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Teamer Dec 23, 2017 @ 3:58am
My Games Takes Extra Disk space than my Friend's Games
When i tried to Download Left 4 dead 2 the disk space needed was 12669MB = 12.669 gb
but my friends would keep telling me it was just 7gb download for them pls need help

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mimizukari Dec 23, 2017 @ 3:59am 
that just means they had less hd space available and it's more compressed for them = worse loading, etc.
you want it to be more space taken.
Last edited by mimizukari; Dec 23, 2017 @ 3:59am
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Teamer Dec 23, 2017 @ 4:01am 
is there a way to make it the same as theirs?
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mimizukari Dec 23, 2017 @ 4:09am 
Originally posted by ACKCHYUALLY!!!:
is there a way to make it the same as theirs?
have less disc space available, and then your load times and sound quality, and all that stuff is gonna be worse cuz it's compressed.
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Zekiran Dec 23, 2017 @ 4:30am 
Are you worried about filling a hard drive?

Because if you're that close to the limit, you are going to have a VERY hard time managing to run anything on a completely full drive. It needs at least as much free and unused space on the hard drive, as you have RAM.

Why do you need it to be the same as theirs?

Also just because it's a 7g download doesn't mean it's a 7 gig game. It unpacks from its compressed download state into a full sized game, which is, expectedly, around 13 gigs.
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Teamer Dec 23, 2017 @ 4:47am 
Oh Alrite Thanks Guys
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mimizukari Dec 23, 2017 @ 4:52am 
Originally posted by Zekiran:
Are you worried about filling a hard drive?

Because if you're that close to the limit, you are going to have a VERY hard time managing to run anything on a completely full drive. It needs at least as much free and unused space on the hard drive, as you have RAM.

Why do you need it to be the same as theirs?

Also just because it's a 7g download doesn't mean it's a 7 gig game. It unpacks from its compressed download state into a full sized game, which is, expectedly, around 13 gigs.
source games can compress themselves if you're low on hd space, it will not unpack in that case, and you'll download it compressed, and it'll stay compressed unless you reinstall with more space available... back in the day my tf2 download was 4gb when i only had like 10gb left, when the normal install was 8 gb.
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Zekiran Dec 23, 2017 @ 7:33am 
Huh. Well, while probably the issue here, my recommendation is still "don't put a game on a hard drive if it's going to fill the hard drive". :)
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Seven7 Dec 23, 2017 @ 7:45am 
Originally posted by ACKCHYUALLY!!!:
12669MB = 12.669 gb
but my friends would keep telling me it was just 7gb download for them pls need help

1st 12669MB NOT 12.699GB divide it on 1024

2d 7GB is DL size (zipped x2) via Internet, when it write on disk it unzip on the fly - SteamPipe do it for ALL games

before source games used SHARED resources GCF(and when user get VAC it was for most Source games - now most games have "personal" VAC)

3 full L4D2 on disk + Workshop support(over 600Mb) 13+GB
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