why does phasmo take up space on my c drive while playing

[Ume Ito]

i have this game (and steam) installed to my f drive, yet while specifically playing phasmo my c drive loses like 6-8 GB of space and regains it once i close the game

what on earth is that all about?

[weiss]

probably because of saving the game and downloading/uploading it to the steam cloud incase you get a crash and your save file gets corrupted.

its aswell because:
when updates getting sceduled takes it aswell temporarly space on your drive where your OS sits from which then it rewrites and moves files where they are supposed to be.

so, for example. if a patch comes in like the recent one which was 32,1 mb big, decompiled steam in this case an 8gb file, copied steam this file temporarly onto your drive C and then rewritten the file with the new patch info and compiling it again and then moving it back to its destination. the 8gb file should not longer be there tho. it should be where it belongs x3.

thats how steam does it. you can literarly watch it when steam patches a game. sometimes its noticeable, sometimes not. it depends on how big the file/files is/are which need to get rewritten.