finished with Dota 2 up-date OR your downloading is stalling or not completing.

If your game is currently updating you may do this process after up-date is complete.

*Make sure you pause any downloads before you attempt*

Step 1: Go to this path => Steam\SteamApps\downloading\
Step 2: Now delete all files (which are in the downloading folder) containing the number 570 (this number is Dota 2 Game ID in Steam). You can simply delete folder named as 570 and files named something as state_570_###.patch.
Step 3: Empty your recycle bin (that's of-course you will if you are not Shift-Deleting)

Congratulations! You have saved yourself a lot more disk space.

I cut down Steam folder from around 30 GB to 12.2 GB by doing these two processes.

Thumbs down to all those with negative comments to this post as their posts did hurt instead of helping! They don't understand the value of money and resources. Please don't take it seriously.

Sorry for a long post. :)

Please feel free to contact if any questions. Hoping this post is helpful!

[Mungerilaal™]

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(( D A N D A ))™ eredeti hozzászólása:

I realize that Dota 2 is an awesome game. But my dota 2 is hogging up around 23GB of my disk space!!!!! I mean...what the hell. I understand its a big game and all. But 23GB is way way too much. And there is atleast a 300-500MB update every time an "update" is actually released. With this..I cannot help but fear how long can any hard disk keep up with the increasing size.


Steam...Valve...Or a Third party..PLEASE PLEASE devise a solution for this. Some kind of a tool or patch or something which helps us clean up the unnecessary files. Even a simple manual "dota 2 clean up" guide will help a lot. I hope I get a proper response for this.

Hi DANDA and all others who are affected by this dilemma,
No need to worry as I am here to help.

Dota 2 uses DLC for Workshop tools and custom games. I had two services installed in my PC which caused my SteamApps folder to be as high as 30 GB. These were

1. Dota2 Premium DLC
2. Dota2 Workshop Tools DLC.

You need to disable these services if unnecessary/not needed. These services use a folder (named as dota_ugc) in the SteamApps (path => Steam\SteamApps\common\dota 2 beta\). This folder was using as much disk space as Dota 2 game. It occupied 11 GB of space in my PC. Please follow these steps to disable these features and after that these folders will be automatically deleted.

=========
Process # 1
=========

Step 1: Login to Steam.
Step 2: Goto "Games" Tab and click on "View Games Library".
Step3: Right click "Dota 2" which is located below the Search text field.
Step 4: Click on "Properties".
Step 5: Click on "DLC" Tab which was the fifth Tab in my case.
Step 6: This Tab will list all the services/items/tools which are installed for Dota 2.
Step 7: Un-Check unnecessary items. In my case I un-checked both items.
Step 8: Click on "Close" button to close and apply the changes.

Now check the Steam folder size and you may also check dota_ugc folder size but dont delete this folder. Now you have saved yourself a Hugh amount of (11 GB in my case) space.

=========
Process # 2
=========

Only do this step if your Dota 2 is already up-to date mean to say you have just finished with Dota 2 up-date OR your downloading is stalling or not completing.

If your game is currently updating you may do this process after up-date is complete.

*Make sure you pause any downloads before you attempt*

Step 1: Go to this path => Steam\SteamApps\downloading\
Step 2: Now delete all files (which are in the downloading folder) containing the number 570 (this number is Dota 2 Game ID in Steam). You can simply delete folder named as 570 and files named something as state_570_###.patch.
Step 3: Empty your recycle bin (that's of-course you will if you are not Shift-Deleting)

Congratulations! You have saved yourself a lot more disk space.

I cut down Steam folder from around 30 GB to 12.2 GB by doing these two processes.

Thumbs down to all those with negative comments to this post as their posts did hurt instead of helping! They don't understand the value of money and resources. Please don't take it seriously.

Sorry for a long post. :)

Please feel free to contact if any questions. Hoping this post is helpful!

You, sir,are the best!! :D
Why dont i find people like you everywhere? :P
Thanks a lot! but i already re-installed dota2. now its quite small compared to the previous size! ^_^

[Nom<GG>]

You can disable these features right now. It wont bother you in future then. That's ofcourse only if you don't need them.

Ahahaha! Goodness is everywhere; in everyone. We just need to go deep inside ouselves :)

[ACOS laker]

Soon you need GTX 980 to play it lower card won't run

[V for Victory]

Mine is 42

[Les Yeux De Ni ni]

Mine is 34 GB with Reborn features added

[Wasted_46]

mine is 30 with Reborn, I dont even care. FFXIII is close to 100. I have 489 gigs free space still.

[KeeBLeeC]

2015 and my "dota 2 beta" folder is 46,9GB So.. 1st place
Wtf even Skyrim with all DLCs has 14 GB, new Witcher 3 is 25 GB.
But Dota 47GB? Come on guys!