Rycka 2021 年 1 月 23 日 上午 8:01
Games take up to much space Valve please fix!
Hello Valve i love you and very much enjoy games you make ,but please can you fix this storage problem.
Dota2 store page claim that it requires 15 GB ,but when i try to install requirement changes to 29.36 GB.
CS:GO store page claim that it requires 15 GB ,but when i try to install requirement changes to 24.50 GB.
Can you please give us the ability to opt out from all the extra skins and any other unnecessary files ?
Like if i'm playing 720p than i would only download 720p textures or something like that and if i would upgrade to better PC than i would download better textures.
I have noticed that over the years all games files increased in size and i don't like it!
Large file downloads increases internet usage and make internet slower for everyone.
Anyone else you feel the same?
Thank you for reading.
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cSg|mc-Hotsauce 2021 年 1 月 23 日 上午 8:04 
The initial storage space is correct. The rest is the new operation stuff, battle pass stuff and a few other things.

No, you can't opt out of any of it.

No.

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crunchyfrog 2021 年 1 月 23 日 上午 8:17 
These are just how they are. NOBODY can just snap their fingers and make a game magically smaller. It doesn't work like that.

You seem to be overlooking a couple of things on Steam.

Forst off as Hotsauce rightly points out, the game size quoted is correct -that IS the final file size.
But here's the thing - when you download a game on Steam, it downloads both compressed and encrypted.

So you need to allow up to THREE TIMES the total file size for it to download, do this work and then finally write it to it's final destination.

Also, you should bear in mind that Steam also requires you not to use more than 90% of your drive space or it will start behaving wonkily - downloads might not work, or they may download to a different location.

So for example, if you have say, a 1TB drive, and you've used 860GB, you're fine, as you have 50GB left to take you up to that 90% limit.

However, if you wish to download a game that is 50GB, then you can't. Because it requires up to three times the size, that will take you WAY over the 90% limit and probably right to the edge of capacity.

There is no way around this. But external drives are as cheap as chips. I bought one a coupleo f months ago - a 2TB for £40 new off Amazon.
Rycka 2021 年 1 月 23 日 上午 8:21 
No game size quoted is not correct. Also Valve can make thing happen. I have plenty space to install the game just talking about it because i can and care.
crunchyfrog 2021 年 1 月 23 日 上午 8:22 
引用自 Rycka
No game size quoted is not correct. Also Valve can make thing happen. I have plenty space to install the game just talking about it because i can and care.

Pleased demonstrate how this is possible then. Because I can assure you nobody writes games and just fills the code with nothing but useless filler.

That isn't how it works at all.

And again, this IS how it works. The file size IS correct as quoted. Did you not understand what I wrote?

Besides which, you are simply not going to get some bizarre reduction in file size, not in a million years. No development team is going to spend hours redveloping a game and liekly removing features all because you want to save a bit of space.

If you're quibbling about a few GB then you should be buying an external drive as I said. They're as cheap as chips - less than a triple A game in fact, as I stated.
We all have to. It's the nature of the beast.

And no, large file size does not make the internet slower. File size has no bearing on your bandwidth or speed. If you have issue with downlading games on a download only service, then perhaps you should have read the terms you agreed to, because it's the integral part of the service.


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Crazy Tiger 2021 年 1 月 23 日 上午 8:29 
What you consider "unnecessary", the developers might think otherwise. Keep in mind that they decide how everything is packaged.

Anyway, this is feedback for the game devs. This is the Steam forum, not the CS:GO or Dota2 ones. Post in the game hubs of those games.
Rycka 2021 年 1 月 23 日 上午 8:31 
How is game size quoted is correct when i look at store page it claim one thing and when i try to download it claims much bigger size. If store page claim size is 15 GB than what i download i expect to be 15 GB and not almost 2 times bigger. And again don't need more space.
Rycka 2021 年 1 月 23 日 上午 8:35 
Find this video on youtube "The Growing Problem of Video Game File Size" this man explain how i feel.
crunchyfrog 2021 年 1 月 23 日 上午 8:42 
引用自 Rycka
Find this video on youtube "The Growing Problem of Video Game File Size" this man explain how i feel.

No need, because that's not relevant.

The fact you FEEL that way about it says nothing. I don't like Brussels Sprouts. So what? I just avoid them.

The fact remains that you CANNOT just arbitrarily reduce file size because it simply does not work like that. You seem to think it's a simple exercise to just slice off files that don't purport to the resolution you're intersted in. That might be how some games are coded, but it might not be at all practical on another game. You CANNOT know.

And again, I repeat the simple fact that if you're quibbling about what would only be a few GB anyway, you're doing it wrong. What's that a grand sum of ONE extra game?

The fact remains if you're that tight on space get yourself an ecternal drive like we all do - £40 for a 1 or 2 TB drive is cheap as chips. There is no other way round this.
cSg|mc-Hotsauce 2021 年 1 月 23 日 上午 8:46 
引用自 Rycka
Find this video on youtube "The Growing Problem of Video Game File Size" this man explain how i feel.

351 views and 343 subscribers.

Not someone I feel is worthy to explain anything and believing what they say.

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crunchyfrog 2021 年 1 月 23 日 上午 8:55 
引用自 cSg|mc-Hotsauce
引用自 Rycka
Find this video on youtube "The Growing Problem of Video Game File Size" this man explain how i feel.

351 views and 343 subscribers.

Not someone I feel is worthy to explain anything and believing what they say.

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Tomorrow's video:
Numbers keep getting higher in calendars. When will this ever stop?
Tito Shivan 2021 年 1 月 23 日 上午 9:14 
引用自 Rycka
No game size quoted is not correct. Also Valve can make thing happen.
Valve can't make games smaller. That's up to the developers.

引用自 crunchyfrog
Tomorrow's video:
Numbers keep getting higher in calendars. When will this ever stop?
Well, funnily that proved itself problematic years ago (Y2K) and it's bound to be an issue again 17 years from now (Epochalypse, the Y2K for UNIX time)
It's also hilariously infuriating how windows somehow thinks some of my older pictures were taken in 2090.

But game size isn't as much of an issue when accounting storage space is quite cheap nowadays.
Ganger 2021 年 1 月 23 日 上午 9:23 
I do believe at least for valve games, valve should update their own games size every 6 months or so to better reflex the current size of that game in question.

As for other developers, well that's up too them.
cSg|mc-Hotsauce 2021 年 1 月 23 日 上午 9:24 
Update them for Operations and Battle Passes that don't last that long? Really?

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Ghost Robertson 2021 年 1 月 23 日 上午 9:27 
For the valve games like CS:GO or TF2 or DOTA, All they really need is to update the requirements on the store pages for these games.

As long as people know how much their downloading, Everything should be fine.

I was going to have just a 1TB drive for my new computer, I'm glad i added an extra 500GB one too.
cSg|mc-Hotsauce 2021 年 1 月 23 日 上午 9:29 
2TB Seagates are literally less than $60.

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